[cheers and applause] >> the fly and ceo of radio free europe and liberty serving during the bush administrationn the national security council the office of secretary of defense holding degrees from american university and georgetown. and with university of texas at austin during the bush administration he served as the state department and the national security council and from stanford and the undergraduate hr mcmaster serving at the white house national security advisor to president trump and in the united states army where he rose to general and working on dereliction of duty last year he published battleground the fight to defend the free world fellow at the hoover institution holding an undergraduate degree from the united states military academy and doctorate from the university of north carolina at chapel hill. jamie and hr, thank you for joining us jamie will set the scene on his first trip to germany 1978. make it visited the site where 16 years earlier an instrument was shot while to the no man's land the former california governor and delegation also introduced berlin from what they

which is voice of america, and the office of broadcasting and what we call the grand t network, radio free europend the technology fund which you saw on the video works on circumvention to get us to increasingly closed tierments have i i'll talk to you later. and we provide oversight and they're all independent operations 100% funded by the u.s. government and the other side was american and broadcasting 100% funding and also a federal operation. and so when i got to usagm i tried to look around and think, what does the entire network need to be more effective, more powerful in this world? and so, i set up five priorities and let me see if we can make this-- can you-- thank you. so basically audiences, journalists, and trusts, are the three pillars of the five priorities. so the first one is to expand and improve access to our content because as you know, the world is closing down very aggressively and we can do the best journalism in the world and it's of no use to anyone if we can't get it into our audiences. the second is to make sure that we ensure journalistic independence for every broadcas

the same thing is true with radio free europe during the cold war many countries we had no idea whetherhey are broadcasting into closed environments is nothing new for us. this is what we were made for. this is what we were designed to do. i would like to close by going back to, let's see if i can do this. i just want the firewall. there you go. they go. just going back. the independence is crucial to our success. you can smell non- independence when you see propaganda from russia and china. the people and the rest of the world are not stupider than you are. they can smell it too. we need to offer them credibility. something they can believe in and something they can turn to when they cannot trust their own government to tell them the truth. thank you all of you. i'll be happy to take any kind of questions. [applause] >> okay the q&a portion once again if you want to ask a question go up to the mic next to the mic and feel free. thank you. >> i'm not sure whether or not i've been able to chum the microphone on. >> okay, all right have one question so far that's about the open technology

that george soros has a link to the c i a because he inherited all of the archives of the old radio, free europe, radio liberty, which was run by the c i p. the inherited all this infrastructure in cross lucky can you get these photos the simplest, as we can set up your job. so just to give you, this is going to be the most of the theater antibiotics that allow me to keep the service exactly done before the door. when i say to the players distribute to the side to present, feel charlie, 4 months we made it to uh, after you get a digital display, a page, you just click on sent and all done to get items be so good luck to have to meet out at the pennsylvania, but i think the staff christmas and to the point of getting wet about nothing as of dimensionality, fitness picture of america broadcasts and 46 different languages. you know that there is more so america and there is right here for you are both serve finance by fine us government and congress is back service. and is that language there is, um, is there, but johnny are many georgians service and there is your premium service age service has c

the same thing is true with radio free europe during the whole cold war.where we had no idea whether or not people were listening to us. the fact that we were broadcasting into closed environments is nothing new for us. this is whats we were made for. this is what we were designed to deal. and, so, i would like to close by going back to, let's see if i can do this, where is my firewall, i just want the firewall. here you go. just going back. the independent spirit the independence is crucial to our success because you can, you can smell non-independence when you see propaganda from russia, chinat. the people in the rest of the world are not stupider than you are. they can smell it, too. we need to offer them credibility. something they can believe and it's something they can turn to when they cannot trust their own governments to tell them the truth. thank you all h of you and i wod be happy to take any kind of questions. [applause] >> okay. the q&a portion. if you g want to ask a question, just go up to the microphone. yeah. feel free. thank you. >> i am

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similar in relation to belarus to ukraine to poland, even in the balkans they are broadcast radio free europeamerica specials were created. institutes in munich in other regions among the same polish diaspora ended up in a large number of great britain in west germany in the united states of america and this, too, this factor cannot be exaggerated, but it cannot be underestimated either, but we, for our part, are pursuing a consistent line about compromises at the expense of our historical memory, our emotional interests cannot be , but we can turn over some unpleasant pages, we can too, but the day is september 17 , national unity day - this is evidence, but for a very long time they did not attach state on this holiday, despite requests from the public, so as not to offend, but the polish state. this won't happen now. we will consistently defend our interests, including our vision of history, but at the same time we are ready within the framework of dialogue. e on an equal basis. e be friends with our neighbors. you know, the president said that neighbors. they do not choose from god, we un

switches voice of america and the broadcasting and what we call the guarantee networks that are radio free europedio liberty, asia, the middle east broadcasting and the newest open technology fund which as you saw in the video works on circumvention's to get us into closed environments which i will talk about later so we provide oversight and the networks are all independent corporations 100% funded by the government and the other also 100% funded by federal operation. i tried to look around and think what does the entire network need to be more effective and powerfulul in this world so i st up five priorities and let's see if we can make this. basically audiences, journalists and trusts are the three pillars of the priorities so the first isth to expand and improve acces because as you know the world is closing down very aggressively and we can do the best journalism in the worldrn but is of no use if we can't get it into our audiences. second is to make sure that we end sure journalistic independence for every broadcaster and entity. there's nothing that we have that is more important it's what

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