[applause] hello, everyone. Welcome. What a great crowd. Thank you all for coming out. I am susan coll and on behalf of our owners and entire staff, i would like to welcome you to politics prose. You can here . Are we get started, youll hear me in the back. If this could be a good time to turn off her silence or cell phone. Also after the event you dont mind helping us by folding your chairs, we would be grateful. And we have microphones on either side. Just write here this evening. If you could step up with your question, that would be great because we are recording this event. You can also watch in a few days on our youtube channel. I am very pleased to welcome Richard Engel this evening to talk about his new book, and then all broke loose. Im guessing you recognize richard is the chief one correspondent for nbc news where he reports regularly from a variety of places, mostly in the middle east and much of the time but they fixed loading in the background. We are especially glad to h
So his goal of establishing a new world war in the middle east out of the chaos that was the old ottoman world i think he and a few others around him are still trying to do that. But he picked a big fight when he picked the fight with russia and that is limiting his project and so far the middle east is not lining up to stand behind him and rejoin the ottoman sphere of influence. He is still pushing this project and agenda but with limited success. On that terrible day. I was not in the midwest. On that terrible day. I just dont have anything more to add to the debate. Do you keep up with stanford football . Yes, i do. [laughter] your name before this weekend, and i learned, i read about the kidnapping of the nbc news team and yourself in 2012. Yes. And in april of last year it was effectively retracted. Want to make another group look bad and so they will disguise themselves with the group come in this case it was sunnis posing as she is. Is that it . If so, are you interested in what
Continued ms. Miss rating, if the industry executive sits on the board and says there is no problem, please move along. There is no consequence. I dont know if it was intentional but maybe its just a fact of can misleading and fraudulent. Nor aggressive enforcement would be inhibiting the creative freedom of people in hollywood and there would be authors, creators forced to move shows to cable or Motion Pictures, the shows on television would become, you know, not as edgy or whatever you want to say as they are today. Harming the creative community. Right. You can produce whatever you want to produce, but lets do it accurately. Beyond Just Television we have seen evidence and Motion Pictures as well. There was a study by the Annenberg School two years ago that showed there is more gun violence on pg13 movies than rrated movies. There are a couple of reasons for that. The studios make more money on pg13 that are. They will find anyway to get the violence in there. The 2nd is, there is a
7 News spent part of the day Monday talking with business owners and residents who say despite the recent negative incidents they are keeping a positive outlook as we head into summer.