Brandon i would love to be able to answer that question, but im a Law Enforcement agent. We dont deal with the cost aspect of it. What i can tell you about what i am an expert on is Border Security and how we can secure our border. I mean, those are absolutely good questions and questions that need to be addressed. Im just not the one to address them. Host you are the president of the Border Patrol council. When did you get elected . Brandon i was just elected again for another term yesterday. But i have been the president for the national Border Patrol council for the last seven years. Host you balance that with, you are a working agent as well . When you are finished this weekend, after meeting with president trump, it is back to work next week . Brandon i am, yes. I spent a good deal of my time representing our agents and in uniform patrolling the border. Host we will hear from mel in salt lake city, utah. Democrats line. Mel. Caller yeah, thanks for cspan. Right off the bat, i know
Good evening, welcome. My name is matt abbott. Im director of development and diplomatic programs here in the Chicago Council of global affairs. Welcome to our program, today is on the record and we are live streaming. Please silence your phones though we do welcome social media engagement. Music by individuals are their own and do not represent views of the council. Before this Evenings Program begins we will here flash talk. The doctor is president of the people analytics. His work focussed on demystifying peoples behaviors and conflicts such as iran. He hails from Syracuse Maxwell school and ph. D. Of maryland. Following flash talk, ill introduce our candidates. Unfortunately, the director is unable to join us tonight. Please join me in welcoming the doctor. Hello. Hello. I appreciate the chance to be here. Hello to chicago. Its my first time here. Thanks for the welcome. [ applause ] thank you. My name is amir farmanesh. Im presenting on global affairs. It will be iranian Public Op
President of people analytics. His work focuses on demistying peoples behaviors and opinions in complex societies and difficult contexts, such as iran. He holds degrees from Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School and a phd in policy studies from the university of Maryland College park. Following the flash talk, well begin our panel discussion, and ill introduce our panelists at that time. Unfortunately, Professor John st stimple, the former chief of the Tehran Embassy section, is unable to join us tonight. Please join me in welcoming the doctor. [ applause ] hello, hello. I appreciate the chance to be here. Hello to chicago. Its my first time here. Thanks for the welcome. [ applause ] oh, thank you. I am presenting to you a survey that has been jointly done between iran poll and Chicago Council on global affairs. Iranian Public Opinion four decades after the hostage crisis. Yeah, so iran poll. Independent company focusing on opinion polling, only on iran but from toronto, canada. Hello to
Cavoli, the Deputy Director at the Atlantic Councils center for strategy and security. And Lieutenant General commander of land command. And our panel will be led and moderated by patrick tucker, defense ones Technology Editor. Thank you all. [ applause ] thank you all so much for joining us today. Im Technology Editor at defense one. Im pleased to have this Exceptional Panel here to discuss the future of the United States army in the european theater and ive been covering different aspects of Army Activity in europe for quite some time and its a question, and ill go to you, and i wonder if you can talk to me a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the militarytomilitary relationship with turkey. How is that right now and how quickly is that changing . I maintain strong relations with my counterparts in turkey on within the parameters of u. S. Policy at any given time. We spend time going back and forth and visiting each other. We exchange United States. We had th
d stories from the past 7 days and right up to the minute developments this is the weekly on r. T. International a little. We begin in the u. S. Where the impeachment inquiry into. A 2nd whistleblower is reportedly considering filing a complaint over the president s dealings with ukraine. Official is said to have more direct information than the person who 1st raised the alarm meanwhile democrats spearheading the probe protections for the informants involved thats a far cry however from 2 other whistleblowers in recent years has been reports. We are now told that in this dark age of tyranny one heroic individual has spoken up like a voice crying out in the wilderness we dont know his name or his occupation but we know that he is good i think the whistleblower did the right thing i think he followed the law every step of the way the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found this whistleblower complaint both credible and urgent i want to say thank you also to the whistleblowe