Members and guests appear and guests. Tonight i have the honor of introducing a friend an academic colleague who also happens to be a bestselling author, columnist, speaker, commentator and senior Level Management strategist peter guest speaker has worked with president s and popes from here at home to south asia to iraq. For more than 20 years, our speaker has provided strategic and crisis communication counsel to companies, policy organizations, government agencies, not for profits, advocacy campaigns and grassroots groups. He served in many roles including executive director of Republican Party in new york date, adviser to the u. S. Chief of protocol at the vatican, planner for the department of state visits for former president bush and clinton to this tsunami ravaged south asia and director of communications for the Environmental Protection agency. Our speaker is currently an adjunct professor at the University Graduate school of arts and sciences. A charter member of the board of
And now on book tv on cspan2 it as live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Todays author schedule includes msnbc chris hayes, law professor cheryl and National Book award kathy oneill and recently named National Book award finalist. We will kick off today with a discussion on the immigrant experience. This is a book tvs live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Good morning. Welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Those of you brooklynites get that punch line but being the only law school and the best law school in the most vibrant and largest borough of the big apple in the greatest country on earth we got that going for us. So weve got that going for us, too. On this day in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students plus about 35 international students. And they were all enthralled with americans across the country with an extraordinary event that was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse. People across the United States and h
Distinguished guests. Aung excellencies and distinguished guests. Last year, when i address to the United Nations General Assembly, as a representative of the newly established government of myanmar, i renewed our confidence in the charge of the charter of the United Nations. It is in this enduring belief in nations to unite to build a more peaceful end prosperous world, a kinder, more compassionate end a , kinder, more compassionate home up for all mankind, that we wish to share with members of the International Community the challenges the country is now facing and the steps we are taking to overcome them. This year, as i shall not be able to travel to new york for the General Assembly, i have arranged a briefing. When our people voted for the natural leader of democracy in the elections of 2015, they in fact entrusted to us the task of carrying out three responsibilities. Democratic transition, peace and stability, and development. None of these challenges are either easy or simple.
Long its been, and how many people you guys start out with. So basically we opened the shelter on august 26, a day or two after the hurricane happened. When we opened the shelter here, the grp, we had over 10,000 residents staying here. Now we are moving into another shelter. The population has decreased over time as people find new accommodations. So right now we had, two days ago, a little less of around a thousand people. What we find new shelter. Where moving to the Houston Committee college warehouse, and thats the 1000 people you have where moving them to. Today so right now we only have half of those people around 400 people yesterday. We started the move and were able to move roughly half of the residence certainly will have around 400, and we have buses that we can take them to the new shelter. Obviously, their stuff goes with them. So we have two buses come to buses for their belongings, and the last bus is buses for the rest of them to accompany their belongings. So their be
President trump thank you, very much. Today i am announcing a new executive order, just signed, that significantly expands our authority to target individuals, companies, Financial Institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. Address toed at my the United Nations general north Koreas Nuclear weapons and Missile Development is a grave threat to peace and security in our world, and it is an acceptable that others financially support this criminal, rogue regime. The brutal north korean regime does not respect its own citizens, or the sovereignty of other nations. Order will cutve off sources of revenue that fund north koreas efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind. The order enhances the Treasury Department authorities to target any individual or entity that conducts significant trade in goods, technology or services to north korea. And im very proud to tell you that, as you may have heard moments ago, china, their centralbank, has told their other