ryan crocker, former abbasid or to iraq. one of your posts from 2007 to 2009 in the washington post. the iraqi prime minister. "my country needs more help from the u.s." weeks ago io visited iraqi troops in western to liberate the city. by any standard they are heroes. i did not ask their religious, regional or ethnic origins. i saw them for what they were. together.nding having spilled our blood together to win this war, we want to work together to win the peace." then about visiting president trump at the conference in washington. spokedent trump and i about how to build on the strategic framework our country signed in 2008. that strategic framework." what did that the fine? guest: that was negotiated during my time in baghdad. agreementry broad es forutlines bas cooperation, obviously in the security field or on economic issues and so forth. .t is a very good touchstone i don't say that just because i'm the one who signed it. it is a way of shaping our relationship with an iraq that is a strategic partner. iraq has never

let's pick up on my last question to ambassador crocker. where does hyperbole merge into and become policy? >> well, brian, i think ambassador ambassador crocker made an important point, which is that often it is the case that rhetoric, public rhetoric by our seni senior officials and by the president does end up becoming u.s. policy. i think in this press conference with the king today, the president and the king pointed to at least three problems that topped their list with regards to the middle east. the future of syria and the future of assad, number one. number two, the way forward on the counter isis campaign, and number three, the middle east peace process. those three problems have been put forward as things that the president now accepts responsibility for trying to find solutions to. the challenge is we do not yet see what those strategies are to be able to find those solutions going forward, and we really do need to see those specifics in the near future. >> niera, isn't it also true that we need to filter the president's words t

i'll ask you to hang on for a second while i talk to ambassador crocker. ambassador, you have spent time there. do you concur with her evaluation, that we may have come to the end of the road in terms of diplomatic and political solutions involving e assad regime? >> i would say we're really at the beginning of the road. finally, we have stepped up to a merciness slaughter of innocent civilians. we need to take this forward into a coherent policy. here's the contradiction. our action was widely praised around the world. certainly in the middle east itself, but turkey and saudi arabia. they praised us because we finally took action against the regime. now, if we treat this as a one off and back up and say, been there, done that, let's get on with the fight against isis, they're going to be pretty disappointed. we also run a risk of getting into moral ambiguity if we don't continue military pressure on the regime. what are we going to be saying? if you're killed by poison gas, by god, we'll get you, but if you're just killed by garden variety barrel bombs, w

let's bring in ryan crocker. thank you so much, ambassador for joining us. you met bashar al assad and his family. >> i did indeed meet both father and son i was halfway through my assignment in 2000. something interesting happened before that. in the last nine months of his life, we see this now clearly taking steps to prepare basha rshr for the responsibility. one thing he did through his foreign minister was to ask me meet one-on-one with bashar. i did this a couple of times. and from that experience, i drew a couple of conclusions -- first, we had this notion that because he had studied in the uk and knew how to turn on a computer that he was somehow part of the western ethos. well our conversations were conducted in a ed ied in arabic. he had no -- obviously not any real confidence in his english. which i think told us that his time in london he was completely focused on his studies. he wasn't part of the social scene there. the second thing i deduced is that he really was the son of the baath party. his father had been educated in a much more liberal e

ambassador ryan crocker. a big viewers now. this wednesday morning to area on the fox business network, i'll have next was a one-on-one interview with president donald jay trump. we'll talk about sera plus his ta on the state of the economy. find out what he has to say about tax reform, what the future of nafta is in the future of his agenda in general. that is this wednesday morning, "mornings with maria" beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the fox business network. next-line they will have more explicit portions of the interview with resident tribes right here on monday morning futures. 10:00 a.m. eastern next-linea )-right-paren the fox news channel. president trump this upcoming week. president trump taking action in syria. what is the plan going forward. house foreign affairs chairman edwards will join us next. let's let us know too that gear from our guest today and for president trump@maria bartiromo on twitter "sunday morning futures with maria bartiromo" we are looking ahead right now. ♪ you can't predict the market. but

and, ryan crocker, a former ambassador to six countries looks at recent tensions in the region, including u.s. military action in syria and afghanistan. be sure to watch and to join the discussion. >> coming up next, a look at russian foreign policy objectives and valerie jarrett talks about her

ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to syria welcomed the moves on "sunday morning futures." >> the deployment of a carrier battle group towards korea was also the right thing to do. when i was ambassador in kuwait in the mid-1990s, i referred to a carrier battle group as they 100,000 tons of diplomacy. trade to crocker also praising president trump for his handling of the situation in syria adding that any retaliation by russia for syria over the military strikes would be quoted saying. lauren: neil gorsuch, president trumps nominee to supreme court will be sworn in this morning. john rabbits will administer the oath of office in a private ceremony at 9:00 eastern. anthony kennedy will administer the second out of office in a public ceremony at the white house at 11:00 a.m. eastern. gorsuch is equipped for kennedy in the 1990s. he was confirmed on friday mostly along party lines after republicans used the so-called "nuclear option" to change senate precedents. lea: let's get you caught up of global action. h

then ryan crocker talks about the military action in afghanistan and recent activities in those countriesy. it is tax deadline have you filed your taxes yet? you have until midnight. the irs says by the tax desk by the time taxes is done, 150 million tax returns will have been filed. this morning on washington journal, we will start asking tax day, how you would change the u.s. tax system? here is how we will break apart the phone lines. if you make under $50,000 a year --

. >> ryan crocker -- >> we have to work with the afghans to stabilize the taliban ongainst a slide come and go ahead with a political process that includes caps on. >> jeff sessions. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks. we will starve your revenue sources. we will seize your profits. we will not concede a single block or streetcorner to your vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available on ourc-span.org homepage and searching the video library. joining us from kentucky is john yarmuth, the senior democrat on the budget committee, and he announced that he will be a candidate for reelection. it will be a seventh term. thank you for being with us. >> the current funding expires on april 28. are we a week away from the government shutdown? >> i think it is highly unlikely. i think we will see a short-term that will provide enough time for negotiations to take place. i think both sides have some things they would like to see in any funding mechanism. so i suspect we will look for some more time to do this rather than to get that a congress in th

. >> the former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. >> clearly, we have to work with the afghans to stabilize the situation against a taliban onslaught and then move ahead with a political process that is going to have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational crime organizations. a gangsions: if you are member, we will find you. will devastate your networks and starve your revenue sources, the plea your ranks and seizure profits. concede a single block or street to your vicious tactics. availableprograms are at c-span.org, on our homepage, and by searching the video library. >> defense secretary james mattis visited afghanistan days after an attack on afghan soldiers inside a mosque. he met with the afghan president and discussed efforts to combat the taliban. following the meeting, he met with reporters. this is about 15 minutes. >> this is the nato commander here of the international operation that has been going on for years. needed a reminder as i stand here before you of the type of enemy we are up against, the killing of afghan citizen soldier

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan ran crocker. >> we have to work with the afghans to stabilize the situation against a telegram onslaught. then move ahead with a political process that will have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on trans-national crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks, we will starve your revenue sources, to your ranks, and sieze your profits. we will not concede a single block or streetcorner. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on our homepage, and by searching the video library. >> tonight on c-span, former president barack obama returns to his hometown for a public event at the university of chicago. that is followed by defense secretary james mattis discussing the u.s. strategy in afghanistan. after that, president trump holds a working lunch at the white house with members of the un security council. later, white house press secretary sean spicer takes questions from reporters about friday's deadline for funding the federal government. today, former president barack

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. >> clearly we got to work with e afghans to first stabilize the situation against a taliban onslaught. and then move ahead with a political process that's going to have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks. we will starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks and seize your profits. we will not concede a single block or a street corner to your vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on our homepage and by searching the video library. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your able or splite provider. >> the u.s. house will be gaveling in for legislative business in about 20 minutes. first, though, a look at the increase in immigration a-- arrests. this is from today's "washington journal." with the american immigration lawyers association serves as govern

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we are going next by former ambassador ryan crocker, who served as ambassador to six countries including syria, afghanistan and iraq. he will talk about recent tensions in u.s. military action in the region. they are wrong, more of your calls and tweets on open phones. washington journal continues. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] afterwards,ght on congressman ken buck of colorado , also a member of the freedom caucus, discusses his book "drain the swamp" how washington corruption is worse than you think. >> when you arrive in d.c. and you happy surroundings that i described earlier, you get very comfortable in that situation and you don't want to give up those comforts. and the way you continue to earn those comforts is to spend more money and to grow government and but tosolve problems, create programs and take credit for those programs whether they are efficient or effective to take credit for those programs. many of the members of congress are here. it is the best job they have eve

