I am a fan of this director and worked on the transition. Mr. Director, welcome. Its great to see you again. It all worked out. Thank you. The director is a soldier, lawyer, entrepreneur, congressman and is doing great work at the cia. I think what we want to do today with those joining in the audience and why extremist talk about the issues not just in the newspaper but some of the newspapers for the director of the cia and the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the media and you have to not only deal with the facts of how we are thinking about the National Security five, ten, 15 or 20 years now so we need to talk about some of those issues. There is a sense of dislocation in the world and that power itself is a shifting including the role of nonstate actors. Theres lots going on in the world so lets get into it. Mr. Director, the president gave his speech on october 13 reshaping u. S. Policy on iran to. Is iran in violation or what is the animating principle behind the
The director is a soldier, lawyer, entrepreneur, congressman, it is doing great work at the cia and is doing great work with the cia. I think what we want today is talk about not just the issues of today that are in the newspaper, but some of the trends and issues you have to deal with as the director of the cia in the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the immediate, and you obviously have to not only deal with that but deal with how we are thinking about our National Security five, 10, 15, 20 years out, so i want to make sure we talk about some of those issues. Theres no question there is a sense of dislocation in the world, a sense the map is shifting in some ways, that power itself is shifting, including with the role of nonstate actors. Major issues before north korea, with major policy shift the fall of the putative capital of isis, Chinas Communist Party event happening as we speak. Lets get into it. Mr. Director, First Talking about iran, the president gave his sp
Conduct counteris missions. According to es per, a u. S. Brokered cease fire seems to be holding, however soldier and Democratic Forces have been killed in the past 24 hours and both sides are accusing the other of violating the agreement. The syrian kurds have until tuesday to aban dan a large piece of land in a buffer zone. Speaking today, mike pompeo depended the agreement. This was about getting a cease fire, a secure area and that a this in fact will save lives in that very space. That was our mission set. We accomplished it. And now we need to make sure that the xhicommitments made in statement were honored. Earlier this month, the president announced the pullout of troops in the area then days later, turkey launched a military offensive to force kurds out of the area. Nic, youre seeing about 500 troops on the move right now . As we understand it, yes, nearly 500 troops on the move inside that convoy. The exact numbers though, how many will remain, how many are going out, not ent