>> i worked in that building, when i worked in the capital. everyone of those sons of bridges who attacked the police to be thrown in jail for a long time. let's be careful. i don't remember the outrage of a friend playing baseball and throwing himself, as a madman attempting to kill people and steve scalise will carry those wounds the rest of their life. i don't remember the outrage. we've gone through this before as a country and it wasn't a pleasant period. anyone alive in 1963 knows what they heard about the news. everybody remembers april 4th

of 1968, six later when robert kennedy is killed and how gerald ford was shot with a tented assassination, and and george wallace, not many myers here, and within one.8, when it got inaugurated. being shot in this town. not just the violence aimed at political leaders, in 1979, and to disrupt the war.

and treat people with respect, and wasn't easy to do and took some time. we are not tolerant of this, people would rather have a system to disagree with each other, >> i want to say one thing. and i'm disgusted by all of those things. we need to discourage violence from any sector, any ideology as an answer to disagreement and democracy. we need a leader who believes that. >> running out of time.

i want us to try, what leadership it takes in terms of uniting the country in a moment like this. let's talk about this responsibly. there are two presidential candidates, but there's one who does actively incite violence as we saw on january 6th. if he is still captivating, one of two major parties in this country, do we have a shot at the sort of leadership or the country coming together. >> don't bet against the american people having common sense at the end of the day. we will have a fight and somebody is going to win and somebody is going to lose and my sense is there will be people on either side. i had to hire a lawyer in

2004-2005, because there were election deniers in 2,004. >> they didn't storm the capital. >> but they tried to stop the reelection of george bush claiming that computers in europe transferred 120,000 votes from john kerry to george bush, and 37 members of the house of representatives led by james clyburn thought that nonsense which i was accused in court in columbus, ohio, of having ordered the assassination of a whistleblower who was going to spill the beans on this computer scandal to overturn the ohio election. nowhere close to january 6th. we have paranoia in our society. this didn't keep george w. bush saying to john lewis, let's work together on reauthorizing the voting rights act. lewis is one of the people who bought into this as was clyburn. let's put some of the politics aside and look at what's best for the country and set the tone from the bottom. >> the thing i would point out

is john kerry conceded the election. al gore conceded the election. that's the difference here. i agree with that. when people speak, it is fundamental, you need to yield to the will of the people. >> 37 house democrats and barbara boxer -- >> they weren't going to overturn the election. the point is the candidate conceded and presided over the vote of the certification of the vote. we need that from our leaders. >> what are you worried could happen if donald trump loses the election? could we see january 6th redux or worse? >> now because this time around everybody will be forewarned and forearmed. there's no way there's going to be, they've already designated

january 6th, when congress receives the results as a national security event which there will be plenty of preparation. i also think good common sense in the american people won't stand for. there won't be hundreds of thousands of people regardless who wins or loses who are going to find themselves making their way to the nation's capital to protest. maybe i am being childish about that but i think the american people have more common sense than that which a lot of people everybody has a chance, this time around there will be no excuses. last time, donald trump objected to the practices that were being put in place because of covid but did so after the fact, 63 lawsuits. this time around everybody is following the lawsuits making sure the laws are applied as written and as a result removing the excuses and good for that. >> i wish i could be as hopeful as carl is about this.

trump, stakes for trump in this election, he already said if i lose it will be because it was stolen. this is a guy who thinks he won the last debate. he doesn't accept defeat. the signals that he sends, the signals that he sends are going to be important. in the main, the country will rally, but i am worried about people on the fringes, people who believe in him who are not in the fringes but belief in him as a leader and if they are told they did it again, i do worry about that and particularly because i think it is going to be another very close election. >> on that, remarkably -- >> i should answer as the sunshine goes.

>> such a loser. rove and axelrod, total losers, total losers. >> both of you may have ruined your respected careers by speaking so highly of each other. >> you can't tell anybody. >> i hate the guy. they run together. very expensive. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> american history tv saturdays on c-span 2, exploring the events that tell the american story. starting at 2 p.m. pm eastern, fort ticonderoga in new york hosted its 20th annual discussion on the american revolution. highlights include robert swanson on canadian regiments.

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iraqi energy security dialogue so a great way to kick off washington atlanta counsel career so i appreciate the chance to be here with all of you. i'm thankful there is such a distinguished panel. i know this will be exciting because i will be leaning on the expertise and experience of the folks here that are joining us today. let me introduce the panel, we have three folks today as well as two out there in the internet who are going to be joining us as well, from france. i will go through that and introduce them. give them each a chance to talk about the area they are focused on in the iraqi energy sector and build the discussion from there and hopefully leaving plenty of time for folks in the

audience as well as on the internet to put in questions into the apps to have interactive discussion. we have an hour and 1/2 to dig in. with the great panelists, introduce folks briefly and get into the conversation. thank you for joining us virtually, the managing director and chair of totale energy is leading the iraqi effort since 2019, almost 20 years, a long history in the region bringing great expertise and insight from totale, looking forward to hearing from her about totale's projects. nice to see you. i will end here, just getting the hang of it. thanks.

also there's going to be a lot of lessons about the big projects you have signed in the last year. for all of us as we look at ircs better working in iraqi. we have also joining us virtually, julian perez, director at oh gci, bringing a lot of expertise in climate policies and working to catalyze the oil and gas industry, decarbonization of a market, useful as we are looking to understand how air rack's energy sector talked about the importance of the cleaning of the industry.

