Live coverage begins at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Pamela constable, who i feel like i should start off by saying welcome home. Pamela thank you. Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Pamela i guess,close to half. First with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Then, off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . Pamela well, my earliest interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills, you might say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, to unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely there and more and the struggles and problems were deeper and broader. And i just wanted to try that. H
Peopleave more than 300 registered for this Virtual Meeting and we will try to get through as many questions as we can in the second half of this discussion. I want to note the entirety of todays session is on the record. Our discussion now and later on, the questions and answers. Mr. President , welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. A great leisure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the and to allrticularly the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Now is at a prehistoric threshold or at least potentially so. People the afghan through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cross, one that i know you addressed with great serious
Get test many questions as we can in the second half of the discussion. I want to note that the entirety is on the record, our discussion now and later on. Welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. It is a pleasure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the veterans particularly and to all the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Your country now is at a pretty historic threshold or at least potentially so. You and the Afghan People through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had been demanding and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the e next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cross, one that i know you addressed with great seriousness and conviction but also with difficulty, given the sacrifices your people have mad
We have more than 300 people registered for this Virtual Meeting and we will try to get through as many questions as we can in the second half of this discussion. I want to note the entirety of todays session is on the record. Our discussion now and later on, the questions and answers. Mr. President , welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. A great leisure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the veterans particularly and to all the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Your country now is at a prehistoric threshold or at least potentially so. You and the Afghan People through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had been demanding and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cr
Senior counsel at omalley and myers. He serves as a National Security advisor for obama and also headed the obama biden transition of he is a veteran of many democratic campaigns and of course serves on multiple. [inaudible] steve hadley served as the National Security advisor for resident george w. Bush from 2005 to 2009. Hes a deputy from 2001 to 2000 vibrant he is now a partner in a great little Consulting Firm called. [inaudible] also the chairman of the u. S. Ip and involved in just about as many bipartisan causes as one can be in washington d. C. So thank you steve for all the bipartisan work that you are doing. And here to interview both of them we have jim shoot a which is achieved National Security correspondent, we all see him on tv throughout the middle east and the arctic. He has a book out coming out next week with his virtual book tour called the mad man theory which i just looked at online jim and it looks fascinating although not a very relaxing beach read. But we all l