welcome to the atlantic council economic center. my name is julia friedlander, senior fellow and deputy director [inaudible] economics and i have the pleasure today to welcome my former boss from the department justin muzinich for discussions on the transatlantic economy. he will start with opening remarks and switch over to a moderated conversation with former national security adviser and executivadvisorand executive atlantic council, steve hadley. i would like to extend a few thanks to some of our partners who are here with us today. thank you very much. and now without further ado, i will turn over to you. thank you, julia and to steve hadley for moderating the discussion. congratulations on the opening of the center for geoeconomics. having spent time looking at your goals, the center is an extremely timely and worthwhile undertaking. more broadly, now more than ever, the atlantic council's mission of fostering a strong transatlantic relationship is important. covid-19 has disrupted the economy and our way of life. as the world

thank you to the atlantic council and for hosting this. she and i are good friends and have been for all these years. thank you for wanting to talk about this because i think what is happening is very important right now. missus bush, you have been an advocate for the rights of afghan women for all of 20 years now. tell us why this is personal for you. >> when the spotlight turned what we saw was a failed country because half of the population was left out. i remember what it was like. women couldn't leave without being covered and without a male escort. because of the years of the war already, many were widows. they didn't have someone to be able to leave their house. and remember the other part. they couldn't be educated. they couldn't go to school. the idea of a country that leaves half of the population out is a failed country and that is what afghanistan was. >> and you knew you could use that platform to be an advocate for them as well. >> i brought some who started school in the province. television had blown up those sixth century

bush institute, i am paula i'm on the board of the atlantic council and vice chair of the center for strategy and security. today's conversation comes at a very crucial time for afghanistan, afghanistan sits at a very key inflection point with peace negotiations currently ongoing between the taliban and the afghan government, though these talks give hope for an inch of decades of war in afghanistan, they also do raise certain concerns, it is truly vital that we remain vigilant in protecting the goals and gains that have been made on behalf of women and girls rights in afghanistan as well as those marginalized voices more generally, and the last two decades particularly as the negotiations have been underway the peace talks represent a major opportunity to really ensure that these gains are cemented. i'd like to mention that back in september when these talks began and got underway, at the time initiated by former secretary of state madeleine albright, the atlantic council of the advisory board, she initiated a statement, over 100 former heads of states, prime ministers, foreign minis

have my thanks to the atlantic council. extremelyay that i am grateful that they have given me , again, an opportunity to speak to the members. i would like to also say that i am also very grateful for mrs. to have accepted to and, shehis program, never disappoints. really cares so well about afghanistan. it comes from the heart, and you can tell. do you want to ahead? >> thank you, mrs. ghani. tonk you, paula, thank you the atlantic council and all the today. joining us and thank you, mrs. ghani for having a very important discussion in important times. i will jump into the first question. let me first say. >>, there is something of like to say about the first lady, i consider myself a listener, a facilitator and an advocate. as an old-school journalist, i like to bear witness to what happens around the world. so i would the glad to speak about the things i know. but also, i would like to say that we have been going through , period of heightened violence but it is really very disturbing, and to the families of the fallen

congratulations to the atlantic council for the opening of the center for geoeconomics. after having looked at your goals, it's an extremely timely undertaking. more broadly now more than ever, the atlantic council's mission of a strange transatlantic relationship. covid-19 has affected our way of life. as a look to the future, that the right values guide us in a post-covid world. that's why the transatlantic relationship so important. it represents over 40% of the world's gdp and nearly half of global personal consumption. but it is about much more than the economy. it is a community of values that we cherish and live by and are prepared to defend. our common belief in liberty and democracy makes this partnership a cornerstone of world stability. i believe that the pandemic has only highlighted how important our shared values are. i would like to focus the first part of my remarks today on the response to the pandemic in the united states and europe. and then turn to several transatlantic policy areas where cooperation, based on shared values is essential. specifically

