The embassy of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan in washington. My colleague and director will be moderating the conversation but its my great pleasure and honor to ask the ambassador to provide welcoming remarks. Your excellency. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are right now in joining us for the session. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistan. We are glad to be hosting the event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council a wonderful partner of the embassy in washington. I want to offer a warm thank you to the Atlantic Council further help in organizing this important discussion and all the great work they are continuously doing. Furthermore i would like to express my gratitude for taking the time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. Ambassador i thank you and not just for joining us today that for all the great work that youve done in afghanistan over the y
Im scott stevenson, im the president and ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. And very much. applause how many of you are visiting the museum for the first time this evening . All right. I love that the proportion of hands is getting lower and lower as we move on and on. As you know we opened just a little over two years ago at first and Chestnut Street and hit philadelphia just two blocks from independence hall. The mission of the museum is to uncover and share compelling stories about the Diverse People and complex events that started americas ongoing experiment in liberty, quality equality and self government. For those of you who have been to the museum and been to our 16,000 square feet of core exhibition that shares all these incredible stories of the making of the United States of america and also starts to explore the ongoing legacies of that revolution. Both here in america and around the world, we have seen George Washingtons remarkable war tenth home away from home.
To increase the contribution it was is getting ridiculous over the last couple of years increased by 130 billion over the next couple of years this was done largely over the last two days now have 400 billion so the total of 530 billion other countries will be putting in to nato it is strong far greater than anybody thought if you look at the secretary general who was very generous in his remarks what i have done for nato but in terms of getting other countries to put up money they were not putting up enough money now at a level like has never been seen before. I want to thank everybody that was there especially Mister Stoltenberg who has done a fantastic job the secretary general thank you that was a tremendous success it wasnt reported accurately thats okay but the relationship with other countries is really good they cannot totally love me if youre not putting up the money your your fair share in the money you are supposed to be spending you get the protection of the us and the grea
A podcast. All after words programs can be viewed on a website at booktv. Org. Now on book tv after words, former Obama Administration National Security advisor and un ambassador susan rice discusses her life and career in american diplomacy and foreign policy. She is interviewed by robin wright. After words is a weekly Interview Program with guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. Welcome susan rice to after words. Think is so much its great to be with you. A fascinating book of personal tail and a chronicle of your professional life and through a wide rate of crises and challenges but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know President Trump had a telephone call with the president of ukraine in july, a whistleblower reported in august and was released last week, what do you make of the whistleblowers complaint, what to do tell you and what struck you. What is so extraordinary is we have an blackandwhite in the president
Amazing on everyone, look right now. Hello, this is the Meeting Place at ntv, the place where everything becomes clear. I am andrey norkin, my colleague ivan trushkin, we are working live, we have to start with breaking news. Today it became known that an attempt was made on the life of oleg tsarev, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of ukraine, a very consistent and active critic of the kiev regime, he has been living in in our country, in russia, there is no official information yet, Dmitry Peskov was asked the same question this morning, he said. There is no detailed information yet, so he refrained from commenting, but there are a lot of messages on crimean social networks, including from sources that our Editorial Team trusts, which means that, according to the stories of local residents, this means yalta, the attack occurred at night, cars arrived, then ambulances, the attempt on oleg tsarev was confirmed by vladimirov, our frequent guest, chairman of the movement, we are toge