And welcome to cross talk were all things are considered on purely about continuity or change this is whats being asked when considering a potential buy Foreign Policy trump made it a point to undo obamas legacy when biden do the same to trump like this or is this all only rhetorical continuity drives Foreign Policy not the occupant in the oval office. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest peter who is making those that hes professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies institute at American University as well as coauthor with all over stone the untold history of the United States in kingston we have it like petro he is a professor of Political Science at the university of rhode island and we have william b. Use of former that nickel director at the n. S. A. Originally crossed up rules and i think that means in jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it ok nick let me go to you 1st year and theres an awful lot of speculation of what i have potential biden Forei
Trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a great group. We are going to start with a conversation among us, then move to some audience questions, which you can enter in the q a box on your screen, and we will also have a couple of polling questions we will weave in throughout so we can get a sense of what the audience thinks about some of the topics. Lets start with Homeland
To discuss them with a great group with us, jeh johon is the former secretary of Homeland Security answers as general counsel of the department of defense among other positions. He also represes new jersey in th seven state council the coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nation secondhighest intelligence post and sheerved in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in a variety of senior positions. Carrie corderode is the robert gates senior fellow at cns and organizations general counsel. When she was in, she served at the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence. Its a great group. We i have got to discuss today. Well start our conversation among us and then moved to some audience questions which, can enter in the q a box on your screen and we will also have a few questions as we done in our past couple sessions that we will we then throughout so we can get
Possibly also from syria. And its, i find it quite odd that we keep hearing from the liberal media that trump may resort to a coup to stay in power. Well, looks to me that the pentagon, the National Security state, is committing a coup against trump in the last months of his residency by not obeying direct orders from the commander in chief, this is serious business. Go ahead, george. It is straight. Is serious because he is the commander in chief and he has a right to duty to implement his policy. And what were getting is that the pentagon is explicitly just ignoring the instructions from the commander in chief. So we get in afghanistan, in which the United States has actually signed an agreement with it, committing itself to withdrawing by early next year. And the pentagon decide whether or not that im not going to implement this policy. Theyre going to condition it on what the military regards as the situation on the ground. Even though theres nothing in the agreement with the talib
Their own safe spaces if you will. Although i think thats not really fair because conservatives actually prefer to engage with the left. They prefer to have these conversations. They want to be a part of the national dialogue. Its a left that doesnt want them to be heard. It doesnt want them to influence people doesnt want their crimes being out there in the public, you know, back to the children and whatnot. So they may exclude them from mit, the mainstream narrative to be stream of conversation, which is of course, controlled by multinational multibillion Dollar Tech Companies who are somehow able to get away with it. So i think theres a difference. And in this age based culture, were going to write a lot of course, the whole idea of safe spaces is something that started on the college campuses. And its still something that sort of, you know, we talk about these kind of hyper sensitive, authoritarian lefties. You know, were really talking about maybe 50 percent of the population nax