and the reason radioer here today is the proposed merger of bureau of public affairs into what is now known as bureau of global public affairs. the gpa's creation has been described as the largest restructuring of the state department since the merger of the u.s. information agency and department of state 20 years ago. it's hard to believe it's gone by that quickly. we're very fortunate to have the assistant secretary of state as well as gpa's principle deputy assistant secretary nicole both here today to help us understand what the new gpa looks like and where it fits into the department's broader vision of public diplomacy. the commission appreciates this opportunity to learn about program changes under way and challenges remaining and the ways in which the commission and public diplomacy community can support this effort. again, thank you all for joining us here today. now i'm pleased to invite assistant secretary of state michele to speak followed by principal deputy secretary of state nicole. thank you both very much. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be here today. thank you for the acpd for hosting us. w

live to global affairs analyst patrick henningsen patrick thanks for coming on to the program now why do you think he's on rouhani decided to take additional steps before a weekend line. i think iran is playing a very shrewd negotiations game they're sort of taking a page out of donald trump's art of the deal they're trying to basically dictate the pace of negotiations in this case or events as well they're dealing with 2 main parties which is the european signatories to the j c.p.o. way and then are also indirectly dealing with the united states this is designed clearly to apply pressure on europe and in effect in direct pressure on washington so trying to really putting direct pressure on washington obviously isn't going to work washington will escalate its threats and so forth so iran is seen this is a possible solution to its problem to break the impasse on the deal that the u.s. walked away from by putting in direct pressure on the other p 5 plus one countries that maybe they can do something to remedy iran which is going through a severe financial crisis right now as a result of

so global and public affairs. it was a large -- robust conversation. >> thank you to the panel for coming. my name is jonathan. i'm a student of the state department and its history. my question to the panel is, it seems like there is this normative executive, diplomatic reading and writing of practice about the nature of public affairs and public diplomacy. that's the first thing. it also seems like some people are privy to those conversations and the making of those procedures and policies and are people there aren't. how do you make the state department more inclusive to be historically maybe not part of that executive narrative? >> i'm not sure i understand the question. >> were all public diplomats when we travel. so, even if there is a school of thought in theory that we are working from its that an academic institution will always have diplomacy that you can obviously participated when he travel and have experiences. we welcome people here as well so i don't know if that's the kind of answer that you're loo

20 years so this is a very ambitious, interesting effort which is not created the bureau of global public affairs which she is the head. welcome, she was global corporate communications senior vice president for the waiver set of new york and she has also previously in washington worked for newt gingrich and as a lead member of his medications team. and communications survey. she holds a masters degree in political management from george washington university and ab in political science at ucla and one of the things that impressed me most on this was you was team captain from the usc la gymnastics team . >> thank you so much for being here today on this rainy morning and over to you. >> good morning, thank you very much for the introduction. all of us are excited to be here today. to have a conversation with you around the public diplomacy and all that we're focused on at the state department in communicative american values, committed americanforeign-policy and engaging the public in advancing the interests of the united states all at all across the world . there's never been a more important ti

start with suzanne nassel and joining us from washington, staff writer for the new yorker and cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser. my 2-year-old learned how to do a thumbs up. let's talk about rules of thumb for covering the impeachment inquiry, trump is going to get uglier. you were kind of the victim this week. the president lashing out at your husband, peter baker, saying baker shouldn't be allowed to write for the "new york times" from him and he called you out saying you're an even bigger trump hater than your husband? what's your reaction and how does it feel like to be called out by the president? >> i was sorry he didn't use my name which people pointed out is what president trump did when he attacked john legend and his wife chrissie teigen. the anonymous wives club, i guess. look, the bottom line is president trump as you see not only from this tweet but for many of the tweets, he is feeling very, very sorry for himself. he's projecting not an atmosphere of resolute calm in the face of this kind of incredible challenge to his presidency but almost a panicky throw anything up and s

