Was a grandmother from indiana. What was the charge. One count of parading in the capital. Shes here exclusively to tell us how long she was locked away in the effort to deprogram her thoughts but first the militarys woke makeover is the focus of tonights angle. If you were chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Secretary Of Defense or any top Military Leader today there is a lot that should keep you up at night . Put yourself in the role. Most all of it is coming from china. Threats to our ally taiwan, our strategic allies in the pacific, china is itching to invade them, threats from China Hackers and intel agencies, their Growing Presence in africa plus china is threatening is in space but our current chairman of the joint chiefs general mike millie is spending a lot of his waking hours worrying about what he thinks is wrong with the United States. Yesterday when republican congressman raised reasonable questions about whether it is a good idea to expose our soldiers to antiameric
Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe and melissa lee, becky is off the s p looking to open about 12 points higher. Well explain why some of this is happening and lets show you treasury yields as well the ten year note right now looking at 0. 931 . But maybe a little bit of an explanation coming up here, melissa . Yeah, some optimism Mitch Mcconnell said that compromised deal was within reach and well get a live report from washington at 6 30 a. M. And we heard it before, but it seems like btoth sides are comig a little closer. On a much lower number. And im just thinking about, i dont know, andrew, what did we do to deserve this i mean we are living right or i mean, who ushered in the new week on squawk box on monday who is helping us usher out the week that was on squawk box . A monday and a friday. Is this46 w was this planne melissa, what did we do to deserve this not wouldby not by me how long has it been, stimulus vaccine i guess the election, although we do
So there is, there was a break in continuity. And i think that break was born out of the political will, of the American People electing a populist president. And so the, it triggered an auto immune reaction from the establishment in america. That was the media is well, so with bought with, if biden assumes power, lets assume hes going to take the reins in january. Then the democrats are going to have the media on their side for everything. There will be no holding them to account. It will just be kind of a cheering section, much like it was for 8 years under obama and you, you can see where that led the u. S. And led the world, which was one of the darkest periods, in my opinion. In geo political history, this president started a numerous amount of new wars from yemen, dismembered yemen, dismembered, do you crane . Dismembered libya, nearly dismembered syria, if not for the help of syrias allies, russia, and iran. So, but now theyre going to have a chance to resume some of those proje
Of the American People electing a populist president. And so the, it triggered an auto immune reaction from the establishment in america that the media is well. So with bought with, if biden assumes power, lets assume hes going to take the reins in january. Then the democrats are going to have the media on their side for everything. There will be no holding them to account. It will just be kind of a cheering section, much like it was for 8 years under obama and you, you can see where that led the u. S. And led the world, which was one of the darkest periods, in my opinion. In geo political history, this president started a numerous amount of new wars from yemen, dismembered yemen, dismembered, do you crane . Dismembered libya, nearly dismembered syria, if not for the help of syrias allies, russia, and iran. So, but now theyre going to have a chance to resume some of those projects, i mean, but they will also, in terms of continuity, they will look at what true the trunk framework is an
Trumps presidency. The entire region undoubtedly will be following the biden team closely as it articulates its policy leading up to the inauguration in january. While there is a theory that the new administration focused on domestic problems needs to push back against major challenges from china will want to put the middle east on the back burner but it is not clear they can succeed. Major questions about the u. S. Approach to the ongoing in tensions in syria, with saudi arabia and turkey and what to do about israel and the palestinians will confront Vice President resident elected den whether or not he seeks biden whether or not he seeks them out. I am pleased to welcome the president of nei. , he hascademic work focused on political change and conflict as well as International Relations in the middle east region. Next i would like to welcome these senior fellow of the Turkey Program and senior fellow frontier europe initiative. I would like to welcome general hotel. He is a distingu