Dean baquet, welcome. Thank you, its good to here. You dont look failing to me. laughs thats because i worked out at the gym. Is that why, because youre kind of pumped up . What is the president s glitch . What is his problem with you . All hes done for the last few months, even back into the campaign, was get on twitter, get on the stump, and attack the New York Times, attack the New York Times. I mean, hes attacked everybody. Hes attacked the media. But he seems to have a special problem with you. I have two psychoanalytic thoughts about it. [evan] bring it. The first is, you have to remember the president is a guy whose family made its fortune in queens. I think that what he did, his biggest accomplishment in the family business, was coming and taking manhattan. I think he really wanted, and he made a lot of money building apartment buildings for people who probably could not have gotten them. Who were rich, but couldnt get into fancy, Upper East Side buildings. I think he wants to
Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Director of the center for National Interest. A bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. The traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u. S. Embassy embassyw and the u. S. In cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. George
Where both vicepresident biden and can vicepresident elect mike pence are making an appearance. We have the latest on the trump transition. Hey, john. Reporter greg, good afternoon. It is a heavy Military Area and Perfect Place to unveil the official announcement for secretary of defense, general james mattis. General mattis because hes only been retired for three years needs a special waiver. And house and Senate Republicans are working on that so there is no i cup. He is about to announce the secretary of defense and donald trump broadening out the search for secretary of state. He met with john bolton last friday and today meeting with rex tellerson. And an indication that he is looking outside of the military and political field for top diplomats and at the same time he is doing that. The Trump Transition Team continues to get questions about the call from the taiwanese president. And mike pence said donald trump is fully aware of the longstanding one china policy. We have a unique