Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming. Welcome to the chairmans forum. Were delight to have you. Please join me in welcoming ambassador debra jones, our ambassador to libya. Ambassador jones gets special credit for coming to todays event. Shes in great demand right now in washington. Mad to spending time with her daughters and with College Graduation and all those things, thank you so much for coming. Extra credit. Its a particular pleasure to welcome a respected colleague and a great friend, ambassador debra jones, who is our u. S. Ambassador to libya since march of last year. She has previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to kuwait. She is a true expert on middle east diplomacy and actually Global Affairs having served not only in the middle east, but in ethiopia, in argentina. She has searched in iraq, tunisia, syria, and united arab emirates. Shes held important positions in the department of state headquarters. Shes been a role model and mentor to up and coming male an
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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Award winning documentarians latest film is called last days of vietnam. Her father was robert kennedy, and part of his bid for the presidency was to get this country out of that war. Her new documentary which is playing in limited release before airing here on pbs next year is already garnering qualified praise from influential media outlets. I was the first one into the embassy and my only mission at this time this was early in the afternoon was to bring the ambassador out. It was actually a mission called embassy snatch. I land and said to the people im here to get the ambassador. Not quite. The ambassador refused to leave until he could get as many vietnamese on as many choppers as possible. Im on book tour as we speak well, im talking to you. Im on tour on a book written about dr. King and the one question i get asked is why another book on dr. King. I will ask you what i get asked everywhere i go. Why to y
Techniques like water boarding. Also slamming detainees into walls, sleep deep elevation, dousing them with cold water, even alleging threaten one with a buzzing power drill. It was not used in that case. Prosecute bush who authorized the program insisted it saved u. S. Lives and Vice President dick cheney telling the new york time it was, quote, absolutely totally justified. He said when we had that program in place, we kept the country safe from anymore mass casualty attack which was our objective. He suggested that the cia mislead the white house is just a, quote, crock. Joining me now is Loretta Sanchez. Congresswoman, thank you for being with me today. Youve been aware of the discussions ahead of time. The concern of perhaps new violence that will be triggered by the release of this report. What is your thought . Should it be released and why now . Absolutely. We need to have transparency. The American People need to understand what the American Government is doing. My husband was
Issues. The secretary of state had been pushing the United States and the administration to stay within the iran nuclear deal, to work within that frame work. Theres been many reports, weve been hearing plenty from initials saying the president wasnt all that happy with the push to stay in the iran nuclear agreement. Theres other policy issues when it comes to qatar and russia. When the secretary was on his way back from africa, he said a much more powerful for russia against a nerve agent to attack a former spy in the United Kingdom than the white house had. So the policies were out in the open throughout the secretary of states tenure here. The transition from here, weve heard from state Department Officials that the secretary will be transitioning out once he officially does so, the deputy secretary takes over until the Senate Confirms the nomination of mike pompeo or moves forward with somebody else. In regards to the timeline, is it true that the secretary of state cut short his t