Public and private sector. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. The s week on q a, author of daring to drive a saudi womans awakening. You have a book called daring to drive. Why did you write this . I gave a speech, people cried at the speech, gave me two Standing Ovations this never happened in the history of that conference. When i came down the stage this lady came to me and said, when are we going to read your story. I told her, who would ever be interested in reading about my insignificant life . But that really sparked the idea of writing this book. When was that . In 2012. Where did you give the speech and why . It was Freedom Forum hosted by rume heights human rights foundation, based in new york, they invite activists from all around the world to tell their store roifs standing against tyranny and fighting for human rights. Lets start from the beginning. Where were you born . In mecca in the year of trouble, 1979. Your parents, what are they like . Where
Trumps presidency has established terms of battle likely to persist. Continue to indefinitely. Size up those terms of battle. Lets begin there. Terms of battle that are likely to continue indefinitely. Size up those terms of battle. Dan well, its an extension of the campaign that we went through, charlie, and i think that everything that has happened since the election through the transition and particularly in the opening weeks of the Trump Presidency have reinforced the divisions that we saw in the election. Donald trump has come to washington determined to shake it up. He promised that he would do that in the campaign. Im not sure everybody took him as seriously as they should have but hes determined to do that in his opening weeks. All of his moves in part are designed to send the signals that hes going to keep the promises that he made in the campaign, that hes going to offend the establishment. He will be true to the people he knows put him in office. He will alarm a lot of peopl
Other reactions whether its with our allies or whether its in the streets that are hard to contain. Rose we conclude this evening with lisa monaco. She was the former chief Homeland Security and quownt terrorism advisor to president obama. We left yemen some years ago, given the conflict there. And the threat to our personnel there. So any time you are undertaking operation, theres got to be consideration of the risk to the force. So the risk has to be worth the reward. And so those e the types of things you are considering. What is the next step in trying to go to raqqa. What is e force . We assess the only capable force is the Kurdish Military that we have been working with and providing assistance to. The provide with that, of course, is the reaction of the turks. Rose right. Our nato ally. But were really on the horns of the dilemma here if we do not arm the kurds in order to go towards raqqa to take raqqa and dislodge isil and its external operations there. If we do not do that, t
And as a result it sets off other reactions whether its with our allies or whether its in the streets that are hard to contain. Rose we conclude this evening with lisa monaco. She was the former chief Homeland Security and quownt terrorism advisor to president obama. We left yemen some years ago, given the conflict there. And the threat to our personnel there. So any time you are undertaking operation, theres got to be consideration of the risk to the force. So the risk has to be worth the reward. And so those e the types of things you are considering. What is the next step in trying to go to raqqa. What is the force . We assess the only capable force is the Kurdish Military that we have been working with and providing assistance to. The provide with that, of course, is the reaction of the turks. Rose right. Our nato ally. But were really on the horns of the dilemma here if we do not arm the kurds in order to go towards raqqa to take raqqa and dislodge isil and its external operations
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