In afghanistan, military readiness, and the importance of emerging defense technologies. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is a sincere pleasure for me to welcome our featured an honored guest today, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, United States army. Since becoming the 20 the chairman of the joint chiefs in 2019 general milley has worked to realize the u. S. National Defense Strategy which prioritizes competition with china and russia, and American Defense plenty. Chairman milley has worked tirelessly with civilian and uniformed leadership towards developing the u. S. Armed forces into a truly modern armed force, capable of deterring and heading off the threats of all types that we may be facing today including those emanating from nearpeer competitors that have now really pronounced once again the idea of Great Power Competition. He has kept a close and careful eye on the perennial defense issues associated with iran and north korea, v
Our election in michigan. For nearly six weeks, from the moment voters began voting six weeks ago, the moment the polls closed at 8 00 p. M. On tuesday night, a Record Number of michigan citizens turned out to cast their votes and make their voices heard in a historic president ial election. Overall more than 5. 2 million michiganders voted in this election, more than any election in our states history. Many voted absentee, utilizing the mail or local drop boxes or their local clerks up offices to return their balances their ballots. On election day itself, inperson voting was exceptionally smooth, at polling locations where citizens of all background and political affiliations observed the process and perspective are voters right to cast their votes free from threat or intimidation. Now here we are, 24 hours after the polls closed in michigan, and im pleased to announce that in michigan the process of tabulation is by a large complete and counties are in the final stages of receiving
A single word about the far right near nazis far right extremists or which is totally out of guilt that just shows you just focused on demonology a whole community we all feel the same very strange that need to be dealt with and the police are having to deal with the rise in right wing stream ism but at this moment today were talking about people being beheaded jews and basilicas and things of course because france thats the issue that france is having to deal with at this moment lets speak a sister lets take on the narrative of terrorists but dont do that the expense of orderly innocent muslims around the world we are poor terrorism but we also want the right you know for our boys to be heard in these countries are not free not to be attacked in a way has been tight france is a country where all religions can peacefully live together and i live together with millions of muslims i have many muslim friends who are and late at muslims and whom i adore we can exist all together at france
They would warrant each other law to politicize the pad demick the same people that brought you all of these the bungled response the in a name celts and accusations had the gall to say this this is become a political thing lets sort of crazy that its become a political thing this is not a time to score political points to baseless commentary it is a time for facts unfortunately its become very clear the democrats are more interested in keeping the coronavirus as a political issue than actually fighting the virus we all know about the memes about 2020 what a catastrophe its been and it has but no matter who wins this election no matter how they win they will inherit a country riddled with division and infection a population seeking tod of politicians and duplicity for many this isnt an election about picking the better president. Its an election about making sure that the other girl loses. Are actually months to speak to Afshin Rattansi who interviewed scott atlas on his Program Going
Global economy and Development Program at brookings. Its a great honor and privilege for me to open this event, for development at brookings. Were very grateful for the participation of the u. N. Deputy secretarygeneral, and the Foundation President , both for exemplary liberal leaders on development to took time out of their busy schedule to be with us today. We are very honored by your presence and participation. The launch of the center is the historic moment for brookings. In the global economy, the need to build back better and more inclusive and sustainable economies have never been better. Policy makers and stakeholders will have both leadership on various aspects of Sustainable Development. We are grateful to all of our partners whose support has been instrumental to the inception of the center. The special thank you to richard blum, and over the past several years has inspoo i remembered the creation. Center. The launch of the center would not have been possible without the ef