for more, i'm joined by ryan crocker, professor at texas a&m, he was also u.s. ambassador to syria, iraq and several other countries in the mideast. ambassador, thank you for being with us. we described some of the complexities here for the secretary of state as rex tillerson does head to russia. what do you think he'll be able to get out of russia in his talks? >> well, first, thanks for having me, richard. i'm very pleased to hear the secretar speak out clearly in criticism of russia. we need to do that as they push us on alleged violations of syria's sovereignty. we need to remind them and the world that they are backing a mass murder er who used chemica weapons against his own people. iranians suffered chemical attacks during the iraq/rather thannian war and they won't like it that their regime is backing someone else using chemical weapons. but we got to get out of a defensive crouch here. and the statements i've been hearing from nikki haley, rex tillerson and mcmaster, we're framing it the right way. >> it's difficult for any young administration as they

ryan crocker was asked to train bashar al assad on his father's behalf in international relations andd he was completely ignorant of international relations at the time. >> did you get a nice note from bashar after your piece? >> no, we did not. >> mark. >> everyone is exclaiming that rex tillerson has been able to reduce the impacts of the trump budget cuts, but i'm hearing the cuts impact could be upwards of 50%. that means they're already arting to plan for closing missions in exactly the times of places we need them. >> to avoid war. >> we are in for a world of hurt. >> sometimes i think the only -- is the peace corps okay? >> think the peace corps in the end will be okay. the politics behind that are way too strong for trump to hurt. >> billionaire china branding. it's actually not trump. it is warren buffett has for the month of march, he is the biggest investor in coca-cola, his face has been appearing on cherry coke cans all throughout china. interesting considering that the united states government has been having meetings with china this week. >> they like rich. thank you ve

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan brian crocker. >> clearly we have to work with the afghans to stabilizehe situation against a taliban on slot. ad then move ahead with political process, it will have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational pride organizations. member, were a gang will find you. we will devastate your networks, starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks, and sees your profits. we will not concede a single block or streetcorner to your vicious tactics. c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on her homepage and by searching the library. congressman matt cartwright held a town hall meeting with constituents at northampton community college in bethlehem, pennsylvania. he talked about several issues, health care, budget appropriations, veterans affairs and redistricting. the townhall ran about one hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for that, but let's start things a little more formally if we can. i would like everyone you can rise to rise and let's say the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united

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i think ambassador crocker has this entirely right. it's not whether the russians knew about a chemical strike. by the way, i don't believe they did. doesn't make sense for either the syrians or the russians to have enabled chemicals. by the way, nor does it -- i know a lot about chemical weapons. nor does it make any sense that the subsequent high explosive attack on the hospital was meant to cover up a chemical weapon attack. would not have achieved its purpose. but i think what is clear is that the russians got in there, and they have been complicit in the murder of 400,000 or more people that has devastated the country, put 5 million to 7 million refugees out across the turkish, lebanese, and jordanian frontiers. it's a nightmare. >> congressman, how do you explain -- and the american people say we're all horrified at these images we're seeing of these people killed by the gas. they're gasping for air, and they're dying. it's horrible. yet the use of barrel bombs by syria has been incredible. they have lost 20,000 to 30,000 people

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. we have to work with the afghans were stabilized the situation against the taliban and on plot. moving ahead with the political process that will have to include pakistan. >> jeff sessions on transnational crime organization. >> if you are a gang member we will find you. we will devastate your networks, we will starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks and seize your property. we will not concede a single block or until your. >> they're available@c-span.org at c-span .org and by searching the video library. louisiana governor delivered the annual state of the state address at the capitol in baton rouge. he outlined his ideas for countering the state budget deficit, improving structure, working toward gender pay equity and increasing the minimum wage. >> mr. speaker, mr. president, my fellow louisiana's. good afternoon. welcome back. this time it's the constitution requires you to be here. [laughter] before i get to the work we have ahead of us. i'd like you to join with me in we

announcer 2: ryan crocker. >> we have got to work with the afghans to stabilize the situation againstaliban onslaught. politicalahead with a process. announcer 2: transnational crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks, deplete your ranks, and sees your property. we will not concede a single block or a street corner to your vicious tactics. announcer 2: c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on the homepage, and searching the video library. announcer 1: next, homeland security secretary john kelly talks about national security threats and top priorities for his department. topics include transnational organized crime, border security, homegrown terrorism, and cyber security. from george washington university, this is an hour. [applause] mr. knapp: good morning. good morning, everyone. welcome to the george washington univer.

