We want to flag everyone. We are more than 300 people registered. We will do our best to get in as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure before joining the council. The special assistant to the president in north africa in the gulf region. Responsible for relations. In the organization for security. In europe. Having written numerous books on u. S. Foreign policy. They recognize the release of the newest book. They hail it as the examination of u. S. Regime change efforts. For everyone interested in americas foreign policy. Let me vote for all of the members on todays call. You will have the opportunity to receive a copy of as well as two other csr books published this month. Let me welcome phil gordon. We have a great group. Let me say congratulations on the plication of the book. Why ts book at this time. This is aistory of u. S. Regime change. In tryg to learn from our hiory less we rept it. Half of the people on this call have been thinking about regime change around
Rrupting. I would offer another threesome to characterizeyour remarks. Cont, comprehensive and compelling. This is i think the best 25 minute characterization of where we are at and where we must go. Next the Washington Post talking with congressman ilhan omar about the 20 20 election and progressive legislative goals for the congress. Live here on cspan2. The real America First agenda is one that puts people first. Did morning, im an opinion writer for the washinon post and welcome to Washington Post lies. It is also a live recording of my host opini podcast take up. My guess today was just reelected to her second term in the us house representatives. She is on was woman ilhan omar ominnesotas fifth congressional district. Thanks for coming on the podcast. Ts so great to be here with y jonathan. Sold last we talked itas yesterday, i asked you for ur reaction to being able to say the words pridentelect biden and your response to me was really interesting. You said and correct m i also
Conversation on race in america. Barack obama was asked about this in a 60 minutes interview yesterday. We will show you that, come back, get your thoughts on it. Here he is. Is that we have a criminal Justice System in which ,e ask often times very young often times not very well to go intoicers communities and just keep a lid on things. And we dont try to get at some of the underlying causes for chronic poverty. So if we are going to actually solve this problem, there are some specific things we can do to make sure that our contracts with Police Officers to completely insulate them when they do something wrong, putting money into budgets for training. More Police Officers effectively q. Week teaching Police Officers not to escalate, but to deescalate. But it is important for us not to let ourselves off the hook and think this is just a Police Problem because those shootings, that devaluation of life is part and parcel with a legacy of discrimination and jim crow and segregation that
Good afternoon. President elect biden and i just met with some of our nations business and union leaders. Together they represent millions of workers across our country. And some of americas leading technology, auto and retail companies. We had an important conversation about the impact that this pandemic has had on workers. Especially essential workers, frontline workers, who have risked their own health and the health of their families and many whom have given their own lives to keep us safe and keep our economy running. And we all know that this pandemic and this recession have hit communities of color particularly hard. Black americans and latinos are threetimes as likely to contract covid as others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. And last month, the Unemployment Rate for black americans was almost twice the rate of others. And we have also had a conversation about the impact this pandemic has had on our econ
Joining us cat zakrzewski the Washington Post john hendel of politico and ilhan omar of axios. Mr. Dalewood would start with you what you think is going to be one of the major issues that the incoming byte Administration May face . Guest one thing that the byte Administration Early on is going to have to figure out what to do is they are inheriting a google transit from the doj and there is speculation about how politically motivated it may have been but never asked about the text of this thing. Its fairly narrow in fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google so they have to decide okay almost certainly they will continue to litigate this but do we want to expand this, do we want to try and look at some as state attorneys general who are also investigating google. It has the support of a group of bayji is that there are republicans and democrats looking at the stuff to sell how expansive do we want to go on antitrust . Host do you think