Alliance and western countries are not invited. But an interesting person from china is. And donald trump facing another set of criminal charges. The state of georgia accusing the former u. S. President of trying to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. Im brent goff. To our viewers watching on pbs in the United States and to all of you around the world, welcome. It has been two years since the taliban retook power in afghanistan. Tens of thousands of people fled the country at the time. They were fearful that the takeover would mean a return to the harsh islamist policies of the past. Since then taliban leaders have avoided making clear statements on many issues but as they mark their socalled independence day, the world now has a much clearer idea of what afghanistan under a new taliban regime really looks like. Reporter scenes of jubilation on the streets of kabul as members of the taliban celebrate two years since they seized back power. Flags emblazoned with the islamic were he
Good evening. Were deeing highed have join us erre van dick, investigateoff journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region and our moderator, Senior Vice President of programs at World Affairs. Were recording tonights program so please take a moment to silence your cell phones. Im tim, the Program Officer here at World Affairs. If you enjoy the discussion and are interested to learn more about the organization, ill be around after the program. I want to turn it over to our modern rater. So, good evening, everything, and thank you for joining us. Its my great pleasure to introduce our guest this evening, erre van dick, journalist, author and cbs news consultant who covers afghan and pakistan. He has authored a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban and another work in afghan. He is also written for such publications as the New York Times, newsweek, and national geographic. And in 1981, while working as a correspondent for the New York Times, van dyk lived w
Other stops on our tour at cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. We continue now with our look at the history of spokane. Next, an interview recorded for the cspan broadcast the sidebar. Reagan era tax reform. , seniort is henry olson fellow of the ethics Public Policy and the author of the working class republican, Ronald Reagan and the bluecollar conservativism. Tax reform is a talks desktop legislative priority for president trump. This look that president reagans efforts to reform the tax code in the 1980s. This is American History tv on cspan3. Fellow, olson, a senior out with a new book titled the working class republican, Ronald Reagan and the return of bluecollar conservativism. Lets talk about tax reform because you wrote a piece that republicans are chomping at the bit to pass tax reform. How did it get there . Henry olsen to passing this tax reform, they need to pass something that gives everybody a stake in the sys
About whether or not the u. S. Should arm the ukraine. That is the question at hand. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine . I wanted to start with a little ll to see how many of you think you have made up your minds about the own your own answer to the question. How many of you think you have already decided . How many of you have not decided and are open to being swayed . Gentlemen, you have a very tall order at hand. For those of you watching online, on cspan, i invite you tter at thes on twi futureukraine and you may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. Its been three years since we started having this debate in the u. S. Whether or not we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have that discussion a couple of years ago , but things have changed, we have a new president. The situation on the ground has changed significantly in ukraine and we now have a kind of push and you are starting to see curte like ambassador welker who has nearly been named as the u. S. Representative o
My name is hannah. I am a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute and im honored to be here today. At the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the charles cook institute. For a really entertaining discussion, a debate that i hope you will have about whether or not the us should arm ukraine. That is the question at hand. Should the us arm ukraine . I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a pole. To see just how many of you think that you have made up your mind about your own answer to this question. How many of you think that youve already decided . How many have not yet decided but are open to be swayed . Give you have a very tall order on hand those watching from cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter at future ukraine. You may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. It has been three years since we had this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have a discussion a couple of years ago. Things are chan