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1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next, secretary of state mike pompeo talks about u. S. Foreign policy challenges at the university of louisville Mcconnell Center. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell was also there to introduce the secretary and ask him a few questions. [ applause ] good morning, everybody. I have to say that was one of the most surreal moments in my life to walk and know that behind you is the Senate Majority leader and the secretary of state. As the young people would say, i could make it a meme, couldnt i . Welcome. Im your president , and im so honored today to have the opportunity to introduce a man who truly need no introduction anywhere in the world and certainly not here, his old stomping gro ....
Remarks by secretary of state mike pompeo at the louisville center. His remarks are expected momentari momentarily. Im here at the Mcconnell Center at university of louisville. Many of you are supporters and friends of the center and we really appreciate your support for our programs and for our students. I can say that our students and our soldiers and the other constituents that we try to serve, i think, are thriving in our programs. We continue to add programs and develop and adapt them to changing circumstances. And in particular, i might call your attention to a few new online programs that we have been launching, including a series of podcasts that can be found on anywhere you can get podcasts under the name vital remnants and in the spring we will be launching some new newsletters and some reading guides and some other opportunities for people outside of louisville to continue their education with us. Mcconnell center has ....
Service as acting president here. You have done in my view a seamless job of plugging the gap in this. Have had here between president s. I also want to single out gary greg. When this program started, i had no idea it could develop into what it has become. You are the reason for that. He came here in 2000. He took it to a whole new level. I hope you will join me in thanking him for what a great job. [applause] we have had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. In my view, none more interesting than our guest this morning. [laughter] Chuck Schumer of course is from brooklyn. Born and raised. His dad owned an exterminator business. One of chuck siblings remembered that we always associated the smell of triple x roach spray with love. [laughter] it was his hard work, day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the worlds greatest deliberative body, the United States ....
Well, good morning, everyone. What a pleasure to see a full crowd here tonight. I mentioned to the president that i was worried about the crowd showing up and he said dont worry, theyll be here. Its like field of dreams, they will come. We built it. Thank you for coming out and braving the roads this morning. My name is gary greg, the director of Mcconnell Center, and its been a pleasure of mine to be able to work with the students of the Mcconnell Scholars Program and many of you in the audience over the last 17 years. Over those years weve had some of the most consequential leaders in America Today visited with us, spoken to us here at the university of louisville and i think that today is no exception to that. We have been able to host, for instance, moments of historic importance like vicepresident biden ....