If you please put your phone on silent i would shake that. Appreciate that. I am doing the same thing right now. My name is michael pregent , i would like to welcome you all to todays panel. Also welcome our cspan audience. Today we have a panel called stuck in the middle. Iraq cut between United States and iran. These tensions are leading to discussion as to whether or not iraq could be the battlefield for these two powers in the region will iran being in the region this is likely to take place in iraq we may have some disagreements there. But today we are going to discuss it and we will do this like a sunday morning show format. I will provide a scene center and leave it to our panelist to break it down. We have a great panel today starting first with geneive abdo. She is the former head of research under kofi annan about bridging the gaps between the islamic communities in the west. She is also the reason author of a book on shia sunni relations, sectarianism. Doctor tran 12, the Ro
Thank you, ambassador, for being here and thank you as well for being on the panel. I have yet to good to kuwait, the last time i had been there with 1990 during the gulf war. I got to take a second picture next to the two spirit towers, this time whats that . There you go, liberation towers. It was good to be back, but more importantly to see this Coalition Come together not only in the private sector and having 64 nation theres, but also, like you said, ambassador, seeing the iraqis out front, talking about the country, talking about not only Economic Opportunities in iraq, but also about humanitarian situation. One of the things the first day of the conference was great. The press was able to ask questions of not only Prime Minister abadi but also the kuwaitty Prime Minister and the deputy minister and the foreign mince sterp. The iraq i can press asked some of the toughest question. They warned dont go on a stage with mike pregent, hes going to ask tough questions. The iraq i can p
And authority on the subject with the iraqi ambassador, senior researcher. Im sure well have a great discussion with lots of important insight. On top of hudsons Live Streaming that we always do we have the honor of having cspan2 this event so another reading to the viewers out there. Reconstructing iraq and the good news from iraq is the military defeat of the terrible terrorist organization, isis, by the Iraqi Military with international cooperation. The task ahead is daunting. Iraq needs to rebuild and heal the communities. Challenges remain from funding, stabilization efforts in the even larger resources needed for reconstruction the coming years. Responding was one of the goals of the regions iraqi reconstruction conference in kuwait which secured around 30 billion from private actors. Significantly the gulf countries except in quite to the conference which is interesting testimony with its own troubled history with the iraqi nation back in 1990. Congratulations to the kuwaitis fo
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1964 does not protect members of the lgbtq community. We will speak to the first openly transgender infantry soldier in the u. S. Army about theident trumps words and resistance rolls on. We will look at how disability activist are staging a stork protest in washington and around the world to fight the republican effort to restrict health care from tens of millions of people. [chanting] amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a surprise announcement, President Trump tweeted wewednesday he will than transgender people from serving in the u. S. Military. Trump made the declaration on twitter after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous me