Good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. We welcome those who are joining on our heritage. Org website and as well as those joining us on cspan book tv in the future. We would ask everybody inhouse to make courtesy check that mobile devices are silenced and turned off. Its always appreciated by the speakers. Those online, you are free to send questions simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org. And i know our guest will be glad to autograph for them as well. Hosting our discussion and opening our session today is james karafano. Davis institute for National Foreign policy and also the richardson fellow here. Jim. [applause] dr. Gorka serves as the distinguished chair military theory at the Marine Corps University. This is where full disclosure. That chair is supported by the Marine Foundation which im a trustee. Its a fabulous organization. Check it out. Maybe make a donation. That would be great. Youll understand why they do such great work that they can bring incredibly acc
Originalic sense and any; justice and if i can get a reaction from you first. Well, this is a shocking verdict really. I dont think it has anything to do with justice. It is another step in the campaign of terrorizing people and terrorizing the media. Al jazeera rejects all accusations against our colleagues. The persecution couldnt produce a shred of evidence against them and all things that came into evidence has nothing to do with accusation, our reporters and people there were doing their job and doing it properly, providing the coverage that is needed for events in egypt and has nothing to do with politics. They are professional and know what to do and they were doing exactly what they were supposed to do anywhere in the world. So al jazeera is outraged, very angry and very shocked and its going to continue the struggle to freedom. That is right, as you said the prosecution has not given a shred of evidence. What can al jazeera do next . Al jazeera is going to do what it has been
London. This is the al jazeera news hour. Also coming up in the next 60 minutes. The u. S. Promises intense and sustained support for iraq but the fighting goes on. Finally free, a sudanese woman is released from prison. And im raul pathak, ill have the latest in sports. Brazil 2014, did they end their Disastrous Campaign on a winning note. Is. Hello there thank you for joining us we begin the program in egypt where three al jazeera journalists have bren convicted and jailed for doing their jobs ppts peter greste and Mohamed Fahmy have been sentenced to seven years, Baher Mohamed for ten years. The Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned the courts decision and also International Outcry. The u. N. Human rights chief calling the verdicts a travesty of justice. Well in the last couple of hours the white house called for all three men to be pardoned. Well talk to peter grestes brother andrew for his assessment and more on the International Outcry for the convictions. First mohamed ado has
Condemning the sentence of peter greste and says her government will try to intervene with the Egyptian Government. Other news as the fighting continues in iraq the u. S. Secretary of state has flown in on unannounced visit and we are live there. And the manhunt is over, a south korean script accused of killing five of his comrades has shot himself. In the past hour we have been hearing an egypt Court Sentenced two al jazeera journalists to seven years in prison and another to ten years, greste and fahmy and mohamed have been jailed for about six months already and falsely accused of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood and six other al jazeera Staff Members being tried have received ten years in jail. Mohamed has more. Guilty verdict nearly six months in the making and the alleged crime doing their job as journalists and al jazeera correspondent greste and producers fahmy and mohamed have been 170 days behind bars in egypt and now sentenced to seven years behind bars and bahmy gi
Administration hear the audio that way . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. This is something we have never seen before, even with all the chaos of the Trump Administration, to which some of you may have grown a accustomedy now. The first lady, Melania Trump, calling for a top official on the Security Council to be fired. The spokeswoman issuing a statement declaring, mira ricardel, the National Security adviser, standing behind the president at the white house, saying she should no longer work for the Trump Administration. Quote, it is the position of the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this white house, unquote. She still serves in the white house, according to a senior white house official. This remarkable display of dysfunction comes amidst the more typical trump drama with advisers telling reporters that President Trump is preparing for yet another purge. Officials telling cnn President Trump is eyeing potential replacement for severa