Town hall is grateful for the opportunity to invite seattle answers in exchanges of issues, ideas and creativity even when we want do it in person. Well produce online content through the fought and new year if circumstances allow to host live streams from the building, meanwhile if you cant get enough time on zoom or youtube, our past talks are available in yesterdayow or podcast form. Back to tonights program. The event dill run 30 to 40 multiples followed by q a, steve and chelsea will ask your questioned from the ask a question field. Also, know that you can view the event here on crowdcast or on the youtube page. If you want to utilize that platform, closed captioning feature. Townhall is adding new event thursday podcast every day. Upcoming policemans including women odd activism, to bend the course of climb change, and overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency, a book about the past and future of american isolationism, as well as howard gardner, David Eagleman and h
Welcome to the inaugural writers hour at James Madison university. We are glad you are here. I want to thank the provost, the first person that i post about in this series. The everyone at the communications further help promoting the event. The we wouldnt be here so thanks to you. We also wouldnt be without john grisham. He should have his own show. Before i met him i knew he was generous with his time and money and you cant go three days and i got to know him most would agree he was a gravedigger and never met someone that for their fame so blithely. Hes a regular person. But of course he is a famous writer. In one place that sold a quarter of a billion bucks and another place he sold 300 million so at some point you throw in the towel and say a boatload. This is academia there is no keeping it loose but here we are on stage in academia. Weve probably got john on the cool side of the mountain where he belongs and i hope he becomes a regular visitor. Please welcome our friend and bene
Optimism grows over flattening curve in some areas of the countries. Signs that lockdowns could be having positive impact. 7 and 3 quarters percent yesterday, take a look. Pretty good rally at the end of the day as well. Dow industrials up yesterday, nasdaq up 540 and s p up 175. President trump announcing a deal with 3m to supply medical masks and he said he had a, quote, wonderful call with former Vice President about the coronavirus response. We have you covered this morning about the pandemic and markets and beyond with allstar lineup you do not want to meet miss. Plus what other possible rounds of stimulus might look like, phase 4. The Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban is here on what should be done to help businesses survive pandemic. Heros stepping forward to help the world on time of crisis. Mornings with maria live now. Big show this morning and big rally underway, lets take a look at Global Markets which are mimicking the wall streets gains today. The cac quarante is up 118 a
And International Studies this is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] welcome back. Cliff, happy birthday. You are welcome. It is all for you. I really am delighted to welcome general joseph votel for our keynote address today. He currently serves as ceo and president of Business Executives for National Security and he joined their in january 2020 following 89 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as commander of u. S. Central command and prior to serving as commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the joint special Operations Command and in addition to his current role at the visit executive Financial Security hes also a distinguished senior fellow National Security at the middle east institute and unwelcome credit [inaudible] he will talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think in 30 minutes we wil
Kenow today. He currently serves as ceo of Business Executives for National Security. He joined there in january 2020 following 39 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as the commander of the u. S. Central command and he prior to serving as the commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the special joint Operations Command in addition to his current role as the executives for National Security he is also a distinguished senior fellow in National Security at the middle Eastern Institute and we have the president of the middle east institute here. He has got to talk about the theme that has come up through other discussions this morning, which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think a moment about 30 minutes we will know exactly what to think about it, about how we should think about Great Power Competition in the gulf so. Im delighted to introduce general joseph votel. He sent to th