Coming out. Thank you also to cspan for covering this in our cspan viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their
Viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their qualifications, but i want you to know that they are not only the t
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i
That is true for the speakers as well and the audience. So i will not use any time to repeat what the speakers would need for introduction, but they come from three important perspectives on the debate. This is obviously a law and policy conference. I think that we will discuss a little bit more law than we have discussed in other panels, and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad theme for the panel which is true for a lot of the immigration stuff since trump took over is some important issues having been sort of shuttled between and among three branchs of the government. In one way of the wall leaning from one branch of the government, and each branch of the government is putting the can in the other persons lap, and hoping that the can will stop there somewhere. Many of the cans have not stopped. So this is the chance to see where the cans are and where they will finally land. So i will begin talking to the panelists in more of a conversation topic, and so we can get into t
Debate. And this is obviously a law and policy conference. I think well discuss a little more law than we have discussed in other panels and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad team we picked for this panel, which i think we have detected has been true tore a lot of immigration stuff, since at least this president took over, is that some very important issues have been sort of getting shuttled among three branches of the government. These are you could say these are every each branch of the government is sort of hitting, putting the can in the other persons lap and hoping the can will stop there somewhere. Many of these cans havent stopped. This is our chance to see where the cans are and where they will finally land. So ill begin this by asking questions of our panelists more in a conversational style so we could get to many topics, than sort of one issue only for a long time. So let me start with cecil lia because she represents the aclu which many people regard has been