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. >> clearly we've got to work with the afghans to -- for ablize the situation against a taliban onslaught and move ahead with a political process that is going to have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your network. we will starve your revenue source, deplete your ranks, and seize your profits. we will not concede a single block or a street corner to your vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org on our homepage and by searching the video library. >> sunday on "q&a," the house of truth, a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism. we talk with author brad snyder about his group of intelligence, ics frankfurtherer, walter litman, oliver wendall homes junior, and herbert hoover who met regularly in the early 1900's to debate politics and the future of the country. >> i think everybody frankfurter, litman,

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker. >> clearly we have to work with the afghans to stabilizehe situation against a taliban onslaught, and then move ahead with a political process that is going to have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member we will find you. we will devastate your net worth. worth. we will starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks and seizure profits we will not concede a single block for a street corner to your vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on our homepage and by searching the video library. >> remarks now from former president barack obama. he spoke yesterday about community involvement with students at the university of chicago. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. hey. thank you. good to see you. [cheers and applause] >> please come everybody have a seat. have a seat. so, what's been going on while i've been gone? [laughing]

. >> ryan crocker -- >> we have to work with the afghans to stabilize the taliban ongainst a slide come and go ahead with a political process that includes caps on. >> jeff sessions. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks. we will starve your revenue sources. we will seize your profits. we will not concede a single block or streetcorner to your vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available on ourc-span.org homepage and searching the video library. joining us from kentucky

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. >> clearly we've got to work first, afghans to -- stabilize the situation against a taliban onslaught. and then move ahead with a political process that is going to have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks, we will starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks and seize your profits. we will not concede a single block or a street corner to your vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on our home page and by searching the video library. >> sunday, april 30, join washington journal at 9:00 a.m. eastern for the annual cram for the exam to help students prepare for the advanced placement u.s. government and politics exam. high school government teachers others will and take your calls and review sample questions you might find on this year's exam. >> relax. calm down. there's going to be questions on the multiple choice you don't know. don't blame your teacher, don't try to wi

brittany crocker. jasmine han. kasia kovacs. molly olmstead. jill ornitz. kouichi shirayanagi. francisco vara-orta. xuejiao wang. from the george washington university, teniola ayomide ayoola. from ohio university, megan henry. please join us in congratulating all of this year's scholarship winners. >> [applause] >> thank you and congratulations again to our 2017 winners. it is heartening to know that such a great group of journalists is coming through the ranks. they are not the only young journalists in the room tonight making an impact. we are delighted that there are many students here, including those hosted by cnn and yahoo! news. >> [applause] jeff: but i would like to highlight a special group of students hosted by the huffington post. earlier this year at pittsburgh high school in kansas, this group of students was doing research on the school's newly hired principle, when they uncovered some red flags about her educational and professional background. their tenacious work for a student newspaper led to the resignation of that school official. congratulations. please s

. >> kennedy, ryan crocker, the former u.s. ambassador to syria, he was asked by maria, do you think syria and/or russia will retaliate. here's the exchange. >> they would be insane if they tried. we all know what the differentials of power are here. our power is overwhelming. they were not like to see it applied. i do not think they will take the chance. >> insane if they tried. >> they would be insane. you are talking about two nuclear powers coming to a head. and i'm sure that the trump administration has been weighing this. one of the biggest risks in getting involved with syria. but you have to go back to casino, in the scenario, syria is sharon stone, and russia is joe pesci coming and it is a really dangerous relationship that obviously is not going to end well for either one of them. and as russia has become a serious minder, china is north korea's minder, and it is in the best interest of the entire world if china and russia decouple from these actors who have proven to be so incredibly problematic and murderous. >> jo

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eight years, and we had both of them won, especially the war in iraq where david petraeus and ryan crocker, they won, and -- and iraq was doing fine, and then they decided to pull everybody out. by the way, afghanistan, in 15 years later, the -- our commanding general in afghanistan says what? we're in a stalemate. we're in a stalemate. why? because their strategy was don't lose, okay? we can win in afghanistan. we could have won -- we did win in iraq and we could have maintained that if we had had a -- i'll be glad to go back through all of these with you, but fact is the if you united states had not intervened in afghanistan, then obviously we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. i don't think most of americans want that had to happen. >> i think everybody wanted to go after bin laden and al qaeda in afghanistan. >> sure. >> but then iraq came into the picture and libya and all of these -- let's not go down memory lane right now but i do want you to respond to hillary clinton, what she said today, about the president's action. >> sure. >> listen to this. >> the a

brittany crocker. jasmine han. kasia kovacs. molly olmstead. jill ornitz. kouichi shirayanagi.isco vara-orta. xuejiao wang. from the george washington university, teniola ayomide ayoola. from ohio university, megan henry. please join us in congratulating all of this year's scholarship winners. >> [applause] >> thank you and congratulations again to our 2017 winners. it is heartening to know that such a great group of journalists is coming through the ranks. they are not the only young journalists in the room tonight making an impact. we are delighted that there are many students here, including those hosted by cnn and yahoo! news. >> [applause] jeff: but i would like to highlight a special group of students hosted by the huffington post. earlier this year at pittsburgh high school in kansas, this group of students was doing research on the school's newly hired principle, when they uncovered some red flags about her educational and professional background. their tenacious work for a student newspaper led to the resignation of that school official. congratulations. please stand s

