Now for austin texas for a look at Trumps National security and Foreign Policy priorities the panel, pat of the annual Texas Tribune festival runs about an hour. [applause] good morning, yall. Thank you for coming out to the perhaps most timely and serious and important of the sessions youll hear at the seventh Texas Tribune festival. By this i mean the deadly serious topic of President Trump and his views on professional athletes. [laughter] hold on. My bad. Im sorry. Trump and National Security. Evan was unclear when we spoke. I just checked twitter and thought im happy to say that this paneled board bid the lbj school of public afirefighters here at the university of texas. Thank you to dean evans for that sponsorship. Im dutybound to remind the audience our sponsors, we love them but they dont get to choose which what question is ask or what answers the panelists offer. We at that time caveat out of the way, let me tell you who i am. Your host and moderator, professor bobby chessny
Good morning, yall. Thank you for coming out to the perhaps most timely and serious and important of the sessions youll hear at the seventh Texas Tribune festival. By this i mean the deadly serious topic of President Trump and his views on professional athletes. [laughter] hold on. My bad. Im sorry. Trump and National Security. Evan was unclear when we spoke. I just checked twitter and thought im happy to say that this paneled board bid the lbj school of public afirefighters here at the university of texas. Thank you to dean evans for that sponsorship. Im dutybound to remind the audience our sponsors, we love them but they dont get to choose which what question is ask or what answers the panelists offer. We at that time caveat out of the way, let me tell you who i am. Your host and moderator, professor bobby chessny from ut austin. The cofounder of the nations leading source for online commentary from experts on National Security law issues and also cohost of the creatively named Natio
Others who showed up said they didnt agree with the message, but supported the method. I dont agree with everything ann coulter said. I agree with some of what she says. I dont agree with everything trump does. But free speech is important because where do you hash out the good ideas from the bad ideas . I believe the people want to make fools of themselves in public. Im all in favor of it. It saves the rest of us from having to expose them as fools. So, everybody wins. Reporter well, we seem to lost Laura Anthonys feed there. Ann coulter was supposed to speak at berkeley today but did not. There were protests in several places today. Some on, some off campus. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman joins us from cal. Wayne. Reporter good afternoon. All the concern about demonstrations here at u. C. Berkeley and damage, all those concerns seem to have come to naught today. Not that there werent a lot of people on campus. Many of them were Police Officers. Some of them still Campus Police of
Highs reaching into the low 70s. It will be windy with that sun as we transition from cooler to warmer weather, well talk about that in the forecast for the weekend in about five minutes. Make is now tracking two crashes for the east bay. More cars hit the east beay freeways. South bay peninsula no surprises. The trivalley moves well. The east bay, one concern is southbound 880 just before you get to a street, past a street you see a crash that may be blocking one lane so we have slowing and off the Castro Valley y, as the volume builds its lighter than we often see. We have this crash. Highway 4, it involves a motorcycle. This is the second of the morning, everything is off the shoulder but motorcycle involved krashlgs, we see people standing around and more spectators, a smoother drive toward the bay bridge. The backup at the toll plaza. Back to you. Mike, thank you very much. Happening later today, police in berkeley bracing for potentially nasty protests amid what has been a heated