Government to bail out new york. It is just over one hour. Migrate pleasure to welcome stage thece to the professor at new york and. Iversity it is my all moderate, so i am happy about that. Hands st book invisible the businessmans crusade please the new deal, welcome her to the stage. Thank you so much to the Historical Society for having me here. It is nice to be here, because i am a native of brooklyn your i was born a little bit down the block on pierpont street, that is the apartment my parents were living in when i was born. It is special to be here in particular, tonight. Weeks ago, the New York Daily News repriced its most famous hidden headline in history. Trump to planet, dropdead. What most people know about the fiscal crisis in 1975 can be headline on that screen. President ford gave a speech to which the headline refers at a lunch of National Press club in washington, d. C. Weeks before, he and his advisers had been debating whether or not the president should say anything
Donald trump said he will honor the one china policy in a call with xi jinping, where the two president s pledge closer ties and agreed to jointly address global challenges. Good morning. Happy friday. Lets get straight to some breaking news. The oil market is in wait and see mode, thats according to the ieas latest report which said higher stockpiles and caution from the markets in assessing the level of output cuts explains why brent crude prices have stayed in the mid 50 a barrel range. Opecs cuts cut a record compliance rate of 90 , making it one of the deepest cuts in the cartels history. Lets talk more about this with alec holborn. 90 compliance. Is that something not sustainable over the longer time . We get the next opec report, wouldnt that go down to 70 , 80 . I think theres a decent chance they maintain the compliance levels between 80 and 100 is where theyre at. The latest secondary source put it at 91 . Thats very impressive. A lot of that is lede edby saud arabia. They cu
Important because they touch local communities. Every one of them is about a local community in some way. We have to keep making that pitch. We also need to make this argument about the public relevance and how not only how much poorer we would be without them and the work that we do but how incapacitated we would become if we did not have these entities doing what they do. With only two years left of the Obama Administration how do you approach priorities to get as much done as you can . I was just talking about this with a few people this morning. I think we have to think about the most important things 1st of all. And sort them out. Things that would be reasonably pursued in his timetable. There is a way that i and my administration might have a longer life than that. We do understand there is this big moment coming. The scope of the work that we agree to take on we dont want to take on things that could not reasonably be done for eight years. That is too far. Trying as best as we c
U. S. Cuba relations and wonder how much of the ideas heard the word thought id never thought it would be a good place to be. [laughter] but were glad you are here. But it is consistent with the other cuba related events but over the years cuba has captures the imagination i remember back when we were trying to get support for the west colombia Free Trade Agreement that enjoys a lot of support from clocks on this panel with columbia represented the generating interest now in that was limited compared to cuba which seems to capture the imagination and. Is not on the politics of the u. S. Cuba relations we dont have time to go through the long history but it is an emotional issue. There are families to have the property confiscated whose families were attended and have strong views with the current government in cuba but today we will focus on the president s announcement and what the perspectives are from the legal and Business Community i want to mention in that category of great timin
To you and are of practical importance. If youre in this area or youre getting into this area. Basically, i want to cover not each to the same extent, but five different areas. The lobbying disclosure act, you already have some familiarity with with the previous presentations and particularly professor therbers presentation now. The registration act. The ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. Revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the reforms its made in the 2007 law, but well get into the substance. And then just quickly some of the selfimposed or voluntarily implemented restrictions that the Obama Administration placed relating to lobbyists. So in terms of understanding how the lobbying disclosure act works, its a little bit weird because the registration is done by an organization or by a firm a lobbying firm or law firm, but its triggered in the first instance by an activity by an individual employee of either an organization