Alanna feldman who joined us this morning, its my pleasure to introduce and welcome before us today ambassador william taylor, junior. Ambassador, within the world of foreignpolicy and National Security, is very well known and his reputation long preceded him. Ive had the pleasure of working and knowing ambassador taylor, my friend bill for a good 30 years. And one of the benefits of a very difficult situation that our country faces a few months ago and this bill taylor faced, given his subpoena and testimony, led to the fact that the nation at large got to see a magnificent servant. And thats why we are bringing him here today. Because he has served the country superbly across his career. He graduated from west point, he was the Cadet Company commander. He served in vietnam, he stayed an extra six months. Served in vietnam for 18 months when he could have left after 12. He served in a Rifle Company and then commanded, served in a rifle platoon and then commanded a company. He received
And the u. S. Is out with secretary pompeo showing they had intelligence showing there was going to be an imminent attack that justified this strike at an iraqi air base where Kassem Soleimani was believed to be coordinating the actions of the iranian officials in the country. David the ayatollah has said there would be serious repercussions for the United States. What is the United States doing to try to protect us against possible attack . Bill u. S. Has ordered americans in iraq to leave. It is bolstering security at key facilities. There are a lot of new potential targets for iran to strike out in the middle east. Dozens of military and civilian targets, as well as more soft targets, places like shopping malls and other soft targets in countries and the region. There is a lot for the u. S. State department and the department of Homeland Security to do in the u. S. Analysts are looking for a possible early reaction or response from iran to come on a cyber channel. Korea andith north
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Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Vladimir putin holds forth at his annual press conference, declaring claims of collusion campaign andrump russia are fabricated. The days of net neutrality, when all websites were treated the same, are over. And the most expensive embassy ever built by the u. S. A sneak peek inside the billiondollar american diplomatic compound in london. Laura welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. It is december, and the holidays are almost upon us. So it is time for Vladimir Putins annual end of the year news conference, the rare chance for reporters to ask the russian leader a question. Todays marathon saw him pressed on everything from olympic doping to the 2018 election bid, and the molar investigation on the Mueller Invest
So thank you all for sticking around for our panel and im sure it comes as no surprise that we would be discussing north korea today given the increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the north korean policy review. That President Trump has just completed. sover north korea watchers, when he 17 has been an interesting year. The President Trump decided to review policy for north korea shortly after his inauguration and he came back with a policy that emphasizes maximum pressure and engagement but there has been signals on what exactly the United States let me looking for from north korea before entering into negotiations. South korea also has a new president. He has expressed an interest in talking to the North Koreans but again, under what conditions still remains somewhat an openended question and of course in north korea weve seen a number of Ballistic Missile tests already in 2017 including some new systems. And all of this is leading up to the summit that trump and moon j in