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google on antitrust issues and found that there was no issue there in a statement google's svp of global affairs said in part we look forward to showing how we are ining in innovation providing services that people want and engaging in robust and fair competition. >>in washington alexandra leigh mountain. >>a lot of concern around golden gate park in san francisco after a mountain lion was recently seen there. the san francisco recreation and parks department posted warning signs after a mountain lion was spotted at the west into the park. a couple of weeks ago, another big cat was seen at nearby lake moore said 2 mountain lions to not act aggressively in either case. >>it's a park, the city part but i don't think that's a place for mom the lines we walk in the park where we have to leave because there's a coyote following so it does mountain lions that is definitely a concern now that we've hike than a yellowstone and yosemite before in places and it's always you know make lots of noise yet scare the animals away. >>officials recommend keeping your pets on a leash and avoid being in the park al

global affairs analyst puckering henningsen believes washington is attempting to hinder the work of international organizations like the u.n. . this is just beyond diplomatic games and chess is something else the broader theme people need to look at here is that this administration the trumpet ministration is actively trying to undermine and dismantle multilateral institutions wherever they can find them and so you have unofficial sanctions and official sanctions those people on the lists of course are using that to maybe impede their ability to travel that includes diplomats but on officially they can do this via bureaucratic red tape and games by using the state department as a kind of political instrument in this way to harass certain countries that the administration believes are perceived as being enemies of the united states and right at a very crucial time with between saudi arabia iran and we also have the kashmir crisis going on china and hong kong the i.n.f. treaty being abandoned we have syria right now an impasse and it live but potentially is such an important time all diplomats need

and it proved to be >>a global affairs analyst you're heading night. >>i wrote about thanks for joining she aged town large 70 a a guy's a you know nice out there right now you get some sunshine and really not a bad day temperatures popping up in the 60's and the 70's today but with that change is coming. >>and yes, there's even a chance of a couple of raindrops so tomorrow morning commute could be a little bit wet in spots starting on the north bay first and kind of spent in the south chance some scattered showers in san francisco about 67 degrees 60. in the sunset about 61 said go a little dreary there too. some showers maybe a little drizzle to go along with that and then as you get inside the peninsula plan on 60's there that's going start to break up. i think you head further the further south you see 60's and 70's along the peninsula and then a lot of 70's in the south bay still a slight chance you could see a light sprinkle there as well 77 degrees, maybe unpleasant about 73. in livermore 72 in hayward 75 degrees mirage, a 79 degrees in concord

global affairs contributor what's your assessment is there any reason to believe that are wrong is not behind the attack over the weekend. well there certainly are lots of indications that iran was behind this attack but we. find ourselves in a very difficult place for a lot of reasons given the assassination of jim shogi and saudi arabia's other actions particularly in yemen their word and their credibility is questionable donald trump the president of the united states is known to fabricate all kinds of things on his tweets and when he gives his rally speeches so his word is questionable and of course our run which tries to do things behind a cloak of the regime their word is questionable so finding the facts here and having the world community believe those facts is going to be quite a challenge. to rome still lawyer saudi arabia is a liar she just brought some truth to m.s.m. b c that is not cool all right. she just caused thousands of mindless suburban dads around the nation to rip their coffee across the room. you mean the murderous horrible regime of saudi arabia has a reason to

american president to discuss that i'm now joined by odds are the west a professor of history and global affairs at yale university professor west that it's good to talk to you thank you very much for taking time to talk to us it's a great pleasure to meet you now i know that you've long been preoccupied with china's relationship with the world a few years back you had the great book on the twists and turns of chinese history over the last 250 years placed on that story canvas how big of a new sense is the trump presidency to china is that just a bump in the road or is it something that may indeed change the trajectory of this great nation it's a little bit like what premier joey lawyer used to say you know both the french revolution but it's much too early to tell i think it is a severe challenge in many ways to what is happening in china at the moment but if you compare it to the media's parts to a century of wars and civil wars and invasions i don't think most chinese food see this as a major challenge now one of the most quoted chinese philosophers in the west this sounds sad that if you see

