Otherwise known as a National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and the audience watching on livestream from the hudson web site but also a special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today and we are to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone who could participatete in this discussio. As i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we have done here at hudson particularly given the fact that we are less thanan a week away from the election. So many of these issues we are going to be talking about today the question of what americas going to do and where americas going to go from here those issues are going to be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand the guide to what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our
To the pandemic and last but not least nationwide protesters have taken to the streets in major cities with lock down measures due to the pandemic there rallying cries demanding governors to reopen their states alright its time to boost their news i. Q. The trumpet ministration is ramping up its rhetoric rhetoric against china claiming a lab in rouhani may be responsible for the world wide spread of the corona virus meantime a new report claims china intentionally hid the severity of this virus Rachel Blevins is joining us from the news room with more of this rachel what more can you tell us well manella the trumpet administration is now doubling down on the claim of the Novel Coronavirus originated from a lab in ruhani china during a sunday talk show interviews secretary of state mike pompei o said he is confident the u. S. Intelligence community will come to the same conclusion remember the streets of the world may have a history of running substandard laboratories these are the 1st
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Coronavirus outbreak. This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material, and questions to the record subject to the length, limitation, in the rules. Well begin, mr. Secretary, thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago, we invited you to testify about american policy toward iran, iraq, and the use of force. No one doubts that Qasem Soleimani was a dangerous terrorist, but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes americans safer and advances our interests. Weeks later weve seen attacks that have injured more than 100 Service Members, the need to move thousands more personnel back to the region, and derailment of our relationship with iraq and a setback in the fight against isis and iran, again, pushing headlong toward a Nuclear Weapon. You promised the American People that they would be safer and iran would be deterred. So by
Signaling an ease in tensions, at least for now, following the u. S. Strike last week that killed irans top military commander, Qassem Soleimani. Retired fourstar general jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst. Good to see you again, general. Good to see you, paul. Paul you have said that the events of the last week add up to a strategic victory for the u. S. How so . Yeah, very significantly. I think its a big win for the president because by killing soleimani, i mean, he clearly got in khameneis head here, whos the stream leader of Supreme Leader of iran. Theyve never had an action against them of that magnitude and that significance that so impacts how they are cutting their foreign conducting their Foreign Policy and their foreign wars and also how they do with their own people. Soleimani was very much in charge of putting down the protest movements inside of iran. So what the president accomplished and many of his detractors had no appreciation for what was really takin