At 202 7488003. You can join the conversation by texting us at that same number, also going to twitter cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. The acting defense secretary outlined the president s decision yesterday. [video clip] by january 15, 2021, our forces, their size and afghanistan will be 2500. Iraq will alsoin be 2500 by that date. With ouronsistent established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People. It does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Moreover, this decision by the president is based on continuous engagement with his National Security cabinet over the month past. Including ongoing discussions with me and my colleagues across the u. S. Government. I have also spoken with our military commanders and we all will execute this repositioning in the way that protects our fighting men and women, partners in the Intelligence Community, diplomatic corps, and our superb allies that are critical to iraqiding afghan and Civil Society. Secretarya
Now. Hes tlets begin with the election. What do you think is the state of the Republican Party after november 3rd . Its surprising. Its an election where you had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out. Down battllot, they did so well. There was a lot of expectation that after this election if the polls were right and it was going to be a blowout for democrats, that there would be a lot of grappling within the party about what it stabnds for and what the future is. I havent seen that at all. Republicans feel like what the outcome particularly down ballot is justification of everything that the president has been doing and that trumpism has worked. You had a situation where democrats were expected to take another 10 to 12, 15 seats and have lost close to 10 in the house. Democrats are very demoralized about not getting the senate. Everybody that waswas hoping fo conversation among the party about what we stand for, i think thats put on. For the time being, despite the
Stanstead 13 pounds, then run no later than the time the president and senator biden, Vice President biden. My office will continue to investigate each and every instance of a liberal voting record during the reading over the United States. If you play that, we were investigated, every illegal vote will count. So well be counting every single piece of paper every single ballot, every single lawfully cast legal ballin. Libya expected to hold elections within the next 18 months. The deal was agreed during un backed political talks in tunisia. Now talks will focus on a new Transitional Government to oversee the run up to the elections. And a military operation in northern ethiopia is threatening to spill over the countrys borders. Prime minister ordered the offensive in the t. Grey region last week, accusing local forces of attacking a military base. Since then hundreds have been killed and several 1000 people have fled to neighboring sudan. Armenias parliament has agreed to discuss prote
Analytical adrenaline going . I certainly hope so. Seriously, of all the times weve hosted this conference over the years, this has got to be one of the more fraught election cycles in our lifetime. Certainly a roller coaster counting process and still clarifying picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. So we have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions what happened and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and eventual results, and if so, what was the cause of that . And how are the two parties, democrats and republicans, now going to move forward in terms their programs and policies but how they position themselves electorally over the next couple of years. With that, let me turn the microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen tess cano. Ellen im the cofounder of the inside american politics experience. Last year and this year at nyu. 2008 following the historic election of barack obama as president. , we co
Picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and results . If so, what was the cause . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, going to move forward in terms of both their program, their policies, and how they position themselves electorally. The that, let me turn microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Hello. I am cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hosted for 10 years by last year and this year come up by the center at nyu. We started the annual Conference Following the historic election of barack obama as president of the United States. Together to discuss the election of joe biden. An equally historic Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman of color. A find ourselves in transitional and dynamic moment in the transfer of power from the current president , donald t