Jeffrey a special representative of the u. S. For syria engagement can any of americas policies in that country deliver a successful outcome. James jeffrey welcome thank you the sake of context here we go back to december last year the announcement by President Trump. He had won basically over isis in syria and little u. S. Troops would be coming home from syria was costly and misleading. It was misunderstood by everybody it was misunderstood president made it clear at the time to us and to other leaders that he wasnt losing the bubble as we say on the fight against isis which he recognized could. Constitute itself nor was he. Losing interest and he said at the time that the United States would maintain its air cover over there not be. U. S. Special operations personnel he made this point very clear publicly and. The president his secretary of defense are you going to meet with. Joe. Deploying special forces troops into northeast syria to go after isis if they started showing signs of
Standoff stands. A busy market rally with stocks jumping on the president s comments saying china wants to get back to the table on trade. Well see where we go. From here, we go to blake burman, with the latest on all the back and forth at the white house. Hi, blake . Reporter we heard from President Trump for a while, he feels china wants to make a deal. They need to make a deal very badly. He reiterated that earlier today. The market swung earlier today when the president said that china called over the weekend and said they wanted to get back to the negotiating table. Heres the issue with that. When chinas foreign minister was asked about these calls that were made. They disputed the notion there were any sort of calls being made. When, at least over the weekend. When the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin was asked about it earlier today, sitting alongside the president he jumped in said there had been quote communication through intermediaries. President trump was asked about that a
Weapons, but she never uses them, that russia, of course, has a nuclear thesis about the weakness of the russian leadership, unable to make such a decision, it has been appearing too often lately, its very good that we are at the expert level on political level, the president , in his address to the federal assembly, in my opinion, for the First Time Since about march 22, so clearly raised the question that this is our instrument for protecting national interests, and we. Will use it when it is necessary and finally , one more question will be required, well, regarding the plot with the crimean bridge, it seems to me that in such a fevered brain of western military political leaders it seems to them that some such radical event on the front line could create conditions or push for the beginning of negotiations, and apparently an attack on the crimean bridge in this sense seems attractive to them, well. Again, from a rational point of view, everything is quite complicated, i generally r
Welcome, everyone to the Woodrow Wilson center. We are congressionally chartered scholars, ship driven and fiercely nonpartisan. And we are also happy to welcome all of you here today. And cspan, which is also filming this for their book talk. So thank you all at wilson. We are proud of our scholarship we use it to power our discussion of the critical challenges facing today. Rob litvack snow book focuses on one of the most immediate challenges triple or instability and Nuclear Competition among United States, russia and china. Best of for all of you and for people who are participating online. I want you to know this book is available as an ebook for free from the and you can find it online on our website. So for this discussion i am very to be sharing the stage with the best of the best. Rob litvack is the Wilson Center Senior Vice President and director of interNational Security. His Strategic Vision has really shaped the Wilson Center itself in his deep knowledge and critical think
Welcome, everyone to the Woodrow Wilson center. We are congressionally chartered scholars, ship driven and fiercely nonpartisan. And we are also happy to welcome all of you here today. And cspan, which is also filming this for their book talk. So thank you all at wilson. We are proud of our scholarship we use it to power our discussion of the critical challenges facing today. Rob litvack snow book focuses on one of the most immediate challenges triple or instability and Nuclear Competition among United States, russia and china. Best of for all of you and for people who are participating online. I want you to know this book is available as an ebook for free from the and you can find it online on our website. So for this discussion i am very to be sharing the stage with the best of the best. Rob litvack is the Wilson Center Senior Vice President and director of interNational Security. His Strategic Vision has really shaped the Wilson Center itself in his deep knowledge and critical think