Being unraveled by a new class war. Good evening and welcome to the policy center. I am john walters chief operating officer and id like to welcome our audience here at the pennsylvania headquarters avenue and or cspan audience to the firstever podcast taping that is both live and marks the premiere of the second reason of the realignment posted by hudson media. We are proud of the realignment that the launch last year and i recommend especially for those of you that havent been following it to take a look at the episode from last year particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, mike gallagher, mike durand and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people that put it together and their ability to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be more proud of the work theyve done and we want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with michael lind to as many of you know is a prolific writer of more tha
Good evening and welcome to the policy center. I am john walters chief operating officer and id like to welcome our audience here at the pennsylvania headquarters avenue and or cspan audience to the firstever podcast taping that is both live and marks the premiere of the second reason of the realignment posted by hudson media. We are proud of the realignment that the launch last year and i recommend especially for those of you that havent been following it to take a look at the episode from last year particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, mike gallagher, mike durand and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people that put it together and their ability to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be more proud of the work theyve done and we want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with michael lind to as many of you know is a prolific writer of more than a dozen books and cofounder of the
Proud of the realignment of the podcast last year especially for those who have not been following that that you take a look at the episodes of last year those conversations with secretary of state mike pompeo and Mike Gallagher and others with an Excellent Program with their ability to bring out topics and to move the argument along we went to thank them for that we are happy to launch this Years Program as many of you know is a prolific writer with a dozenf books and cofounder of the new American Foundation toy encourage from Walter Russell mead a professor at the university of texas and important for tonights conversation the author of the new class war faith in democracy from the managerial elite was just published today so we are just here at the launch congratulations. A direct line between the new class war and that which best exemplified the next American Revolution and whether you agree witham this interpretation of politics since world war ii to demonstrate thatst serious eff
Some have moderated a little. We trade at 68 59. Gold went above 1600 an ounce. We come off the high a ten year yield did get to a 170 breaking a trend line that weve been in since september but now down to two basis points on a 180 handle on that. Looking at dollar yen though that comes off a little bit. Unchanged there on that currency pay. European equities in the red but a reasonably muted move also what were seeing in u. S. Future. One point we saw it drop as much as 1. 7 but we recouped ome of those losses. This morning we begin with the retaliation from iran against the u. S. For the killing of its top general. The nation firing a series of missiles at Iraqi Air Bases Housing u. S. Troops. The escalation coming hours after President Trump says the u. S. Was totally prepared for an attack. Irans foreign minister saying tehrans is retaliation. It adds it isnt looking for war but will defend itself. Also this morning shortly after takeoff a boeing 737 bound for ukraine crashing in
Good judgment, im the Christopher Preble the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here art cato. Thank you for being here today. And welcome also those to watching online at cato. Org and i think time delay hello to those watching on cspan. Id like to extend fecial spasms to our outstanding conference staff here who do a terrific job organizing our events. Im joined on the stage today by my colleagues john glacier, and trevor thrall and were here with heath, director to thank you molds of policy change at new america. John, trevor and i are the coraw authorize offered this book, fuel to the fire. How trump made americas broken Foreign Policy even worse and how we can proffer. Copies are available for here sale at cato and your Favorite Book sellers. Im going to tell you about the book, even though you can probably guess at a lot of it from the subtitlele. It includes a discussion tot a spoiler, includes a discussion of trumps critique of u. S. Foreign policy , it inclu