[inaudible conversations] >> good morning, welcome to the hudson institute. i'm rebecca, a senior fellow here specializing in missile defense and nuclear deterrents counter proliferation. i have the privilege of hosting the director of the defense intelligence agency robert p ashley, jr., directly following this particular portion of our event today there will be another panel of senior u.s. officials directly following that. so please do stick around and we'll take a 15 minute break in between the two so we can get some refreshments if you'd like to do that. and what i'd like to do is just introduce the director and then turn it over to him to allow him to make initial remarks and he and i will have a conversation based on his remarks and i'll save room for questions from the audience and do be thinking about those and keep your question brief and then we'll try to get to as many as we can. lieutenant general robert p ashley junior become the 21st director of defense intelligence agency in october 2017. he formerly served as army chief of staff senior adviso

foreign policy in africa hosted by the hudson institute in washington, d.c. following the trump administration's unveiling the new diplomatic plan called africa strategy. good afternoon, everyone. i'm a fellow here at the hudson institute and because we have a short amount of time, i'm going to go as as we can to our excellent panel and luckily i do not have to give reminder about the rules. we are on the record is so thank you for joining us for this discussion about the future of u.s. africa relations. those of you in the room and those viewing on c-span online i am delighted to be joined by a really outstanding panel i will go ahead and introduce them into dive into questions. we have about 40 minutes and try to reserve ten to 15 of that for questions from the audience. immediately to my left, we have the ambassador senior fellow at the atlantic council's african center and teacher of african affairs. she had a very distinguished career in public service in france including as the deputy minister for foreign affairs and human rights and the ambassador of u

from the hudson institute this is 45 minutes. >>> good morning and welcome to hudson institute. i'm a senior fellow specializing in missile-defense and clear deterrent and i have the privilege of hosting the director of the defense intelligence agency and directly following this portion of the event today there will be another panel of senior u.s. officials directly following that. please do stick around. we will take a 15 minute break in between the two so we can get some refreshments if you would like to do that and what i would like to do is introduce the director and turn it over to him to allow him to make some initial remarks and i will have a conversation based on his remarks and i will save room for questions from the audience. thinking about those and keep your question brief and we will try to get you as many as we can. lieutenant general ashley pete junior became the-on 3 october 2017. formally served as the army deputy is chief of staff when he was a senior advisor army chief of staff all aspects of intelligence and security. a career army military intelligence offic

. >> good morning welcome to the hudson institute i'm a senior fellow specializing in missile-defense and nuclear to tarrant deterrence and proliferation i have the privilege of hosting the director lieutenant ashley and following this particular portion today there will be another panel of senior us officials directly following so please stick around me will take a 15 minute break to get refreshments for quite like to introduce the director and then i will turn it over to him and allow him to make remarks then we will have a conversation the 21st director of the intelligence agency on octobe october 13 serving as the army deputy chief of staff for all aspects of intelligence and counterintelligence and security general ashley is a career army intelligence officer and has commanded battalion squadron and brigade levels in iraq and afghanistan i could go on and on and he has a very illustrious career his bio is included that i want to get to the point we would like to have a conversation about the chinese and russian missile nuclear program so with that i will turn it over to you. >> g

i work at hudson institute which is a think tank here in d.c. and i work on a project called the clebt abc raycy initiative we look at way thorptarian roams regime abuse the u.s. financial system to export crime and corruption around the world and they use that process in furtherance of the geopolitical aims and also to undermine sort of u.s. national security and that of our democratic allies. obviously first and foremost including the uk. so i just want to start on a different tack. i know the primary focus is on the public partnerships that jm lit and the beneficial corporate ownership data. but there is another great fast photo and acorruption work in the uk. which is the scale and scope of the anti-money laundering regime. i'm only sending a second on this. in the u.s. we have the bank secrecy act, the legislation governing anti-money laundering systems in the u.s. and applies specifically to financial institutions as the name suggests in the uk and across the eu in recognition of the fact that the financial secretarier is not the only sect

i'm a fellow here at the hudson institute. and because we have a short amount of time, i'm going to pivot as quickly as we can to our excellent panel. luckily, i do not have to give out reminders about chatham house rules. we are on the record. thank you for joining us about the discussion of future u.s.-africa relations. i'm delighted to be joined by a really outstanding panel. i'll just go ahead and introduce them and dive into questions. we have about 40 minutes. i'll try to reserve 10 to 15 of those for questions from the audience. we have ambassador, nonresident senior fellow and teacher of african affairs. she had a very distinguished career in public service in france including as deputy minister for foreign affairs and human rights and ambassador of france to unesco. we are happy to have her in washington and sharing insights with us. next to her, joshua is a senior policy analyst on africa and the middle east at the heritage found egg. he was previously at the africa center and spent several years on the ground in afr

