Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining me today, two days in a row. And thanks to secretary esper, attorney general barr and ambassador or National Security advisor obrien for being with me on this important occasion as many of you know. I have an important affection for our service men and women. Im a veteran myself, and heres a scenario that i think about a lot. Imagine american soldiers, sailors airmen, marine, or Intelligence Officers on leave family, maybe on a beach in europe. And over the course of two decades or more this soldier defended america. Then suddenly that vacation turns into a nightmare. The European Countries National Police takes the soldier into custody, detaining him or her on politically motivated charges, a prison sentence abroad is a distinct possibility. A spouse behind bars for defending freedom, a son or daughter robbed of their mom or dad, all on the initiative of a prosecutor in the netherlands. Making sure this does not happen is the essence of am
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining me today, two days in a row. And thanks to secretary esper, attorney general barr and ambassador or National Security obrien for being with me on this important occasion as many of you know. I have an important affection for our service men and women. Im a veteran myself, and heres a scenario that i think about a lot. Imagine american soldiers, airmen, marine, or Intelligence Officers on leave because of with his or her family, maybe on a beach in europe. And over the course of two decades or more this soldier defended america. Then suddenly that vacation turns into a nightmare. The european countrys National Police takes that soldier into custody detaining him or her on politically motivated charges, a prison sentence abroad is a distinct possibility. A spouse behind bars for defending freedom. A son or daughter robbed of their mom or dad all on the initiative of some prosecutor in the netherlands. Making sure this doesnt happen is the ess
Noticed, but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. Outset, i wanted to say a couple words about the election in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and then turned over turn it over to our Panel Speakers to offer insight. First, i think that the election says more about taiwan then it says about anything else. That only highlight because i think we all are immediately moving to what it means for china. For all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things the rest of the free world values. It has conducted its seventh residential election president ial election. It is getting to be such a normal thing that it barely even merits congratulations anymore. We have an election every four years, every two years. The world does not congratulate us on having made this achievement. It has become commonplace in taiwan. It has become commonplace because they value th
And were at a vigil for a black man whos been on death row in the u. S. For killing a white woman more than 20 years ago. A ceasefire in gaza between israel and the armed Group Islamic jihad has broken down less than 24 hours after it began just a few hours ago Israeli Forces bombed you must targets in response to rocket Fire Fighting between the 2 sides began on tuesday after Israeli Forces assassinated a Senior Leader of the Islamic Jihad in gaza 34 palestinians have been killed since then are a force that has more now from gaza when the early hours of friday morning another round of airstrikes from israel targeting it said Islamic Jihad sites in the gaza strip were hearing they were largely empty training grounds and the like but some of them were close to residential areas so some damage done. 2 people injured after what had been a day in which it was proved it was already a tenuous cease fire. The single deadliest moment in 48 hours of fighting an israeli airstrike destroyed this
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