Good afternoon. Everyone seated . All right, can everyone hear me okay . All right, good afternoon, thank you so much, sean, for the introduction. If youre like me youre fascinated by all of the panelists that are here today that have such incredible perspectives on the world and where their jobs have taken them, my goal today and my hope for you is that we are able to take a transcribe trip around the world through their experiences, able to understand the world and which may be pretty complicated and americas role in that, where do we go from here, so lets just sort of do an overview of where we are today. I work in the news world so if you guys think youre being bombarded by headlines, welcome. [laughter] but we have a lot going on, right . I was in venezuela where i covered the conflict there, not easy to see or understand much less explain, we have conflicts in syria, we have conflicts in yemen, and here is whats heartbreaking, we had nearly 70 million displaced people in the worl
Over the next 60 minutes we are going to be traveling around the globe visiting some of todays most fragile states and hotspot regions as we discuss americans ary agencies to tackle these challenges. Luckily we are joined by an allstar lineup of experts who will serve as our tour guides. Stephen hadley serves as the National Security advisor to george bush and assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs. Today is the principal at one of the countrys leading consulting firms. Democratic former congresswoman from california and president of the Wilson Center which supports Research Driving the conversations on Foreign Policy and National Security. Is the president of the u. S. Institute of peace, a leading institute for solutions for preventing, mitigating, and resolving violent conflict around the world and previously served as the assistant administrator or democracy conflict and humanitarian affairs at usaid. Michaelnt general recently served as the director of the dir
More beyond that. So glad to have you. Thank you. Harris as republicans beer up for tomorrows big debate ahead of South Carolina primary, candidates are ramming up attacks on frontrunner donald trump. Ted cruz releasing scathing new ad, have you seen it, hits the real estate mogul on Eminent Domain, accusing donald trump having a pattern of sleeze, his word, not mine, going back decades. Trump bankrolled politicians to stream roll little guy, a pattern of sleeze going back decades. Worse trump supports Eminent Domain today. Do you support taking private property for private use . Im for that. Eminent domain. It is wonderful. We have to use power of Eminent Domain. Trump used his power for personal gain. Imagine what he would do if he were president. Harris slammed real estate mogul and bully as divisive as president obama. He bullies everybody. He pushes people around like were all, you know, parts of his little domain. Were not. Were running for president of the United States. Im only
Now seen reports that u. S. Intelligence did in fact conducted surveillance of president elect donald trump as trump tower and of course his Transition Team. Were going to tackle that issue first intimates opening monologue. Devin nunes checked the internet trump establishment with this announcement, pay close attention. I recently confirmed on numerous occasions, the Intelligence Community incidentally collected information about u. S. Citizens involved in the trump transition. Details about u. S. Persons associated with the administration, detail with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in Intelligence Community reporting. Third, i have confirmed that additional names of Trump Transition Team members were unmasked. Fourth and finally, i want to be clear, none of the surveillance was related to russia or the investigation of russian activities or of the trump tina. Sean this is incredibly explosive news. Very important questions remain tonight inc
President elect donald trump as trump tower and of course his Transition Team. Were going to tackle that issud first in tonight opening monologue. Devin nunes shocked the internet trump establishment with this announcement, pay close attention. I recently confirmed on numerous occasions, the Intelligence Community incidentally collected information about u. S. Citizens involved in the trump transition. Details about u. S. Persons associated with the administration, detail with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in Intelligence Community reporting. Third, i have confirmed that additional names of Trump Transition Team members were unmasked. Fourth and finally, i want to bk clear, none of the surveillance was related to russia or the investigation of russian activities or of the trump tina. Sean this is incredibly explosive news. Very important questions remain tonight, including one ive been asking from the very beginning, what did the Obama Admini