Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be
Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
evening. hi, bill. reporter: hey good morning good evening to you two sisters as well as their friend all disappeared in mexico after crossing two weeks ago as you mentioned to go to a flee market to sell some clothes let s take a look at photos right now this is 47-year-old perez rios her older sister 48-year-old marina perez rios and friend dora alise none of them seen or heard from since february 24th again two weeks ago when they crossed into mexico. as you look at more photos of these women we ll tell you pd confirms us to families are in touch with them that families are worried would these women he been potentially kidnapped somewhere in mexico. local police department says they did contact the fbi. the fbi telling fox news they are aware of these missing women. they are investigating but cannot comment at this point in time an the local police here saying women last seen wearing green 1996 chevy siffled rad doe with texas plates and talk about where they crossed where
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Numbers while the Major Economies are raising rates and chinas growing below its growth targets. Paul, what are some of the complex sort of Pressure Points that these countries will have to navigate as they forge ahead . Yeah, well, i really think its a Confidence Game at this point, right . So we want consumers to continue to spend. We want firms to continue to invest. So i think having some confidence that the the rate cycle globally is near its peak, the us continues to put up good numbers. Chinas been tweaking some of the measures over the past week in the property market. So its certainly not a disastrous story, but its probably going to come in with a Forehand Build this year on growth and countries are just going to have to figure out how to navigate that given their particular circumstances. So its not a terrible scenario, but its a little bit weaker than were used to in this part of the world where china was powering the region and everyone else was kind of pulled along behind