Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this event and conversation with Robert Obrien assistant to the president on the National Security affairs otherwise known as National Security advisor. Of youto welcome all here that are able to join us and the audience watching live stream from the website but also a very special welcome to the cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today we are delighted to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone that has been able to participate in this discussion. This is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson given the fact we are less than a week away from the election. The question of what america is going to do and where america is going to go from here those are going toil be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to w understand what tas place regardless of who it i
National security advisor. I want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and our audience watching on livestream. Welcome toy special our very special cspan audience who be following this event on cspan2 today. We are delighted to have you here if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who has been able to participate. This will be one of the most interesting events we have done here at hudson, particularly that we are less than one week and some the election of these issues we are talking about today, questions about what america will do and where it will go from your these issues will be decided very soon so what happens here will help us to understand what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the world in the oval office. Want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien graduated from the university of california berkeley. From there, he founded a law and between 19961998, officer with legal the United Nations compensatio
Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this great event, a conversation with robert obrien, the assistant to the president on National Security affairs, otherwise known as National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who were able to join us, and the audience watching live stream from the hudson website. But also a very special welcome , to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been able to participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decide
Otherwise known as a National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and the audience watching on livestream from the hudson web site but also a special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today and we are to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone who could participatete in this discussio. As i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we have done here at hudson particularly given the fact that we are less thanan a week away from the election. So many of these issues we are going to be talking about today the question of what americas going to do and where americas going to go from here those issues are going to be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand the guide to what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our
Sponsor of the debate between republican george bush and democrat geraldine ferraro. Our panelists are john mashich, world news and world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarrels, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for night ritter newspapers. Sandra venoger, senior Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy . Thank you, dorothy. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last, therefore, Vice President bush will get the first question. The debate will be billed upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question, and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. There will be a section, the first one, on domestic affairs, the second on Foreign Affairs. Now, the man