karl racine. dustin will have a fireside chat and i'll tell you a little bit about him. he's a partner in the little rock law firm of calhoun where practice focuses on regulatory law, government relations, business litigation, and criminal law. from 2007 through 2015, he served as arkansas 55th attorney general acting as the state's top law enforcement official in the state's top consumer advocate. attorney general karl racine is the first elected attorney general of the district of columbia. with his inauguration in 2015, the office of the attorney general ghana era of independence for the agency and accountability to district wrist dents. as the chief legal officer of district of columbia, general racine relies on 25 years of legal and leadership experience to advise the mayor and district agencies, defebd the city and court, and use the law to advance the public interest. please join me in giving a round of applause to general mcdaniel and general racine. [ applause ] >> thank you, luther. thank you general for taking the time to be with us today. it's a privilege to

attorney general carl racine who is participating in the lawsuit. he is also co-chair of the democratic attorneys general association. has this been filed? give us the short version of what your argument is here. >> first, happy 20th anniversary, chris. >> my goodness. thank you. >> look. the district of columbia is a diverse community that has a lot of immigrants who have contributed mightily to the district of columbia and the country. that's true frankly in every state of the united states. that's why washington state and at least eight other states, including the district of columbia, will file a lawsuit early next week challenging the administration's unprecedented, uncruel, and unconstitutional policy of separating kids from their families. >> they say, mr. attorney general, they say they have no choice they are simply following the law by prosecuting border crossers. what do you say to that? >> i listened to your report a moment ago and you have clearly defined lie after lie by the administration, the president, homeland security person, also

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because he's not going to upset china and american ties to china economic ties he can always blame the racin or russia and you know people love it they go with it they're well with it it's like the old cold war paradigm entirely on this or that but this is interesting because you pointed out that i used to work in the department of defense and i my research i'm a university professor now but my research in specially recently on the arctic keeps me in contact with people who are in or around the defense establishment and when i ask about what's happening in the arctic why are some people sounding the alarm my interpretation of russia's new bases and new capabilities is a very sensible thing russia should be doing this to trade the environmental issues navigation safety search and rescue why is there this drumbeat of threat and they say to me we know it's not true that's political we actually think that russia is doing sensible things in the arctic we have managed to cooperate for almost twenty years since the creation of the arctic council in fact it's more than twenty years but we know that

racine and change to history children are treated and finally tell us about the kids sandwich if they enjoy playing against each of the plane with a chyna sex scene with each other ok these on ordinary kids these are kids who live in the streets these are kids with outbursts if it goes so just to get ahead they've had to oppose to defense they have to be somebody for the very first sign then they have to a passport and then they have to have visas they've never travelled out of my country before they are representing their country at a well come but he's never been the well kept never been in africa cup of nations here they are where the world cup is representing their country and their country is on their site fantastic john huge congratulations that means a lot to fantastic with you don't ya somewhere up in the stands we've got team india giving you lots of passionate supports to their country team india tike you know why. is the price for the street child woke up when it's the girls and the boys fighting for this fantastic trophy and they'll go home as world champions. to you all t

racine more of those risks. we say in the book this is not your parents risk landscape anymore. >> when you bring president trump into the mix, what about managing mix when you have a ceo who's on twitter and doing unpredictable things in major policy areas? >> political volatility is an issue for those were trying to manage through political risk. something more structural is going on. not just president trump. something more structural that is raising the risk profile for most companies. if you think about the international order that was premised on free trade, open markets, increased flows of goods and services, counted on american military power to protect that international order. people took it for granted for years. particularly after the soviet union it look like one international system and economy. everybody was played by the same rules. that system is under pressure from populism and protectionism. . . ot take for granted anymore the system that provided the backdrop in which you are making your inve

racine some of the fewer steps you take. what everybody needs to do is get in-house support. that means you may have to get additional reads from senior editors. if you're very senior you might be one of the final voices. want to make sure your publishing house is going to do justice to the book you're interested in. you might feel like you're the right editor but it doesn't have in-house support. so you need to get reads and house another story that love it as much as you do. every publisher handles this differently. an editorial meeting is when the pros and cons get flushed out. then maybe in a meeting after that you can start talking about numbers and what kind of offer you make. >> it just depends on where you're working for a big house or small hunts and what your role is. where i work we try to keep it simple, we like something is just myself into editors and we discuss it among ourselves. if we like it we get approval to make an offer. it's important not only for the writing to be great and exciting, but we think there is a way to find readers for the book. try to thin

i was share with you something not even reflected in this report, so far in 2018 racine declines in disability applications. that is good news. the level where it now is below the number of applications we had in 2007. that was the peak year of the last economic recovery we expect to have a big drop in the number of applications, and we did. at this point in 2017 were lower and are continuing to drop. we look carefully at characteristics that might be affecting it. we've looked rule versus urban, the application rates are down across the board. it's a little surprising, and i was share particularly from the ranking member that we have done our best to get in touch with people where there is a lot of private long-term -- and they have not been able to give us very specific they have seen drops in their disability claims rates as well. maybe somethings in the water in our society seems healthier these days. we are hopeful. >> have you learned anything? are figured out anything? or are you just babbling at us? >> what we have learned is everything we thought that would be the explanation for this