You can watch for her in the near future on booktv on cspan2. Good evening and welcome back. This evening were delighted to have as our guest congressman abler swail well who is eric swawell. Congress mall swail well we are delighted have them with us here this evening am couple of thing opposite housekeeping. I if you have questions and we hope you do theres a little box on the screen that says ask a question. Type your question in there wellle go through those as we move through the event and of course, you can put comments into the chat room. Please use your best manners, and were very glad youre all here four supporting rakestraw books. Eric swalwell. Thank you, michael. Thank you so. You are such a great supporter of independent authors, all around the bay area, and eric i know that michael will do a great job getting the word out about your book. I guess i want to start off asking you a little bit about your reasons for writing end game inside the impeachment of donald trump. The
Studies, Johns Hopkins university, in d. C. Ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. Hes served as u. S. Ambassador to finland and turkey and was Vice President dick cheneys Principal Deputy assistant for National Security affairs. Ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian Service Award from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a president ial distinguished Service Award. Then to my far left, we have general doug lute. General lute has served most recently as the United States permanent representative to the north atlantic council, a position in which he retired in 2017. Previously general lute had a distinguished 35year career in the u. S. Army. He also served for a total of six years in the white house under both president s george w. Bush and barack obama. And in 2007, president bush named him dep
Positions at department of state. He served as u. S. Ambassador to england. And was price he has received several awards. Distinguished civilian service from the chairman of the joint chiefs of chat. To my farleft we have general douglas e. Lute, hes the permanent representative of nato, a position he retired in 2017, previously he had a distinguished 35 year in the u. S. Army. He served for six years in the white house under both president s george w. Bush and obama, in 2007 president bush named him Deputy National security adviser. Then we have professor brett h. Mcgurk, hes at Stanford University before moving to stanford he served as a the Global Coalition to defeat isis. He helped to build and lead and natural coordination. Previously mcgurk served in senior positions in bush and obama administrations,. He is left several diplomatic he led talks with russia over the syria conflict. And finally the panel of discussion will be moderated by this professor, he is Henry Kissinger disti
As a standard. On the button 15 march at all and as you move into this issue political. Leaders. Call. It liable as soon as at the signing and it is. Its going to be illegitimate now on the 5th of march and its signed. So they were looking at turkish president at a time early one shaking hands with Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and its on foreign minister. The details to come out there. Adding some detail to the agreement that i believe a humanitarian corridors to be settled they would like to repair a tree h. All syrians who have been displaced by the fighting and it lives and of course the main thing to come out of those talks is that a cease fire will take effect and if the province as of midnight now both sides emphasizing the importance of communication between turkey and russia particularly in terms of battlefront developments and theyre emphasizing his condolences to turkey for his losses on the battlefield. All of the sides talking about their desire to go back to the
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements extraneous material and questions for the record subject to length limitation in the rules. We will begin, mr. Secretary. Thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran, iraq and the use of force. No one doubts that case and solomon was a dangerous terrorist but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes american safer and advances our interest. Weeks later we seen attacks, injured more than 100 servicemembers, then then need to move thousands personal back to the region and remnant of our relationship with iraq and the setback in the fight against isis.