Leadership with the Atlantic Council. He compared and contrasted the current president s approach to Foreign Policy to that of what joe biden would do in the white house. This is about 45 minutes. We are live from samsung studios in washington, d. C. Thank you for getting up early in his joining us on the west coast of california. Today we are going to focus on the priorities in the Biden Administration. Last night joe biden accepted the nomination for the Democratic Partys nomination for presidency of the United States. I can think of no better guess than Jake Sullivan to join us today, the day after the convention concludes to talk about major priorities of the next four years of a potential Biden Administration. Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vi
Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president presents a campaign trail last time and this time with the biden campaign. He began his career with Amy Klobuchar and we are really divided to have them here for conversation. What is it going to look like in january 2021 when the new president takes potentially the next president comes into office with an extraordinary set of challenges and circumstances, a pandemic, and economic crisis, social justice and Antiracist Movement here, the challenging of American Values and interests abroad. This is aga
In his joining us on the west coast of california. Today we are going to focus on the priorities in the Biden Administration. Last night joe biden accepted the nomination for the Democratic Partys nomination for presidency of the United States. I can think of no better guess guest than Jake Sullivan to join us today, the day after the convention concludes to talk about major priorities of the next four years of a potential Biden Administration. Jake, let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president s a campaign trail last time and this time with the bid
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Studies. Welcome to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention to our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development office of foreign Disaster Assistance, whose support allows us to put on event, such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent civilians and on hospitals and clinics