You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
Origins of the impeachment inquiry. Let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the Obama Administration. What is u. S. Policy toward ukraine at this time . Consistenteen fairly antiukraine on reform. That is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. Under the Obama Administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . Obamas point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. U. S. Messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. And then the war began in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. The first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. And biden really carried the messaging from obama. The United States that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time . For thes been an issue u. S. Allies in europe a
Showing and paying tribute to the past 50 year, celebrating 50 years of promoting Sustainable Development models to credit operations, resources, and support and the technical and financial structuring of projects in the public and private sectors of latin america. Welcome. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ applause ] all right. I hope you guys all enjoyed and video, and welcome once again. To help start off for two days of what promises to be engaging and lively discussions, i would like to introduce the president of cast and also mr. Michael shifter who is the president of the interamerican dialogue. They will each offer welcoming remarks to open the conferences. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] good afternoon everybody. [ speaking Foreign Language ] im thrilled to welcome all of you to the 23rd annual conference widely known as the cast conference, organized by cast, the Development Bank of latinamerican, the interamerican dialo
We are coming out of closed session and returning to open session. Is there a motion not to disclose . So move. Second. Motion by commissioner driscoll and seconded by commissioner safai. Any members of the public to address the Commission Regarding this item . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. We will take this without objection. Second. Five action item approval of president s committee assignments. Item four. Public comment. General Public Comment. Any members of the public that would like to address the commission . Seeing none we will close general Public Comment and item 5. Eye team 5 approval of president s committee assignments. I asked this to be on the board. We are having officer elections this month which you will see in the next couple agenda items. Because of the movement on the board, i wanted to get the Governance Committee filled so we can push forward and so what i did is just took wherever a commission or commissioner jordan was on governance with me and i re
We will start by going to closed session. The normal rules for Public Comment will apply to this why dont we call the meeting back to order. We are coming out of closed session and returning to open session. Is there a motion not to disclose . So move. Second. Motion by commissioner driscoll and seconded by commissioner safai. Any members of the public to address the Commission Regarding this item . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. We will take this without objection. Second. Five action item approval of president s committee assignments. Item four. Public comment. General Public Comment. Any members of the public that would like to address the commission . Seeing none we will close general Public Comment and item 5. Eye team 5 approval of president s committee assignments. I asked this to be on the board. We are having officer elections this month which you will see in the next couple agenda items. Because of the movement on the board, i wanted to get the Governance Committee