Through those challenges in the Current Crisis that they face president john had a telephone call with ukraine in july last week but what struck you. Now we have in black and white evidence of the fact he is conducting business supposedly on behalf of foreign leaders now his own personal political business but if you read the transcript not once did they raise anything of national significance. With nothing but sanctions. With economic and security support it doesnt matter of us policy. All they asked for is that the president of ukraine to do a personal political favor by digging up dirt of his adversary in the case of biden he asks he looks into bogus allegations alleging that biden did something wrong. He wants that information presumably meant to suggest and what is most disturbing and with their own personal interest is that if you look at the whistleblower reports but the team tried to hide the fact by storing the transcript of this conversation on a supersecret server so we had
Through a wide array of crisis and challenges but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know, President Trump had a telephone call with the president of ukraine in july. The whistleblower reported on it in august. It was released in the last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What did it tell you what struck you . What so extraordinary about this is that we have now in blackandwhite in the president s own words evidence of the fact that when hes conducting business, supposedly on behalf of the United States, with foreign leaders hes actually only conducting his own personal business, in this case is personal political business. In other instances maybe something else, financial or what have you. If you read the transcript of that phone call not once did the president of the United States raise anything that is of National Significance to the United States. Nothing about the sovereignty of ukraine and how its been violated by russi
Practitioner of trade, economics and Foreign Policy altogether and spent many years in the u. S. Primary to is latest and well talk about that as well as Foreign Policy and some trade. Please welcome lambrinidis. Thank you so much for joining us. I come from a bulgaria but lambrinidis its not switch so forgive me for hesitating. I thought you were gonna call it lamborghini laughs you have to work. Lamborghini us for later. Im going to start with you by talking about a very recent announcement that has to do with the u. S. And the eu. The u. S. Is putting seven and a half billion dollars in terror tariffs on the eu. Because of the eu subsidies. Where is all of this headed . Is the trade border now between the u. S. And europe feasible . Its not a great place to be in. They World Trade Organization moved and the official rulings that the European Union was subsidizing airbus and the United States with subsidizing boeing. Both were found to be in the tours. I found out from my american fr
We have one hour together with susan rice. That will include 50 minutes for questions and answers so you have 45 minutes to think of killer questions and i am looking forward to hearing them. You all know ambassador rice. She served as president obamas u. N. Advisor and the National Security advisor. Previously, as the assistant cemetery of state for African Affairs under the bill Clinton Administration you also may know she has a book coming out soon. my story oflove things we are fighting for. It is not out for another week you can get it today and they will be signing copies of it after we are done here. That is at the festival of at 800 congress. They asked me to let you know. Book, because none of you have read it yet, let me give you a preview. It is a book in three parts. It is a book about ambassador rices personal story of family life. It is a book about her experience in government. And that is a book about the Obama Administration and her policies. Her excavations and though
Because somebody there brought up on the internet. That second plane flew into the building for quite will never forget that image because we didnt know what happened with the first. We knew what happened with the second. Recently over summer break i took a trip to israel. All of the preparedness and the evil that lurks around the world to see it up close where it always makes you wonder how can you live like that go how can you be prepared when you know there are always individuals and countries out there just like 1941 and 2001. Imagine living in a countryer where your entire border surrounded by a fence or a wall to keep people out. There is another barrier. Or a dirt berm. Shows how important it is to be prepared and always be strong when it comes to defending this c country for the freedoms that we all enjoy every day. We never thought it could happen in 1841 or 2001 it can happen again because thats the world we live in. As us senator i was the most important thing this body shou