Leadership with the Atlantic Council. He compared and contrasted the current president s approach to Foreign Policy to that of what joe biden would do in the white house. This is about 45 minutes. We are live from samsung studios in washington, d. C. Thank you for getting up early in his joining us on the west coast of california. Today we are going to focus on the priorities in the Biden Administration. Last night joe biden accepted the nomination for the Democratic Partys nomination for presidency of the United States. I can think of no better guess than Jake Sullivan to join us today, the day after the convention concludes to talk about major priorities of the next four years of a potential Biden Administration. Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vi
The Commonwealth Club online program, i am gloria, president and ceo of the common club, i was honored to serve as a Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. There are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military, should the military be used with domestic unrest such as the recent protest, should the u. S. Be terminating many of her arm controlled treaties and contemplating resuming the clear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and theres got to be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gaetz and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gaetz served under george w. Bush and barack obama, he is the author of a new book, exercise of power, american failures, successes and a new path forward in the postcold war world. Doctor gaetz was an o
Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president presents a campaign trail last time and this time with the biden campaign. He began his career with Amy Klobuchar and we are really divided to have them here for conversation. What is it going to look like in january 2021 when the new president takes potentially the next president comes into office with an extraordinary set of challenges and circumstances, a pandemic, and economic crisis, social justice and Antiracist Movement here, the challenging of American Values and interests abroad. This is aga
In his joining us on the west coast of california. Today we are going to focus on the priorities in the Biden Administration. Last night joe biden accepted the nomination for the Democratic Partys nomination for presidency of the United States. I can think of no better guess guest than Jake Sullivan to join us today, the day after the convention concludes to talk about major priorities of the next four years of a potential Biden Administration. Jake, let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president s a campaign trail last time and this time with the bid
Im really pleased to be here this afternoon with brian hook and elliott abrams, both from the state department, to talk about two of the most pressing issues that the United States is facing today, iran and venezuela, and the next is the relationship with the evolving relationship between the two countries. Elliott abrams is a special representative for venezuela at the department of state and brian hook is a special representative for iran and a Senior Policy Adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo. He previously served as the director of policy planning in this administration at the state department. So, ive known both Brian Elliott for quite some time, and its always a pleasure to see both of you. I would like to start. I think author start with elliott to tell us a little bit about the evolution of the administrations policy, visavis venezuela, as i recall, elliott, i think it has been about a year and a half since you have been special representative. Why dont you tell us a litt