Good morning, my name is nancy limborg. I am the president and ceo here at the u. S. Institute of peace im delighted to welcome you here for a very important conversation to prevent violence in a fragile world. Our speakers here today i want to extend a special welcome to mark green we are honored to have them here today and a very warm welcome to secretary Madeleine Albright whos been a fierce champion of ours for years and many thanks to the National Endowment for democracy who made todays event possible with their generous support and our good friends and partners in the george w. Bush institute. Its wonderful to have them cohost the event with us today. Usip was founded thirtyfive years ago by congress nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to the notion that peace is very practical and very possible. We firmly believe todays complex Foreign Policy challenges require the best thinking and partnership across the aisle. Last Year Congress asked usip host a bipartisan congressionall
As you may know already, we will begin open hearings in the impeachment inquiry next week. We will be beginning with testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday, and we will have testimony on friday. These will be the first of the open hearings and i think you will see throughout the course the moststimony important facts are largely not contested. We are getting increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign. Those open hearings will be an opportunity for the American People to evaluate the witnesses for themselves, to make their own determination about the credibility of the witnesses, but also to learn firsthand about the facts of the preside
Ambassador hale for being here, for obeying the law, for following the lawful subpoena that we issued. We wish others would show the same courage and dedication to the law that ambassador hale is demonstrating here today. I want to let you know as you may know already that we will begin our open hearings in the impeachment inquiry next week. We will be beginning with the testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday. And we will have ambassador yovanovitch testify on friday. These will be the first of the open hearings. And i think youll see throughout the course of the testimony, not only their testimony but many others, the most important facts are largely not contested. We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year. And the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further Conspiracy Theo
Live on cspan network. On life at cspan. Org. Order on the free see cspan2 radio app. Seneca oil, back a friend of the cspan2 network. His head another falcon which is what. Which is what we callru the first nonpartisan non profit, new site devoted entirely to covering the issues of the broken democracy and all the different efforts out there to troy and make democracy work better. We look at the impeachment process today, where are we. Pit bulls we look at it today we are the beginning of another week where i guess is the week six as we all know, the house so the ground rules last week on that partyline vote. And so now we have another week of packed with scheduled depositions in several of the witnesses we sayve will not show up and probably the most important thing thats going to happen this week is the house tells the committee is going to release the transcripts of monday of the depositions that have been taken sopt far. Those of the headlines. The tickling of the sunday program,
The Christian Science monitor, he was asked about tuesdays elections in kentucky, virginia, mississippi and new jersey as well as the impeachment inquiry. Good morning. Im linda feldman. Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance on a monitor breakfast. Welcome, chairman perez, and congratulations on last night. For his background, chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york, the son of immigrants from the dominican republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a large degree from harvard. After graduating, he served in a number of government positions, wasked for a federal judge a federal prosecutor, advised senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no