Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
Right. Thank you so much, bill. And dont miss the onehour champions for change special saturday at 9 00 a. M. S3 60 starts now good evening. And what a day and welcome to a week of testimony from perhaps the most consequential in controversial prosecution witness in the former president s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, a onetime fixer attorney, and according to his memoir, Designated Thug for the former president hes now a convicted felon and self admitted per juror, but despite that resume, he took the stand today as the single individual who can show the jury believe him, do what no other witnesses can testify to multiple direct conversations with the former president about then candidates not alleged knowledge and even authorization of every critical step of the alleged good morning crime that forms the basis of 34 Felony Charges against him, plus, cohen can testify to the prosecutions allegation that the socalled catch and kill scheme was a political move designed to win an elect
The end. You dont have to put a roof on it, you dont have to put signing on it. You can do whatever you want with it. But its just encouraging to see somebody take their anxiety and turned it into action . Yes. To make a site and actually all of us absolutely lee and 5 more. I mean, thats nothing when you think about it. All right. Thank you so much, bill. And dont miss the onehour champions for Change Special Saturday at nine ac30 60 starts now good evening and what a de and welcome to a week of testimony from perhaps the most consequential and controversial prosecutor and witnesses the former president s hush money trial. Michael cohen a onetime fixer attorney, and according to his memoir, Designated Thug for the former president. Hes now a convicted felon and self admitted per juror. But despite that resume, he took the stand today as the single individual who can show the jury believed him do what no other witnesses can testify to multiple directly conversations with the former pre
Prosecution witness former president s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, a onetime fixer attorney. And according to his memoir, Designated Thug for the former president. Hes now a convicted felon and self admitted per juror. But despite that resume, he took the stand today as the single individual who can show the jury believe him, do what no other witness can testify to multiple direct combat frustrations with the former president about then candidates not allege knowledge and even authorization of every critical step of the alleged hush money crime that forms the basis of 34 Felony Charges against him, plus cohen can testify to the prosecutions allegation that the socalled catch and kill scheme was a political move designed to win an election cohen today quoted trump telling me want to Stormy Daniels allegation under wraps until after the election, quote, if i win and has no relevance, i will be president and if i lose, i dont even care. Prosecutor use tax call logs and emails whereve
Point out we still need prosecutors to connect donald trump to the actual actions that are taking place here. Donald trump did not say set up this llc. Its important to remember that Michael Cohens testimony has to be supported at some point to where did donald trump instruct you to do this specifically. Its time for us to hand it over. Thank you all for being with us. We appreciate all of you. Thats going to do it for us this hour. Andrea mitchell and katy tur will pick things up after a quick break. Ill see you back at 1 00 eastern time. Keep it here. Lots going on. Good day, everyone. The star witness takes the stand. Now the critical figure in the hush money case. Michael cohen, once Donald Trumps loyal attack dog, is now facetoface with his former boss for the first time in months. Cohen is the lynch pin of the prosecutions case. They argue cohen acted at trumps direction in an attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election. The defenses counter, once a liar, always a liar. Pain