Eastern europe. About 2,000 troops are going to poland and another 700 are going to rumania as well as other countries in the southEastern Flank of nato. The reason for this is because of the anxiety these allies are feeling in the midst of this massive russian troop buildup in ukraine. The president did hint at this last week. He said he would be moving those troops to Eastern Europe in the near term, but he did not say when that would be happening. We are told these deployments could be coming in the coming days. What were told is this is coming at a time when these allies are feeling very, very anxious about this russian aggression there, and this is a show of support for those allies. This is not a precursor to any kind of u. S. Troops on the ground in ukraine. This is just those troops going to Eastern Europe to shore up that flank and reassure them that the u. S. Is there in the event that russia does invade ukraine and tries to move even further west, jim. Ambassador, let me bri
People of turkey made me president by 52 of the votes. Mr. Irdyk thank you. We need to go to the audience for a couple of questions, if you are ok with that. I would ask you to wait for the microphone, to identify yourself, and please to ask a question, not to make a statement. Tohave an opportunity here ask questions of the president , but we are not interested in having a political statement in the process. I also want to make clear that this is not a press conference. This is a discussion, with policy people in washington. So i hope the media will understand, but call on all of to turned it into a press conference, i want to avoid that. I am the Deputy Director of brookings Foreign Policy programs. Thank you very much for coming here and engaging in a discussion at brookings. In your speech he talked about a number of different issues around the region, but that was one country that received almost pleading mentioned, and that was iran. Turkey has played an Important Role and diplom
Danger. Critics question the use of deadly force. Ktvus Heather Holmes is live in the city, and tells us the differenting views. Reporter after several disruptions the chief said it was over. The frequency of officer involved shootings here in San Francisco and other parts of the bay area has led to intense debate. Last tuesdays deadly shooting tore into frayed relations. Inside st. Lukes Episcopal Church tempers flared over the use of deadly force by police. This lady had a question. Reporter the killing of 24 yearold alice brown last tuesday, followed other fatal encounters between the police and suspects. Some of them unarmed. Demonstrators pressing for policing and criminal Justice Reform added browns name to their cause. Frequently disrupting tonights meeting. Meantime, browns family sat quietly in the front row, crying over the events that led to her death. She again accelerated into gridlock. Reporter the chief says they used Excessive Force after brown ignored the requests to s
Senator or house member. And so this is Something Else that we strongly recommend. Host our guest is Henry Bonilla. Former congressman, served in congress until 2007, representing texas. Number for republicans is 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. And independents, 2025853882. Wonder if you talk to us a little bit about how this report and your recommendations are being received in congress today. Guest we havent had any strong feedback yet. Sometimes it take as while for messages to get into the leadership office. The former senators that led this, this on their side have already communicated with the Senate Leadership but no strong reaction yet. The house side. But were hoping that at least someone listens to us because at this point were not aware of anyone who is put together a set of recommendations like this anywhere. So, if half of them are implemented that would beik a he success. If one or two, hey, great. Butge were realistic about this most of us who worked on this have
This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites which would obviously help us. Another thing weve done is weve partnered with our recruiting brigades so that frankly we are increasing the profile at events across the United States. We will also be increasing the marketing that we spend and we have very datadriven analysis t