Show so how confident are you about trumps pick as the czar for a coronavirus v. P. Pence is he competent enough to it to manage this well potentially could be a National Emergency well i do think the Vice President 1st of all thank you for having me and i do think the Vice President is competent enough. To get out of the way and he will allow experts to take the forefront were now is you know the president is indicating that he wants all information to funnel through the Vice President and so in a western democracy thats very dangerous a clear eyed Capital Allocators whatever my partisan leanings or or my opinion of the president i dont bring that to bear in making analytical judgments here you know were running 11000000000. 00 watching his press conference a few days ago my 1st reaction was we had to get in a way more defensive position because. If you have the government whether its an autocracy earth democracy lying about the extent of something thats health and Human Services rela
It were up to them now planning to take the government to court all of them all coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st lets go straight to the patient that Corporate Media is most concerned about when it comes to coronavirus wall street joining me now is the former White House Communications director and the founder of sky Bridge Capital anthonys car mucci the thanks so much for coming back on the show so how confident are you about trumps pick as the czar for coronavirus v. P. Pence is he competent enough to it to manage this well potentially could be a National Emergency well i do think the Vice President 1st of all thank you for having me on i do think the Vice President is competent enough. To get out of the way and he will allow experts to take the forefront were now the president has indicated that he wants all information to funnel through the Vice President and so in a western democracy thats very dangerous a clear eyed Capital Allocators would ever. My partisan leanin
We speak to a Home Office Minister who dealt with windrush scandal permanent secretary so if it were up im now planning to take the government to court all of them all coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st lets go straight to the patient that Corporate Media is most concerned about when it comes to coronavirus wall street joining me now is the former White House Communications director and the founder of sky Bridge Capital anthonys car mucci as he thanks so much for coming back on the show so how confident are you about trumps pick as the czar for coronavirus v. P. Pence is he competent enough to it to manage this well potentially could be a National Emergency well i do think the Vice President 1st of all thank you for having me and i do think the Vice President is competent enough. To get out of the way and he will allow experts to take the forefront were under best of now the president is indicating that he wants all information to funnel through the Vice President and so o
Thank you very much for coming. We are very pleased to have paul with us here this evening and was reported from the Los Angeles Times and writing about Foreign Policy with the pentagon and the state department and other important assignment along assignments it with that paper four years ago. As one of those journalistic pros on National Security affairs. To have that knowledge of National Security. And then ryan crocker. Of how senior skills state Department Officers and those intelligence communities like iraq and syria and pakistan olivia one libya to combat terrorism. Have declineo testify. We will be in conversation here with someone else who knows the way around atheir way around thn and state department but as an insider. He spent 29 years in the navy specializing in Public Affairs and rose to become the navys top spokesman and chief spokesman for the department of defense. After retiring from the military in 2015 with the rank of rear admiral, he shifted to the state departmen
In washington over several decades he wrote about National Security and foreignpolicy on both the pentagon and state department and he held other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose in this cityy on the National Security affairs and in his new book he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out for in particular, ryan crocker, and patterson and Chris Stevens. How significant officers these days folks work with our military and intelligence communities in such countries of afghanistan, iraq, serious, pakistan and libya to combat terrorism and manage the challenging situations. At a time when the u. S. Diplomatic corps is being downsized and disparaged, pauls book is a reminder of the vital contributions made by some of the state departments finest, the risks they sometimes had to take