Coming up in the next sixty minutes signs of progress after months of deadlock in talks to form a new grand Coalition Government in germany but more hurdles remain. President donald trump is expected to decide on the u. S. Position on the Iran Nuclear Deal an agreement still firmly backed by the e. U. And russia also this hour more violent protests in tunisia over the governments austerity measures more than three hundred people arrested last. One hundred thomas floating through a jungle in Papua New Guinea but ill be explaining how rainforests like this have been decimated i would just the last seven years on the profits. Of someone from abroad. Thank you for joining us and to months of Political Uncertainty in germany looks like its on the horizon with significant progress made in talks to form a Coalition Government politicians say an agreement spain reached to move forward with negotiations between chancellor Angela Merkels Christian Democratic Union and the social democrats the pa
2008. Id like to provide specific welcome this morning to our new member, senator smith. It is good to have yes part of the committee. I think youll find that this is a committee that does good work it would like to focus on policy, and would like to do things in a bipartisan way every now and again. So looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is also returning to our committee and i look forward to welcoming her and her ongoing contributions. We do have a lot on our agenda today. Our broad Bipartisan Energy Natural Resources bill where again were looking forward to continuing that as the year progresses to our efforts to increase our nations mineral security, our need for wildfire funding fix, for Street Management reform, innovation, islands and territories. With a wide range of public lands come so theres just do the things that we have on deck for this new year. We were probably have a lighter attenda
Crises and decisions by going to 1988, or wilsons decision for war in world war i. He is reassessing these decisions. We are all looking forward to philips next book. Time, he is doing a dozen other things none of us can keep track of. Philip, thank you. Need tosorry to say we wait for james wilson to show up. He is probably out there somewhere having a good conversation. If we canhe is send the search y out. So far it has been a great time. [laughter] it is rather intimidating sitting somebody who can refer to his book. If we had grandchildren, they could sit on it. Glad you could join us. Lets go ahead and get started. This is a panel covering the the great second crisis phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, extending to the end of the cold war. Earlyhe beginning of the 1990s and the disintegration of the soviet union. Perspective on u. S. And russian relations, we start with the perspective from the point of view of the Reagan Administration with james wilson. James . Thank you.
Graham wilson discuss the relationships between president reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the relationship between george h. W. Bush and mr. Gorbachev. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We have a great panel. And so Philip Zelikow is going to chair the panel. I think Everybody Knows philip. He has written a terrific book on the end of the cold war, principal author of 9 11 Commission Report and many other books. And he is now in the midst of writing a terrific book on sort of decisions for war. And in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilsons decision for war in world war i. Hes sort of brilliantly reassessing these decisions. Were all looking forward to philips next book. At the same time, hes doing about a dozen other things that none of us can keep track of. Sometimes we dont know about. Philip, thank you. Thank you. I actually am sorry to say, we need to wait for james wilson to show up. So he is probably out there somewhere
And hes written a terrific book on the end of the cold war the bri principal author of the 9 11 Commission Report and hes writing a book on decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilson going to war, reassessing these decisions so were looking forward to phillips next book. At the same time hes doing about a dozen other things none of us can keep track of and sometimes we dont know about. So phillip. Thank you. Thank you. Im sorry to say we need to wait for james wilson to show up and so hes probably out there somewhere having a good conversation. If we can send the search party out. The state department is always late to the table. [ laughter ] one of the messages of this. So far its been a great panel. [ laughter ] its rather intimidating when youre sitting next to somebody who can refer to his book. We had grandchildren here they could sit on it. [ laughter ] oh, here he is. Glad you could join us. Thank you. All right, le