Museums president , kevin gover. This is about 30 minutes. We begin today with kind of an amazing thing, which is the reflections of two people who have been absolutely central to setting the mission of the museum. The first is a reflection by request rick west of the Autry National Center of the american west. He was, of course, the founder founding director of this museum. You have his biography in your packet, im not going to actually read that. I think it is worth thinking about the ways in which rick offered such strong leadership and strong vision for this museum at the beginning, and the personal style and flair that he brought to this museum. Rick is an amazing man of words, he is a great talker, and unfortunately, the irony that comes with that is that rick actually has laryngitis today. He is unable to actually be with us. We miss him, his remarks, his reflections will be delivered to you today by kevin gover, the director of the museum itself. Many of you know, i think, of S
Anniversary of roe v. Wade. And hundreds of thousands of people, including prolife advocates from my own hometown of st. Louis, missouri, will gather in our Nations Capital in honor of the over 56 million precious angels we have lost since that Infamous Supreme Court decision. Not to mention the millions of women who have been adversely affected in the aftermath of their abortion, both physically and emotionally. I first participated in the march for life 25 years ago this week in 1990. I was 28 years old with a real bad hairdo and i was 12 weeks pregnant with my son, steven. At that point at 12 weeks in my pregnancy, steven was able to suck his thumb. A few weeks later at 15 weeks he could make facial expressions and he had taste buds. By 17 weeks steven began to kick. By week 18 his ears had developed and he could hear. And by week 20 not only was steven able to recognize my voice as his mother, but he was capable of feeling pain. While killing an unborn child is unconscionable at an
Speakers will include the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine. Live coverage gets underway at 12 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. About next the discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Part of a conscience conference from the Rand Corporation speakers include Francis Fukuyama and banking regulator sheila bair. This is about an hour. Hello welcome back. I am michael rich, president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session was the middle east, Foreign Policy more generally there, also the middle east is a region several hundred Million People, hardly any democracies in that region. In fact authoritarian states, petering states, vanishing states, increasing amount of endeavoring to territories. We are going to shift our focus to places that on the surface seem stable secure, even prosperous but the question is on a they and will they be up to the challenges of the new century . It is an appropriate time to take up ques
That grew up here and americans we should welcome that if we start broadening that which is exactly what he did in his 2014 executive order that essentially i would be ignoring the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally, so thats not an option. And that is why the courts struck down or stayed implementation of the 2014 executive order. Thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. Next a discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Its part of a conference hosted by the Rand Corporation called set politics aside. Speakers include author Francis Fukuyama and former banking regulators sheila bair. This is an hour. Hello and welcome back. I am michael rich president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session of course was the middle east Foreign Policy more generally bear also the middle east of courses or region several hundred Million People. Hardly any democracies in that region. In fact, a
Islamic state of iraq in the levant, and on page 15 it says we reject the lie that america and its allies are at war with islam. I would disagree with the first statement, i dont think were leading, but i would agree with the second statement, that we are not at war with all of islam. We are at war with radical islam and islamic extremism. Yet nowhere in the strategy does that term appear. In fact, the only two times the word islam appears are in the two instances i just mentioned. Yet Climate Change appears 19 times. I would ask do you think the National Security strategy has enough specificity to adequately inform the documents of the National Defense strategy and the National Military strategy to actually have a positive impact on executing a strategy for degrading and ultimately defeating isil . And secondly dr. Lynch, i would ask in your statement about the momentum of isil being halted. Just within the last 24 hours, theyre knocking on the door of the al Assad Air Base where we h