Without the partnership of the Partnership Ambassador tony win the senior advisers csis and a friend and thank you very much tony for everything. I think we will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today and when i think about people who are qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cant think of a better person than my friend from the afghanistanpakistan office at usaid. He summoned that have served in pakistan and afghanistan and served in some of the toughest places in the world. Craig is a friend, greg is a patriot and a qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agree to public service. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give them a round of applause. [applause] its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience particularly i found from cairo was done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan. Its great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you that i have
In the hundreds of cases, while we have prosecuted, there has not been one suspect that has successfully and lamented the entrapment defense. Entrapmentted the defense. Ken we will wrap it up. [applause] [applause] on the next washington journal, a look at the Donald Trump Campaign and his positions on key policy. And then the executive director of the young invincibles talks about impacting millennial voters. It features mark perry discussing his article in politico. Washington journal, live every morning at 7 p. M. , on cspan. You can join the conversation with your calls, and comments on facebook and twitter. Wednesday, Bipartisan Policy Center looks at immigration policy and the positions of the 2006 8 candidates. It is 2016 president ial candidates. It is live on cspan. , institutey night policy studies was the , talking about the war on terrorism. Who is isis, why are they so violent . These questions are in the book among the more important and something we can do about, what is
More direct warfare . Lighth the afghan likethe afghan team with the afghan team . Mike what we did with afghanistan was remarkable. I would not equate that with the same as what putin has done in ukraine. This is the marriage of precision warfare with nonprecision warfare. If you compare to iraq maybe yes. Media. Kim do you need to ramp up the number of u. S. Advisers on the ,round, joint air controllers things that would make the iraqi forces, the Kurdish Forces, more effective in the battlefield today . Kathleen i would say that there to grow. The u. S. Contribution to include special operators on the training side, there is no doubt about that. But before you grow that out, there is absorption of a capacity issue, the Ground Forces that are there to work with. There ishere i think rightfully a lot of attention in making sure that we collectively get the iraqis, obviously their there is situation pressure there, but think it forces in to get there and give them capable to work with
To disrupt the flow of funds to Illicit Networks around the world, and this is one of those things thats going to stay in place. And all of those entities, iranian or otherwise, that were designated for their support of any terrorist organization are going to stay sanctioned. That includes banks designated for those reasons, one an iranian bank that was related to hezbollah financing. Theyre going to stay sanctioned. Now, the real powerful aspect of this is part of these sanctions that were imposed under the comprehensive iran sanctions accountability and divestment act, the bill passed by congress in 2010, that bill said if you are a foreign bank and you do business one of these people on our list, if you help them transit money to, from iran to lebanon or any other place or even from iran to london for completely peaceful activity, doesnt matter, it can get cut off the from the United States financial system. That is stay anything place, and that is well understood by the iranians. S
You can rattle them off there. I went back not too long after the storm and i saw a family picking up their belongs. I went up as a reporter to talk to them a little and said, we are ready to rebuild right on the gulf. Why wouldnt you move 12 miles inland and you can enjoy. They said my gran daddy grow up here and we are going to stay here in mississippi. Youll see people building homes along the gulf, again, in mississippi. But did you have a personal connection to that region that made this difference . Im from oxford area. Theres central park of jackson and south park. [laughs] it was a time where we would have given them to louisiana very easily. [laughs] you know, were all kind of one people. I think what happened our hurricane was camile. Nobody knew about unless you are older than i am. They had building standards to that level. Its not possible. You know, this tops camile. If you look at the map to the left just right there, thats where the storm came to shore, right there in m