sends a terrible signal for somebody with a global public policy institute thorson as always we appreciate your time and your insights thank you thank you. u.s. foreign policy it was one of the main points up for debate last night the stage was crowded as 12. democratic presidential candidates faced off on live television there was almost unanimous condemnation of president trump's decision to withdraw all u.s. forces from northern syria and there was a unified front of attacks launched at elizabeth warren who could very well eclipse joe biden and become the party front runner. as they took to their podiums the democratic presidential candidates appeared to be united at least on one thing all 12 say they want to see president donald trump impeached. and pietschmann is the way that we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences former vice president joe biden was asked during the debate about his and his son's dealings in ukraine one of the issues at the center of the trump impeachment probe president my son did nothing wrong i did nothi

so is it really the opposition party's fault let us join us on the on the global public policy institute and he's been following developments in hong kong over the past many months and in fact recently did don from seoul welcome pro-democratic parties in hong kong to blame for the lack of democracy in the chinese that are 1st of all think respect leaf with michael in this a few things he said holds true but not everything i would say it's the democrat program democratic parties that are solely at fault i think what they did fight for was what they perceived was guaranteed to them which was initially universal suffrage short of that that did not happen what was offered to them was a pre-selection of candidates by probe aging party and based on that people could vote for their chief executive and that is not seen by pro-democratic. party people as what was guaranteed to them is also worth pointing out that my concern is generally seen as a pro establishment a lawmaker in hong kong but let's just look at something else you talked about you talked about essentially almost signalling of the b

a study from the global public policy institute found that syria was responsible for at least 336 attackstions through the course of the syrian civil war. thousands of people have died at the hands of bashar al assad. the president it seems is now handing the keys back over to bashar al assad. >> absolutely. i would put that much higher. half a million people are dead since 2011. most of them, women, children, civilians. there's been chemical attacks. assad has launched chemical attacks against his own people. we did nothing. we left a vacuum. also, right now, as we speak. i mean, the war's been going on eight years and suddenly we're sitting up saying what's going on in syria? if the alliance with the kurds and assad does continue and push in the right way, they'll no doubt go for the last opposition stronghold. there's 3 million people inside. there is that to worry about. there's also the humanitarian situation on the ground right now. people are fleeing in all different directions. they don't know where to go in northeast syria. should they go towards hasaka? they don't know. we think

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public speaking about security issues. he is a senior fellow at the new america foundation and the george washington university's homeland security policy institute and serves as the senior global advisor to oxford analytic a british-based firm specializing in advising and multinational companies. he sits on the advisory board for the national counterterrorism center and for the director of national and serves on the aspen institute's homeland security group. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome phillip mud philip mudde national archives. [applause] you missed the most important part of that which is that i lived full-time in boston. thank you. stick with payne's bbq. i was running there a place called the town memphis which is a historical part of memphis it must be three or four years ago, wondering whether to write another book. i've written a couple, and reflecting on some of what i witnessed at the cia particularly during the excruciating time after 9/11 and realizing some of my colleagues any of whom are friends had written their stories with many of the people that i worked with would never speak or write into their stories would ever be told if no one talked them. could