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this is gps, the global public square. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program, after seven days, the truce between israel and hamas is over and the war is back on. i ll ask a former idf officer whether israel s tactics will change in this phase. will it be more precise, more careful about civilian casualties as the united states has asked? and then i will talk to a man who knows the casualties well. a british palestinian surgeon who has worked in gaza hospitals during the war. finally, the death of america s most famous 20th century statesman, henry kissinger. i will talk to his biographer niall ferguson how he changed the world for better and for worse. but first, here is my take. henry kissinger, who died this week at 100 years old, may have been the most famous foreign policy practitioner in modern american history. but he practiced for just eight of the hundred yea ....
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program, after seven days, the truce between israel and hamas is over and the war is back on. i ll ask a former idf officer whether israel s tactics will change in this phase. will it be more precise, more careful about civilian casualties as the united states has asked? then i will talk to a man who knows those casualties well. a british palestinian surgeon who has worked in gaza s hospitals during the war. finally, the death of america s most famous 20th century statesman hen ry kissinger. i will talk to his biographer, neil ferguson how kissinger changed the world for better or for worse. but first, here s my take. henry kissinger, who died this week at 100 years old, may have been the most famous foreign policy practitioner in modern american history, but he practiced foreign policy for just eight those hundred years. he left office as secretary of state nearly ha ....
ukraine had a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermak would say burr mace in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a draft statement, and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i d observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem that he s getting a bad set of information, statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed that it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything new. so, in fact, mr. jewel yagiu wanted it to state burisma and one specifically for president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, let s put that up on the screen. you said hi, andre. good talk ....
this brings me to the topic of today s proceedings. i would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. i testified about all of this at length in my deposition. in july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the state department s military financing or fmf and dod s usai fund. in meetings i heard the president directed the office of management and budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. at a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by national council security leadership as in all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was wear, the national security community expressed unanimous support for resuming funding in the u.s. national security interests. at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion how ukrainian anti-corrup ....