Welcome to the georgetown dialogues. I am the Vice President for Global Engagement here in georgetown. We are the lead organizer for this weeks events. I want to welcome you to our historic hall. And those following online around the world. For the first couple of sessions in our weeklong conference. The first on the u. S. President ial election and the focus on how it is seen from abroad. In the second on social inequality is a complex global challenge. What are the georgetown global dialogues . Around this time last year, we began to explore prominent examples. And students in the wider community. On challenges facing humanity. Intellectuals already engaged in global conversations. Through articles and books and all kinds of appearances. Please welcome them to georgetown. It is a bit unusual to have this community in washington. That brings us to our theme. It sounds presumptuous. But we have arrived at a global impasse. Now is the time to think together. Think about the catastrophe
Welcome to the georgetown dialogues. I am the Vice President for Global Engagement here in georgetown. We are the lead organizer for this weeks events. I want to welcome you to our historic hall. And those following online around the world. For the first couple of sessions in our weeklong conference. The first on the u. S. President ial election and the focus on how it is seen from abroad. In the second on social inequality is a complex global challenge. What are the georgetown global dialogues . Around this time last year, we began to explore prominent examples. And students in the wider community. On challenges facing humanity. Intellectuals already engaged in global conversations. Through articles and books and all kinds of appearances. Please welcome them to georgetown. It is a bit unusual to have this community in washington. That brings us to our theme. It sounds presumptuous. But we have arrived at a global impasse. Now is the time to think together. Think about the catastrophe
Welcome to the georgetown dialogues. I am the Vice President for Global Engagement here in georgetown. We are the lead organizer for this weeks events. I want to welcome you to our historic hall. And those following online around the world. For the first couple of sessions in our weeklong conference. The first on the u. S. President ial election and the focus on how it is seen from abroad. In the second on social inequality is a complex global challenge. What are the georgetown global dialogues . Around this time last year, we began to explore prominent examples. And students in the wider community. On challenges facing humanity. Intellectuals already engaged in global conversations. Through articles and books and all kinds of appearances. Please welcome them to georgetown. It is a bit unusual to have this community in washington. That brings us to our theme. It sounds presumptuous. But we have arrived at a global impasse. Now is the time to think together. Think about the catastrophe
Welcome to the georgetown dialogues. I am the Vice President for Global Engagement here in georgetown. We are the lead organizer for this weeks events. I want to welcome you to our historic hall. And those following online around the world. For the first couple of sessions in our weeklong conference. The first on the u. S. President ial election and the focus on how it is seen from abroad. In the second on social inequality is a complex global challenge. What are the georgetown global dialogues . Around this time last year, we began to explore prominent examples. And students in the wider community. On challenges facing humanity. Intellectuals already engaged in global conversations. Through articles and books and all kinds of appearances. Please welcome them to georgetown. It is a bit unusual to have this community in washington. That brings us to our theme. It sounds presumptuous. But we have arrived at a global impasse. Now is the time to think together. Think about the catastrophe
Institute, this is one hour. [indiscernible] im honored to have with us to have with us the assistant secretary of the navy, the navy comptroller, Russell Rumbaugh. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He has worked in a variety of positions at dod, on the hill, and think tanks, and he most recently came into the department of the navy from aerospace corporation. Previously he had worked at the Simpson Center and other places here in d. C. , the Congressional Research service for many years, and he began his career as a u. S. Army infantry officer. You dont talk about that with the navy folks. Navy i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much the navy took from them this year. [laughter] its a pleasure to have him here for this discussion. We will also be taking discussion from the audience in the room and online. So, when we turn to that, if you are online you can go ahead and start asking questions on the site where i get to read the questions off the ip