Good evening, everyone. I would like to welcome all of you to tonights on the record cfr meeting. I am jim lindsay, Senior Vice President and director of studies here at the council. It is my great honor and pleasure to introduce tonights guest of honor, elliot abrams. Now, i think it is safe to say that elliott is the epitome of the scholarpractitionerblogger [laughter] that we love here at the council on foreign relations. Elliotts formal title is senior for middle east studies. Now, that only begins to explore his great range and depth on foreign policy. And let me deal with sort of the practitioner part of it. Elliott, over the course of his distinguished career, has served in a variety of government positions. Im just going to name three of them, because i think theyve relevant for our discussion tonight. He was assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs as well as assistant secretary of state for interamerican affairs, both during the Reagan Administra
You are not looking at a Democratic Society the oligarchy form of society and we will stop that. [applause]. Hour. Hi, good morning. My name is bruce, i i will be the moderator for our discussion today on form policy and the 2016 primaries. I want i want to welcome all of you who have braved the threat of the storm today to make it out here. Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial pe
Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial period where i lead a conversation but we will have ample time for you to ask your questions and make comments. I will get you out of here at 930 a. M. , as promised. I would remind you this is on the record, well simulcast of my casting this. This is not a typical cf our event where it is on what we call house rules. Let me start off by asking
Why johnny boy, is that any way to treat old friends . Ha i just stopped by to have a friendly chat with you. Might be very interesting if the president of the Mineral City Bank were to know that his most trusted casheer, john medford, is really john merideth, a jailbird and a murderer. I paid for the mistake, dude, and made a fresh start. Heh. Oh, johnny boy. You wouldnt want anything to happen to that nice little wife or kid of yours, would you . Would you . alright, what do you want . You already know that. This visit is just to make sure. Have that bank vault open for us tomorrow when we come in. I wont do it, dude you wont do it . Well this is a sample of what youll get if you dont. Hey, whats going on here . you keep out of this oh no you dont, stranger now john, maybe you can tell me what this is all about. Just a misunderstanding. A personal matter. Why dont you keep your nose out of things that dont concern you . Maybe i made a mistake. I guess maybe you did, and i aim to corr
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