Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this great event, a conversation with robert obrien, the assistant to the president on National Security affairs, otherwise known as National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who were able to join us, and the audience watching live stream from the hudson website. But also a very special welcome , to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been able to participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decide
But also a very special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been ablo participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. And so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien was born in los angeles and graduated from the university of california berkeley with a law
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Im nick spicer welcome to the program the u. S. Government has unveiled new sanctions against Iranian Industries and senior regime officials the announcement came from secretary of state mike pale and treasury secretary steven minucci they describe the sanctions as a response to irans missile attack against u. S. Troops in iraq last week or so it followed the u. S. Assassination of a Senior Iranian general just mentioned sanctions targets 8 senior officials of the Islamic Republic who the u. S. Says were involved in the attack on u. S. Troops. And lets get the you from the United States now from d. W. Correspondent pavel foley in washington a pavlo there are already lots of american sanctions against iran whats new this time. You said that there are many sanctions already in place on iran from the United States and this new and fresh friends of sanctions focuses on several Key Industries in areas of the economy the iranian economy financial construction manufacturing textile and mining
Officials say they are targeting iranian industry and 8 senior individuals the excuse of being involved in an Iranian Missile strike against american troops in iraq last week. And next by sir welcome to the program iran has announced that its military unintentionally shot down a ukrainian airplane killing all 176 people on board tehran says it was a case of human error western countries based on the evidence including this mobile phone footage had been saying they thought an Iranian Missile brought the plane down after initial denials irans military now says the people responsible will be court marshaled. Meanwhile irans foreign minister javadoc reef tweeted a sad day preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by armed forces human error at time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster are profound regrets apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all the victims and to the other affected nations and to dig deeper we are joined now by journalist or is