I just want to Echo what Joe said who was our chairman and we're really grateful to him and he started us off by talking about um us meeting here for our 15th anniversary in extremely turbulent times I was talking to Marie Lise Kelly was one of our moderators one of our great journalists before and she said oh boy what chaos and it's a really important opportunity to remind all of us why we come here why as Dr an said we fly all the way to Aspen with a backdrop of these really magnificent mountains because it gets us out of the daily Rat Race it gets us out of shouting at each other about our Grievances and about our differences it gets us out over our task lists our egos and we're going to do something different here over the next couple of days and we really all believe in this Mission and that is to remind ourselves collectively why we chose these Noble professions in the first place we became diplomats government servants military officials innovators Business Leaders great journalists and we're all in this together and so we're going to have constructive calm quiet dialogue and we're going to try to collectively find a better and more positive way forward so it leaves me just to do two very important short tasks one is the most important of all and that is to thank the incredible Aspen strategy group team that puts all of this together if you can all stand Neeve Deb Leah Emily Alana Anna Matilda Karina and Chris it is a small But Mighty team and we're grateful to you thanks to all of you for being here now everyone who is an asp and security reform passholder please join us over in door hoser for our opening reception we're going to give you a drink we're going to talk about interesting topics and we meet bright and early again tomorrow morning in d hoser at 9:00 a.m. to get started thank you all e