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prior to joining cmu doctor skinner served as a director for policy planning and senior advisor to the secondary of state. i should also mention she is a fellow at the hoover institution and a visiting fellow at the heritage foundation. welcome to you all and thank you so much for being here. for our audience please know that you can ask questions of the panel through the ask a question button that is located on the csis .org website on the events page print please find nat and be thinking of your questions and in about 20 or so minutes we will turn to the audience questions and prevent them for the panel. welcome everyone. i want to start with a very general question and ask it this way. it was two years ago i read an incredible op-ed who is the president of the naacp legal defense fund and the headline on that op-ed said it is time to face the fact that racism is a national security issue. are we now facing that fact, given everything that is happened in this country over the past several weeks and i guess almost one month now. we will start with you, wendy. >> wendy, if you are spea

appoint ambassador grenell to become a senior fellow in the institute for one academic year and now cmuays it believes in freedom of speech which allows its community to openly share opinions while engaging in civil discourse on the themes and principles that are foundational to all institutions of higher education so they say the right things. i think there probably is a distinction in a case like this as neil said in the interview yesterday unless there's something we don't know you're opposed to someone because they've served as far as we know with distinction and an administration maybe where you don't agree with the beliefs that's a lot different than someone that we know has done something that everyone would agree was wrong at some point even if it was years ago. that's not the case here as far as we know. >> of course not, but connell, remember, most of the protesting faculty members by the way were not from the discipline where he is going to be a senior fellow but rather from the humanities which we know are overwhelmingly not just left lean leaning but registered democrats. t