Part of its freedom and progress conference in washington, d. C. [applause] good morning, everyone. I am the president of the foundation and i wanto welcome you to the 2023 editn of the conferce. I thought we would lead with a speech. It is a speech we have all heard, especially in clips. So many amazing elements of that speech resonate with us today. It will become clear why i waed for us to watch that address. There is lot to think about that relates to what we are trying to accomplish over the next two days. Why do we call this the freedom and progress conference . We call it freedom and progress inspired by a speech Frederick Douglass gave in 1870. He was asked by a bunch of newly freed slaves, what should we do . Should we only vote for republicans . Should we feel free to vote for democrats when we want to . Frederick douglass said, look, you should vote your conscience but because that is what we fought for. We fought for people to be able to vote for whichever party they want t
Good morning. And welcome everyone in the studio as as the audience turning in virtually. Im connor savoy, senior fellow at the csu us project on prosperity and development. Thank you for joining me today to discuss a new book published by my long time colleague and friend dan, who is a Senior Vice President and director of the project on and development and holds the schreier chair here at csis. His work is oriented around us leadership in building a more democratic and prosperous world. Among his many other contributions, he was an architect of the build act, helped contribute to the reauthorization of the Us Export Import Bank in 2018 and was an of prosper for a Us Initiative to deepen the uss commercial and Development Engagement in africa. Hes been a leading voice on the role and future of the World Bank Group and u. S. Leadership in the multilateral. Prior to csis he held leadership roles at the u. S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank Group earlier in his ca
Good morning and welcome everyone in the studio as well as the audience in virtually im conscious of senior fellow at the csis on prosperity and development. Thank you for joining me today. Discuss a new book published by my long time and friend dan randy, a Senior Vice President and director of the project on Prosperity Development and holds the schreier chair here, csis. His work is oriented around u. S. Leadership in building a more democrat and prosperous world among his many other contributions. He was an architect of build act, helped contribute to the reauthorization of the Us Export Import Bank in 2018 and was an architect of prosper africa, a Government Initiative to deepen the uss and Development Engagement in. Hes been a leading on the role in future of the World Bank Group and u. S. Leadership in the multilateral system prior to csis held leadership roles at the u. S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank Group earlier in his career, he also worked commerc
But its also one of an International Variety because its within the context of congress that any International Reaction or action by the United States wouldnt be undertaken without us speaking the house, nothing happens. So this is brittany pressure to pay on the republicans in particular to get a house me to in place as quickly as possible. Because this is not just a domestic imperative anymore. That is an International One to okay. Mike, kind of bring installation stuff from washington. Thanks very much mike. I was just going to leave you now with some pictures of golf. Extraordinary. Massive of clouds of smoke rising above the sky line in the wake of an enormous strike. That must have just struck that densely populated area. Lets just remind you that there was 2300000 People Living in the gaza strip. That is 41. 00 chrome. It says by 12 chrome. It says wide. It is a tiny area with a huge number of people and seeing strikes of this size generally means massive numbers of casualties.
A barrel of rockets from gaza. At least 700 people have been killed in israel. More than 2200 injured. And some 260 people died as a Music Festival that was attacked by the group on saturday. A senior official from last has confirmed the group has taken more than a 100 as rallies as captive. The prisoners include both soldiers and civilians. These really minute tree says the number of captives is significant. Meanwhile, in the occupied westbank, at least 5 palestinians have been solved until im calling from patients with as really forces. And that brings the death toll the to 13 killed since saturday. Problems have come out and cities across the west bank on saturdays, some more support. A mazda is minute, treat opperation on israel view, and Security Council has health and emergency meeting palis times and boss of the, to the u. N. Has called on israel to and its broke age of goals. You cannot say, nothing justifies chilling is ratings and then provide justification for killing palest