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Here today. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for the Dallas Morning News for hosting this event. If you were up earlier today, questions of diversity in the newsroom, diversity on the panel, it is not always easy to embrace all kind of diversity in any given event, but i want to celebrate this event having done such a remarkable job of embracing ideological diversity. Eventterrific to be at an cosponsored by the george bush library, the george w. Bush president ial center. I want to put you out of your suspense. Can democracy survive . Yes. [laughter] the question were all wondering...

Participation today. We have a Wonderful Group from Georgetown University medical center, medstar, as well as from the university at large. So we are really delighted to have the opportunity to welcome each and every one of you and particularly pleased to welcome dr. Patrick conway. I thought before professor introducing dr. Conway i wanted to publicly thank the generosity of the mcculley family who has underwritten the schools to offer this kind of extraordinary gift of leaders and health care to address your university and schools community. Some of our past lectures mike from human services...

We will take you live to the Brookings Institution to hear who willgal advisor talk about Critical Issues of International Law leading International Law relating to cyber security. Live coverage getting underway here on cspan. Good morning. Moreis going to be edifying and a more settled event here at brookings in comparison to the one we had yesterday. I see a couple of heads nodding around here. We were honored by having the president of turkey here and not so honored by having some very vigorous protests outside massachusetts avenue. Today we are going to step back more angry and fear driven...

I think that in and of itself is problematic. I think in 20122013 the position of our country, our administration, and our defense department, as well as our allies was to remove assad and i think it is still our position to remove assad. I think it is clear the position of the russians is to keep him in power. My concern is creating a voice in the region and i dont know what the answer is today. But we will look at it over the next weeks and months. Prior to president peutins airstrikes he went to congress and requested an aumf and got hundred percent approval for airstrikes with no ground tr...

Suggest a certain amount of effort on the part of the russians a number of folks trains is so small finding them in the country the size of syria strikes me as not, as i might have said in my earlier career, by accident. Im prepared to say and ive said this earlier, the russians are not in syria to defeat isis. That is a fundamentally false narrative. I want to thank our panelists is somewhat depressing, i know that both of them will continue to be important voices on the subject in the future. I appreciate your time you spent with us this morning. Thank you. [applause]. More now from the Fore...