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And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonet...

Stephen sackur interviews lord falconer. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. British politics is in full on meltdown mode. Prime minister borisjohnson has lost a series of key votes on brexit, and hes lost his parliamentary majority. He is now seeking a general election in mid october to let british Voters Decide whether brexit should happen, come what may, at the end of next month. But will the labour 0pposition agree to a snap poll . Well, my guest is former labour cabinet minister lord fa...

U. S. China links to health and medical products, assessing Market Opportunities Economic Health and National Security risks of these relationships. We will start with Benjamin Shobert at a senior associate for interNational Health, the National Hero of asian research. Mr. Shobert is the director of strategy for Health Business strategy at microsoft where he lead engagements with national governments, providers and the biotech community. Next we will hear from Katherine Eban an investigative jou...

Tumbling. And a new u. S. Cyber agency says priority number one, countering threats from china. How it plans to keep the tech supply chain safe. First, ramping up the trade war. Eared down onmp b china in a series of tweets, writing in part, the vast amounts of money made and stolen by china in the United States for decades will and must stop. Our American Companies are ordered to start looking for an alternative to china. For more i want to bring in sarah mcgregor, who has been following the ba...

Is a beautiful building, we are looking forward to renovating it. We are going to be placing a new roof deck on the top with an elevator hoistway so we can get people up there. We deliberately set aback from the property lines, so it was hardly visible to people, and we will be complying with the recommendations of staff. We also put out, we did some story poles, and then ended up per staff recommendations lowering our elevator. We are very happy with what we got, and happy to work with staff. L...

Unarguably said that israel did have a right to exist although she has been criticized by some on the right in israel for talking about a one state solution in the future what i think we have is a great deal of pressure coming from the u. S. Administration. The white house to make this decision there was a report of that over the weekend and trump has broken cover in this tweet saying that it would show great weakness that these 2 hate israel and all jewish people just last month israeli ambassa...

Freedom fest. When we were teenagers we would be on about the and we would lie on our sleeping bags talking about economic and political theory when we were told for 13yearsold which is unusual but weve always had an interest. And his brother and i later became leaders during the vietnam war era. I have a Rich Heritage as do all of us. There is a year old in the top that shows my 11th grade grandfather william just before they boarded the mayflower before they came to america. He was the lead of...

Our upcoming autumn the moon, we are a center for Building Community and a sense of belonging for everyone. These are the values that our mayor is committed to and has prioritized in her budget, which she will be signing here today. We are excited to continue partnering and working with the city to create opportunities and strengthen our support for all of our Diverse Communities all over San Francisco. Thank you all for being here today. [applause] thank you, michelle, and thank you for letting...

C everybody, good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harman the president and ceo. Im a recovering politician, happy to be a recovering politician but its not an easy job. This place leverages Woodrow Wilson from president s to passions which were scholarship and policy and thats the intersection of the book we are going to talk about today. Its my pleasure to introduce a friend of many of ours,. I will explain why it is called him a and that is because there is the movie, has ever...

Chair Jerome Powell announced an Interest Rate cut for the First Time Since the 2008 financial crisis. Following the announcement, he took several questions from reporters. This is 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome. Today to lower the target for the federal funds rate by a quarter of a ofcentage point to arrange two and a quarter percent. The outlook for the u. S. Economy remains favorable in this action is designed to support that outlook. Againsttended to ensure Downside Risk, to help off...