These policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear directly from some of our nations top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this difficult time. As we all unite to confront the challenges of the worldwide pandemic, conversations like this have never been more important. We will be taking questions today so i encourage you to submit yours using the q a button located at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from condoleezza rice, the thomas and Barbara Stephenson senior fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. She served as the 66 secretary of state of the United States the second woman and first African American woman to hold this post. She was also president george w. Bush National Security advisor. We look forward to doctor rice being the next director of the Hoover Institution as well this fall. Welcome condi, thank you for joining us today. Good morning. If youre an expert in the International System, you think the International Sys
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Subcommittee hearing. This hearing of the subcommittee on the western hemisphere transnational crime security democracy human rights and global womens issues will come to order. The title of this hearing is attacks on us diplomats in cuba response and oversight, one Government Panel testifying today, following through witnesses who are here and grateful for you joining us today on behalf of the advocate of branch, mister Francisco Paul mary, assistant secretary of state for the bureau of western hemisphere affairs, todd brown, diplomat security assistant director of International Programs at the department of state and doctor Charles Rosen farb, director of the bureau of medical services. The deferment of state, thank you for being here for this important topic. The first is to establish the facts. And the conduct and activities of United States state department. Here are the facts testified to by the panel. In late 2016 staff of the United States embassy in havana complaining of stran
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On tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Babbel. A language app that teaches reallife conversations in a new language. Collette. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff from the white house on down, they are still digesting tuesdays Election Results and analyzing the possible trump effect. But two things a