Former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate, and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. The uae, israel, and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first theigned abraham accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. The leaders will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss and half hour. In half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east, although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Alliance structure look longer term . Then dig into the middle east. First, thank you for having me, it is a big day, as soon as we wrap up here, literally, ill ahead to the white house for
Front page, the hash tag for the twitterratti among you. Its our honor to host the 70th secretary of state, mike pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate, and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. The uae, israel, and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first theigned abraham accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. The leaders will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss and half hour. In half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east, although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Alliance structure look longer term . Then dig into the middle east.
Bahrain, signing an agreement between arab countries and israel, the first in a quartercentury. Donald trump will attend and that is really Prime Minister will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss in this halfhour. Their connection to china, lets start with the middle east though you also have comments. My first question looking at the longterm implications for the us and the region of this court. How does this structure look longerterm, into the middle east. Great to be with you. As soon as we wrap up we head to the white house for this historic opportunity for these three nations, that will recognize the reality. We begin with respect to the Trump Administrations approach to the middle east. I have prepared remarks. I will skip them for the sake of a good conversation. It began with the reality for decades, with respect to the middle east, the veto right that said they could prevent any arab nation from engaging with the most important democracy in the middle eas
Welcome, everyone across myriad platforms and around the world and live on cspan2 to Atlantic Council front page 4 the hash tag for the twitterratti among you. Its our honor to host the 70th secretary of state mike pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. Israel and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. And theyll sign with the u. N. And ba bahrainy foreign ministe. We have a lot to discuss in the half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Allian
So its my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editor in chief of the hill the wmata rate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm ornstein of aei. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. Brianna carmen, of vote latino, and jesse wegman of the New York Times editorial board. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprisingly it was ohio, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania. Democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more but the first question would be if we did change the system, norm, would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . As you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. And i was kind of in use when senator cramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Well, guess what. When comes to president ial politics, nort