. >> former ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker. >> clearly, we have to work with the afghans for stabilized situation against a taliban onslaught and then move ahead with a political process that is going to have to include pakistan. >> attorney general jeff sessions on transnational crime organizations. >> if you are a gang member, we will find you. we will devastate your networks and starve your revenue sources, deplete your ranks and seize your profits. we will not concede a single block or a street corner tower vicious tactics. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on our home page and by searching the video library. >>> now, a town hall meeting with democratic congressman, ted deutsche. he met with constituents to discuss his opposition to

brittany crocker. jasmine han. kasia kovacs. molly olmstead. jill ornitz. kouichi shirayanagi.isco vara-orta. xuejiao wang. from the george washington university, teniola ayomide ayoola. from ohio university, megan henry. catherine hopebacker. please join us in congratulating all of this year's scholarship winners. [applause] >> thank you and congratulations again to our 2017 winners. it is heartening to know that such a terrific class of journalists is coming through the ranks. they are not the only young journalists in the room tonight making an impact. we are delighted that there are so many students here including those hosted by cnn and yahoo! news. [applause] jeff: but i would like to highlight a special group of students hosted by the huffington post. earlier this year at pittsburgh high school in kansas, this group of students was doing research on the school's newly principal when they uncovered some red flags about her educational and professional background. their tenacious work for a student newspaper led to the resignation of that school official. congratulations.

crocker is in the loop. swifter plan these fields. these have a shelf life of 10 years and we need to put money aside because they're big replacement cost. is also money for grass rehabilitation project as well. we are investing a considerable more in urban forestry for obvious reasons weaver hundred and 31,000 [inaudible]. we've got wild weather that we experience this winter we are seeing more tree failures meaning, tree maintenance becomes more and more critical and part of that tree maintenance work involves tree assessment of parks for doing over a cycle of time. court resurfaced things. these are the vascular courts and tennis courts, and asphalt in your districts we do categorize these. we look-we do a condition facility index and we try to tackle as many of the most critical ones that we can thanks to supervisor kim we have extra funny this year as a result of an agreement reached over a developing project. i think san francisco save our sports is adding fun into the pot. it's not shown here but will allow us to tackle number

so i wouldn't hold them responsible for saying the guy's -- you know, he got the betty crocker approval here. they didn't like him. they got rid of him. why is he falling back and saying, hey, they approved him? >> and that they would rely on the vetting for security clearance from a year earlier by the obama administration just doesn't make any sense, nor does it allow for the fact that subsequent to that time, all of this became public. i mean his trip to russia became publicly known. his -- in the middle of the transition, long before the trump administration seem inclined to fire him, the acting attorney general comes to the whithouse warn them, this guy could be compromised. he might be, you know, exploitable by russia. you have to be worried about this guy. and they didn't do anything about it at that time. i mean they wait until it's on the front page of the newspapers before they take any action. >> susan, you had that story, that they knew about these trips. >> yes, that's right. and, you know, i think it is astonishing but credible that they didn't do more vetting because, rem

she'll talk to ryan crocker, former u.s.sador to syria, afghanistan and iraq about the strikes on syria as well as russia's connections to president assad. that's at 10 a.m. eastern tomorrow right here on fox news. julie: members of congress leaving washington for a two week recess over the easter holiday, but there is still plenty of work waiting for them when they return. so we're going to take a look at what is at the top of their agenda. >>> plus, the white house downplaying reports of a conflict between two of its top advisers? we're going to take a closer look. >>> but first, here's the president's former campaign manager. >> i never remember when george w. bush was the president all the intrigue about andy card who had been the chief of staff for five years finally leaving or when barack obama changed out rahm emanuel or all the other people. there was never all this media hype around it. if there's any of those conversations, done behind closed doors. ♪ ♪ e options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once daily pill

