we will here in just a couple of moments from christopher ford, special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counter proliferation. the event should resume in just a few moments. live coverage continuing on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i can come of this arms-control resume in just a few moments live on c-span2. do want to remind you that looking ahead to next week, for fbi director james comey will be testifying before the senate intelligence committee. we will have that live on our companion network c-span3 next thursday at 10 a.m. eastern. >> so we can resume at the arms control association annual meeting with our first keynote speaker of the day. thank you. once again i'm daryl kimball, director of the arms control association. we're glad to have so many friends here for our 2017 arms control association annual meeting. please to have with us today christopher ford was special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass destruction and counter proliferation policy at the national

[applause] >> christopher ford is a special assistant to the president in charge of the national security council's efforts to counter weapons of mass destruction. he spoke to the arms control association about the trump administration strategy for north korea, relations with russia and the iran nuclear agreement. >> welcome back everyone. welcome back then please find your seats so we can resume here at the arms control association net annual meeting with our first keynote speaker of the day. thank you. once again, i'm darrell kimball, director of the arms control association . my friends are here for our 2017 arms control association annual meeting. please to have with us today christopher ford whose special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass instruction and counter proliferation policy at the national security council. chris who has extensive experience on these issues has been on the professional staff of the senate relations committee, banking committee, easter on the personal staff of a senator susan collins as her national security advisor and before

we are especially happy to have later today tha the senior white house adviser, christopher ford during the lunch hour and the representative who is going to be closing of the conference with perspectives from the international immunity and the united nations. but before we move to the first part of the program, i just want to give a brief bit of thanks and a shout out to some of the individual members and contributors that made today's event possible. some of their names are on the table here at the carnegie endowment for national peace and that's important because we are a small organization and we try to have a big impact but it means your donations make a huge difference and in response to these challenges, we are gratified that our members have responded over the last few months. we have seen an uptick in contributions at this important time. so we are very happy to have several organizations and individuals help with contributions for this conference including our colleague the peace foundation which is committed to a world free of nuclear weapons and our partners at the agents of

we are specially happy to have later today senior white house adviser christopher ford, during lunch hour and the new un high representative for disarmament who is going to be closing out the conference with perspectives from the international community and the united nations. but before we move to the first part of the program, i want to give a brief bit of thanks and shout-out to individual members and contributors who made today's event possible. some of their names are on the tables here at the carnegie national peace. that's important because we are a small organization and we try to have a big impact and it means that your donations make a big difference and in response to these challenges we are gratified that our members have responded over the last few minutes and uptick in contributions at this very important time. so we are very happy to have several organizations and individuals help with contributions in this conference including colleague organization which is committed to world free of nuclear weapons, our partners at women's action for new directions, empowers women t

[applause] >> christopher ford is a special assistant to the president in charge of the national security council's efforts