Podcast the russia file. Let me just remind everybody throughout the conversation we were ready gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email at wilson center. Org buyer twitter and facebook pages and please include your name and affiliation just as if you are attending an event at the center which i hope we can do again soon and be more likely to call on you if youre not an anonymous aspect. I am joined today by the ark under doctor fiona who is the center of the United States of europe and the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and as everyone knows wears recently a Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for European National Security Council that was 2017 to 19 in 2006 2009 she served as the National Officer at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of the very well received in the kremlin 2015 update of previously published books, i also want to note, i want to know this is a very useful with everybody thinking about russia
Is just over an hour and a half. I see that we have a quorum present. I really want to thank everybody for joining us, its an important issue that i now recognize myself for opening remarks. Pursuant to the notice, were holding a hearing to discuss the american lives on the line come lessons for managing the russia threat. Two weeks ago startling revelations that russia put bounties on american troops serving in afghanistan. This week in the Foreign Affairs committee weve been examining this egregious attack on americans and the Top Administration failure to handle it probably. Its important for the public to know this. Ive personally been involved in four earrings. This week alone that ive with this issue and that doesnt include the actions of other committees working on their own. I just want to underscore to people listening that they should know that we in concert taking over some of this matter very seriously. The one thing if we do nothing else, the most basic and fundamental dut
I want to invite you to give a listen to our ken and podcasts and art art news podcast, the russian file. Let me just remind everybody that throughout the conversation and we forgot quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, via twitter and facebook pages and please do include your name and affiliation just as if youre attending a live event of the Wilson Center which hope we can do against it. Id be more likely to call on you for not an anonymous blurt out. Im join today i dr. Fiona hill was a senior fellow and center for the next its a joke in the Foreign Policy program of the Brookings Institution and, of course, is that one will knows served as Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs on National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006nine she also served as National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of of the very well received and widely read book mr. Put
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