Directors and staff, it is a pleasure to welcome you all here today. Including everyone watching online on our livestream. It is an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished the investor. He will be speaking about the latest developments and at next steps for palestinians on the political and diplomatic fronts. Trump recently announced his decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel. He also plans to move the u. S. Embassy into jerusalem. This is a major change in official u. S. Policy. With a jerusalem being such a core issue for palestinians, this move has severe implications for future peace negotiations and for any u. S. Role in such talks. The Trump Administration recently made the unprecedented step of withholding millions of dollars in humanitarian aid for political reasons. It will impact Critical Service needed for palestinian refugees. Decisions, these investor will speak about the latest developments taking place and the new palestinian strategy
I am calling the 2018 Summer Winter meeting to order. On chair would like to call the Committee Man from texas to the. Could we all stand for the invitation please . Dear lord, we thank you for giving us another day to serve you. We thank you for the blessing that it is to live in the greatest and most prosperous , and lord,he world we thank you for the opportunity to work to preserve the foundations of freedom and liberty and we ask that you would help us to continue to be the leaders that you called us to be. Help us to serve faithfully, and help us to understand that like your servant esther in the bible, we have been called for such a time as this. He asked that you would bless and protect the leaders of this great nation, President Trump, the house and senate leadership, governors and state legislators all over this land, that you would give them wisdom and understanding, and that they may make decisions that improve the lives of all americans. Bless and protect our Party Leaders
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Talk about tensions in the gulf region and his countrys relationship with the u. S. The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Sorry for the brief delay but i think youll find that this is a conversation that youre going to find extraordinarily interesting. We are delighted to welcome today his excellency Sheikh Mohammad bin bethani, excuse my pronunciation, appointed minister of Foreign Affairs of qatar in 2016, and the deputy Prime Minister in 2017. He is responsible for all of the ministry of Foreign Affairs issues including planning, implementing Foreign Policy, and hes here for a series of highlevel conversations with the department of defense, the department of state, and the white house that we are looking forward to hearing all of the details of. Whats going to happen today, the minister will join us at the podium for a brief statement, then hes going to sit down on the stage with our resident or v
Mr. President with those numbers from last year to tell the story why we need to continue to invest in security as well as close the loopholes with the immigration system. With people trying to cross illegally they drop dramatically. That intelligence indicates it is under your leadership. As you can see a low of 10000 back in april as is numbers, with this population he other factor increasing a port of entry and in that route due to the fact to take advantage of loopholes of legislation as well as congestion and my colleagues will give you a briefing. With a marked increase and with every category. And to be very significantly potent synthetic opioid. And with a 45 increase of assaults on men and women of those who risk themselves every day. And that increase the narcotics. And with those dangerous population. And to see this increase in like a border wall system but also those loopholes that we face. Also with character cocaine and heroin and math. Up through Central America coming