Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
Based on your experienceof the House Intelligence Committee and theres a lead committee on this impeachment inquiry, what National Security concerns do you hear coming out of that one piece of evidence, that memorandum on the phone call . Guest obviously the phone call is concerning. If the president is making commitments are asking for things from foreign leaders that dont go to the National Interest , that go to his personal interest, that could be a concern to the committees in the house not just the Intelligence Committee but the Judiciary Committee which will vote on impeachment and send them to the floor. The house as you point out is doing all the investigation. When i served under chairman mike rogers, it was a bipartisan committee. They spent time figuring out a way to Work Together and create common cause to support the National Security. As we seen in recent months and on the past two years, the committee has become partisan on both sides and we can blame the former chairman
Disrupting this is bad for the markets. Whatever helps it is good. That is where we stand. It is not a political thing or red or blue thing. It is a green thing. Whether they are republicans or democrats they love making lots of money. My name is neil cavuto. My thanks to david asman filling in while i was out. What is occupying the markets attention, to impeach or not to impeach whether there is enough evidence or drama around this to build a case for this. The so far the transcript of the infamous phone call is out. We dont know all the details. We dont know for example, if it es out right verbatim context of the call or whether there were other calls. What weve seen of it so far does not seem to emply anything too, too worrisome for the president , a little icky but not necessarily a constitutional crisis. To blake burman at the white house with more on all of the above. Blake, what have we got . Reporter hi, there, neil, here is the argument and the president and the white house ar
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