so that's why joining me right now is john carr, who is the chief of party apec multi stakeholders forum. john, it is so nice to meet you. >> thank you. nice to be here. >> i was going to ask you, how do you like the bay area so far? but you're from vallejo so local guy, right? >> yeah, that's right. that's right. vallejo so multi stakeholders forum. >> what is that about and why did you guys start it this year? >> well, apec has a real keen interest in bringing more voices into the policy dialog process. so i think that the multi stakeholder forum is really the embodiment of that vision. this has been something that apec has been really focused on for the last few years. i think you've seen some protests in the streets and they'll continue throughout the week. but this is , i think, evidence that apec really is serious about bringing more voices into the process. that's what we were working on at the multi stakeholder forum. so when you mention the protesters, they are stakeholders as well, right? >> because they have a stake in the world economy and how it progresses. or do you mean th

. >> john: alan carr is here, he's here in town for tomorrow's march for israel in washington, d.c. . >> couple of protests, outside the president's home in delaware over the weekend. increased anti-israel protests around the country, many of them laced literally top to bottom with antisemitism. hundreds of people again protesting here in delaware. now, let's flip the script and take a look at what happened in paris over the weekend. almost 180,000 people took to the streets of paris to protest not against israel, but against antisemitism. so, here in the united states we have this horrible raise in antisemitism and in paris, they are marching against antisemitism. why the difference? >> well, john, gillian, thanks for having me. all of us need to be marching against antisemitism because jew hatred is a barometer for societal decay and evil of all kinds and what we see in the world today is shocking. a genocide perpetrated against jews in the jewish homeland, jewish state around the world people standing up and supporting it. who have imagined the cruelty and the sadism and israel fig

officer in charge, headed tours of helicopter antisubmarine squadron where he deployed on the uss carr, uss john hancock, supporting strike group deployments with the uss america, an aircraft carrier, and the uss john fcht kennedy, another aircraft carrier. he's a pilot who hunts subs. as an m8-60 he low pilot, he was named the pilot of the year and was corecipient of the commanding officer elseman award calendar number 1993. best of his class. he served as executive officer and commanding -- 14th commanding officer of the fighting vipers. he was the helicopter maritime strike wing commander, u.s. atlantic fleet, recipient of the marine corps leadership award. this is a great navy aviator leader. as a flag officer admiral hughes served as commander, navy recruiting command, commander expeditionary strike group 2 and most recently deputy chief of naval personnel, commander, navy personnel commander. incredible navy leader. we need more navy officers confirmed. he's being blocked over an issue he has nothing to do with. we'd like to move him on regular order tonight, regular order would be an indi