Get a front row seat to an exciting and challenging discussion over some of America’s most prominent topics. Former U.S. Representative & NBC News Analyst Harold Ford, Jr. and Former Chief Spokesperson for the U.S.-led Coalition in Iraq Dan Senor capture audiences during their interactive deliberation over some of today’s most hot-button issues including stability in the Middle East, domestic security, military transformation and the economy.

In conversation, Ford and Senor discuss re-establishing our moral authority through diplomacy; strengthening America’s international reputation; resurrecting our economic health and integrity; modernizing our military assets and strategy; managing sustainable levels of government spending and foreign policy.

Harold Ford, Jr. served Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years. Described by President Clinton as the “walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century,” he is passionate about free enterprise and balanced budgets. Ford is now the Managing Director and Senior Client Relationship Manager at Morgan Stanley, a news analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and a Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the New York Times best selling author of More Davids than Goliaths.

Dan Senor was the Chief Spokesperson for the U.S.-led Coalition in Iraq, and a Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III, the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Senor rode into Baghdad on the first convoy of civilians into Iraq from Kuwait, less than two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and was one of the longest-serving American civilians in Iraq. He is a best-selling co-author of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle and is often published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and TIME.

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