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Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. My name is rick jones, vicepresident and director of the program here a the brookings. Its my pleasure to welcome you for todays event hosted by the brookings center. This event is part of expanding with our partnership with the brookings transatlantic initiative. This is a multiyear platform that will spur a range of new activities not only on global issues, but that the transatlantic partners can get together. Were grateful they recognize that the value that brookings brings to this is our in depth high quality and independent research....

[inaudible conversations] morning everybody. Let me start, if i can with a very personal note, and that is i have known her for a little more than a quartercentury which means we got together in what was another millennium and it sure feels like another millennium. She was an extraordinary friend and colleague and i, along with my colleagues here at brookings and form policy are so glad that once again she will be colleagu colleague. I think the timing of this part of the program fits very well with the panel that we have just heard from. Perhaps victoria, you were there for close to half of i...

Out proposals for ending the stalemate in the brexit negotiations. In a landmark speech in florence, theresa may will offer to maintain payments into the eu budget in return for continued access to the Single Market for a transitional period of up to two years. She will say the eu has a profound sense of responsibility to agree a deal. From florence, our political editor, laura kuenssberg. This city might be an escape from westminster, yet the trickiness of our departure from the eu is no easier in a foreign language. And here on mainland europe, as at home, threats to theresa may lurk in many...

The federal government report that is in september the economy lost 33,000 jobs, thats a very unusual job decline, but september was hurricane month, the huge economies of texas and florida slowed because of harvey and irma. Interesting to knows 015,000 jobs of eating and drinking establishments were lost in that month, no surprise. Here is where we stand. Apart from the hurricane events, both manufacturing and Service Sectors of the economy are humming along, business and Consumer Confidence remain strong and profits are way up. The rest of the world growing too. Smile, please, we open very c...

We honor and thank a legendary author, thomas j brokaw. Newsr of the nbc nightly and now nbc special correspondent. So many distinct guests are joining us to0 including many members of the nbc family. Meredith is right down front. Welcome. And we welcome our vice chair of the smithsonian region. [applause] in a dramatic shift from just a informationo, new and history is being disseminated through an evergrowing buried in fracture array of channels and media. Many of us find ourselves searching for clarity for fundamental questions that underpin our nation. It mean to the american and what is t...