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casts. more now about the 2007 surge of troops in eric with a foe cuss on the planning by the bush administration. okay, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. my name is stef, it is my great pleasure this afternoon to introduce our distinguished panel of speakers. we have ambassador edelman who has served in the department of state and the white house, and u.s. ambassador to finland, turkey, and was vice president dick cheney s deputy assistance. he has a department of defense medal for distinguished public service. from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and a distinguished service award. to my far left we have general lute, he retired in 2017, previously he had a distinguished 25 year career in the u.s. army and he served for a total of sick years in the white house under both presidents, george w. bush, and barack obama. and in 2007 he was named to coordinate the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it was both on the joint staff in washington dc and on the un ....
recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best world affairs council in the united states. i know we have a lot of world affairs council members here. gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. as i ve said, we ve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great public servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say public servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. we respected people who hold these high positions. we re going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. and i think without even leaving the stage, i m going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. as a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. there are going to be questions, discussion, so we re going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and l ....
studies, johns hopkins university, in d.c. ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. he s served as u.s. ambassador to finland and turkey and was vice president dick cheney s principal deputy assistant for national security affairs. ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian service award from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a presidential distinguished service award. then to my far left, we have general doug lute. general lute has served most recently as the united states permanent representative to the north atlantic council, a position in which he retired in 2017. previously general lute had a distinguished 35-year career in the u.s. army. he also served for a total of six years in the white house under both presidents george w. bush and barack obama. and in 2007, president bush ....
let s take a look at what is happening in asia too. those markets were closed. hang seng off by .1 and the shanghai up about a quarter percent. you ll see at this hour, slight gains across the board italy up three major averages up. .1 to .2%. the ten-year is yielding 1.772%. the 30-year at 1.28. we were just talking about all of this. all of those moves made. pretty confusing to figure out what was happening and why i think there are a lot of people looking at a lot of these small events and does it have bigger implications. in this environment where everyone is feeling uncertain. i think these fractures make more people nervous. whether this is a bigger issue, i will know this weighs on investor s sieky i had a 2007, summer of 2007 bnp scare. there was maybe $2 billion that was frozen, sub prime and there was a freak out. at the time, it didn t feel meaningful this is the first time the fed stepped in the only time they did this was in the middle of a crisis. ....
transparent and also discuss whether to work on military applications for a so basically to give every google project and the proper security and scrutiny really i guess in going over them before they before they approve them along the lines of what you discussed is going on in europe yes so at this point you know for the week that it lasted employees seem to be fine with the idea of this board in general until there was an announcement made about the appointment of kay coles james so why was that particular name something that created this huge uprising other than the conservative connection. well to me it s the conservative connection you know the bias against conservatives that we see over and over and over again more than twenty three hundred employees of google signed a petition against her appointment to the panel of keiko s james as you said she s president of the very conservative group the heritage foundation a very fine group i might add in my opinion the peti ....