Good morning and thank you all for joining us today. Also, our live stream audience. Atlantic Council President and ceo fred kemp. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use ac iraq. Aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here and when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member jafar here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum support for this, for the Iraq Initiative, Global Energy center. Ive been stealing ideas from a long period of time, he happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors as an analyst in the region and also a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by the councils Iraq Initiative and Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by dr. And abbas working with us. Hes one of the rare individuals who understands the workings of the country hes covering, iraq, so intimately and also
Good morning and thank you all for joining us today. Also, our live stream audience. Atlantic Council President and ceo fred kemp. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use ac iraq. Aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here and when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member jafar here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum support for this, for the Iraq Initiative, Global Energy center. Ive been stealing ideas from a long period of time, he happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors as an analyst in the region and also a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by the councils Iraq Initiative and Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by dr. And abbas working with us. Hes one of the rare individuals who understands the workings of the country hes covering, iraq, so intimately and also
Here and when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member jafar here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum support for this, for the Iraq Initiative, Global Energy center. Ive been stealing ideas from a long period of time, he happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors as an analyst in the region and also a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by the councils Iraq Initiative and Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by dr. And abbas working with us. Hes one of the rare individuals who understands the workings of the country hes covering, iraq, so intimately and also the workings of washington which in many respects is more difficult to follow. The discussion is timely. Iraq is facing its most challenging since isis, with protests in the country and citizens demanding reform and news just yesterday that ahmadi will resign. Despite the future, iraq has carried out elections and a p
yet. russia has its own version of mcdonald s, it comes under a different name here. food and politics have nothing in common. like come on, man, keep things simple. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is monday, june 13th, just after 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where more bombshell testimony could be on tap today. the january 6 committee set to reconvene before the tv cameras. over the weekend, two members of the panel offered a preview of what the public could expect today. have a look. should have been an bundantl clear that there was no evidence that the election was stolen and he ignored that. so the hearing monday is focusing on a deep dive in that, getting into the information that what were all of those things that he knew this was a lie but he continued to abct on that. i think if anyone truly believed after what the attorney general says, for instance, after what every piece of information comes in, if you trul
Eric, when i heard the president say i the people of pittsburgh not paris, i felt leak tlike the fourth of july. Its an amazing moment keeping his promise and and some cringe when he crashes their cocktail environment and tell them they need to foot the bill. But in Middle America, theyre smiling and doing a slow camp and a paris accord that disadvantages our workers and causes america to foot the bill of the pet project of the elites. The elites, the white collar jobs arent affected, its the farmers and coal mines and people in the factories in Middle America that put President Trump in the white house. So its really quite an amazing moment to see him, really, keep his promise and put america and its workers first. Eric and mercedes, ive got to say, this is exactly what donald trump, candidate, ran on. He said he was going to be the antiglobalist, he want today pull out of n. A. T. O. And out of tpp and this Paris Climate Accord is something that is a globalist agenda idea. Right, i t