offer us anything new they didn't give us a google search either but the senior vice president of global affairs kent walker . issued a blog late last week saying that none of this is new saying that they've already been dealing with many questions on many different issues and saying of course that they're going to continue to work constructively with regulators as they have done in the past now i mean that basically says nothing google earth now has 30 days to respond to a long list of questions about its digital advertising about how that works with its dominance of the search engine a usage and investigators are also wanting to hear from any google employees who might have evidence of wrongdoing we'll see how that weaver thank you whether we're tied to the. skateboarding makes its debut at next year's olympics and tokyo it will be a historic moment for the sport time provided with greater recognition but there are fears amongst the skate board community that this mainstream exposure will be in danger the sports individuality could expose the use of cannabis by some to official scrutiny. his s

. >> so i want to bring in our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. the iranian president avoiding the question on whether the iranian people are suffering, whether he's putting his people first. on this idea that the u.s. offered to lift sanctions, what is the state department saying tonight? >> reporter: the short answer from the state department is that it didn't happen. there were no offers to relieve sanctions in exchange for a meeting. in fact the u.s. has been playing hardball with rouhani during the u.n. session in new york this week, even denying a request by iran's foreign minister to visit iran's u.n. ambassador in a hospital in new york. the visa issued limited him to only a few blocks on the east side of manhattan. the state department said zarif could only visit the ambassador if iran released one of the five u.s. citizens currently being detain in the iran. >> martha, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, news about the new "joker" movie. the fbi tonight, the lapd among those taking action this evening. >>> also ahead, the deputy shot fro

global affairs contributor what's your assessment is there any reason to believe that are wrong is not behind the attack over the weekend. well there certainly are lots of indications that iran was behind this attack but we find ourselves in a very difficult place for a lot of reasons given the assassination of jim shogi and saudi arabia's other actions particularly in yemen their word and their.

she's senior visiting fellow for the insititute of global affairs at the london school of economics.bout today's data. what does it tell us about china? there is downward economic pressure but that is very much expected. i think the uncertainty of trade policy hurts the economy, especially the emerging economies including china, more than the actual trade policy itself. china has been using a combination of fiscal measures including exchange rate and depreciation to tackle a large chunk of the economic shocks that came from the trade war. on top of $100 billion of infrastructure spending package, the ratio has gone down to a 12 year low and the exchange rate has gone down about 8%. if you look, it might be difficult for china to hit a 6% growth rate this year but even 5% are still significant momentum. both sides of this ongoing trade war are due to meet in washington soon, that is progress, what do you hope to come out of those talks? there has been some conciliatory moves re ce ntly been some conciliatory moves recently but that is because of the specific timing, octoberfirst recen

welcome back to worlds apart with the odds are that wes that professor of history of a global affairs at the university professor west of the world often the accuses china all of stealing ideas let's put it this way but as i was reading your book it occurred to me that the chinese man approach it differently because you provide many historic examples all of them trying to emulate not just industrial designs but whole chunks of other countries' political and economic systems 1st it was the soviet one then that was the american the one that they tried to recreate the according to the own needs and understandings how does china a goal about beaking in choosing what it wants to take when it comes to those. large strategic things. well as us russians we know better than anyone and this is of course connected to chinese politics and the directions that chinese politics have been taken over a fairly long period of time so the 1st in many ways encounter with the west for china was to disorient union and was true communists which competed transformed the country and then starting in the late 1

