And he was assistant to president obama and Deputy National security adviser to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama. And now senior Foreign Policy adviser to the biden and great to have tony blimpingen. And jerry is executive editor of the wall street jourm and writes a column which i read and all of us should read. Jerry has had an extraordinary career and for the journal. He covered the white house at the end of the Reagan Administration and Bush Administration and interviewed every american president and part of a team at the wall street journal that won the pull iter prize and book coming out on august 25, we should have seen it coming about the conservative moment and will be coming out. And sure to have jerry tony here. Welcome to both of you. Lets start with the scenario. Joe biden walked out of the white house in january of 2017 as Vice President. Lets say perhaps he walks back into the white house of january 2021 as president. How will the wo
You this faint hope that you just articulated though its may lead to something beyond talks well 1st of all i mean you referred to the situation in. The world of the war is certainly warranted and i think people are tired in syria and beyond and i think this is. A mechanism that allows the syrians to get together and do something about now. Positions have changed and i told you i mean we could have had an agreement a year ago and why its happening now because positions have changed has the positions how the positions changed within syria or is it the stance of foreign partners or foreign sponsors if theyre inside that have said well. As you know the syrian. Conflict has 3 levels was the international theres a regional and of course there is a domestic local. Positions have changed both of the regional. In the sense that at some point there were countries did not. See. Much meaning towards a Constitutional Committee i think that has changed i think they have come around to and that has
Prolong or to shorten the syrian conflict as you pointed out when there was basically talking about europe and were talking your waiter or he was advising them merican president as well but in the middle east its its not just the region its beyond the region and beyond the region there are 2 camps in the region the return camps so that really complicates things enormously so the context has changed in the sense that when it 1st started of course it was an expression of the grievances of the Syrian People became complicated by. I would say Regional International interventions. They were designed to change things in syria its understandable that at the time it was the beginning of the arab spring and everybody thought that this was the tide of history things got more complicated i think people started to wise their positions and understood that the continuation of syrian conflict are a continuation is in no ones interests including the neighbors quite frankly youre a big very diplomatic
Shortening the 2nd world war through his coordination efforts do you think the syrian war would have been shortened a more specifically do you think the coordination among western powers on the syrian front did it ultimately how to prolong or to shorten the syrian conflict as you pointed out when there was basically talking about europe and were talking you later oh he was advising them merican president as well but in the middle east its its not just the region its beyond the region and beyond the region there are 2 camps in the region there were 2 camps so that really complicates things enormously so the context has changed in the sense that when it 1st started of course it was an expression of the grievances of the Syrian People became complicated by. I would say Regional International interventions. They were designed to change things in syria its understandable that at the time it was the beginning of the arab spring and everybody thought that this was the tide of history things g
Biden, and senator Amy Klobuchar all of them suggesting they have no intention of getting out of this race prior to super tuesday. Finally, on the issue of super tuesday, especially when it relates to delegates, the Sanders Campaign is already laying the groundwork that even if they are not able to clinch the precise number of delegates that are needed for them to formally have the nomination, should he be able to get more delegates than the other candidates, it is going to be very difficult to stop him. David the founder and majority owner of our Parent Company bloomberg is in the center and the spotlight last night. Take us into what happens next. South carolina is when . Is there another debate and then when his super tuesday . What we have to look forward to . Kevin in terms of the next 10 days, saturdays nevada caucus. Tuesday is the South Carolina democratic president ial debate. Next saturday will be the South Carolina primary. Hasmber, the Biden Campaign suggested that South Ca