Think we want to start. You should eat because youre going to be doing a lot of talking. Good morning, im linda feldman, Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is ken cuccinelli, acting director of the u. S. Bureau of citizenship and Immigration Services, and this is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast, so welcome mr. Cuccinelli. Thank you. Now, a bit of background, mr. Cuccinelli was born in edison, new jersey and grew up in virginia where he graduated from uva and then earned a law degree and a masters an International Commerce and policy. In 2002, mr. Cuccinelli won a special election to the state senate from Fairfax County and in 2009, he was elected attorney general for the commonwealth of virginia. Mr. Cuccinellis time as attorney earned him a reputation as a staunch conservative, which he parlayed into a bid for the governorship in 2013. He lost narrowly, but has remained engaged in politics, serving as head of the Senate Conservatives
Director of citizenship and Immigration Services talks about criminal deportation of undocumented immigrants. This is hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Okay, are we good . But i think we want to start. You should eat because youre going to be doing a lot of talking. Good morning, im linda feldman, Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is ken cuccinelli, acting director of the u. S. Bureau of citizenship and Immigration Services, and this is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast, so welcome mr. Cuccinelli. Thank you. Now, a bit of background, mr. Cuccinelli was born in edison, new jersey and grew up in virginia where he graduated from uva and then earned a law degree and a masters an International Commerce and policy. In 2002, mr. Cuccinelli won a special election to the state senate from Fairfax County and in 2009, he was elected attorney general for the commonwealth of virginia. Mr. Cuccinellis time as attorney earned him a reputation a
Its its had for the past you know 2 decades nearly so what were looking for now is whether there is a precipitating action from the iranians or from the saudis once they finish this investigation the u. S. Seems perfectly content to sit back and remain defensive for now but what we understand is that there is u. S. Involvement in this investigation as to the location of the launch of these attacks furthermore what we do understand phenomena at least is that President Trump clearly in the run up to an election the for 2020 does not want to get the u. S. Involved and another. Military adventure so he put it in the middle east at a time when hes trying to draw down troops from syria and indeed from afghanistan. Absolutely trump campaigned saying he was going to pull troops out of afghanistan pull troops out of iraq youve heard that hes been following through with that talk about afghanistan in the last thing he would seem to want with that 2020 election coming up would be another engageme
Further and deeper into this conflict so tensions have only risen since this whole thing is began despite the fact that both the u. S. And the saudis say they are in a defensive posture at least until the end of the investigation into exactly where those attacks originated john hendren live for us in washington d. C. Thank you jon well for more on this we can speak to ronnie corey has a nonresident fellow at Harvard Kennedy school and he joins us now on skype from boston mr corey having listened to it we didnt hear anything today that we havent had before necessarily. Thats right and that little bit on the saudi government have a couple of problems here d he has very little credibility because he for 23 weeks he was lying and repeating lying when he was killed and turkey about a year ago now and involved in a big inefficient cover up which was later dropped because the saudis admitted that he died and they kept lying about how it all happened 2nd of all the saudis dont have any credibi
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