Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im mike ohanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and or china. This panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. Im going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. Shell pose questions to the panelists. Were talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90minute event then go to you. The panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book the senkaku paradox as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. But let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. Just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. I think back to something that my good friend Lieutenant General John Whis
he will need a lot more than that to defeat president trump tonight. biko debating against donald trump who is now running in his campaign who is fighting for himself that includes a big chunk of independence if i don t much joe biden can move those people or appeal to those people that is a good night. this debate and the selection will be a comparison side-by-side of the truck policies and their successes and the biden policies. joe biden is going to have to stand by his record it is a record of a everything he has to crave for the american people they don t get to retreat from. in order to make the best advantage of tonight he has to be mr. cohen, mr. restraint. if he does poorly tonight i think there ll be a widespread panic in the democratic party. sandra: here we go tonight s the night president biden is heading to atlanta to face off against former president donald trump on the debate stage for the first time in four years both campaigns making their final
Editor of the New York Times, responsible for a dozen bureaus and a team of new yorkbased correspondance, leads the times coverage of racial issues. Before that he was a Foreign Correspondent in africa and latin america. Sandip. Ext to him hen we have lee. Next to her we have ryan lenz, a Senior Investigative writer at the Southern Poverty Law Center intelligence project. He has traveled the country covering the growth of extremism. Before that he was a regional correspondent and an iraq war correspondent for the associated pres finally we have jessica schulberg, a reporter who covers Foreign Policy and National Security for the huffington post. She has written about this topic recently. Lets start with two lightning rounds. I will ask questions and we will go down the row and all of you can answer the same question. Beginning with the importance of terminology. Tell us what guidance and standards your organizations have an potentially loaded terms like altright domestic terrorist. a i
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All politics all the time . I think we will know very early, january 19 is the deadline for getting the budget done, we are early three months into this fiscal year and we dont have a budget. Handled, i budget is think it will be an indicator of whether we can have bipartisan cooperation, it is not just the is texas and florida and california and puerto rico. We have the immigration issues that have to be done with now and i think the manner in which the is handled will set stage for congress, democrats and republicans working together or, if the president wont work with us on that, it will be a tough year. Let me ask you about a couple of specifics, a few specifics i raised. There is ever structure, immigration, welfare reform and those specific areas, do you see the outlines of a compromise with the president . There has been negotiations between democrats and republicans on immigration, we are to get the dreamer bill done, we are hoping to do that issue. They should be legislation a