Been and theres even more many. Were going until 8 00 tonight. So thank you for being here, i hope youre having a wonderful day. And for those of you following us online and streaming online, im carla hayden, the librarian of congress, and this is one of my favorite [applause] as you can imagine, times. And our next author is not only a local celebrity, he is also an international one. Chef jose andres is as well known for the many extraordinary restaurants he runs as he is for his humanitarian efforts. In fact, he will be leaving directly after this program to go help others. [applause] so hes backstage signing books right now because if he doesnt catch the plane, he wont be able to get there. You probably know that following the 2010 earthquake in haiti chef andres formed the World Kitchen to feed the distressed island nation, and after maria struck puerto rico in 2017, he once again answered the call for relief efforts by providing millions of meals with his team of chefs and volunt
We do that. So were in a strange and unprecedented situation in this country. We have a president who apparently or evidently reached out to a foreign leader to ask that foreign leader to investigate one of his domestic political rivals, which is another way of saying that the president of the United States asked a Foreign Government to interfere in an election and possibly subordinated American National security interests to his own personal needs and desires. My question to you is, is that an Impeachable Offense . Well, first let me say how pleased i am to be here this afternoon. Its a busy day. The Program Opening with the arts is something i was very excited about because and ill get to your question. Im just here, so its fine. The fact is that ive tried to avoid the situation were in now because it was very divisive for the country. This administration has done irreparable damage not irreparable. Lets hope its reparable. But we must repair and we must heal. For me, relating that t
Thank you so much. Im going to sit by the side so there is nothing between me and you. I plan to speak for 10 to 15 minutes on my chosen topic which is Climate Change. After that, we will have questions and answers for a slightly longer time than that. Climate change is right at the top of the list of things that i want to do if i am successful in becoming president of the United States. Nots an existential threat only to our country but to the entire planet. Issue is that if the atmospheric temperature rises by a certain amount between now and the middle of the century, it is very likely that the polar ice cap in its entirety would melt which would carry completely catastrophic consequences for the entire world. Many countries would not be able to sustain their populations because of the impact of the colossally problematic weather events. We have already seen that start to happen in the last couple of decades. Worldwided be flooding. All of the glaciers in the world would melt. The m
A bit more. Since last month weve been unable to get a hold of. Kashmir but we keep trying to totally to say. Wed like you. Know and here with you this wednesday morning the 30 minute world is round of Smart International 1st that the fate of israels Prime Minister hangs in the balance this morning with exit polls just in his neck and neck with his nearest rival to repeat parliamentary elections but even with his religious and right wing allies doesnt seem to have enough seats to secure a majority government and that also goes for his main rival goes down a spoonful in this. Was actually coming in but. As either would have liked is it absolutely and i actually wonder how well mr netanyahu slips now. Because this whole general election has largely been viewed as a vote of confidence on Benjamin Netanyahu the elections were called by himself in the 1st place after he failed to secure a majority in the parliament back in april and so far things things are looking quite bleak for him and B
Tones. [laughter] we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember so silence your phones. If you want to take pictures, take videos, etc. , and tweet them, yes, the hashtag trib fest 19 is how you will do that. We will take questions at the end. The mic will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the mic, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priest, the chief operating officer of law fair. I worked in the Counterterrorism Center at cia both before and after september 11th. Now revisiting the terrorism issue from a different perspective. Im here to bring out the best expertise from our four panelists, bobby chesney, one of the three co founders of law fair previously served on the president s Detention Policy Task force. Now the third chair in law and World Affairs at the university of texas where he also directs the robert s. Strauss center. Mary mccord has been the acting assistant attorney g