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Thank you also to the folks from cspan who are watching and the folks that are streaming this live over the Atlantic Councils website. My name is william wechsler. I read the Atlantic Councils work in the middle east. Im the director for the center that is your host this afternoon. This question was a question that would not really have been asked only a decade ago. China does not have deep historical ties in the region. China has its economic connections were modest not that long ago. But now i...

Event, and thanks sponsoring, i should say, and thanks to all the folks at urban who helped to put this on. As you can imagine, an event of this size is neither inexpensive nor easy to pull off, so thanks, everybody, for the help. Tonight well have two panels that will run until roughly 7 45 and then well have another reception until about 8 15, plus or minus. Ill say a few words to sort of tie the thinking behind the two panels together, and then well wade right in to the first panel. But again...

I want to welcome you to another in our wonderful series politics and eggs which goes back many years to 1997, some people are surprised to know that if you ever saw the show, the west wing, if you are student at saint anselm you say ive never seen that. But politics and eggs in the west wing at one point, when president bartlett is signing the x in the oval office, very funny. Hopefully we will have that happen again. A couple of quick things you will see around the room our sponsors, many of y...

Peter carmichael. Member of the History Department at gettysburg college. Also the director of the civil war institute. My pleasure to intrude to professor of she an southern studies at lsu. He did an undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer and moved on to the university of virginia, published his dissertation with North Carolina press. Hisfederates fought most recent book published by the calculused of violence, how americans j...

Good morning, everyone. Take your seats. All right. If we could get seated, please. Let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audiences. I am peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. I am a member of the History Department here. Welcome myeasure to good friend, Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. I have a feway rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have to read...

Good afternoon, everyone. Im Peter Carmichael, a member of the Street Department night mist i gettysburg college. Im also the director of the civil institute. It is my pleasure to welcome edward ayres for the rubber bloom lecture. Professor ayres is the tucker boat pfizer of the humanities professor of the humanities and erutissor emmer richmond. At the university of richmond. He also wrote the promise of the new south. An excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. The authorly, he is ...

Tech companies to meet with members of congress, talk about some of the Public Policy issues they face. That is this week on the communicators. What is the point of bringing all this technology to capitol hill . As you know, we produce the Worlds Largest innovation event. In las vegas every january but not everyone on capitol hill can come to las vegas so we want to get less than one person here and feature the innovative things and even start up companies that could Show Congress the Great Inno...

[applause] good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here. I will let you come on up and take a seat. I think we got the order right. Everyone comfortable . Good morning. We are here to talk about what a progressive vision reform policy and National Security looks like. , this isou guys know going to be a conversation. You guys can feel free to jump in if you have something to add or disagree with someone. I will tell you when we need to move on. Also, a programming note, you ay have seen the...

In if you have something to add or disagree with someone. I will tell you when we need to move on. Also, a programming note, you may have seen matt spence was listed as a potential participant from the Kamala Harris campaign. Because of some scheduling issues he was not able to make it. They really wanted to. We have four wonderful panelists instead of five wonderful panelists this morning. At the end of my series of questions we will open it up to the room. I think you have no cards to write yo...

Welcome to this session, which is a debate we think on the topic of lincoln and his generals and i am Glenn Lafantasie from Professor Emeritus from Western Kentucky University wrti and Bowling Green and we have with us this morning a distinguished panel i, i regret to say that one of our panelists took ill and lauren foote will not be joining us this morning. But shes at home recuperating fighting with many regrets that cant be here. But let me go ahead and introduce our panelists for you and yo...