Cool. To see. September 26th seen nearly 2 months before the then president ial candidate Donald Trumps election president barack obama spoke at the u. N. General assembly zaya address this hall as president for the final time. Let me recount. The progress that weve made a quarter century after the end of the cold. The world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before. But with millions of people displaced worldwide. Unresolved conflicts from yemen. To syria iraq and afghanistan an armed groups like the sold on al qaeda launching attacks against civilians was president obamas speech too optimistic. His top u. N. Diplomat at the time was ambassador Samantha Power who was responsible for securing International Consensus on a variety of pressing issues of the Security Council and general assembly. Im james bays of the United Nations in new york our house us Foreign Policy change since President Trump took office of what should have been done differently and with
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements extraneous material and questions for the record subject to length limitation in the rules. We will begin, mr. Secretary. Thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran, iraq and the use of force. No one doubts that case and solomon was a dangerous terrorist but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes american safer and advances our interest. Weeks later we seen attacks, injured more than 100 servicemembers, then then need to move thousands personal back to the region and remnant of our relationship with iraq and the setback in the fight against isis.
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Former department of Homeland Security adviser for the obama administration. Ok, thank you. Thats exactly right. Now we have to recognize the Senior Member here. Well, it is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues. Ive worked with every member of this panel in some form or another, inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the center of law and security on the nyu school of law that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is really a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants served in the exec
Were waiting for the conversation on the role of congress and National Security and Foreign Affairs to get under way shortly. The u. S. House is in recess right now. The chamber will gavel in at about 6 20 p. M. Eastern when andy biggs is expected to bring up his resolution to condemn and censor chair adam schiff over the current impeachment inquiry. A vote related to that resolution is expected shortly after that. You can watch that live coverage on cspan and at cspan. Org. Okay, thank you. Thats exactly right. Now we have to recognize the Senior Member here. Well, it is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues ive worked with, every member of this panel in some form or another, inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the center of law and security on the nyu school of law that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is really a treat for me to b