Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this great event, a conversation with robert obrien, the assistant to the president on National Security affairs, otherwise known as National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who were able to join us, and the audience watching live stream from the hudson website. But also a very special welcome , to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been able to participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decide
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Travel from 22 countries where there is a risk of various types of covert 9000 restrictions are announced in the u. K. Forcing some travelers to isolate in hotels for up to 10 days plus. If. Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j. C. T. Away the United States would do the same thing the new u. S. Secretary of state says the door is open for an american return to the nuclear deal but only if iran meets the terms of their original agreement. And a potential breakthrough in mali to end the violence thats killed thousands of farmers in recent years. So we begin in china where the 1st cases of corona virus were reported the team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is theyre preparing to leave the Hotel Quarantine where theyve begun their investigation into the origins of the pandemic independent scientists to interview people from Research Institutes hospitals and the Seafood Market linked to the initial outbreak the long awaited inquiry com
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But also a very special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been ablo participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. And so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien was born in los angeles and graduated from the university of california berkeley with a law