Good afternoon. I am margaret talev, politics and widest editor at axios, ad by half of the Texas Tribune, welcome to the festival and to our one on one with susan rice. We have an hour together. Thats going to include at least 15 minutes for time so your questions and answers so youre 45 minutes to think at some killer questions. Im looking forward to hearing them. You all know ambassador rice. She served as president obamas u. N. Ambassador and the National Security adviser, and previously as assistant secretary of state for African Affairs under the bill clinton administration. And you may also know that shes got a book coming out soon. Its tough love my story of the things worth fighting for. Its not actually out officially for another week or so, we can have but you can get it today and she will be signing copies of it after were done here. I think thats at the festival at 800 congress. They asked me to let you know. You do that after this. This book because none of you have read
The Nobel Peace Prize. Scotlands rugby office threatens legal action if the world match is canceled. It is in doubt because of the typhoon. Scotland will go out of the tournament if this match is called off. Barbara the u. S. Is beefing up its military presence in the gulf as tensions continue. The pentagon is sending 3000 troops to saudi arabia to bolster the kingdoms defenses following an assault on Oil Facilities last month. Septembers drone attacks threatened the heart of the saudi industryh. Houthi rebels claimed responsibility but the u. S. Pointed the finger at iran. Marine and air force units to provide increased capability in the region if necessary. United states remains committed to protecting our allies and ensuring the free flow of demonstrating our amendment for the rulesbased international order. Irish other likeminded countries especially those in europe to follow the United States lead and join with defensive assets to ensure stability in the region. Barbara our report
State Department Officials talk about the trump administrations approach to Public Diplomacy, including a reorganization of the Public Affairs arm of the state department. The Heritage Foundation hosted the hourlong event. Good morning, and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. It is a pleasure to welcome our distinguished panel. We will be talking about Public Diplomacy, in the trump administration. Significant changes have been taking place, with the state department in this field, and i think, as someone who studies this extensively, not enough has really been coming forth about the extent of those changes and the effects they are having on the effectiveness of your communication with other publics in other countries. Mainve with us today, our speaker will be the assistant secretary of state in the bureau of Public Affairs. Thrilled you could join us today. She joined the state department and a year 3, 2018, later became, she was already assistant secretary, but took on the responsibi
Chair of csis. Issues. I also want to congratulate csis and john and victor cha for the 10th anniversary of the korea chair of csis. It marks a decade of on korean issues that are so important to the American People and korean people. It has been a significant accomplishment for victor and john and all of csis. I am delighted to be here today. Im also assured the leadership of north korea is elated that im here today in a private capacity. [laughter] at least thats what ive read. Perhaps they will be a little less delighted now that i can speak in unvarnished terms about the grave and growing threat that the north Korea Nuclear Weapons Program poses to International Peace and security. Lets start with a couple of what i think the main precepts of dealing with the north Korean Nuclear threat are. First, it remains unacceptable for north korea to have deliverable Nuclear Weapons. By the word unacceptable, i dont mean rhetorical flourish by a politician. I mean that our policy should be t
Thank you for being here. This is important. What we are doing oday. This whole festival is on behalf welcome to the festival and to our oneonone with susan rice. We have an hour together. Thats going to include at least 15 minutes of time for your questions and answers, so youve got 45 minutes to think of some killer questions and im looking forward to hearing them. You all know ambassador rice. She served as u. N. Ambassador then security ide viser and then secretary of state under the bill clinton administration. You may also know that she has a book coming out soon, tough love my story of things worth fighting for. Its not out officially for another week or so but you can get it today and shell be signing copies of it after were done here. So i think thats at 800 congress. They asked me to let you know. So you can do that after this. This book because none of you have read it, let me give you a preview is a book in three parts. A book about ambassador rices personal story, her fami