Nato, former Russian Foreign minister and journalist sat down for the discussion at the council last month. Good morning. Thank you all for coming. We have a Wonderful Program for you this morning. I should mention, this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. We began with a session on dem og graph ee, this is on politics. Next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by session in april on Energy Segment in russia. We have a treat here. Wonderful alliance of speakers. I will not describe them expect to say shes a top notch journalist from moscow, has written a provocative, fascinating paper on russia politically. And ill turn it over. I want to extend gratitude for inviting me and asked me to write a paper. And thank you for coming for this event. Weave witnessing whats now in history, mussolini and franco spain and portugal. Theres not conspiracy in the story i am outlining. When Vladimir Putin has become the president , he brought with him a
Virginia governor tim can the cutting nomination for Vice President last night in philadelphia. Bc tweet of tim the kansasisingl delegation. Here is what our live coverage for this fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention Looks like good starting at 3 00 eastern with a preview of tonights events and a look around at what is happening leading up to the main event, Hillary Clinton excepting the democratic nomination for president , followed by the balloon drop. The theme for tonights speeches will be womens issues, including Workplace Fairness and pay. Coverage starting at three clock this afternoon. Thathill points out Hillary Clinton will be following last nights dream team lineup. The except into speech is a right of passage for anyone seeking the white house and theeli broadcaster tweeting night when the first u. S. Black president called america to vote for the first u. S. Female president. President s speech last night. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welco
E director of the institute. I am delighted to host todays event, to welcome all of you to this very special gathering. I am hearing i see that the audio is a little bit low. We can raise the volume for the back. Let me try that again. Is that better . All right. Let me just first begin by asking everyone if you could please turn your cell phones to mute. Todays event is being live streamed out. Since our last major event with guests from curtis dan kurdistan was our most highly watched live streamed event in history, we expect this event to break that record. [laughter] perhaps there is a president ial directive in kurdistan. We are here today because the topic of the future of kurdistan is at the top of the global agenda. It is one of the key issues that is swirling around the entire set of issues triggered by recent events in iraq. Of course, the issues regarding the Kurdish People are not new. They have been a subtext to politics in the middle east for many years. Americas connecti
The name is kind of stupid, it is a trade and investment pact, trade and investment partnership. We can really merge into this sort of transatlantic giant large single economic space where we can do a great deal of business with each other. Are who knows, but the white house says that they could create air t million createthin the trait 13 million jobs within the trading zone for economic activity. What we were learning about this summer is that there is still a long way to go in putting together this trade packet. There are a lot of concerns in europe about companies coming in with our privacy standards. When you look at the history of germany with not seas, with half the country being occupied or whatever you want to call it with communists in east germany, there are a lot of concerns about invasive Government Police , corporations, those kinds of things prying into your private life. They have very different feelings about privacy. They dont want people snooping into their lives. A
I think this is a wonderful opportunity for the gentleman sitting next to me, it is kind of a big deal. For anyone who pays attention to American Foreign policy and military affairs. Ever since the attacks on this country in 911, the United States has had to evolve to meet the challenge of this new enemy and more than anyone that i can think of, general mccrystal has beenab ab responsible for shapi that and adopting our primary method of defending the country, thank you for being here mr. Mccrystal. Thank you for a too kind introduction, i always thought of you as a nonfiction writer, but youre going into fiction now. You were the commander in our special operations in iraq and afghanistan, there has been a rapid evolution, im familiar from writing black hawk down from the way things were in the 90s. Can you give us an idea of the overall strategy thats involved, well get to specifics maybe, but also the tactics that youve developed. Not me, a group of people did, thanks. At the end of