Good morning, my name is nancy limborg. I am the president and ceo here at the u. S. Institute of peace im delighted to welcome you here for a very important conversation to prevent violence in a fragile world. Our speakers here today i want to extend a special welcome to mark green we are honored to have them here today and a very warm welcome to secretary Madeleine Albright whos been a fierce champion of ours for years and many thanks to the National Endowment for democracy who made todays event possible with their generous support and our good friends and partners in the george w. Bush institute. Its wonderful to have them cohost the event with us today. Usip was founded thirtyfive years ago by congress nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to the notion that peace is very practical and very possible. We firmly believe todays complex Foreign Policy challenges require the best thinking and partnership across the aisle. Last Year Congress asked usip host a bipartisan congressionall
Political, and economic strategic point. You saw this in parliament we can half ago, where most of the kurdish members of the parliament in the sunni members of the parliament boycotted the wasion, and while the vote 1700, i heard behind the scenes on my social media feed, a lot of allegations of Death Threats against family members if they thenot vote against continuation of Coalition Forces in the country. There will be a big fight over the course of the next six months to a year over whether or not this direction by the parliament is legitimate, whether a caretaker Prime Minister can accomplish that with the need of a new election and unfortunately, somewhat forgotten and all of this is the real pressure from the iraqi street and the hundreds of thousands of young iraqis that have been demonstrating, particularly in the south of the country and in baghdad for government reforms, reduction of corruption and a reduction of foreign influence, but iranian influence because that is more
To call this what it is. This is terrorism. Whether its a synagogue in pittsburgh, the home of an orthodox rabbi, we all need to stand up and say it is wrong to attack people based on their faith. Face. We are in a crisis right now, a crisis of antisemitism not only in this region, but this whole country. A lot of people think its necessary to hate instead of just disagree. I think all Public Officials can try to do a better job of setting an example. Sandra jacqui heinrichs live in new york with more and what we are learning this morning. Good morning. We are hearing from the rabbi who survived the attack at his home and despite his sudden being among the injured, he is saying that he is grateful the casualties could have been much worse and in front of the synagogue this morning are armed guards after what happened here. There is a hanukkah celebration, hacking five people with a machete in the synagogue next door. 1 person is still in Critical Condition. 1 person chase them outside
The Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome, good to have you on this our investment can, jim lebenthar at Gilman Hill Asset management we begin with market, stocks suffering the biggest one quest lies ahead when it is time to take some profits as the calendar turned and continued to ride the momentum, and we do, joe, have a lot of momentum. Youre not going to fault anybody for taking chips off the table given the run weve been on no, and consensus very optimistic which is unique to the environment we were in one year prior listen for someone very tactical it makes sense to believe that you will get a correction sometime in the next couple of months, this validity in the assertion and you can tactually trade around that. Defining the playbook for 2020, what particular sectors are going to carry you where you want to be for the end of the year and if you reflect on 2019, scott, been all about technology you take the s p year to date. The s p tech return, up 31 . Do you know technology
Washington post columnist David Ignatius hosted a conversation with two experts on iran. They discussed irans political future and impact on the greater middle east. This is an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, while my fellow panelists are getting wired up, let me begin our discussion of iran upheaval and repression. Im David Ignatius. Im a columnist for the washington post. Have visited iran several times as a journalist and have a longstanding interest as a commentator and analyst in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran the best in this country. Ill move from my left. Maziar bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21st, 2009, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. Youll know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like, and if you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart ca