I mean my god you know and you are welcome to the program theres a kilometer or a 10 africa stretches now think about this for a 2nd if we want to look at many of our works and sacred objects we have to make a long journey because many of us got there throughout museums in europe a year ago french. Just abandon these royal statues those looted by french clothing all forces that been in ones back but not much has happened yet microns announcement was triggered by a reporter he had commissioned on the restitution of africas stretches will talk to one of the reports authors in a moment but fest what are people seeing on the continent. High and african out on display in a museum in africa something that is fairly unusual as many of africas masterpieces are Holliston Europe cynicus museum of black civilizations and is an exception like many on the continent the museums director wants this to change. Is sure to win that things have been stolen africans are not going to ask to strip european
And i am glad i didnt have to answer them and thank you to chris and kevin for doing that. We will reconvene in 15 minutes for a panel on civic virtue. Thank you for being here. I am a fellow here at the Stockdale Center and its a pleasure to be with peter to discuss virtue. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books and he is director of constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books. We will start i think with peter. The thank you. It is great to be here with my panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual, for me at east to approach the panels topic of civil virtue and its decline and its reinvigoration from a somewhat autobiographical perspective. Long ago and far away when i went to college, the cutting edge topic is something we called engraved tones and the critique of liberalism. We have leading authors and books and
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And reuters highlights another comment from the Kentucky Republican where he said it is absurd lawmakers must chose between the Iran Nuclear Agreement or going to war. We will watch that News Conference now. It is half an hour. Morning, everyone. Today after the election at a Similar Press conference like this i said the American People expressed their opinion in the election and two things were on their mind. One was it was helpful to us obviously the president was not very poplar. But the other issue is the issue of dysfunction. The sense that nothing every gets accomplished here. To observers they were not sure what dysfunction was but if you worked here you know it was the senate. The senate was basically shutdown for literally years. How do you measure dysfunction . One way is do you vote on amendment amendmentamend amendments. We had 15 votes before this and 60 this year. The law requires us to pass a budget, not when we feel like it, but every year. We have done that. That is no
Agreement or going to war. We will watch that News Conference now. It is half an hour. Morning, good morning everyone. Today after theenough. But my goal looking at the government the American People gave us a divided government, which is not unusual, we have had divided government more often than not since world war ii. I think nay are saying why dont you look for things you agree on and try to make progress for the country. So what i tried to do is empicizeemp says empicize empicize there was agreement. We led off o the it passed by a pretty overwhelming bipartisan majority. As indicated we pass a budget. Thats not a bipartisan exercise typically typically and it was this year but we have also done every Nuclear Review every right of no child left behind a multiyear highway bill. Clearly the senate is up and running and trying to focus on things where we can make progress. What is not helpful is rhetoric like the president has been using as recently as this morning comparing republic