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Security economic and Technical Assistance were to continue and if i had the backing of the secretary of state to implement that policy and i worried about what id heard concerning the role of Rudy Giuliani who had made several controversial statements about ukraine and u. S. Policy for the country so during my meeting with secretary pompeo on may 28th i made clear to him and the others president present that if the u. S. Policy toward ukraine changed he would not want me posted there and i could not state issued me that the policy of strong support for ukraine would continue and that he would support me in defending that policy with that understanding i agreed to go back to cave because i was appointed by the secretary but not reconfirmed by the senate my official position was sharjah fair odd interim in effect i was the acting ambassador to ukraine. I returned to cave on june 17th carrying the original copy of the letter President Trump signed the day after i met with the secretary i
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Jeffrey special representative of the u. S. For syria engagement can any of americas policies in that country deliver a successful outcome. James jeffrey welcome to. The sake of context here we go back to december last year the announcement by president. He had won basically over isis in syria and little u. S. Troops would be coming home from syria was costly and misleading and it was misunderstood by everybody. Made it clear at the time to us. He wasnt losing the bubble as we say on the fight against isis which. Recognized could. Constitute itself nor was he. Loses interest in syria he said at the time a that the United States would maintain its air cover over the not be that u. S. Special operations personnel he made this point very clear publicly and ill be on the side airbase in telling the president and secretary of defense are you going to meet with an issue so. That we would continue to deploy special forces troops into northeast syria to go after isis if they started showing si
Good evening. Im Steve Wieberg Public Affairs staff at Kansas City Public Library and thank you so much for being here tonight. Its great to have you. Its great to have david mills our speaker. Tonights programs has been a long time coming. He was originally scheduled to be here in february but was granted by bad weather, Winter Weather and we are so happy he hung with us and we are so happy to have him here now. This happens to be kind of a happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. It is the latest in our series with us command and gen. Staff wrecking 75 years since world war ii. It also comes in the middle of the partnership of the library from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. It is on the 20 eisenhower exhibit up in the second floor art gallery here in the library, the mountain gallery. We have a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower through may. One of those in fact is next wednesday. Tonight we foc