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Interpreters risk averse is one thing that my guest today absolutely is not but what is a risk and how do you know if its worth taking well to discuss that im now joined by. A russian american investor a businessman turned and calculated risk taker so good to see you thank you very much for coming over thanks for having me now as i was preparing for this conversation reading the articles about you listening to some of your previous interviews i caught myself humming. Face to face our then behaved hang tough saying hungry. Have you ever associated yourself with that song eye of the tiger. Or thought of the 1st. Reason i imagine it is because it was 1st of all number one single indian ited states for 6 consecutive weeks soon after your move to the United States or your parents read more broadly i thought that it kind of depicts. How you relate to risk and adversity this rule of defied the kick that you seem to get out of uncertainty am i wrong here it has always been the case with you or
Wonderful to be here with you all. I have already looked out into the audience and i have seen some former Senate Judiciary colleagues and friends, and i am just delighted that we have this opportunity to engage with these two incredible men to talk about an issue that is so very important to us. I have been getting to know judge ludick who is also distinguished practitioner fill out our institute at uva, and secretary johnson as we overlapped the obama administration. I have had the opportunity to get to know them better in recent months. To say that i am a fan is an understatement. These are two people who are extremely busy and at the same time, are, of public severance whether they are in or out of government at a time when it is so desperately needed. So i want to say publicly, thank you for the work you all are doing and for your leadership on this task force. [applause] mary gave us some of those sobering statistics, and i am going to date myself by saying that hopefully some of
Border in israel on saturday. The death toll from that massacre now stands at over 1200 people. The idf says they have carried out strikes against nearly 2700 targets across the gaza strip and the Chief Of Staff said it was on an unprecedented scale because what happened here is something that was never happened before. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised, quote, every member of hamas is a dead man. Netanyahu will be joined by members of the Opposition Party in an emergency unity government, with a newly formed war cabinet. This comes amid the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of israeli troops, many of whom have been sent to bolster the southern border with gaza. The army says they are still battling isolated hamas Militants Hiding in the south, although they have secured the border. Concerns about a second front opening in the war heightened today is sirens blared across the north, warning of uninterrupted into israeli airspace [sirens] from lebanon, the site of hezbol