for which she worked and now she's at facebook which previously partnered with the atlantic council and are you at all surprised that stories critical of barton are now disappearing while i will intentionally not link to the new york post i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by facebook's 3rd party fact checking partners in the meantime we are reducing its distribution on our platform breaking the news was ad d. stone a career democrat and as is tradition now a facebook spokesperson you couldn't make this up remember what i said about those who proclaim the neutrality loudest well. facebook is and always has been an open transparent and nonpartizan platform where people can express themselves freely freely are through approval from facebook senses and factious election integrity police and chances are a form of joe biden staffer aside from that yes 3. of my colleague nikki aren't discussed the link between social media censorship on the american elections with a few of our path. facebook google and twitter previously vowed to prevent election to ferentz

i think the atlantic council for hosting this timely event. everyone have a great day and stay safe wait for you for a few minutes to let us know what your top issue is. we will talk about matters of the supremeof court. amy coney barrett had her hearings last week. that process resumes this week. senior reporter from the hill. good morning. thanks for joining us. guest: good morning. host: walk us through the next steps. what's going on behind the scenes as the week starts off? next steps are october 22, there will be of vote in committee on her nomination. she's expected to get every single republican vote. isry single democrat expected to vote against her. is goingonnell says he to take up her nomination on the floor friday. what that means is he is going to file cloture. the expectation is there would be a procedural vote. intervening day for the vote. if mcconnell could speed things up by keeping the senate over the weekend, the expectation is he files on friday. on tuesday. the final up or down vote will be wednesday. senators 30ive hour

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correspondence on this breaking news our guest this hour is cameron hudson senior fellow at the atlantic council but also former chief of staff in the office of the u.s. special envoy to sudan at the u.s. state department joining us from washington thank you for your time you can give us i'm sure some good insight here are some ideas about how this deal will have happened. and when i say deal on talking more about the removal of the state sponsor of removal from the vista state sponsors of terrorism because that is a very significant move to sudan. absolutely and it's been a long time in coming frankly obviously since the transitional government came into office last september 1 of their 1st priorities was was remaking sudan's relationship with the international community and you know key to doing that is being removed from the state sponsor of terrorism list prime minister humbucker went to the u.n. general assembly in new york last year and boldly declaim claim that he would have the country removed it's been a long year the economy has suffered greatly over the past year there's been no real

special envoy to sudan he's now a senior fellow at the atlantic council's africa center he joins us from washington d.c. via skype sir thank you so much for joining us i know that you've been following this deal in a lot of detail for a while just as the news is coming in from the president's tweet what is your immediate reaction. well my immediate reaction is this is a long time in coming sudan has been cooperating with the u.s. on counterterrorism for the better part of the past 19 years since the september 11th attacks and they have been lobbying and advocating since that time to get off of this list so i think it's a it's a long recognition not just for the transitional government but for the people of sudan to be recognized as counterterrorism partners to the united states obviously this is a political coup for both countries but particularly perhaps for donald trump weeks away from an election he wants a victory and it would be very good for them as well 20 ounce the normalization of relations with israel from yet another arab country what do you make of the statements that the 2 h

senior fellow at the atlantic council and adjunct professor of georgetown, senior fellow, nonresident senior fellow of future europe, technology company, transatlantic digital privacy law issues, a contributor to the invaluable blog and service, director of trade policy for the software alliance, 2011-2015, legal counselor with the european union and brussels. and the legal advisor of the department of state. and a bachelors degree. we have a supremely qualified and distinguished panel and turn it over to the commission for comment, bruno? >> can you hear me? >> thank you. these two contributing virtually, happy to -- the cope analysts, to consider working together on issues on different sides for many years and we want to dive into the complexities, for privacy, with this point of view, to stop this conversation to step back and put the issue, to that perspective. two situations to keep in mind. it sounds obvious but in today's world and increasingly the demand for the protection, a truly global phenomenon of individual rights recognized by many constitutional frameworks around the w

and that, i think will be looked .t by the atlantic council vicewas proposed by the minister. bywas meant to be a dialogue the inspector general. i think it is safe to say that conversations are always welcome and we need to figure out how it would fit in with our other dialogs. i love that. a dialogue within a dialogue. new energy at the embassy. relationship seems to be burgeoning. this is pretty significant in terms of resource allocation and the signal it sends. 2 i think we can count on 1, hands the number of energy at session is we have anywhere around the world. this seems to be a reflection of the increasing prominence of our energy-related relationship. korea is a major purchaser of american trillium, something that i would note took place in your tenure. is ank that this reflection of the fact that when you talk about our security relationships, it's not just the military aspects. absolutely a safe and reliable and secure partner and i think our attaches, the embassy is a reflection of this .mportance relationship mark: i have a couple fast questions. marc, i will pu

are suffering food and medicine medical shortages the bill corey is a senior researcher at the atlantic council for studies he's also worked for us deputy chief of mission in yemen he says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. these 3 as it is should've never been this should have been done before they at the time the hooty is claiming that they were spies but there is no evidence whatsoever that these people were working with any us intelligence agency. at any rate i think that finding now and as i say this could have happened earlier. is that for donald trump administration this is a good time to bring back americans from overseas it's. one more thing he can boast about just before the u.s. elections. from the hostess point of view this is also a good thing because there was a move in washington to classify them as if they were this organization well obviously if there were still classified. the u.s. government's hands would be high. on the principle that they don't deal with terrorists so this may have forced old. some of the hawks who are calling war classifying the hope

shortages let's get more on this we can speak to bill curry he is senior research or at the atlantic council for studies he's also a former u.s. deputy chief chief of mission in yemen many thanks for joining us on al jazeera firstly let's talk about these american hostages what more do we know about them believe one is an aid worker one is a businessman and there's also with the remains of a 3rd hostage being sent back. yes. these are isn't or should have never been this should have been done before they at the time the who he is claiming that they were a spy is but there is no evidence whatsoever that these people were working with any u.s. intelligence agency. at any rate i think that timing now and as i say this could have happened earlier. is that for donald trump administration this is a good time to bring back americans from overseas it's. one more thing he can boast about just before the u.s. elections. from the point of view this is also a good thing because there was a move in washington to classify them as if they were disorganization well obviously if there were still classified.

from the atlantic council, this is half-an-hour. >> good morning.come to the atlantic council economic center. my name is julia friedlander,

welcome to the atlantic council economic center.y name is julia friedlander, senior fellow and deputy director [inaudible] economics and i have the pleasure today to welcome my former boss from the department

let's bring in our guests joining us from istanbul is matthew riser who's a senior fellow at the atlantic counciland a former u.s. diplomat who worked on the greece cyprus and turkey issues at the u.s. state department's over in london is james carlin was a visiting professor at the london school of economics researching greece turkey relations and the cyprus conflict and over a nigga c. and cyprus andrei as a theophanous was the president of the cyprus center for european and international affairs and a former economic adviser to the presidents of cyprus welcome to inside story thanks very much for your time and turkey has now redeployed that vessel to disputed waters what message is that sending out by doing so i think what president everyone is doing is saying you know we were hoping that there were going to be some deescalate terry talks under the auspices of nato european union. and well the way the government here is played it is that they they were upset when last week the greek government issued navteq so a notification that they were going to conduct naval exercises in the aegean sea and

kenneth is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and adjunct professor of law at georgetown. he is a senior fellow on the council of the future europe initiative and consultant for the technology company on the transatlantic digital policy issues. he is a contributor to the end valuable welfare blog and also serves as a director of trade policy. from 2011 to 2015 he was a legal counselor to the u.s. european union in brussels where he led the government's engagement in the eu on digital privacy law and policy. he previously was in office as a senior attorney in the office and the department of state and he served as the legal advisor to the u.s. embassy in germany and holds a law degree and bachelors degree so with that you can see that we have a qualified and distinguished panel and we will turn it over to the commission for introductory comments. >> thank you very much. i'm very happy also to be here with my co- panelists and i consider you friends and have been working together on these issues on different sides for many years. you want us to dive into the complexities and