here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz now. >> reporter: tonight, a u.s. team on the ground in saudi arabia, gathering what a u.s. official calls compelling forensic evidence from the remnants of the some 20 drones and nearly a dozen cruise missiles. an official says they are recovered a nearly fully intact cruise missal and they're closely examining this image from saw di social media. it appears to be missile wreckage. >> they'll take things like flight control services and match them to known iranian pictures of the cruise missiles they build. >> reporter: a senior administration official tells abc they believe weapons were fired from iran. president trump, who days ago called the u.s. "locked and loaded," says he's not looking for war. >> they'd like to make a deal. i know they'd like to make a deal. at some point, it will work out. >> reporter: but iran's supreme leader saying today, there will be no negotiations at any level with the united states. since president trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal, there have been more attacks than ever and m

college professor of political science and faculty director at the madeline albright institute for global affairsthanks for joining us. maybe you can help make sense of what has been going on in the u.k. right now and give us a sense of who is actually in control at this moment, given the loss of the motion by boris johnson. making sense of this is a pretty tall order, but i will give you the best shot. who is in control? i think it is completely unclear. certainly not boris johnson. he has very few instruments here. his attempt to rest control of parliament by having the queen suspend sessions has not only failed, it managed to mobilize opposition to his own position. he is backed into a corner. he has lost a number of his own mp's, 21 defected over last night. he has kicked them out of the party. he is now calling for an election. i would argue this is a lastgasp for his position and he is hoping that through this election, not simply that he can return to power, but that basically, he has once again a referendum to leave the eu without a deal. joe: how strong is boris johnson in the event that

masters degree and his phd at the london school of economics and he has written many books about global affairs, he is the head of future map which gives a lot of strategic advice to companies and other organizations and he is a person who esquire magazine said not long ago that he was one of the 75 most important people of the 21st-century. >> a lot to live up to. >> we will see if you can live up to that some point so steve, your book has a very exciting title. "can american capitalism survive?". the answer is sure, okay? does it have to do anything to change? >> it probably does. it will survive, but whether we will continue to be the richest country and have the most vibrant and innovative economy and the best social and legal and political institutions, that is not a given. >> in your book you point out we have a lot of challenges now and you point out income inequality, social mobility issues and things like that. why are there not riots in the streets, why aren't people is upset about this is you think they should be if they are reading this book? >> it is not so much that they read the

our chief global affairs anchor, martha raddatz, is tracking the story from washington.ruck bomber drove right up to the entrance to this u.s.-run military base in somalia, then detonated the explosives. gunfire then rang out across the base. the extremist group al shabab is taking responsibility claiming their fighters breached the perimeter of the heavily fortified base but a u.s. official tells us there were no american casualties although the official says a number of enemy fighters were killed and an italian peacekeeping convoy was also targeted by a suicide bomber this morning killing several somali citizens. the u.s. base in somalia is a training site for somali forces. u.s. attacks on extremists have intensified over the past couple years with the u.s. fighting to take back territory from al shabab. robin. >> all right, martha, thank you very much. george. >>> we move to the latest on the impeachment showdown. the lead house investigator says the whistle-blower will testify, quote, very soon as concerns grow over that person's safety. mary bruce has all the detai

cnn's global affairs analyst kimberly dozier broke this story with time mag zoob and talked with us about it. >> what happened was that the taliban wanted secretary of state, mike pompeo to sign it and look, he wanted to lend the signature from his office to a final deal that might come out of oslo, an appeal between the afghan government and the taliban but not directly with the taliban. a spokesperson reached out in reaction to their reaction to the story. produced a stage on record saying that he -- the 79 and all the necessary parties agree and he's the appropriate person to sign the taliban deal. he'll sign it. but it took us a lot of, well, just attention to this issue out there and a big reaction in kabul before he was willing to say that. >> the peace talks are taking place against a backdrop of violence in afghanistan. the latest incident, a car bomb attack in kabul that killed a u.s. service member. cnn's michael holmes has that. >> debris and blown-out cars strewn across the road after another attack in the afghan capital. dozens are injured or dead. mom those killed, two nato

