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Our roundtable focuses on the issue of the border adjustment tax, which is being talked about as a way to offset the growing deficit. And adam pozen will be here tomorrow morning for your calls and comments. The nations governor meeting here in washington, d. C. , will be at the white house tonight for a dinner hosted by the president and first lady. Live coverage on cspan from washington, d. C. , the winter meeting. We have a lot of good work to do. I am torticollis, first lady i am dorothy, first lady of virginia and chair of the south Leadership Committee and it is my pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for today, we are talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in american future. I want to thank all the governor here and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendanc ....
The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many ....
We had president clinton the other night and star of the joanie loves cahchi. I bet they miss the good ol days when Clint Eastwood spoke to an empty chair. Our special guest from the great state of minnesota, senator klobuchar. Thank you for being from the state that gave life to tim kaine, our next Vice President. [applause] our guest is someone who has broken quite a few glass ceilings in her lifetime too. The first woman elected to the United States senate from minnesota, amy klobuchar. [applause] thank you. Hello, virginia. What a great day you guys had yesterday, huh . [applause] youre like the happiest delegation next to minnesota, okay . So it is great to be here with susan. Thank you so much. My husband john is here, in the typical husband moment when she said in biden way. Bfd. He turns to me, that means like i w ....
But you know very well that this changed relatively quickly, mainly in 2008. Maybe this atmosphere was maybe from the collapse of soviet union in 1991 to 2008 when this fascinating atmosphere finished and changed. And that is the reason why maybe this democratic discussion is also difficult in this central east european countries. Because on the beginning was this feeling that we have right path to the paradise, maybe. And now from 2008 it was clear that things are much more complicated and that its not that you are part of democratic system and everything is solved. And maybe there is some feeling, maybe, that some feeling of marginalization, maybe, is part of this, maybe disappointment now because economically, maybe after economic and financial crisis started, also crisis, maybe greece crisis in europe, then started this ukrainian, russia and migrant crisis, now brexit. It seems in a relatively short time, we are living in absolutely different world, and this changes out also the so ....
One of the issues that does concern me is our national defense. I have washed us around the world i challenge some people. Is there any country in the world that we have a stronger relationship with today than we had six years ago . I said that, too. But i was corrected. Somebody said iran. Somebody else said to cuba. Its about that. A while back i was in egypt and they told me 98 of the threats that all the relation together with egypt have been suffered by the Foreign Policy of this president. There are good people that we can work with. There are moderate muslims. General sisi made the strongest statement from the muslim world ive ever heard and hes a man we can work with and we need to do so and thats a piece of what we need to do to put america back into safety and security. I will challenge the folks that speaker today and those that aspire to the oval office, lay out a plan force. Lay out the plan to defeat radical islamic ....