Repercussions of u. S. President Donald Trumps expected decision to recognize your islam as israels capital and moves the American Embassy there are already being felt even before he makes the announcement palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank and in gaza a calling for three days of rage president Mahmoud Abbas says move will have dangerous consequences she ever tuns a has more from washington d. C. Thats beautiful at the white house there was no sense of the International Uproar thats been caused by Donald Trumps forthcoming speech announcing the u. S. Is recognition of jerusalem as israels capital this is a Campaign Promise to keep trump financial danas like Las Vegas Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his poor right wing evangelical base whom the president needs now move them ever as his popularity ratings plummet throughout the day the president briefed the regional leaders which led to this question at the state Department Briefing im wondering if you can say that that hes
For changing decades of American Foreign policy by recognizing officially recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel palestinian leaders are calling for three days of rage but israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the announcements more from our White House Correspondent family helped him. More than twenty years ago the u. S. Congress recognized jerusalem as israels capital with that the relocation of the u. S. Embassy there from tel aviv but every u. S. President since bill clinton has blocked it from happening a till now i have determined. That it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel its an historic Foreign Policy term for the United States that the white house says reflects a political reality given jerusalem is the seat of the Israeli Government trump denies this will harm ongoing u. S. Peace efforts we are not taking a position of any final status issues including the specific boundaries of the israeli sovereignty in jerusalem or the re
Accomplishment. Later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out an american cleric, anwar al awlaki, who was the First American targeted for death by the c. I. A. And was the first of the digital jihad. And im reminded its one thing to kill a man and another thing to kill his ideas. Here we are today in a threat environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. And the topic of our panel today is whether the i. C. Has the tools it needs to blunt this terrorist threat. And i would like to introduce members of our panel. I would like to begin with jane harmon, on my far left. Jay harmon is a very familiar face here on capitol hill. She resigned from congress in february of 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson center as its first female director, president and ceo. Representing the Aerospace Center of california during nine terms in congress. Jane served on all major security committees and has made numerous congressional factfinding missions to hot spots including north korea, a
Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the
Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the