let's bring in cnn global affairs analyst and "washington post" columnist and cnn political analyst and "new york times" politics editor, patrick healy. max, you tweeted just after this n news broke last night, one thing i've learned is not to take donald trump tweets at face value. now that we've heard from pompeo today, we have more information, more of f a complete picture about what happened before the president put out those tweets. do you feel like we're getting the full story now? >> i think we're getting some of the story. i suspect more will come out in the days ahead. but clearly, the content of president trump's tweets saying that this is so shocking they carried out this attack on thursday, killed the u.s. service member, that doesn't make sense because as we've been emphasizing here on cnn, there have been 16 u.s. service members who have been killed in afghanistan this year alone. while these negotiations have been going on. so if the first 15 deaths were not a deal breaker, why is number 16? and in fairness to the taliban, which is something i don't say often because i th

a senior fellow on the council of foreign relations, a "washington post" columnist, and a cnn global affairs analyst. good to see you both. max, you first. if this is a secret meeting, you know, why would the president tweet out about it, undermine any possibility to have a secret meeting? >> well, welcome to the latest episode, fredricka, of the trump show. diplomacy by tweet. you're seeing how that works which is not very well. now, i will commend president trump to this extent. i think it's a good idea to disinvite the taliban from camp david during the week we are commemorating the 9/11 attacks carried out by the allies of the taliban. this would have been unseemly. you could just imagine whou trump would have attacked any other president like president obama if that other president had decided to invite terrorists to camp david. so it's a good thing that trump is now disinvited them. but what this shows is the negotiations that have been carried on are sort of in shambles. i think what's really happening here is not the fact that the taliban carried out another attack on thursday. becau

security adviser in the obama administration and really appreciates how key this role is and cnn global affairs analyst max gut, senior fellow on the council of foreign relations and max nice to have you. since you're sitting next to me, you first here. just first of all, jim was right. secretary pompeo was kind of grinning and i said to you quickly during the sound bite. why do you think he's grinning you said -- >> he's happy -- >> happy he's gone. >> if i get fired hope you won't be -- >> i won't be grinning like that. what do you make of all this? >> it's part of the mess that is the trump foreign policy and, of course, you know, trump i think became very disenchanted with john bolton because he wasn't seeing the results he expected to see in places like venezuela and iran and because bolton disagreed with him on north korea and negotiations with the taliban, and it's just a further sign that trump doesn't really know what he's doing, doesn't know his mind. he wants people to agree with him but changes his mind all the time. you know, he's saying one day that he's thinking about inviting th

news and our global affairs analyst susan glasser with "the new yorker." brittney, begin with you and like everyone to listen to this exchange "60 minutes" did a great piece on all of this last night. they sat down with house leadership. listen to what house minority leader kevin mccarthy had to say. >> president trump replies, i would like you to do us a favor, though. >> you just added another word? >> no. it's in the transcript. >> i would like you to do a favor, though. >> it's in the white house transcript. >> okay. of course that's the ukraine transcript of the july 25th call. though is a key word and it was in there, brittney. what does that show you, that the republican leadership in the house responded in that way? are they prepared for the battle ahead? >> well, i think it definitely says that the republican leadership is going to be towing the line with the president. we saw this, of course, around the military report that they were not going to be breaking from talking points, at least in the beginning because they might be afraid of the presid

google on antitrust issues and found that there was no issue there in a statement google's svp of global affairst we look forward to showing how we are investing in innovation providing services that people want. >>and engaging in robust and fair competition in washington, alexandra leigh mount. >>for your money this morning, the credit bureau company equifax is making it harder for you to get that $125 payout in the wake of the 2017 data breach. so people that are seeking compensation. now verified their claim by providing the name of the credit monitoring service they had in place when they filed it and the service must be remain in place for the least 6 months after filing this is an extra hurdle. this new step that you have to complete by october 15th by the way otherwise the claim for compensation is going to be tonight in july the ftc ordered equifax to pay $700 million in penalties for the hack millions of people have already requested that cash payout and so equifax now putting things in place to try to slow down that flood of people looking for money because paperwork, everybody's >>8.4