let me think the hudson institute for giving me the opportunity to speak with you about the russian and chinese nuclear modernization trends we are tracking. with return to great power competition nuclear capabilities are again at the forefront of the critical work of the intelligence community and this defense intelligence agency in particular. this is why we exist. our core mission is to understand foreign military capabilities and provide an advantage to our senior leadership. let me start with russia. after working together for decades to achieve real nuclear reductions, russia is upgrading the capacity of its nuclear forces. we assess it's overall nuclear stockpile is likely to grow significantly over the next decade. this growth is driven by significant increase in the number of russia's nonstrategic nuclear weapons. russia is adding new capabilities to its stockpile of nonstrategic nuclear weapons. including those employed by ships, aircraft and ground forces. these nuclear warheads include theater and tactical range systems that russia relies on to deter and defeat nato or china

after that a discussion on arrack and middle east policy from the hudson institute. mayors from around the country talk about the 2019 national league of cities report. and later, representatives from federal agencies talk about adding standards and oversight for artificial intelligence. >>> in august of last year, an outbreak of ebola was declared in the democratic republic of the congo but is now reportedly killed or than 1300 people. house foreign affairs subcommittee on global health held a hearing to get an update on the u.s. response efforts. ebola vaccine availability. and lessons learned from previous outbreaks.

let's bring in blaze, a fellow at the hudson institute. blaze, do you think, does this give iran the upper hand here because now there has been no u.s. response or is the president mentioned sanctions last night, is that the appropriate channel? >> thanks for having me. i think president trump played this exactly right it was a calculated decision to send the message to iran and put the ball back in its court what iran's been trying to do is provoke the united states into some sort of disproportionate response that it could then blame on the u.s. and say the u.s. is the provocateur here we're just a peaceful nation he's sent a clear message this he can use force but he's giving iran one last chance so what he's done is put the ball back main their court to s how they can react >> that now raises the question, in the first place, there were these mines, targeting ships in the gulf of oman now they've shot a drone out of the sky. cost about $150 million to farce i understand our sanctions an appropriate response and isn't the iranian aggress

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this is held by the hudson institute. >> good afternoon everyone. i am -- and because we have a short amount of time, i am going to pin it as quickly as we can to our excellent panel and hopefully i do not have to give out reminders for -- thank you for joining us for this discussion about the future of u.s.-africa relations. those of you in the room and on c-span online, i am surrounded by an outstanding panel. i will introduce them. we have about 40 minutes. i will reserve 10 to 15 of those for questions from the audience. immediately to my left, we have -- a teacher of african affairs. and the ambassador to france in new mexico, we are happy to have her in washington and sharing her insights with us. next to her, joshua is a -- he was previously -- last but not least, -- is a senior adviser for the -- and a nonresident senior associate for the center of strategic international studies. thank you for joining us. maybe i can start with the way that ken weinstein set up this event with this introduction talking about africa, the continent of promise

to his right, rebeccah heinriches at hudson institute.nd to my left is my friend and colleague, ray takeyh, joining us from the council on foreign relations. so the subject of our panel is mexican -- maximum presse.

after that a discussion on arrack and middle east policy from the hudson institute. and mayors from around the country talk about the 2019 national league of cities report. and later, representatives from federal agencies talk about adding standards and oversight for artificial intelligence. >>> in august of last year, an outbreak of ebola was declared in the democratic republic of the congo but is now reportedly killed or than 1300 people. house foreign affairs subcommittee on global health held a hearing to get an update on the u.s. response efforts. ebola vaccine availability. and lessons learned from previous outbreaks. >>> good afternoon everyone. this hearing is for the subcommittee, will come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on eradicating ebola, building on lessons learned and medical advancement. i want to thank everyone including our witnesses for your patience. we had a series of votes and other members will be joining us shortly. we are joined by our ranking member mr. smith. today we are here to discuss the eradication of ebo

>> i used to work at the hudson institute.as working with very serious people throughout my career. you hear a lot of rumors. the last thing you will do is go around passing things like that. the open server was being discussed all over the world. that's exactly what i thought this person was talking about. never heard the word dnc or podesta. judge jeanine: so the answer to the question is you did not? in the independent, there are people who say the whole thing started at the state department. i only have a few seconds left. do you believe that? >> absolutely. i think all these foreign governments were being prodded by the state department top weaponize their intel agencies against us. that's why you saw many trump associates abroad being spied on. i hope the president brought this up during this last visit to the u.k. the u.k. was half live involved in this and they should be called out. judge jeanine: it's a fascinating book. and you are still standing and that's good. up next. immigration officials announcing a staggering

as you heard vice president pence's speech at hudson institute.y understand we have been at war with china in three out of four fields for the last 10 years. we have been in an economic war, we just haven't been fighting. we have been in a cyber war and information war with china. for the chinese to ask to us drop all of the tariffs we put on just to step stone it room and negotiate, i think that's absurd. i hope president trump doesn't use the stock market as his barometer of success with the chinese. there comes a time when short-term imhek success diversions from protecting your country in the long run. i hope president trump understands that. trish: that's and i important insight you just d that's an important insight you just had. they have to turn over a lot. the intellectual property theft. they want this opportunity in the chinese market. we spent what a year negotiating with them? and there are some pretty smart people there in the room from robert lighthizer to larry kudlow who are all saying, we made this progress and there was an expec

