[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes reinhardt program on counterterrorism and intelligence and im very, very please to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, Russell Travers. Todays conversation is part of the institutes ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office at nctc as acting director in august, but its not his first, second or third time in the building. He felt many other leadership positions within nctc including Deputy Director counsel to the director, acting director to the office of datacomm strategy and innovation, chief data officer, among others picky suppositions at the office of the director of national intelligence, the Defense Intelligence agency, the nationals could counsel, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff so were really very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of
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The 2015 nuclear deal and campaigning begins in the u. K. As parliament is dissolved ahead of snap elections the current determine the exits feature. The impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up a gear televised public hearings are set to starts next week one of the 1st to appear is set to be bill taylor americas top diplomat in ukraine a newly released a closed door testimony taylor says it was a his clear understanding that the president had withheld military aid to ukraine as because he wanted to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son who was working there the testimony matches other witnesses including the United States ambassador to the e. U. I think you will see throughout the course of the testimony not only their testimony but many others the. Most important facts are largely not contested we are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole dep
Officer for the United States discussed the importance of Artificial Intelligence and its potential for the future. Its my distinct pleasure at this time to introduce senator ernst from iowa. If you would please join me in welcoming the senator to make some remarks. Oh, good afternoon, everyone. Hows the day dgoing for you . Good, good. Im joni ernst, and im the junior senator for the great state of iowa. Sri the great honor of serving my constituents in an area, of course, that i think many of us are very concerned about, and thats exactly why youre here today. Thank you katerina very much for the warm introduction. It is a privilege to help kick start this commission. I look forward to keeping up with all the great work you will be doing. It is truly incredible that such a Promising Technology like a. I. Can touch so many sectors of our society from government to academia and many other areas in between. And as a member of the Senate Armed Services committee, i viewed much of the dev
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