Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. We begin tonight with syria, where the Extremist Militant Group isis has increased its control in parts of that country and in neighboring iraq. The Syrian Government continues to battle the militants, who have taken control of three military bases in recent weeks. Late this week, the government sent in reinforcements to maintain control of the tabqa air base in eastern syria, the governments last stronghold in the region. After isis released a video on tuesday showing the beheading of american journalist james foley, the Obama Administration announced that it is reconsidering i
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. We begin tonight with syria, where the Extremist Militant Group isis has increased its control in parts of that country and in neighboring iraq. The Syrian Government continues to battle the militants, who have taken control of three military bases in recent weeks. Late this week, the government sent in reinforcements to maintain control of the tabqa air base in eastern syria, the governments last stronghold in the region. After isis released a video on tuesday showing the beheading of american journalist james foley, the Obama Administration announced that it is reconsidering i
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven sestanovich is here. He served as ambassadoratlarge to the former soviet union during the clinton administration, and he has held senior roles on the Security Council and the state department. He is currently the professor of International Diplomacy at columbia and a senior fellow on the council of foreign relations. His new book explores the personalities and littleknown stories of Foreign Policy. It is called maximalist america in the world from truman to obama. I am pleased to have Steve Sestanovich back at the table. Great to have you back in the studio. Ukraine. Yeah. Russia. Where are we . It seems were looking at a rolling dismemberment of ukraine. And i think it may turn out to be too strong a statement. I hope so. Right now, the way the russians seem to be handling this is to challenge the authority of the Ukrainian Government and to warn that if they try to assert its authority in the eastern provinces where the
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Steven sestanovich is here. He served as ambassadoratlarge to the former soviet union during the clinton administration, and he has held senior roles on the Security Council and the state department. He is currently the professor of International Diplomacy at columbia and a senior fellow on the council of foreign relations. His new book explores the personalities and littleknown stories of Foreign Policy. It is called maximalist america in the world from truman to obama. I am pleased to have Steve Sestanovich back at the table. Great to have you back in the studio. Ukraine. Yeah. Russia. Where are we . It seems were looking at a rolling dismemberment of ukraine. And i think it may turn out to be too strong a statement. I hope so. Right now, the way the russians seem to be handling this is to challenge the authority of the Ukrainian Government and to warn that if they try to assert its authority in the eastern provinces where the
And if so, do you believe that that can happen this year before the midterm elections . If congress doesnt take action this year, what impact could that have on the 2016 president ial election . Our phone lines are open. Democrats can call at 2025853880. Republicans, 2025853881. Independents, 2025853882. We have a special line this morning set up for Illegal Immigrants if you want to call in to the washington journal today. That number, 2025853883, as we discuss this issue this morning. You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. On twitter, facebook, or email journal cspan. Org. I want to start with a story from the Associated Press yesterday on the president s speech and what happened in washington on Immigration Reform. The headline, immigrant activists turn up heat on democrats. The story from abc news and the ssociated press. They demand at that president obama order a halt to most deportations of People Living in the u. S. Illegally. Obama, meanwhile, t