Listening in washington and around the country and around the world. I am mike ohanlon at the Brookings Institution. We are honored to host mark esper who, after being introduced by my boss, retired general john allen, he will offer remarks on how the covid19 is affecting the armed forces and anything else. I will ask questions and then i will hear from you. If you have not already submitted your welcome to do so. Apologies that we may not get to all questions. Ado, let me hand the body the baton to john allen. Good morning. My name is john allen and i am the president of the Brookings Institution and it is my great pledge to welcome you all to , featuring dr. Mark esper. Esper was sworn in as the 22nd secretary of defense on 2019. 0 323, he served as a secretary of the toy from november 20, 2017 the summer of 2019. He is no stranger to service. He is a 1986 west point graduate and upon graduation he was commissioned in the infantry and that makes at least two infantrymen on this call.
My name is hannah. I am a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute and im honored to be here today. At the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the charles cook institute. For a really entertaining discussion, a debate that i hope you will have about whether or not the us should arm ukraine. That is the question at hand. Should the us arm ukraine . I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a pole. To see just how many of you think that you have made up your mind about your own answer to this question. How many of you think that youve already decided . How many have not yet decided but are open to be swayed . Give you have a very tall order on hand those watching from cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter at future ukraine. You may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. It has been three years since we had this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have a discussion a couple of years ago. Things are chan
Good morning everyone. My name is hannah. I am a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute and im honored to be here today. At the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the charles cook institute. For a really entertaining discussion, a debate that i hope you will have about whether or not the us should arm ukraine. That is the question at hand. Should the us arm ukraine . I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a pole. To see just how many of you think that you have made up your mind about your own answer to this question. How many of you think that youve already decided . How many have not yet decided but are open to be swayed . Give you have a very tall order on hand those watching from cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter at future ukraine. You may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. It has been three years since we had this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have a discussion a couple of yea
Good morning everyone. My name is hannah. I am a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute and im honored to be here today. At the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the charles cook institute. For a really entertaining discussion, a debate that i hope you will have about whether or not the us should arm ukraine. That is the question at hand. Should the us arm ukraine . I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a pole. To see just how many of you think that you have made up your mind about your own answer to this question. How many of you think that youve already decided . How many have not yet decided but are open to be swayed . Give you have a very tall order on hand those watching from cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter at future ukraine. You may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. It has been three years since we had this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have a discussion a couple of yea
Good morning everyone. My name is hannah. I am a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute and im honored to be here today. At the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the charles cook institute. For a really entertaining discussion, a debate that i hope you will have about whether or not the us should arm ukraine. That is the question at hand. Should the us arm ukraine . I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a pole. To see just how many of you think that you have made up your mind about your own answer to this question. How many of you think that youve already decided . How many have not yet decided but are open to be swayed . Give you have a very tall order on hand those watching from cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter at future ukraine. You may be wondering why we are covering this topic now. It has been three years since we had this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have a discussion a couple of yea