So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. But its a privilege to represent my fellow
Syria strategy despite the fact that it didnt turn out exactly like i said it would its not a withdrawal its a repositioning of troops hes saying that this is working that he acknowledged the help of the kurdish fighters in this case the kurdish intelligence albeit he put that very low in the sort of thanking category preferring to instead thank nations like russia that we know interfered in the 2016 u. S. Election as well as thanking turkey and iraq as well theres no question the president s probably going to get some criticism for the order of that. List or rather today sions the other thing that i think in all of this which was notable that domestically certainly hes going to get some criticism of is that even say just what he said it multiple times he said that he did not alert members of congress who typically often have oversight in these situations maybe not in a specific raid or operation but certainly on matters of war in syria policy he complained he continually pointed the f
Know the mission but they knew we were going over an area that they had. They had a lot of firepower well soon after that statement russias ministry of defense said this there were no air strikes in the living area by u. S. Or Coalition Aircraft on saturday or in recent days and the conflicting information about the u. S. Operation raises questions and doubts about its validity especially its success we have no reliable information about the u. S. Military operation in italy that targeted back that. Well earlier we spoke to mark c. Makovsky who is a former u. S. Department of defense official he says russia and the u. S. Have different objectives in syria. Yes i saw in syria it was not the Russian Far East from day one their primary is bolstering the assad regime in assurity a son in sirte rise syrias civil war and russia succeeded ensuring that there are issues in syria have not been focused on targeting eisel they have a much wider objective politically so as a result we may have cer
Effectiveness of us communication with others, other republics and other countries. We have with us today im speaker will be assistant secretary of state and senior artificial in a euro of Public Affairs, and were glad you could joinus today. We look forward to this event. She joins the state department in every third 2018. But in the year later she became, she was already assistant secretary but took on the responsibility of the undersecretary ofstate. For Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Two of which were united under the nine, she has led one of the largest restructurings in 20 years so this is a very ambitious, interesting effort which is not created the bureau of Global Public affairs which she is the head. Welcome, she was Global Corporate Communications Senior Vice President for the waiver set of new york and she has also previously in washington worked for Newt Gingrich and as a lead member of his medications team. And communications survey. She holds a masters degree in po
Good morning. Thank you very m good morning thank you for theon introduction we are excited to be here today to have a conversation around authority at the state department to communicate American Values and form policy to engage the public all across the world. Theres never been in more important time for public to policy today its more important than ever engaging people and the public individuals and citizens in American Values and form policy and the Critical Issues of our time isn probably a requirement for success and theres a number of factors to this the world is increasingly interconnected andrl transparent so you have a number of factors making Public Diplomacy so the first is technology with a proliferation of channels and platforms in ways that we can communicate with citizens across the world so when we have theseer conversations but then you also have Technology Driving these risks look at Public Diplomacy we are can it survive the internet . Take a look at the trends. Ch