Cup a subcommittee, and begins the discussion. This is about 1. 5 hours. Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to those who join us on our website on all of these occasions and our inhouse tests, would you be so kind to check your mobile devices to see if they are silent or turned off. For those watching online, send questions or comments email speaker heritage. Org. Following the initial presentation, my colleague will lead our panel discussion. He is a foreignpolicy analyst and has worked for heritage since 1979 and offered papers on Foreign Policy issues and testified before congress on a wide variety of middle east issues. Hosting and introducing our special presenter is luke coffey who is director for center of Foreign Policy. He served in the United Kingdom ministry of defense to then secretary of state of defense. First ever nonu. K. National to be appointed by the Prime Minister. Prior to this, he worked in the house of commons as adviser on defense and Secu
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Questions or comments email speaker heritage. Org. Following the initial presentation, my colleague will lead our panel discussion. He is a foreignpolicy analyst and has worked for heritage since 1979 and offered papers on Foreign Policy issues and testified before congress on a wide variety of middle east issues. Hosting and introducing our special presenter is luke coffey who is director for center of Foreign Policy. He served in the United Kingdom ministry of defense to then secretary of state of defense. First ever nonu. K. National to be appointed by the Prime Minister. Prior to this, he worked in the house of commons as adviser on defense and Security Issues for the conservative party and he is a veteran of the United States army, having been stationed in italy and Southern Europe task force command. Please join me in welcoming luke. [applause] thank you and welcome everyone to the Heritage Foundation this afternoon, did to discuss a very important and timely matter about israeli
Important comoonts, and i have taken this on to try to understand as much as i can about judge gorsuch, to understand the dynamics of what his membership of the Supreme Court would mean because i recognize its not just an appointment for this term of congress. This is a lifetime appointment and it is very possible that he, if confirmed, will serve on the Supreme Court for a generation. So his impact on the white house of the Supreme Court is something that is extremely important to each member of the senate. I think many of us are looking for an associate justice who can bring about more consensus on the Supreme Court, who can try to deal with some of the great divisions of our nation in a way representing the values of our constitution that will allow our nation to move forward in a united way. We also recognize that the senate must give an independent evaluation of a Supreme Court justice. This is not because a president of your party nominated someone to the Supreme Court, whether y
Important comoonts, and i have taken this on to try to understand as much as i can about judge gorsuch, to understand the dynamics of what his membership of the Supreme Court would mean because i recognize its not just an appointment for this term of congress. This is a lifetime appointment and it is very possible that he, if confirmed, will serve on the Supreme Court for a generation. So his impact on the white house of the Supreme Court is something that is extremely important to each member of the senate. I think many of us are looking for an associate justice who can bring about more consensus on the Supreme Court, who can try to deal with some of the great divisions of our nation in a way representing the values of our constitution that will allow our nation to move forward in a united way. We also recognize that the senate must give an independent evaluation of a Supreme Court justice. This is not because a president of your party nominated someone to the Supreme Court, whether y