Thank you. And commissioner williams here and we have quorum and conduits is if attendance a attending remotely today and next the land acknowledgement. Good morning can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Okay. The best Case Scenario the best Case Scenario we are on unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Irresponsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. On the next members of the public who may be listening in the left hand call in number. Phone number 1 415 6550001 access code 2662 497 4269 to raise your hand, press 3 next. 2. President s opening remarks. Good morning, commissioners director and members of the public. First congratulations to commissioner sommer on the birthday of youre a baby laughter the golden meeting were
Expanded and even more dangerous version of the hyde amendment. The week of the inauguration was observed Martin Luther king day. Dr. King challenged americans this week starkly demonstrated that connection. We must run for office. Nothing is more wholesome to government and politics than participation of women. Weekend, the march was to protect the health care of american people. Sadly, the first actions this year moved to repeal the Affordable Care act, planning to andh and burn medicaid destroy the sacred guarantee that has rejected generations, initiating a longstanding republican plan. Immensehas made progress in the goals it has set forth, including quality of care, and lowcost. The republican plan wont make America Great again. It will make america sick again. The Congressional Budget Office theecorded and documented dire consequences of repealing the aca. Uninsureds of americans will increase by 18 million 18 million. The cost of premiums for americans will double in the same t
But there is sometime in military from u. N. And u. N. From the army to support them for security and we dont know exactly why this operation happened. Thank you very much indeed for that and is a freelance journalist who is outside the Hotel Radisson and he has been telling us that u. N. Forces in molian troops are on the scene with an attack at the Hotel Radisson blue with a number of hostages inside and dont know how many and we will speak to a journalist and president of the African Information Club and joins us on the phone from paris, he knows mali well and i dont know how well you are able to follow what has been going on in mali but tell us about this hotel and who might be carrying out this attack . Its very difficult to look and the fact is mali is now i mean two or three and they try to maintain them and effecting them in the northern part of mali but we can guess its coming from they are not a part of mali already. And looking at attacks which happened in the past lois atta
Hard time trying to sell the idea of democracy abroad. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Tom . Well, thanks, will. And thanks for the invitation to join this conversation this morning. In the spirit of in which ambassador basora launched us a little while ago, ive been thinking about making there a really interactive kind of event. So ive been listening intently to each of the three previous speaker nz it may seem at some level that they presented alternative schools of thought or approach to this question. So im not sure im allowed to say this but i agree with all of them. I agree with in particular with the way nick framed the tradeoffs that we often face in government between our understandings of potential shortterm benefit or shortterm need versus longterm. Thats the world in which i live every day in the u. S. Government as we sit around tables not usually as pretty as this but trying to talk about how we integrate our interests in strengthening democratic governs and respec
The reserve seats can be used, at least for this session. Rather than your having to be stuck in the back. So as i started to say, one of the goals of this conference is to engage the Younger Generation in deciding what we should or should not do. What we should desist from doindoing in the area of support for democracy abroaded in the decades ahead. So its appropriate the next generation have a major voice in formulating the new consensus, hopefully well get to a new consensus you have bios, ive introduced only two speakers by name. In your conference packages you have bio information on all of them. Our goal today is to have a really intense focused discussion where people have a chance to engage the panelists have a chance to engage with each other, they have dissending and differing views and leaving plenty of dim for discussions with you. Thomas melia hopes to be here. Hes snuck traffic. Dissent. Here are the three questions ive asked our speakers and you to think about and focus