President has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way indorse the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came up with a joint statement we are deeply concerned by the Turkish Military operation in syria we call upon turkey to see is the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address truckies underlying security concerns im told behind the scenes there be no discussions about those words with germany and france wanting to take a tougher line with turkey than the u. K. Statements from the German Government and from the french government has said that they condemn what is going on the Turkish Operation in the
You can find more information in your program guide. Now, heres gordon chang. Good afternoon. If i could have your attention. We are going to get started. Im susanna sheltie president of defense Form Foundation is my great honor to welcome you to our congressional defense and Foreign Policy form. Please enjoy your lunch and help yourself to anything you might need during the program. I know you all are very busy so im especially appreciative of you taking the time to be here for this very timely program. For those of attending the form for the first time, the forms began in 1980s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan collegial atmosphere and as we promised, we have an expert speaker to address a critical topic. And very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media here so i would ask during the question answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of their limited time co
A look at this because people have been collecting black rainwater and posting their pictures on twitter out of shock now some even said that the water had a smoky smell so it just gives you an idea of what theyre seeing in sao paolo but prayed for on dunya is also another hash tag thats been changing our own don years a state it was originally home to over 200000 square kilometers of rain forest but now its one of the most deforested places in the amazon and this was filmed there showing how far the amazon wildfires have reached in the video has been viewed more than 15000000 times and people online have mostly criticized the lack of International Media coverage asking why now when the wildfires have been burning for almost 3 weeks so far some including the World Wide Fund charity to comparisons on twitter to the global attention thats been given to the not saddam inferno in france of course that happened earlier this year asking why there isnt the same level of outrage for whats happ
Unwillingness to find an agreement with china . Shawn it is another sign things are falling apart. We had all of branches coming out of the g20 in osaka. One was limited resumption of business with huawei and on the chinese side it would be a resumption of agricultural purchases. In the past week weve seen both of those taken away. That is not a good sign. As the president says, we have these talks in september schedule, but Big Questions over whether they will go ahead. Inin as that is happening september, a lot of pressure on democrats to get usmca to a vote on the floor. Does the president believe the usmca getting ratified gives him a leg up in terms of being able to go harder against china . Shawn the big question for the president is where is the economy, and where is the economy going on trade. Signs in the Second Quarter this years trade policies were a drag on growth. The administration is keen to get usmca through to get a positive message on the economy. The Business Communi
We will have about 15 minutes for q a. We have any representatives in the room . Think them. [applause] at the pleasure of introducing our moderator. Not only an attorney with the Jackson Law Firm but recently retired as general in the air national guard. Thank you for your service. [applause] welcome everyone to this final panel of the afternoon. We want to extend a special welcome for those who may be watching this on cspan. Im not sure how i ended up being the moderator here. The owner of the bookstore for whom ive purchased many books on world war ii, suggests i might be an appropriate moderator. I was born april 24, 1944 during world war ii. I was born six weeks before dday. My father was serving overseas in the Army National guard, sorry, the u. S. Army. World war ii has always had a profound influence upon my family and my childhood and my entire life. In a moment i will introduce all three of the distinguished authors who constitute our panel this afternoon. I would like to rec