Rhode of the new yorker and the investigative correspondent for National Public radio. I told david and dina, we were talking just before the session, that as a career diplomatic, Career Foreign Service officer when i hear the term deep state, and thats the title of our book today, when i hear that term, i think about some thuggish authoritarian regime, you know, turkey in its worst days, egypt under the dictators. I dont think of the United States of america. As we begin today, since david and dina are both really respected members of the American Press corps, i want to say how much we respect the press. The Aspen Security Forum would not work without journalism, nearly not all, but nearly all of our sessions are chaired by journalists. And i think of the citizen, one of the saving graces of the United States is the 1st amendment, the power of the press. I felt in government, as a state department spokesperson, that the press was doing its job to challenge me and challenge my colleagu
Its my honor to introduce three people to you this evening. First is Roger Rosenblatt whose work has been published in 14 languages. Roger is the author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestseller. The story the story i am mad about the writing life came out in april and a cool moon a life love and responsibility will be in october. Rogers written seven off broadway plays notably the one person free speech in america that he performed at the American Theater which was the times 10 best plays of 1991. Last spring he performed them play piano in his play living in the basement is nothing which would go to the Stoller Center for the arts at stony brook and the theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for a bestselling novel rapid rising which is currently in production. Roger is distinguished repressor at english and writing at stony brook. He formerly held the copeland appointment to creative writing at harvard where he got his ph. D. Am
Competing against nations like russia and china. Democratic presence of canada joe biden held a get out the early vote event in chinatown in las vegas. The event was hosted by Group Promoting Asian American and pacific in u. S. Politics. This is 15 minutes. Your patience exceed your good judgment. Much you, thank you very gary. Gary and i have become very good friends. This that we had the most diverse cabinet i think American History and i think we have the best cabinet in American History. I listened to you when you spoke, i was astounded, you asked your husband to marry you, i just wanted to know this is wifeods truth, i asked my jill five times to marry me. Not a joke. Five times. Finally i said and youll appreciate this, my mother would say it got my irish up i came back from south africa trying to see Nelson Mandela getting arrested for trying to see them at robins island. When i came back, the first thing i did, i landed in philadelphia and went back to her apartment in wilmingt
Sen. Sanders this is, as i think all of you know, the most consequential election in the modern history of america and may in american history. About areampaign is two fundamental issues. Number one, we must and we will defeat the most dangerous president in the history of america. Modern history of america. [applause] sen. Sanders the American People, regardless of the political views, understand that for the sake of the future of this nation, we cannot continue to have in office a president who is a pathological liar, a president who is running a corrupt administration, a president who is undermining american democracy and does not understand the constitution of the United States of america. That we cannot continue to have in office a president who is a , a homophobe, a xenophobe, antireligious bigot. [applause] and a religious bigot. [applause] sen. Sanders and those are his good qualities. Our campaign is about more than defeating trump read our campaign is about creating an econom
Alastair reid from the Royal United Services institute. The special envoy and the staff at gec are committed to using every available tool in order to stop americas adversaries from weaponizing information that undermines our societies. Having received a preview of dr. Ingrams analysis, we are encouraged to read that his assessments of our ability to do so is optimistic and we look forward to todays discussion of the paper and its recommendations. We are especially interested in the gc in the papers framing statesponsored propaganda and information as antidemocratic threats to their shared intention, to erode trust and democracies in society. For me, having previously worked with the special convoy for the past year, as well as our Senior Leadership as the at the ce, it has pushed back against our adversaries false narratives and the views those narratives create and amplify. It is never final, it is always changing. With every passing year, more and more people have access to the inte