Mississippi in the 18th century. Enjoy book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. My name is karen greenberg. Thank you so much for joining us here at the center on National Security at fordham law. Were delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is chris whipple, Award Winning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spy masters. Can you see it . How the cia director shaped history and the future. And well talk a lot about this book today. First, i just want to say, thank you, chris, thank you for joining us. A pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. This is actually a wonderful read. When i started it, i was sort of like, oh, no, this is going to be too much information, i wont be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on, in addition to your own knowledge and research, its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed, among those, the leading directors of the cia. Living directors of the cia. Except for the current on
My name is karen. Thank you for joining us here at the center on National Security. We are delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is awardwinning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spymasters how the cia director shaped the future and we are going to talk about this book today but first i want to say welcome and thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here thanks for having me. So this is a wonderful read. When i started it i was like this is going to be too much information i wont be able to take it in but its fantastic. Its based on your own knowledge and research over 70 interviews and among those the directors of the cia except for the current ones and its not so much about the cia directors of their relationshitherelationship to te and the president would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book because what i try to do may be above all else is humanize these directors. I was lucky because as a
Journalist and most recently published spy masters and the first with the modern directors of Central Intelligence and then to be interpreted of their jobs and to talk about all those issues and the Intelligence Community doing a fairly good job to warn and anticipate the pandemic is coming so the data that points in that direction . Can i just say that thank you for the kind words i was lucky enough and even luckier to talk to you about sure the book would be as good as it is. I have an epilogue in the book the history of the cia from Richard Helms but at the end of the book what the president knew and when he knew it from the emerging Coronavirus Crisis and with the Intelligence Community told him. And with those catastrophic consequences of a president who ignored warnings about the coronavirus and the daily brief throughout january and february. And those whose name had emerged through that time and trump later said its the first he ever heard of the coronavirus and then said it wa
Parts as we have already said this is attempts number 3 the 1st on the 10th of october mediated by moscow collapsed fairly swiftly and the seconds just over a week ago last barely minutes so well have to wait and see what the future is for this ceasefire but of course a cease fire does not mean pace a cease fire is just. In the fighting. That gives the leaders of these countries a chance to perhaps sit down and hash out something more durable the is a very maximal position is that it wants to take back the entire city of nagornokarabakh and the surrounding areas that armenia controls that of course is not something that armenia will ever accept as long as it has the military ability to resist it armenia says well ok we would give back the areas around the corner karabakh but only if nagornokarabakh security ability to self determine is guaranteed and neither side seems willing to budge on those positions at the moment thousands of celebrated throughout the night in jail is the country
Probably theres been a little bit but certainly expect for many years youve been officially at war with the know its not only to do it but its peace so thats official thats you know we have at least 5 that want to come in. And fish is at the white house with more eyes for donald trump but he seems to embrace the idea of making small deals across the middle east rather than previous answers trying to build one all compassing middle east deal he believes that this changes the reality on the ground he already got a deal signed between the United Arab Emirates and bahrain to recognize israel remember the Abraham Accords were signed here at the white house just in september just over a month ago and he believes that there are 5 other countries who are ready to sign up to this deal him organising hard to and with more on the impact on sudan. Lifting sudan out of the u. S. List of state sponsors of terror means an improvement incidentally economy maybe not immediately like be acting minister