Sti perspective of a person who has studied decisionmaking in the white house. And a valuable member of really making the Network Connections and the interviews that are the underlying factor and underlying base of this project work. Will, i thank you for that, and i turn the mic over to you. [ applause ] all right. Thank you very much, jeff. Im honored to be moderating this panel here with four very dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So ill be sitting down there while they make their presentations and come back up here during q and a time. You have the detailed bios of each of the speakers so i wont repeat those. First here is professor richard immerman. His bio says he recently retired from temple university. And that may be technically correct. I know richard well, richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. Were Close Friends on the state
Good morning. Key committee will come to order, and without objection, the chair is authorized to. Eclare a recess at any time worldys ago, the entire came together to mark holocaust Remembrance Day. In january of 1945, the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp was liberated from the nazis. It was one of the most infamous sites of the nazi genocide. The purpose of todays hearing is to commemorate these grave anniversaries, term member those we have lost, and to honor those who are with us. But it is not enough to simply recognize these dates but we must contemplate what led the atrocities we must combat bigotry, hate, and violence of all kinds day. I am so pleased to have our distinguished panel that have asked them to come together on helps solemn occasion to unify red, hope and inclusion. That. We can all do the best way to help remember is to hear from those who lived through it and we will do that today. Ae block from here is gripping institution dedicated to remembering the holoca
Good morning. Key committee will come to order, and without objection, the chair is authorized to. Eclare a recess at any time worldys ago, the entire came together to mark holocaust Remembrance Day. In january of 1945, the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp was liberated from the nazis. It was one of the most infamous sites of the nazi genocide. The purpose of todays hearing is to commemorate these grave anniversaries, term member those we have lost, and to honor those who are with us. But it is not enough to simply recognize these dates but we must contemplate what led the atrocities we must combat bigotry, hate, and violence of all kinds day. I am so pleased to have our distinguished panel that have asked them to come together on helps solemn occasion to unify red, hope and inclusion. That. We can all do the best way to help remember is to hear from those who lived through it and we will do that today. Ae block from here is gripping institution dedicated to remembering the holoca
The land of flickering light came out june 2019. Here is a portion of his discussion from san francisco. You cannot accept a solution on climate. You cannot accept the policies where you put in a set of policies for the Obama Administration the other guys come into rip it out then four years later or two years later you put it back in and they rip it out. I dont think thats any way to regulate a Banking System or support education but and then to deal with climate that way so thats why i think as a definitional matter you cannot accept the current Political Climate in america and we are asked to build a coalition of americans outside of washington to overcome a broken washington. That sounds really hard and it is really hard but there are no shortcuts in democracy not of particular interest to me but the real question is can you win states like colorado iowa and arizona because if you cant you cannot make the kinds of changes you want to make. The democrats are putting forward ideas an
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very very much thank you very very much. Happy new year to all of you. I hope you have recovered from the celebration and are ready do you get back to work. It is going to be a challenging year. 2020 cayman, and it didnt take long before we all realized that challenges will coming our way. In earthquakes, and puerto rico which was the last thing aland need it after everything they have gone through pretty you very sent people to help. Bullets people of puerto rico to know that we are 100 percent behind them. We always have been and we always will be. [applause]. We will on the first plane that went puerto rico after hurricane maria. We will be going back to puerto rico with new yorkers once again to help them and i am proud of that. [applause]. These are frightening times and what we see going on with iran and the possible ramifications of that escalating conflict. Possible consequences and precautions that we have to take care and estate becau