This as president Bidens Deadline to get out of the deadline quickly approaches. Hello, everyone. Im sandra smith, Monday Morning here in New York. Nice to see you, john. John in washington, d. C. , A Little Bit of a time difference but not much. [laughs] hope you had a good weekend, sandra. Im John Roberts in washington, good to see you. This, after five rockets were fired at the airport over night, when making it through Defense Systems and landing inside the perimeter. U. S. Officials are stressing this is the most dangerous time of the mission, the phased withdrawal of u. S. And couldnt leave the forces still on the ground even more vulnerable to attack. Sandra indeed. Weve got a packed hour. Just ahead, Walid Phares will join us, Morgan Ortagus Coming Up, and Congressman Peter Meijer is here, as well. Fox Team Coverage begins now. Bill hemmer will join us in moments. John but first to the Pentagon And Jennifer griffin to kick us off this monday afternoon. Hey, jennifer. U. S. Troo
cycle during that period. we haven t spoken a great deal about impeachment. i am curious as to the decision to take questions. this was originally scheduled as an address to the nation. now it is turning into a press conference. why? kevin: that is how the president prefers that. you saw a preview of it at the state department yesterday with secretary pompeo. the president and administration officials and private conversations, and what i would predict to be increasingly public conversations over the next day or so, are going to push back on the notion that the strike against soleimani was not the right course of action. this is someone that even democrats have noted is someone who is a bad actor. the democrats are saying they disagree with how the administration conducted it. the president has suggested that new evidence is going to be released that will illustrate why he ultimately made that decision, and we could get a foreshadowing of that in just a few minutes as we awai
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brookings. david was appointed assistant secretary of state by donald trump. he previously served in the air force for 35 years, beginning as a linguist in 1980, retiring as a brigadier general. he was the advisor to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and served as the defensive attache in beijing. he recently served as the director of the china strategic focus group in hawaii from 2017 to 2019, where he was an abject s adjunct senior fellow. david, thank you for your service to our country and the important work you are doing now. as you can see from his background, he has been at the forefront of managing policy questions that shape the future of these relationships and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy to china and is preoccupied with keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole, where we have a huge number of relationships, partners, allies, and interests that go beyond simply the question of china. assistant secretary stillwell an
john: good morning, and welcome to the brookings institution. my name is john allen. i am the president of bookings and i m pleased this morning to welcome our honored guest the 19 chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and my friend, general joe dunford. general dunford has been chair of the joint chiefs of staff since 2015 and prior to that, served as our commandant of the marine corps. generalnded all forces in afghanistan before that. dunford and i have known each other for many years since we , were captains, in fact. and i can say with complete certainty and sincerity that he is one of the finest marines to have been minted in the modern era of the marine corps. in 1996, lieutenant colonel dunford would take command of the second battalion sixth marines from me at camp lejeune in north carolina. and years later in kabul we would repeat that ceremony as he took command of the war effort in afghanistan. his storied career spans more than four decades of brilliant service t