Had a handoff Joe Biden was still the democratic nominee thats not a lot thats actually how long it has it been a long time, though . Its actually a short time, too. Timet is really an elastic rubr band. Its good to see you, my friend. One day we will be reunited in the same studio. Soon. Have a good tuesday night. Okay. It was just a little over a year ago when Donald Trump got his first big challenger in this whole election. Florida governor Ron Desantis decided he would enter the republican primary, and he was going to challenge Donald Trump for the nomination. And right out of the gate immediately things did not go well for the governor who decided he was going to launch his campaign in a live interview on Elon Musks social media platform, which back then was stillba called twitter. Now its quiet. All right. Good afternoon. Good evening. I think were back online here. Great. Well its certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this Historicke Announcement it went o
Like america. Nearly 14 of President Bidens federal agency appointees identify as llesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. In the next hour, well speak with out members of the administration about their historic platform and what President Biden is doing to advance the rights of the Lgbtq Community. They include Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the First Out Gay senateconfirmed cabinet member. Keely tobar, the first out members of the White House communication staff. The Assistant Secretary for health, dr. Rachel levine, the first transgender federal official confirmed by the senate. Ned price, the first ever out gay State Department spokesperson. And at The End of the hour, well meet reggie grier, the senior adviser on Lgbtq Plus issues in the White House. This is what it means to be seen and heard. Biden employees have tremendous influence over the direction of lgbt legislation. The impact of policies on lgbtq lives is best understood by those within the community. And
Good afternoon to my fellow members i appreciate you being here. Senator rounds is on the phone with us he is with life she is having procedures and they are together right now. He is on the phone with us. The focus of todays hearing what the Defense Department needs to do against modern and sophisticated cyberattacks like solarwinds or the Microsoft Exchange email server operation by china those subverted tens of thousands of critical Government Networks to undermine trust in the infrastructure our government and private lives. We hold this hearing today in open session it is vitally important to the American People to the American People will respond and to better protect the nation. This is a very Serious Business and you understand that well. We have never experienced like this and earned history for many efforts focus to make it hard for adversaries to break into our networks we have a digital equivalent higher walls than most but it has proven to be impossible to keep intruders o
What was your thinking on that . How did you choose what not to include . Guest well, i feel like there are so many books out there that have kind of the negative and the nasty and the scoresettling and, one, thats not who i am as a person, but two, i wanted people to get the different side and a different perspective. And, frankly, after two and a half years in the white house and another almost year on the campaign of my experience working for the president was a very positive one. I loved my job, i liked the people that i worked with. That doesnt mean we didnt have difficult days and that there werent moments that id love to block out for the rest of my life. But overall, i really believed in what we were doing, and i enjoyed working for the president , and i actually liked my colleagues. And so i wanted a book that reflected that and reflected my experience, and that was what i tried to capture in those 12 chapters. Host lots of interesting stuff in here. One thing that caught my e
Special thanks for this lunch sponsorship, and thank you for seven years of their sponsorship and support which has been greatly really a key reason for us being able to host this forum free for the government and military. And to be able to do this now for the 10th year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point to your, give your attention on your seats. There are flyers that describe the next year event, september 8th and 9th at the marriot. For Corporate Executives that are interested, a series of quarterly leadership meetings. Were in the third year of that. If you look at the flip side, youll see the corporate members include cisco, aws, raytheon, hp, google cloud and others. If youre interested in that, let us know. Id also like to recognize and express our appreciation for the Advisory Board members. Ill list those once again as theyve been very helpful. Brett scarborough from raytheon. Dan prietto from google cloud. General gregg tuhill, brad maderi. Matt berry. Dave l