You can find more information in your program guide. Now, heres gordon chang. Good afternoon. If i could have your attention. We are going to get started. Im susanna sheltie president of defense Form Foundation is my great honor to welcome you to our congressional defense and Foreign Policy form. Please enjoy your lunch and help yourself to anything you might need during the program. I know you all are very busy so im especially appreciative of you taking the time to be here for this very timely program. For those of attending the form for the first time, the forms began in 1980s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan collegial atmosphere and as we promised, we have an expert speaker to address a critical topic. And very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media here so i would ask during the question answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of their limited time co
Alliance with regional and Global Security challenges, this is from hosted by the International Strategic studies. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for coming. Its friday afternoon in august and you know, im delighted that your Summer Vacation plans include csis, but its really a testament to how important, influential and respected our panel today is. Im the senior vicepresident for asia and japan here csis at georgetown. Before we get started we always do a brief safety announcement. And we have about ten fourstar admirals and generals in the room, but this former boy scout will be in charge. If there is a need to evacuate and ill let you know, but well head out and head around the corner to National Geographic down 17th street. Out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation and there should be headsets on your chair. If you have a problem, wave and someone will help you. Please leave them on the chair, if you take them home wed send the new
Economy. He was joined at the white house by epa administrator Andrew Wheeler, interior gets secretary David Bernhardt and Energy Secretary rick perry for this 50 minute event. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Chief playing] [applause] you very you, thank much. I hope you all had truly an independent wonderful Independence Day weekend, despite the heavy rain, and it was heavy, we had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. Incredible. [applause] trump standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out at the big, beautiful crowd, braving back toher all the way the washington monument, we celebrated freedom in all its magnificence while saluting our great military, who is something really special and i will say it was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success, we are making the decision, and i think we can say we have made the decision to do it next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future. [a
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Possible whether iran, having once agreed to a deal and see the United States pull out of it what it will take to get a deal in place. Host alayna treene, do you want to add to that and get your response to the caller, but the president s meeting with the premier of kotter what would they be talking about . Guest the mer of qatar will be here over the next few days. Thank you very much. Great to have you and i hope you all had a truly wonderful Independence Day weekend. In spite of the heavy rain come up we had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. It was incredible. Standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out at the crowd, easy braving the weather all the way back to the washington monument, we celebrated freedom and all of its magnificence while saluting our great military. I will say it was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success, we are making the decision and i think we can say we have made the decision to do it