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Foreign Press Centers (U.S. Department of State)
Welcome to Cleveland! The Foreign Press Centers (FPC) will be open Monday, July 18 beginning at 9:00 a.m.Location: Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland booth #550
Hours: Monday, July 18 through Thursday, July 21 from 9:00 a.m. until one hour after gavel.
FPC Briefing Schedule:
Monday, July 18
11:00 Dr. John Green, Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, The University of Akron
Topic: What to expect at the 2016 GOP Convention
Tuesday, July 19
12:00 Joe Schmidtz, Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Foreign Policy Adviser to Trump Campaign
Topic: What Foreign Policy would look like under a Trump Presidency
1:00 Sichan Siv, Texas Delegate - former UN Ambassador
Wednesday, July 20
11:00 Steve Yates, Chairman, Idaho GOP
Topic: The 2016 GOP platform
1:00 Kyle Kondik, Director of Communications, and Geoff Skelly, Media Relations Coordinator, University of Virginia Center for Politics
Topic: The state of the race for the presidency
3:00 Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review
Topic: Covering the 2016 election: issues important to conservatives
4:30 Ed O'Keefe, Reporter, The Washington Post
5:30 Craig Dunn, Chairman, Howard County, Indiana, GOP
Topic: The role of a delegate
Thursday July 21
11:00 Robert D' Onofrio, Head of Data, Facebook
Topic: Social Media Data and Trends
2:30 Monica Crowley and Rick Grenell, 2016 GOP Convention Surrogates
Online FPC briefing schedule: https://goo.gl/Wd1r57
Photos, audio and other multimedia from FPC briefings: https://goo.gl/MJdMyp