Today to hear testimony on the Trump Administrations budgetary and policy priorities in the middle east for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from witnesses about the fy 20 budgets for the department of state Near Eastern Affairs bureau as well usaid bureau for the middle east. Thank the witnesses for appearing today. I recognize myself for purposes of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant ebt secretary shanker and administrator harvey for testifying today. Nearly three years in the Trump Administration, the United States face as multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration touts maximum pressure policy, iran continues to detablize countries from iraq yemen and leb ondespite President Trumps rhetoric tehran that is laufrmd attacks on International Shipping and regional states. Undermining u. S. Deterrence and credibility in the process. The Iranian Nuclear program is more advanced today than the day that President Trump took office. And the
Important in washington d. C. Going on tonight, i think you know what im talking about. Thank you for coming. Im Mark Loiselle at this George Mason University and we author the intelligence policy and National Security that has put on a number of these wonderful programs in the last few years. Im flattered that his turnout and look very much forward to this event. For those of you who dont know George Mason University has a short School Policy government that provides academic programs in fairfax and Arlington Virginia and we have a number of her fashion of degree programs primarily taught in arlington and Public Policy Public Administration interNational Security studies which has been ranked number two by u. S. News and world report nationally that we are very proud of and i think the Michael Hayden sent her center for Security Policy studies a number of other entities at the school are a very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in the field of s
Particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to live a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard and in the extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea . Guest ive written that letter is privately but my editor said is this something you would be interested in doing and i talk about my children all the time and post about them on social media and initially i think what we both had in mind is something that was a bitad lighthearted but then when i started to reflect on what it would mean to try to tell a story to them at up to my expectations but also my warnings and the depth of my love and a story for them and the world it became something more sober and i reached into the archives that i had in my mind of the work that for me to death and tried to have a conversation with with the past and present for their futures. Host it reads as if it flowed out of you. Thats pr
Its an epistolary work. Its a letter, a series of letters to my sons of course its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and worry that comes along with being a parent of black children and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy. And excellence and self regard. Much of which i think one defined the lessons for an extraordinary definition we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Actually have written them letters privately for years. But my editor gayatri at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing i think a large part because i talk about my children all the time direct post about them in social media. Initially what we both had in mind was something that was probably a bit more lighthearted. When i started to reflect on what it would mean to try to tell a story about both my
Supreme court clerks to celebrate 100th anniversary, and weve just heard a wonderful panel about experiences and we will hear one about life at clerkships. Joshua, publisher, professor at georgetown, very distinguished distinguished lawyer and author of impeachment, take it away, josh. Thank you all very much for coming, if its okay, i will start by introducing my colleagues in this panel, im joined today by clerk for justice brennan, former chairman , carlisle group, Justice Kennedy, private practice, worked as ausa. Following justice ruben, author of many bestselling books, if i listed them all we will be here a while. His career includes time work at ausa, Investigation Unit in baltimore, Deputy Attorney general of maryland, and candidate for mayor of city of baltimore, thank you all very much for joining. Today we will be discussing clerk and strange topic, literally every clerk had a life after clerking and diverse as the professional world has brought, encompass every field of go