How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you fran for the kind introduction. Great to see you and also want to thank the council on foreign releases for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Border Security and immigration concerns, nationalry but also hopefully fran well have the opportunity to have conversation and dialogue on some of the other Homeland Security priorities and with the members here. I know that many of you have been following the crisis on our southwest border over the past year. And tracking really the growing regional challenge of irregular migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for Border Security. But its led to really a significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. Id like to take the thog today a little bit of above the headlines and the daily news cycle and kind of look back at ch
Politics, the daily life, the challenges relating to the gaza strip. This event is the latest in meis george and Rhonda Salem Family Foundation series. Mr. George salem will be with us soon, i suppose. We are not relatives, although were both salems, but were distant cousins, perhaps. This event today is being live streamed from our web site, and i think also cspan3 is covering it as well. Itll also be available later as a video or a podcast from our web site as well. Because its being recorded and just for, you know, general decorum, please put your phones on silent. That are available at the front desk where you signed in. Were looking today at the critical political and humanitarian situation in gaza. A lot going on in and around the gaza issue. Tensions between the Palestinian Authority and in the movement itself shifts in the gulf involving saudi, uae, possibly impacting the situation in gaza. Gaza has been under a blockade for almost a decade now. Things have recently gotten wors
Here on cspan3. John brennan on last weeks terrorist attack in istanbul and ongoing threats to u. S. National security. Hosted by the council on foreign relations, this is an hour. Welcome to the council on foreign relations, im Judy Woodruff and im delighted to introduce our speaker this afternoon. I dont think there could be a better time or moment for us to hear from the director of the Central Intelligence agency without further ado, please welcome director john brennan. Thank you, it is a pleasure to be back at the council to compare notes on Dynamic International scene, i very much look forward to talking with judy and Council Membership on the many topics in the headlines. I would first like to offer brief opening remarks to kick off the conversation today. Now, whenever i administer the oath of offices to our headquarters in langley, virginia, i tell them they are coming aboard at the critical moment. In the 36 years since i first entered government, i have never been witnessin
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