With todayster hashtag afghanpeace. Usip was founded by congress 35 years ago as an independent, nonpartisan, National Institute charged with the mission of preventing conflicts under the premise that peace is possible. Involved inn afghanistan in particular since 2002 and supporting sustainable is a corefghanistan priority for us. Our team is engaged at all levels of the process including convening meetings like this here in washington, our meetings with key stakeholders, for on how to bring about an end to americas longest war. Publish details on substantive topics rolled related to 53. Work in afghanistan through our office there at the grass roots level hosting peace dialogues that bring together and elders to provide them with the skills to participate in the Peace Process and have a say in the future of their country, a few examples of implement trying to our mission in afghanistan. A year ago and a half ago the what administration took could be called a bold but risky decision t
Good afternoon, my name is scott smith and im a Senior Adviser on the Afghanistan Team and im glad to welcome you all here for a timely discussion on ending the war in afghanistan. Id like to welcome those joining by live stream. You can engage with us and each other on twitter with todays hashtag afghanpeace. Usip was founded by congress 35 years ago as an independent, nonpartisan, National Institute charged with the mission of preventing conflicts under the premise that peace is possible. Usip has been involved in afghanistan in particular since 2002 and supporting sustainable peace in afghanistan is a core priority for us. Our team is engaged at all levels of the process including convening meetings like this here in washington, our meetings with key stakeholders, for discussions on how to bring about an end to americas longest war. We publish details on substantive topics rolled related to peace. We work in afghanistan through our office there at the grass roots level hosting peace
Next a discussion with political strategists and call policy officials on immigration policy and 20 20 election. We talked about her recent bowl and the possibility of political compromise. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted this event. Thank you for coming out, welcome to the Bipartisan Policy Center and thank you very much for joining us for our conversation on immigration and the 2020 election before we get started we are Live Streaming this event andvideo of the event will be available on our website after were done. Therefore when it comes to q and a we will ask that you wait for the microphone so people who arguing us on their computers or phones or whatever can understand the questions. We invite you to along with us in the events using a tag that you see life. We will see some staff that will be treating the event as well. And just to do a little bit of the scene center and teresa brown director of immigration and policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and we have been working
Also, the differing approaches to the immigration debate and how the approaches have shifted since the 2016 election. We ask that you wait for the q a so people can understand the questions. We invite you the street invite you to tweet along with us. We will have some staff tweeting the event as well. To do a little bit of a scene setter, i am Teresa Cardinal brown. I am the director of immigration and crossborder policy. We have been working on immigration issues since 2013 when our Immigration Task force was formed. Immigration has become a highprofile national issue. Increasingly important to our elections. It is also becoming more partisan as if we had not noticed that. Partisanship is not good for actually solving problems. Pcs job the to find solutions to the biggest problems. None of these issues is more in need of this than immigration. Last year, we conducted a nationwide poll to find out what types of Immigration Reform americans wanted to see. We found there was more Common
Unbiased, word for word, from the Nations Capital to wherever you are, because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. David, welcome to after words on book tv. Your book is titled you report to me, where did that title come from . Who was reporting to who . Well, that book is really titled based on a conversation i had with President Trump right as i was becoming acting secretary of the interior. And i sat down with the president and had a discussion about potentially taking this role after serving as deputy secretary and in our discussion, we got to the end of the discussion, and i said to him, who do i report to . He said you report to me, which was a very different perspective than i expected. I expected to be told i reported to the chief of staff or someone else. And so, i walked out of there, out of the oval office with that crystallized in my memory and it turned out that it was actually true, that as i worked wit