i live near john mclaren park and crocker and in the middle of both parks as well as my kids benefit from the parks i see the challenges on a daily basis of the parks and i just love the opportunity to serve the families in our community so those kids can have the same benefits that my kids have enjoyed for the past 15 years. thank you. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none we can move to public comment if there's any members of the public that would like to testify on item number 1 please come forward. speakers have two minutes and say your name and speak directly into the microphone. you may leave a copy of the documents with the clerk for the official file but line up to the right over there and if there's two people we can proceed. >> hi. i am program director for urban habitat. i oversee the boards and commissions' leadership institute which is a program designed to support and train people of color and low income folks to serve on regional and local commissions and boards, and wendy aragon is a fellow in our current cohort and so i am here to expression our enthusiastic bid

and, ryan crocker, a former ambassador to six countries looks at recent tensions in the region, including u.s. military action in syria and afghanistan. be sure to watch and to join the discussion. >> coming up next, a look at russian foreign policy objectives and valerie jarrett talks about her years with the obama administration. trump and thent easter egg roll on the south lawn. next, a look at the influence in the middle east and how it compares to u.s. foreign-policy objectives. hosted by the center for national interests and is just over 1.5 hours. we are going to discuss a new subject what does russia want? we don't have any russians here but there quite knowledgeable experts on russia. with the institutional and political perspective. in arabia caused even more confusion so what america needs we would probably give one answer. with as the nation's security advisor and with did a very different answer and then to change significantly and then another possibility president has discovered incriminating conduct regarding other american interests. this is a very important interesting t

brian crocker former us ambassador to six countries including: syria, afghanistan and iraq to eight recent tensions in the region to a recent tensions in the region including us military action in syria and afghanistan. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning. during the discussion. >> homeland security secretary john kelly talks about security threats tuesday at george washington university center for cyber and homeland security. live at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> tuesday a look at how healthcare providers choose the best treatments for patients and how research plays a role. the bipartisan policy center hosts that live at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on into. >> have a seat. there are seats on the wings of the room for people who need a place to sit. you're welcome to stand up course. it's great to welcome everyone to this evening of conversation and discussion about our christian witness in the 21st century. and the occasion is of course, the new book on the benedict option. before i introduce our eminent speaker i want to thank the cospon

crocker is in the loop. swifter plan these fields. these have a shelf life of 10 years and we need to put money aside because they're big replacement cost. is also money for grass rehabilitation project as well. we are investing a considerable more in urban forestry for obvious reasons weaver hundred and 31,000 [inaudible]. we've got wild weather that we experience this winter we are seeing more tree failures meaning, tree maintenance becomes more and more critical and part of that tree maintenance work involves tree assessment of parks for doing over a cycle of time. court resurfaced things. these are the vascular courts and tennis courts, and asphalt in your districts we do categorize these. we look-we do a condition facility index and we try to tackle as many of the most critical ones that we can thanks to supervisor kim we have extra funny this year as a result of an agreement reached over a developing project. i think san francisco save our sports is adding fun into the pot. it's not shown here but will allow us to tackle number

know anything is possible especially for my daughters, my mother was an incredible mother, a betty crocker stay-at-home wonderful well-educated woman who chose to be home and raise her family. i actually thought i would never be a working mom. life had a different plan for me. so i thought that was where is called to be. wherever you are called to be you need to be there and do that with excellence. for my girls i hope they know anything is possible. you can have it all you can have a family and a career. it's not always prettier perfect, i read a lot about in the book with going to work with spit up behind my back are catastrophic baby things. but anything is possible. dream big and work hard and don't assume it's for someone else. >> for you at such a young age you learn to keep up and you're able to do it all, what advice you have for your people trying to look at a full-time job while juggling other aspects of their life. >> you have to be very organized managing a household of four kids i don't know what's harder it truly is a full-time difficult job. we need to give ourselves a lot o

i live near john mclaren park and crocker and in the middle of both parks as well as my kids benefit from the parks i see the challenges on a daily basis of the parks and i just love the opportunity to serve the families in our community so those kids can have the same benefits that my kids have enjoyed for the past 15 years. thank you. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none we can move to public comment if there's any members of the public that would like to testify on item number 1 please come forward. speakers have two minutes and say your name and speak directly into the microphone. you may leave a copy of the documents with the clerk for the official file but line up to the right over there and if there's two people we can proceed. >> hi. i am program director for urban habitat. i oversee the boards and commissions' leadership institute which is a program designed to support and train people of color and low income folks to serve on regional and local commissions and boards, and wendy aragon is a fellow in our current cohort and so i am here to expression our enthusiastic bid