Iran the International Security program. Its a privilege to introduce jim sciutto is a correspondent and cnn anchor and author of the new book inside chinas operations to feed america. It was attracted to various forms and most of the wall street journal. And it has a lot of good critical success. You may not know the gym was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Embassy in china so he knows the china story quite well. He is a graduate of Yale University and a former fellow. The short washington with his wife and they have three children. Im going to turn over to him, he is reported around the world, asia, middle europe and middle east. Ill turn it over to him to make opening observations about the book and then open it up to q a. Thank you very much jim. Thanks so much well of you for taking time out of aut busy sunny friday. I appreciate having you here as well. And thank you to peter for inviting me he was one of the first people to read a manuscript of the book early on and he did n
Many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and cnn anchor and the author of the new book shadow war inside russia is operations to defeat america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and most of the wall street journal. And its had a lot of good critical success. You may not know jim was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Embassy in china. Hes a graduate of the university in washington with his wife and former journalist for abc news and they have three children and he is reported hed around the world in asia and europe and the middle east and made some opening observations throughout the book and then we will open up for qanda. Thanks to all of you for taking time out of your busy friday and the folks at home appreciate having you here as well. Thank you to peter. He was one of the first few people to read the manuscript of the book early on and since he didnt throw it back in my face i thought i was probably okay moving forward with this and h
Up and wondering who these people are. We would play directors jeopardy. I have not done this before. It may fall flat. Or i may spend the rest of the night doing that. Lets start with this. Longestserving director of Central Intelligence. And you can shout out the name. Allen dulles, correct. And there is right there. Conversely, im the shortest serving director. Pompeo was in for the better part of the year. So was george bush. Schlesinger, almost. He was in for about a year and a half. We have to go way back. The first one. He was a crony of harry truman. He made it very clear when he took the job that he only wanted to serve a few months. He was not experienced. Truman wanted a figurehead who could get the Intelligence Group up and running. I am the only convicted felon richard hounds. Regrettably. He was caught in a pretty nasty gotcha episode. He was testifying before the Senate Foreign relations during his hearings before he went out to iran and was asked by senator stewart and
Rose above the scandal becoming Prime Minister twice until her assassination in december 2007 i would have a son and chosen as still a teenager zardari returned to meet her Pakistan Peoples Party and won the peoples vote. He lasted the full 5 year term the 1st president to do so controversially supporting the us in its effort to win the war in afghanistan and helping former president barack obama launch an assault on the taliban inside pakistan but Domestic Support eroded as a tax increase and after the severe floods of 2010 zardari chose not to run for reelection 2013th leaving office with words of reconciliation for his rival Prime Minister nawaz sharif. We will support you in the fight against the forces which are trying to weaken pakistan and who dont support democracy and want to politics of guns rather than vote. The pakistani government led by imran khan has made fighting corruption a priority former Prime Minister now as sharif has already been indicted on corruption charges da
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