George washington university. Hello, everyone. Welcome. My name is alexander wilson, on the president of the John Quincy Adams society here at gw when i am so honored to be starting off our event, facing the next step for u. S. Foreign policy in iran. It is a great honor to host this event which has been nine months in the making. Thank you all for coming. [indiscernible] thank you all for coming out. It is a pleasure to see you all excited about this event being offered today. A special thanks to sam who did a lot of the great work in presenting and creating this event. Thank you for the kind invitation. It is great to be here. I will start with introducing our speakers. [indiscernible] as we move on the questions will be more difficult. Especially the last one. Michael singh is a managing director at the Washington Institute and a former senior director of the National Security council. [indiscernible] with a focus on iran and the middle east. Michael is on the board of the u. S. Ins
George washington university. Hello, everyone. Welcome. My name is alexander wilson, on the president of the John Quincy Adams society here at gw when i am so honored to be starting off our event, facing the next step for u. S. Foreign policy in iran. It is a great honor to host this event which has been nine months in the making. Thank you all for coming. [indiscernible] thank you all for coming out. It is a pleasure to see you all excited about this event being offered today. A special thanks to sam who did a lot of the great work in presenting and creating this event. Thank you for the kind invitation. It is great to be here. I will start with introducing our speakers. [indiscernible] as we move on the questions will be more difficult. Especially the last one. Michael singh is a managing director at the Washington Institute and a former senior director of the National Security council. [indiscernible] with a focus on iran and the middle east. Michael is on the board of the u. S. Ins
[inaudible conversations] lets get started and i will have a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan we have been doing a series of events over the last year we recently hosted a couple of weeks ago we could not have done this about the of partnership and as a friend thinks for everything. We will have been interesting and conversation today when i think about people who were qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cannot think of the of better person turning afghanistan around that usa id. To serve some of the toughest places in the world a patriot and a friend a qualified individual they got he raised his hand to do public service. [applause] it is very nice to see my old friends here in the audience is a particular that has been done in afghanistan for those of you that i have not met and i would like to say some words about the south asia strategy with the very few point on how that applies to usaid role and i will mention in pakistan and then
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Theyre going to decide what they want as a priority good afternoon. Hazard but had a nice columbus day . Take a little break. Im sure you missed me. Let me start by saying that our hearts but to the people in california for enduring the wildfires taking place now. Theyve lost their homes, precious land is heartbreaking but the loss of life is truly devastating. Last that the president spoke with the governor jerry brown and today he approved an expedited major disaster declaration for california along with Fire Management assistance grants. The administration is working closely with state and local officials to ensure that people of california [inaudible] id like to share some positives from puerto rico to the u. S. Virgin islands today. School resumes and u. S. Virgin islands this week, seven schools open today powered by generators, and 11 were scheduled to open next week. Additionally and puerto rico fema is hosting a job fair to our 1200 Puerto Ricans to up with the relief efforts