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Thanks to all of you. Will be reconvening soon. applause invigorated people. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. Ill have to remember that. Well, its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston, a senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program here at brookings. Delighted to be a small cog in the brookings Service Year Alliance machine that has produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in parti...

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of National Service. Let me make a few brief comments to begin with. In such divided and turbulent...

Okay. Oneminute warning. That invigorated people. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. Ill have to remember that. Well, its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston, a senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program here at brookings. Delighted to be a small cog in the brookings Service Year Alliance machine that has produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Bell sawhill for con...

Introduce and moderate second panel. Let me begin by introducing myself briefly. My name is bill galston. Am a senior fellow here at brookings and delighted to be a small cog in the institution. People,o introduce two bell, for working tirelessly to bring about, and also, our president , john allen, for letting his vast experience and moral authority to our enterprise this morning, and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Introduce the qu...

Civilian National Service programs. This was hosted by the Brookings Institution. It is one hour and 10 minutes. John good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volun...

Groups new report and the Perception Gap between partisans. As always, we take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is monday, july 1. Congress is away from capitol hill for the fourth of july break. We begin with Vice President mike pence from over the weekend on the morality of Border Security. The Vice President told a gathering of conservative activists there is nothing compassionate about open borders. Phone ...

At least 14 people have been killed and another 46 injured in a Russian Missile strike on the ukrainian city of odessa. At least 10 houses and some Emergency Service equipment were damaged in the attack. It also started a fire, according to the governor of the just to region. The lead to all of us and bob wayne village is sick, has appeared in court, up to 16 crimes were discovered on his Farm North West of the capital. Her. All right. The smell of took a long while was arrested along with 7 mem...

Most patients are full. We are trying to find room for you. Maybe it will happen tonight, but im not sure if they go with the help of a translation apps. The news spreads all the tents, blankets in other essentials of life, including food, are provided here, not by any government agency, but by small volunteer groups and individuals. Border patrol is not providing shelter, food, very little water. It gets down to 4. 00 and 4. 00 degrees celsius at night, and its very windy. A few weeks ago, 2 ch...

Welcome everybody. Justices, it is so great to have you here to help celebrate civic learning week. To those of you who are tuning in our here for the first part of the day, this is in operating a full week of activity all around the United States to emphasize the centrality ofleard the ability to govern ourselves in this democratic republic. We are so delighted to be joined here by justices sotomayor and barrett. They need no introduction, but i feel compelled to provide one nonetheless and to ...

A radically different era of Space Exploration to come. Thats because it can lift 5 times as much material to space as the next largest available craft or, according to the companys other plan star ship could carry 100 people to orbit at once. Well, the largest crew on any previous launch was 8. And the most people ever to have been in space at the same moment was nearly 20 for a brief instant about a few years ago. But having hundreds of people working in space is still far in the future. And t...