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Wendy Sherman on the Iran nuclear talks, multilateral cooperation, and transatlantic data flows Transcript by Atlantic Council
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BENJAMIN HADDAD: Hi, everyone. I am delighted to be joined by Ambassador Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state of the United States, to close our three days of EU-US Future Forum and to talk about the Biden administration’s priorities for its relations with the European Union.
Ambassador Sherman, thank you so much for joining us. I should say first congratulations on your recent confirmation. There’s a lot of work to be done, and we’ll talk about this today.
who said there was an appearance that wasn t so great. but there was nothing criminal and certainly hunter biden was doing something that was perfectly legal under u.s. law and under ukrainian law. congressman, republican senator marsha blackburn tweeted vindictive vindman is the whistle-blower s handler. how do you feel about government officials in this case republicans, lawmakers, attacking career foreign service officers? i think there s plenty of opportunity here to disagree with positions that the careerists take as well as the political appointees take. i don t like anyone making personal attacks or on their background. all right. congressman, thank you so much. ambassador wendy sherman, congressman bob bar, margaret
specifically believes that the president has personal or business ties to erdogan which are dictating the president s foreign policy decisions as it relates to that country. are you concerned with jared kushner s younger sister using jared s position in the white house to try to market a real estate project in china? do you share those concerns, sir? you re packing a lot of unrelated material in there. but i do not presume that a policy decision that president trump makes with regard to a very important ally like turkey is predicated on some business relationship in the absence of direct evidence that that s the case. ambassador sherman, what do you think? i think that former congressman barr s answers are exactly what i would expect. he was the leader on the impeachment proceeding against
ambassador to the eu, no national security experience, no government experience, he s a hotel magnate, a big donor to the president. $1 million to the inauguration. joining me now is the fellow in governance studies and senior and bob barr he served as house manager in the impeachment of president clinton and former undersecretary of state for political affairs, ambassador wendy sherman. margaret, given the evidence we have laid out is congress any closer to impeaching president trump than they were before the hearings? i think so, stephanie. in deposition transcripts that were released which were they were not public, they were being done in private, those deposition transcripts that were released by the house intelligence committee told us a lot. because these public hearings told us even more. in particular as you referenced