All around washington but nonetheless reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking, experience and approach. In thinking about these kinds of conflicts with a lot of broad strategic expertise and also a lot of Field Research and handsonexpertise. This struggle is at the new American Engagement Initiative at the Selikoff Center at the Atlantic Council. He has a longstanding scholar, many will know him from his years at the Cato Institute and his most recent book is hes, war and liberty. He is also a former navy officer and is in many ways one of the great skeptics and contrary invoices in American Foreign policy and strategy thinking today who has prolonged time and were pleased to have them with us se in this event read chuck and logan Catholic University is at that center for study and statesmanship, used to be cato as well and is recently written an important article in defense priorities call the case for withdrawing from the middle east and is an advocate of minimizing us m
welcome. interest wonderful to see everyone back. it is wonderful to see everyone back. my number is name is john allen. i want to welcome the ambassador from sweden and finland. they are here to discuss finland and sweden s path to nato membership and the implications of their two countries as they joined the alliance. russia s unprovoked attack on ukraine had an enormous effect on the european security architecture and around the world. to include prompting of the countries of finland and sweden to reassess their long-held defense doctrine and pose alignment. just last wednesday, finland and sweden officially applied for a nato membership. it came after weeks of internal debate, as it should be in their countries. it was a big risk debates. after significant public opinion following russia s invasion of ukraine, today finland and sweden demonstrate the popular support and parliamentary support of the decision by seeking to join the alliance. this decision has received s
it is wonderful to see everyone back. my number is name is john allen. i want to welcome the ambassador from sweden and finland. they are here to discuss finland and sweden s path to nato membership and the implications of their two countries as they joined the alliance. russia s unprovoked attack on ukraine had an enormous effect on the european security architecture and around the world. to include prompting of the countries of finland and sweden to reassess their long-held defense doctrine and pose alignment. just last wednesday, finland and sweden officially applied for a nato membership. it came after weeks of internal debate, as it should be in their countries. it was a big risk debates. after significant public opinion following russia s invasion of ukraine, today finland and sweden demonstrate the popular support and parliamentary support of the decision by seeking to join the alliance. this decision has received some outspoken report support from our nato count
Republican huddled on capital hill taking the first step to electing a new speaker. They are under pressure to act quickly in order to provide aid to israel. The speaker battle on capitol hill and your thoughts on what is happening in the middle east. For democrats 202 7488000, for republicans 202 7488001 and for independents 202 7488002 you can also text at 202 7488003 or on facebook facebook. Com cspan. Good morning everyone and welcome to our new home at the washington journal. We are in a brandnew studio, in the same building on a different floor. It has been a year in the making. We have new monitors, new backgrounds, new desks, new lighting. One thing that will not change as the conversation we have with each of you every morning. If you want a more indepth tour of this new studio you can go online and take a tour along with us to check it all out. For the first hour, we have a double headline with the speaker battle on capitol hill and how the u. S. Is responding to the israel h
Good morning, everyone. My name is hanna. Im a Research Fellow and honored to be here today at the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the institute. For a a really entertaining discussion, a debate i hope were going to have about whether or not the u. S. Should arm ukraine. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine. I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a poll to e see just how many of you think you have made up your minds about your own answer to this question. How many of you think you have already decided. How many of you have not yet decided and are open to being swayed. Gentlemen, you have a very tall order at hand. For those watching online, on cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter. And maybe wondering why are we covering this topic now. Its been three years really since we started having this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have that discussion a couple years ago. But things have changed. We have a new pre