In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow on Public Education organization. He served as a Senior Adviser to the iraq study group. Please welcome professor chris kojam. Its a real honor to be here tonight, and this is in the very best traditions of this school. A very erudite, accomplished policymakers into the academy, and so that both can benefit. And im deeply dedicated to this continuing interaction between scholarship and practice. So its a real honor tonight to introduce ambassador thomas pickering. He is a career ambassador. And that is the designation that very few ever receive. Only a few in a generation. And ambassador pickering really is a phenomenon. The most accomplished ambassador
Thomas pickering was ambassador to india and russia under the clinton administration. He spoke at George Washington University Last month about u. S. Efforts to promote democracy. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Thank you all for coming to this event. Were all very excited to hear from the honorable thomas pickering. The panel the conversation is going to be moderated by chris kojim who is a visiting professor of the practice of International Affairs after serving as the chairman of the National Intelligence council at the Elliot School he was previously the director of the mid career mipp program and director of the summer Foreign Policy program. In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow
Thats one of the areas in which they had the least support, and theyve gotten the least insight. Theyre struggling with, how do i deal with whose kids native language is not english. That is a weak zone ive seen in my reporting. Not to mention kids with special needs. Kids far behind academically. Absolutely. Chris, is this your experience as well . Yeah. Its my experience with whatever state standards weve had in the past as well. I do think that we have a real challenge as a condition tri about what do we do with kids that are below grade level, our current testing structure tests at grade level. So how do we make sure were scaffolding so children can advance and were measuring growth, not just as part of our accountability system. I think these are all things that need to be looked at by states to make sure that special needs students and kids who are behind academically get there. I think we have time for one more question from the crowd. I think well go right here to the front. Sa
Catastrophic 20 inches of rain along the west coast there it. A tourist hub before pushing inland. Officials are saying get out. Jennifer gray is standing by in the weather channel. Have you ever seen anything like this . No, never. This is stronger than katrina, stronger than andrew. Its stronger than any storm the National Weather center has ever had to deal with. One of the reasons for that is the warm temperatures in an el nino year brings more active pacific than the atlantic. We have seen a quieter atlantic season. The pacific has been very active. Especially with the intensity of these storms. Thats exactly what were seeing here with sea surface temperatures in the 80s. Winds of 200 Miles Per Hour. The latested a vuz ri came out at 2 00. Nothing has changed except its moving to the north a little bit faster at about 12 Miles Per Hour. Its expected to make landfall in the next couple hours. It could be a category 5. It is going o to continue to weaken. The terrain is mountainous
Which is also a Head Quarters of isis from a bigger show from the ai air. From the skies above we expect to intensify the air campaign with the u. S. Coalition and other aircraft to target isis with a air strikes which is going to inkrecrease the high ve targets as the intelligence improves. And also, targeting the Oil Enterprise which is a critical part of the structure. As i have said last friday, we have already begun to ramp up the deliberate strikes. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is joining us. Barbara, there were some fireworks up at the hearing, but not a lot of clear answers about the shifting strategy in the fight against isis in iraq and syria, and what is the bottom line . Well, look, wolf when you talk to the officials in the pentagon, they are going to tell you to look at a change in tone by ash carter and the pentagon leadership and the commanders burk that tone is still a little bit clouded, be because we dont know how far president obama is really going to go