Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
As we learn new information about a phone call that inspired a whistleblower complaint from the Intelligence Community. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts leads us off with the latest. We dont know specifics about the complaint to the Intelligence Communitys inspector general, only that it involves a possible quid pro quo between the president and the ukrainian president. According to the wall street journal which shares ownership with the fox news channel, President Trump in a july phone call urged ukraines president five times to look into joe bidens son hunter. President trump did not deny it. Did you discuss joe biden . It doesnt matter what i discussed. He talked about millions of dollars hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. Reporter President Trump dismissed a wis whistleblowers complaint about an alleged promise President Trump made to a foreign leader during a phone call. Moments later the president acknowledged he did
Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
About a phone call that inspired a whistleblower complaint from the Intelligence Community. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts leads us off with the latest. We dont know specifics about the complaint to the Intelligence Communitys inspector general, only that it involves a possible quid pro quo between the president and the ukrainian president. According to the wall street journal which shares ownership with the fox news channel, President Trump in a july phone call urged ukraines president five times to look into joe bidens son hunter. President trump did not deny it. Did you discuss joe biden . It doesnt matter what i discussed. He talked about millions of dollars hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. Reporter President Trump dismissed a wis whistleblowers complaint about an alleged promise President Trump made to a foreign leader during a phone call. Moments later the president acknowledged he didnt know who the whistleblowe
About a phone call that inspired a whistleblower complaint from the Intelligence Community. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts leads us off with the latest. We dont know specifics about the complaint to the Intelligence Communitys inspector general, only that it involves a possible quid pro quo between the president and the ukrainian president. According to the wall street journal which shares ownership with the fox news channel, President Trump in a july phone call urged ukraines president five times to look into joe bidens son hunter. President trump did not deny it. Did you discuss joe biden . It doesnt matter what i discussed. He talked about millions of dollars hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. Reporter President Trump dismissed a wis whistleblowers complaint about an alleged promise President Trump made to a foreign leader during a phone call. Moments later the president acknowledged he didnt know who the whistleblowe