tell us about learning more about going forward. leading industry expert, managing director and global government affairs and policy, global government affairs, great to have that long experience in air rack, the project refurbishment project last year has been involved for decades interact, bringing a wealth of industry experience to the conversation. speaking of knowledge, we have the founder and president of spv energy, strategic consulting firm working to provide affordable energy, and

also a lecturer at oxford, georgetown offering the global perspective on the energy sector. looking forward to her perspective. and then the vice president of government affairs, nonresident fellow atlanta counsel, bringing to us the experience of nsc, us military background, assistant secretary department of energy working on air rack business counsel, perspective to complement our industry and academia today. really looking forward to all our experts to provide perform for all of you to have a conversation. again, thanks for having me on

this panel. to my distant worst colleagues for joining me here. i will kick it off by sending the first question through the screen, i would like to ask you after 100 years after the start of totale energy, the companies working to be a pioneer developing several massive scale projects, tell us more about how totale energy is deploying its strategy. >> thank you very much. and the organizer's score to speak up for conference.

and loved to do that. the company was born in a rack hundred years ago and as you know, the challenges to the industry are now many and going towards preparing the low carbon world in which there is safety and energy strategy is a toxic example of under the leadership of our seals, ensuring socioeconomic developments, having security and supply of energy in particular. so what is it about?

multi energy project, there are some components and the main objective is to provide energy, electricity, to the consumer. so we have gas capturing treatment facility, where we will be capturing in the first phase 300 million cups of gas, turning it into dry gas, power for the consumer. that's the first phase. we will have the development, the oil fields which will be increasing capacity for radio producing fields and the production capacity.

with sustainable, responsible development of oil extracted, a water component, and water from the sea from the golf. and and freshwater, with agricultural use, with industrial processes. last but not least, steam power, and that will basically,

22 -- with high-tech -- to provide key energy to that degree. and energy example in a rack and why it is pioneering, recognizes the need of the host country that has access to electricity. remember that electric generation capacity is inferior to the demands of the country. a way of producing oil in a cleaner way, ensuring the footprint on the field.

to meet reductions objectives and reduces its footprint, and the routine in the area in the southern area. the use of freshwater would be reduced by industrial purposes, with water that will be treated will go into the sites and the reservoir. with water from aquifers, for their own oil production.

with the sunbelt so -- with the solar -- that just of the project, multi energy is where we are living, low carbon need to have reduction of co2 footprints, approach to the industry but also producing access to energy. >> thanks for the rundown.

how important, how important this project is for the potential, at the energy bureau for the project, with the iraqi government actors to see how he could help support that. the project coming together, two things before turning the next to george, if there are questions, please put them in act.org so you can put in questions as you get further into the conversation. going back to you, do you have a brief insight, advice on how the lessons you learned have

success with this project. the project itself is interesting and important in air rack's energy evolution and progress, to understand how others crack the code, in the way you have. brief lessons learned for food for thought as we get into this conversation. >> honestly the first thing that comes to mind is this project is the result of listening to iraqi -- very blatant when you go to the south of iran to see how the sky is full of dust and smoke of flared gas. you can smell it when you get out of the plane, smell that

air that is full of gas, capturing the gas was a no-brainer in that when we listened to the iraqi partners we wanted to do something they would as well. it is important to listen and to understand where you are. that would be my first seat back. the second thing, because it became born out of that, negotiations and deployment, relatively smooth because we hear about the fact that everything has to be done in a government way and the standards so far working well

and we have been able to deploy the projects. they are ongoing with our iraqi partners without hitching. so far so good. underneath that, the key to that is to be able to accompany the energy transition, with energy manipulation or also to provide a different example, this is what they are demonstrating so far. >> appreciate that. i would like to turn to george. outline how you think air rack can beat the electricity demand and achieve its energy security and longer-term environmental objectives.

>> thank you to you and the council for pulling together this discussion and i appreciate the comprehensive look at the energy sector. so much of the discussion is around the oil and gas sector which is critical to a rack's future prosperity and growth but at the same time you can't just look at that sector without ignoring what is happening in the power sector. there's a tremendous shortage of electric capacity and that has an impact on stability especially in the southern months and the southern part of the country. dealing with that shortage and bringing reliable, affordable, sustainable power to the people of iraqi is critical. there's a lot that has been done in this space that sometimes gets overlooked. there's been significant progress. my company is proud to have played a part in that, 19 gw of

electricity to the people of iraqi but at the same time, so much more needs to be done. he referenced that in your opening remarks. we can talk about what has happened in the past but people are more interested in what we do from here. there's a couple of things. first of all, the company project succeeds as air rack does more -- air rack -- iraq weaned itself off of imports, utilizing the gas for domestic power production. that alone will have a significant impact not just on building new generation but making what is produced a lot more environmentally friendly. switching from heavy fuel oil to gas reduces carbon emissions

by about 40%. it has a tenfold improvement of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide which would make that air, the poor air quality referenced have a significant impact on that. iraq has a large installed base of gas turbines. we've been working collaboratively with the ministry of electricity to ensure that installed base continues to operate. while additional capacity is needed, we can't afford to lose what is already online. there has been so much degradation over the years that many of those machines are operating at less than their rated capacity and are at risk of breaking down. ..