Seminar we try to provide. I am christian ostermann. I direct the policy center here at the Wilson Center and i have the honor of cochairing this with my colleague eric arnesen, from washington university. This is a joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. We are in our ninth year. I hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let me thank the Lepage Center for public interest, as well as the George Washington history department. We also want to thank a number of anonymous donors who make these meetings possible and we welcome contributions from all of you in our audience. Details are in the back of the flyer. A couple people who do the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Rachel wheatley, the assistant director of the National History Center Rachel are you here today . Where are you . Thank you. As well as our talented interns, who you will meet during the q a. They will help with microphones. We finally want to acknowledg
Now they will be senators. But that is not even the biggest news. Just a few hours ago, biden officials informed us that after almost 65 years of working to build a nuclear weapon, the nation of iran may be just weeks away from getting a bomb. After 65 years of trying. What a coincidence. You all ready know how that story is going to end. Another pointless foreign war. Trillions spent, many dead. The United States gaining g nothing. We have seen that a lot and itt happening again. Joe biden just sent american troops to syria. You didnt know that . Yep. Hours after he became president , american soldiers crossed into the nation of syria. Sending them to syria was one of the first things joe bidenti di. The media forgot to even mention that. In their defense, as noted, theres a lot going on in the news, including a lot of troop mobilization. Syria is not the only place. Washington, d. C. , looks like occupied sarajevo. A small City Overflowing with soldiers. Tens of thousands of troops,
For joining us. A live look with lots of sun listening to do not stand so close to me by the police. It came out in 1986. Will hear the sun from sting the last ship based on his childhood in england in San Francisco right now. We have you next to us because are playing the role of sale today while he has the role of a lifetime. One of those musicians, if you turn it up, everything sounds great. Somebody i never saw live. Me either. The solo stuff. Anytime this guy goes on stage. Bruce springsteen reasoning was on stage, kind of in a different format but its nice to see them out of their element doing something so. Staying in San Francisco, we check in with him just a bit. We talking about soccer this morning, players on the National Soccer team are seeking more than 66 million in damages from the u. S. Soccer federation part of the gender discrimination lawsuit. The teams to the federation last year saying they do not receive equal pay or the same treatment as the Mens National team. D
Ground in libya deep divisions remain demonstrations are held in support of the u. N. Back up and for the arrival of ministration in the eastern part of the country protesters from both sides say the pieces. And its a new kind of space race and space x. And boeing battle to become the 1st private company to take astronauts into orbit. A michael thanks so much for joining Us Health Officials around the world are sounding the alarm over a deadly new virus its a highly infectious strain of corona virus thats related to sars and its already killed 2 people in Central China where its believed to have emerged in the city of han authorities there say 45. 00 people have been infected but scientists believe there are probably many more cases than that the outbreak comes just as people in china prepared to travel for the Lunar New Year holiday. Its a race to stop a deadly virus from spreading passengers touching down in the u. S. On flights from Central China now face a medical check Health Offi
2019 continues we should some light on the really great. Giving thanks for joining us here on out into. Hundreds of iraqis have attempted to storm the u. S. Embassy in baghdad with some of the protesters starting a fire there reportedly demanding its closure and that American Forces exit the country racks Popular Mobilisation forces say around 2 dozen people have been injured at rallies in and around the compound nations Prime Minister as the assembled crowd leave the Embassy Warning of a tough response they ducked the rest comes after American Bombing raids in iraq and syria killed 25 people at the weekend. I. I. I. So. I. Will discuss the situation with our middle east correspondent paula slim greenstein from r. T. America. Paula lets go to you 1st the protests there they show little signs of relenting what do we know about todays over full circle at this stage they show no sign of dissipating we know and weve received reports that the American Embassy staff including the ambassador