World and the potential effects of corruption in the u. S. Hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, its 90 minutes. Good afternoon. My name is armando trool, the npr station in washington and the toprated npr station in the country. I would like to we come you to what is sure to be a very interesting and exciting conversation about corruption in Central America, the United States and elsewhere. I will be moderating this conversation and you will have the opportunity to ask questions once the panelists are finished. First, sarah chase, senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. She is the author of this report when corruption is an operating system and shes using honduras as the case study. To add perspective to this conversation, zephyr is a law professor at the university will school of law. Shes thea author of corruption in america and also an attorney on the emoluments lawsuit filed by donald trump. So corruption as an operating system. Wh
Good good afternoon, my name is armando Senior Reporter with wmu 88. 5 news, the top rated npr station in the country. On behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace i would like to welcome you to what is sure to be an interesting and exciting conversation about corruption in sent tall america, the United States and elsewhere. I will be moderating this conversation and you will have an opportunity to ask questions once the panelists are finished. First, sara chase, she is a senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she is the author of this report when corruption is an operating system and she is using anguras as the case study. To add some perspective to this discussion we have a law professor at Fordham University school of law. She is the author of corruption in america and she is also an attorney on the amaluments lawsuit filed against president donald trump. So corruption as an operating system what does that mean . Yeah, what am i talking
I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that has not been confirmed, if you will, through and continued on. We had concerns about that process taking place, and you wonder about the support that government has realtive to not being confirmed in the way that it normally would. I have a tremendous respect for president began ghann and a warm relationship with abdullah. Theyre have muddled through it together as one might expect with the type of arrangements that have been, quote, create from the outside. I was glad to see president obama com
I think its been successful for the people there for americans also. What is the understanding in your opinion of the Afghan People about our purpose in being there in our longterm relationship . Senator, thank you. I have a fair amount of time in afghanistan. In general, the Afghan People are very supportive of the United States military being there. They would be fearful of us withdrawing. At least in the near term. So what were trying to do is working by, with come in through the Afghan Security forces who have been built up to a significant size now. What we are trying to do is train, advice, and assist them in order to maintain stability against their enemies so that the government and the other elements of the campaign, the economy and rule all could be sustained over time area and i think that is going to take a considerable length of time. The attitude of the people at least my experiences that they would prefer that we continue to stick with him and i think that is our plan ou
Refugee crisis. And in ethiopia, four and a half Million People could need food aid. So austria has opened its border to refugees. More than 2,000 people have already crossed over from hungary after as weve seen over the last few days and you see in these pictures of the very austria, this morning, a very difficult journey it has been. Mohammed jamjoom tell me more what youve seen mohammed. Well, ca kamal, we have seen empty buses several of them coming back from the border, they have carried thousands of refugees there that have since crossed over into austria last couple of hours and we are expecting even more refugees will be arriving at the border, possibly within the next hour or two. Dozens of more buses have picked up refugees from the main train station in budapest and they will be heading over and taking the refugees over to austria very soon. We expect to be encountering them in the next 30 to 40 minutes. This has been a very sad couple of days for many refugees. Im in contac