We are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. Remote. We also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. So we are its the first time weve been back for a full committee meeting, House Armed Services committee since the covid outbreak so i urge all of you participating and watching be patient as we work out the bugs and give everybody the chance to say what they need to say and run the committee in an orderly fashion. Before we start the basic rules and outline of how were doing the hearing. And i welcome those joining us remotely and those members are reminded they must be visible onscreen within the Software Platform, joining the establi established meeting and remaining a quorum and they must use the video platform during the proceeding unless they experience connectivity problem. If a person remotely have issues, the staff will help you get recorrected. Video of remotely, will be visible on television and the video feed. Members remotely will
Leadership during the crisis. Foreign leaders who influenced events during the cold war years as well as the continuing threat of nuclear war. The Georgia Historical Society hosted the interview and provided the video. We are here to talk about the called war at 75. It marks the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war immediately after world war ii in 1945. You attended georgia tech. Greta van susteren graduated from emory university. Served in the coast guard. Came back to georgia, practiced law. Served in the Georgia House of representatives. You were elected to the United States senate in 1972 and served for 24 years until you left in 1996 including eight of those years as chair of the Senate Armed Services committee. Since retiring from the senate you cofounded with ted turner and know cochair the Nuclear Threat initiatives. As i mentioneder with here to talk about the events of the cold war as you experienced them. Lets start with you. The scariest moment of the cold war
Im David Rubenstein coming from the library of congress, the Jefferson Building and its part of our National Book festival and have a pleasure of interviewing richard hoss who is the president of a foreign relation and ive written a new eczema book called the world a brief introduction by richard hoss, thank you very much for coming today. Great to be with you. For those of you that dont know your background, i want to talk a little bit about the bo book, you are native of new york and went to college in ohio and became a Rhodes Scholar, what did you do to become a Rhodes Scholar and for those of you who are not aware there is only 32 people picked every year in the Rhodes Scholar and youre one of the top 32 students, what did you do to be one of the top 32 students when you graduated. My children would claim it was an administrative error i did nothing to confuse the scholarship, i could also answer i was one of 32 people who peaked young and peaked at the right time, my own guess i h
Presidency along with the 117th congress should do about them. I am joined by a distant wish group of scholars and friends from numerous institutions all around washington but nonetheless, reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking experience and approach in thinking about these kinds of things. Lots of handson expertise. Americanat the new initiative at the Atlantic Council. He is a longstanding scholar. Any of you will know him for his years at the Cato Institute many of you will know him for his years at the Cato Institute. He is a former navy officer and is in many ways one of the great skeptics and contrarian voices in American Foreign policy who i have known for a long time and am really pleased to have them with us in this event. , the Catholic University he used to be at cato as well. He recently wrote a important article called of the case for the throng from the middle east. He is an advocate of minimizing the u. S. Military footprint. I think it is fair to say that
Eventual 2015. Turks are still painful memories and deep divisions. The struggle for control of the to grave region appears to be worsening. Amnesty International Says hundreds of civilians have been massacred. Although Human Rights Group is unclear, who is responsible . Some witnesses blame forces loyal to the 2 great Peoples Liberation front. The u. N. Is warning of a humanitarian emergency with the 4000 people cross from ethiopia and sudan in just one day. It here appears federal government has appointed a new head of the region by mr. Ahmed, says the offensive will not end until local leaders are removed. Ever morgan has more now from god, or if in sudan near the ethiopian border. Refugees continued to arrive at the sudanese european border. Here in the state of qatar of yesterday, authorities went to check out the situation of the refugees and at what is happening at the border, they say that more than 11000 have arrived over the past few days into get out of state as well as neig