To cross off endless war im joined by my guest james to address and watched and hes a retired u. S. Diplomat and former Foreign Policy advisor to the u. S. Senate Republican Leadership and you new york we have lighter he is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at rectors university as well as an Adjunct Senior Research analyst at the institute of war and peace studies at Columbia University all right gentlemen in effect i mean you can jump in and you and i also appreciate it ok james let me go to you 1st on this you were on the crosstalk during the campaign especially during the election and after the election and what caught our eye mostly about drums candidacy was his willingness to rethink some of the pillars of american Foreign Policy and i was excited about i have to say that i know you were too and i think there was a National Interest. Article that had his name on it but i think there were a lot of people that had their fingerprints on that article and we talked about it it
To cross off endless war im joined by my guest james to address and watched and hes a retired u. S. Diplomat and former Foreign Policy advisor to the u. S. Senate Republican Leadership and in new york we have lighter he is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at rectors university as well as an Adjunct Senior Research analyst at the institute of war and he studies at Columbia University all right joining us across an effect i mean you can jump in and you and i also appreciate it ok james let me go to you 1st on this you were on cross talk during the campaign essentially during the election and after the election and what caught our eye mostly about trams candidacy was his willingness to rethink some of the pillars of american Foreign Policy and i was excited about i have to say that i know you were too and i think there was a National Interest article that had his name on it but i think there were a lot of people that had their fingerprints on that article and he talked about it i
Started hearing from these dignitaries as weve been saying very different responses from joe biden and President Trump biden and his video message saying that he shares the familys pain and that its time now for that pain to turn into purpose what are we hearing from the white house. Yeah well to be clear the u. S. President did call the family of george floyd and he did speak at length about how george floyd would not have died in vain that was a speech that he spent about 15 minutes talking about but its was many days ago since then it has really been joe biden who has capitalized on this in an effort to propel what he says is a jenna genda to try and bring about change not just at the president ial level but also weve seen this from members of congress specifically the democrats in the house of representatives who have introduced legislation looking to bring about a number of police for forms at the federal level for federal policing ending things like racial profiling creating a Po
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Arthur godfrey for example. It was a big thing. I told him i liked it very much. So we got cleaned up and out the door. He said i want to tell you one more thing. He said you be good to the corps, and it will be good to you. I never forgot those words. And so from there, there had been applications posted on the Bulletin Board in the stuff that you read every day about a new school in new york for the march of time. You know the march of time . It was a leading newsreel film of the day. It was a half hour show produced only once a month and it was about anything in the world. That was good because our country, the people in our country were not wellversed in what was happening in the rest of the world. We were an agrarian country. The kids coming out of high school didnt going to college was not sincerely the first thing they thought about. It was a good thing. People would go to the movies. They would wait for a good movie that was coming to go at the time of the march of time was sho