The Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those who are watching as when he spent in her lifestream, i name is william. I laid the Atlantic Council work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you here today to if it cohosted by our strategy and security in our Global Business and economics programs economic sanctions initiative. This if it is on the record. Please tweet if you know so inclined and if so, please use the hashtag shaping sanctions. Today we are here of course to learn more about asthma and its finances. When he is one of the most sophisticated in the middle east. Iran patron has reportedly provided terrorist group we put hundreds of millions of dollars. Annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, undermining weapons political system and its delegate secretary and balance. Challenging the world lebanese as the sole legitimate protector of the security. Providing on demand Ground Forces work irans work in syria. Maintaining a toptier terrorist capabi
Andrew wilder i think well go ahead and get started. Good morning. My name is andrew wilder. Im the Vice President here at usip at the asia center. Im delighted to welcome today to todays are important and timely event. As many of you know, usip was founded 35 years ago by members of congress as an independent nonpartisan National Institute charged with the vital Important Mission of protecting mitigating and resolving violence abroad. Todays topic is very near and dear to usip. Weve had an office in kabul since 2002 and where closely with the afghan and u. S. Governments, civil side organization, and others to address underlying causes of instability and violence. Support to the afghan Peace Process is a top priority for usip. We dedicated considerable effort over the last two years to support research, dialogue, skill building workshops, and policy analysis both here in washington and in afghanistan. Throughout all our efforts with held fast to the conviction that for Peace Process t
Angeles and this is americas late news, fox news at night. Breaking tonight, Scathing Reaction to president brighton speech of the United Nations, not so much what he said, but what he did not saper at the 30 minute speech happen in new yor city overrun by migrants in yet that president spoke about pretty much everything except that my current crisis. Life in dc with the ageist on this. Overrun in in a city that is clearly under siege, but, with migrants coming to the u. S. By the millions, many if not most of them either coming illegally or taking an advantage of weaknesses within the u. S. System. Which is caused a spike in huma trafficking, and a real strain on cities all across the city. Nowhere more than the accelerating Climate Crisis grade you see it everywhere. Recordbreaking heat waves in the United States in china. Wildfires ravaging north american, southern europe. To be fair, the president di implore fellow World Leaders a war which by the way has cost the american Taxpayer
Are up there every day. The Grocery Store workers who are working double shifts just to keep food on the shelves because people are buying so much food because they are nervous. The pharmacists who have lines going out the door and they are showing up every day, day after day. The transportation workers who dont have the luxury of feeling tired because they have to get up and they have to drive the bus so the nurses and the Healthcare Professionals can get to work. And those Healthcare Professionals, who are dealing with the virus that they didnt even understand. They still dont understand. And they are there working, many of them, seven days a week. So yes, were tired. But look at what others among us have to do and the challenge theyre under, and how they are stepping up. And who am i to complain about being tired when so many people are doing such heroic efforts . And i also think this is going to be transformative and formative for society. You think about our children. I have my d
We are checking the economic and medical coasttocoast tonight. Jeff paul covering the bases from our west coast news from peter Rick Leventhal joins us live from the nearempty streets of new york with some potentially encouraging signs. White house correspond kevin corke reporting on the president s take, but we begin tonight with lehman vendors for the latest from capitol hill, hey. Hi, there voting on the hill, the senate voting, the house will vote in a couple of days. The final bill, some 883 pages so in the words of a famous woman, we might have to pass it in order to see whats actually in it or certainly how it works. But here the big 6 for you at home. A payment in the next three weeks for anyone making less than 75,000 a year. That will be a 1200 payment whether youre out of work or not. Plus 350 billion of loan guarantees that essentially turn into grants for Small Businesses to incentivize them to keep paying people, but already conservatives are pointing out bigticket items,