What can i say . I know it is raining outside. In year the sun is shining. I joked on twitter that the Atlantic Council one that think tank lottery because when we planned this event, i have a feeling they would not meet the deadline of march 31 for some sort of political understanding or framework. Indeed, i was right. We are the first think tank in washington to be able to discuss the historic event that happened in switzerland. I am delighted. I am barbarously van and i coordinate the Enron Task Force and the Atlantic Council. I ask you to check out our website. We have a new statement that is out that includes esteemed individuals. A lot of foreignpolicy experts and Nuclear Experts. Of course, all of you, by now have read some of the details of this agreement. We will look at it in more detail and specificity. Theres plenty of skepticism out there from israel and to some of the arab states across the persian gulf, and certainly from congress about the nature of what was agreed to i
Assistant to the secretary of state for Iranian Affairs during an earlier effort during the beginning of the Obama Administration to get this nuclear deal. Before joining the foreign service, he taught in iran as a peace corps volunteer. For 444 days from 1979 to 1981 he was a guest of the previous ayatollah in tehran when he was held hostage. John will have a lot to say on what this means for u. S. Iran relations. Without further ado, we will start. Cliff, i will start with you. I want to get your general impressions of what has been announced and the likely obstacles that might be on the horizon. Mr. Kupchan so far so good. Any deal will be an ugly deal. It is not a pretty deal. There are some technical problems with it, theres a lot we dont know, but it meets the basic structure of a deal that curbs irans access to Nuclear Weapons and provides state sanctions relief. Obstacles . There are a lot of obstacles to the deal. The first, to me, is there are a lot of substantive gaps betwee
To the private sector and say this is what i think is coming at you. This is what it is going to look like. This is the precursor activities that will give you a sense of what is occurring. What i am interested for the private sector is did you see what we told you you were going to see . What did we miss . What worked out well . How did you configure your system . What were the telltale signs that told you something was coming . There are always advanced indicators well before you get to the final act, well before you get to the destructive act. There are always precursor steps that give you a sense of what is coming at you. Im interested in what are you saying . What are the things we failed to anticipate question mark hey, i would like to see this malware because i am interested in tearing it apart and developing counters so we can defeated in the feet it in the future. Not just you, but us, more broadly in the private sector. I am interested in the signatures that help the system r
Over the weekend the religious freedom laws in arkansas and indiana, and whether businesses should be more socially active. Some of the reaction to those laws in those states, whether businesses should be more engaged in political debates over social issues. Here is how to join our conversation. For those of you in eastern and central time zones, the number is 2027 488000. Mountain and pacific 202748 8001. For social media, send us a tweet cspanwj. Make sure you mute your television or radio when you call in. Over the weekend, the president gave an interview to Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. The front page this morning peter bakers article obama calls the iran deal our best that. Host a quote from the president , this is the best that so far that we have to get an agreement from iran. What we will be doing even as we enter into this deal is sending a clear message to the uranian and to the entire region that if anybody messes with israel america will be there. This is the headl
House to defund it, to derail it, in one way or another before they had a chance to do that some judge in texas ruled it unconstitutional and if its on hold until this appeal because the higher court and hopefully that will be overturned. Unfortunately, even if it is overturned, its only a temporary fix because it doesnt provide legalization or path to citizenship it just says for x. Amount of months you can get the work permit and drivers license and be in that country without legal status. Thats not a permanent solution but we support it and we think that the president did have the authority to do that and its a good temporary stopgap measure. But what we do need and we cant do it without congress, we do need a fix to a broken immigration system. The catholic bishops have the same for the past ten plus years that Immigration Reform should have three legs. One leg is the path to citizenship for the 11 million or so that are here in this country. These people are already part of our so