Welcome everyone. We are live on cspan tv and im asking you to turn off your cell phone. Taking your questions, i am mark steiner and its great to have you here, lets introduce the panel. Sitting to my immediate right is a man that we all know, martin goldsmith. We will be talking about it today. Next to him Eric Lichtblau is Sarah Wildman. She has one the Pulitzer Prize many of the places and sitting next to her a Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and investigative journalist for his work on covering the nsa. And we have glenn kurtz who wrote the book three minutes in poland. We will have each of the authors present two minutes to outline their then we will have a discussion and bring eric and to talk about the nazis next door and then we will talk about that question. So lets start with three minutes in poland. First of all, its an honor to be here with the panel. Thank you. Very much the highlights of this story, in 2009 you can see visuals for you. This was taken by my grandparents. T
See this restriction lifted. I think i can remind you hopes not a strategy and were hopeful that you all hopeful that you all will take the concern that is being expressed today about al import back to your smaller groups as you discuss opportunities going forward. Weve long been concerned about the extension of credit for ag transactions and trade. Hopefully i think tomorrow were going to try and take a move in the right direction. I think you guys have highlighted the number one thing that we think we can deal with, which is 908. I personally support lifting the embargo entirely. However, that may be a bridge too far for this congress. So weve got to take these baby steps. With that, i have a couple specific questions for you, under secretary. To date, the federal checkoff dollars have not been used with promotion for trade with cuba. Loose reasoning, i think almost an assumption, is that this is due to the language of tsra which precludes the use of any United States assistance incl
Humanitarian basis, but could you talk about the effect it could have if we were to actually lift the embargo . It will have i believe a tremendous impact on our ability to sell products and greatly increase the amount of products that were currently selling to cuba. Again right now you are looking at about 300 million worth. Again, the study by texas a m and American Farm bureau believe that formalized relations and lifting of the trade restrictions, that number could be in excess of 1 million. Illion. Billion. What this would also mean to the cuban people with the ability to purchase agricultural inputs, fertilizer seed, chemicals, and equipment, i think it would give them also the ability to have agricultural businesses produce more of what their actual demands are in the country. And create revenue throughout to the countryside and help the cuban people especially that live in the rural areas. I think it is a win for both of us, in my opinion. Mr. Under secretary, some have argued
This being as secretive. It is very hard for us to give good advice to refugees or Asylum Seekers about the best way to manage this travel. Thats why and then ill stop, we focused on the need for states to introduce structures. Transparent, predictable structures that address the needs of Asylum Seekers and to give them legal alternatives through creative and flexible visa arrangements settlement programs, humanitarian admission programs in order to be able or safe points of departure in order to be able to address their protection needs. Megan, external reconciliation . Thank you for a really interesting question. You know it is certainly true that historically reconciliation process, transitional processes are nationally bound, so havent taken into account the regional cross border dynamics of refugee flows and the ways in which refugees can be as we say in Political Science spoilers in the context of peace processes, which is to say if their needs are not met they can potentially un
Visa arrangements settlement programs, humanitarian admission programs in order to be able or safe points of departure in order to be able to address their protection needs. Megan, external reconciliation . Thank you for a really interesting question. You know it is certainly true that historically reconciliation process, transitional processes are nationally bound, so havent taken into account the regional cross border dynamics of refugee flows and the ways in which refugees can be as we say in Political Science spoilers in the context of peace processes, which is to say if their needs are not met they can potentially undercut those processes and jeopardize their success. That said there have been interesting developments on this front. One of the report coauthors has done Extensive Research on reconciliation and dialogue processes in the arab spring countries which in some cases have had an International Dimension to them. In libya in that case particularly there have been individual