we take you back now to the hudson institute on nuclear weapons. the discussion in progress. >> what i think is important about that episode and really is at the core of the arms control plos fy of the administration is that even though we've shown our willingness to withdraw from the treaty, if one of the things that is very important that we want to talk about today, and going forward, is we have not withdrawn from the process of arms control. the president's made that very clear. my boss, bosses, secretary pompeo has made that very clear. and we look forward to engaging both russia and china robustly. with open minds. but also with open eyes. to be very clear-eyed about where we're at. and what we want to accomplish going forward. so the president has asserted arms control to be effective, effectively contribute to national security, all parties must faithfully implement their obligations. that gets to the trust piece. as james mentioned, you must have willing partners across from the table. who intend on engaging both russia and china, in good

the hudson institute brought analysts together to talk about the role of iraq as tensions build between the u.s. and iran. >> if you have a phone, please put it on silent. i would appreciate that. thank you. doing the same thing right now. >> so my name is michael preachent, senior fellow at the hudson institute. i would like to welcome our c-span audience. today we have a panel called "stuck in the middle: iraq caught between the united states and iran." these growing tensions are leading to discussion as to whether or not iraq could possibly be the battlefield for these two powers in the region. well, iran being a power in the united states, being in the region. that this is likely to take place in iraq, we may have some disagreements there. but today we're going to discuss it. and we're going to do this like a sunday morning show format. i'm going to provide a -- i'm going to leave it to our panelists to break it down. we have a great panel today, starting first with the islamic communities and the west. the recent author of a book on shia/sunni relations, sectarianism. dr. abbas, di

joining me, the hudson institute senior fellow. people on the left that might actually be okay with some kind of war with iran because they figure now we are guaranteed to win in 200. the president won't win if we are in the middle of a war with iran, so they are thinking why not trying to position him as if he's really lousy when it comes to the middle east. is that a strategy that will work for joe biden and does the president need to be very careful if he want another four years? >> i think the president is taking the right approach toward iran. he's exercising restraint but he's not taking anything off the table. the iranians. they attacked a u.s. drone over international air space. did not kill any americans. trish: the president said they didn't actually kill anyone, there was no pilot there. so when we think about retaliation we need to keep that in mind as well. >> we do need to keep that in mind. we don't want to convey a message that everything they are doing is okay. but this is why you don't want to take anything off th

michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute.isor to the trump administration. michael, great to have you here. first, the implications, if we may, of chinese dominance and control of undersea cables. >> well, so much information close to those cables, 90%, far more than satellites. it allows chinese espionage and eavesdropping, just the chance of a lifetime. i think this is all part of the long-term technology war that's going on. i don't think this divest cure, if you want to call it that, the sale by huawei, is going to work. the company they want to sell it to, lou, as you know, is affiliated with the chinese navy. it's just a shift from the chinese army to chinese navy. it does show how important dominating these fiber optic cables is to chinese espionage. lou: it also shows just how raw the chinese have become in expressing their contempt for the intelligence and the powerlessness of western nations who would oppose their tom nance whether it -- dominance whether it be in satellite or undersea cables, whether it would be in

with that i will turn it over to tom. >> thanks to the hudson institute for having us here today. i agree with james, these think tank forums are very valuable for policymaking, to receive feedback and have robust discussions. i would like to build a little bit on what tim outlined, and that is the administration's approach to arms control. several key points i want to lay out, and perhaps we can have a discussion around them going forward. it is imperative to understand that effective verification, are vital components to successful arms control. i think tim mentioned arms control as a means to an end, not an end unto itself. that end being the national security of the united states. a couple key points i want to build on that tim mentioned. number one, the withdrawal from the inf. on august 2, we anticipate the united states withdrawing from the treaty unless russia comes back into compliance. what i think is important about that episode and os at the core of the arms-control philosophy of the administration, even though we have shown willingness to withdraw from the treaty, one

joining me on escalating tensions with iran, a hudson institute fellow. we had rocket fire with iraq. other things going on by proxies of iran. then of course this incident with this drone. provocations are mounting. they are becoming more serious. president trump gave tempered response. the market gave a serious rebound which he has spoken but you are concerned something is already going on with this conflict that is only going to get worse? >> i believe, thanks for having me on, charles. i believe that the message secretary pompeo sent to the iranian regime through back channels was, if you kill an american we'll do something. the danger of that is, iran can do everything up until that point. that is what we're seeing now. with the president saying this was a mistake, it is almost like messaging tehran to tell us it was a mistake so we don't have to do anything. the problem as soon as the president said that, tehran said no, we did it because you were flying over iranian airspace. everyone in the region knows if you hit iran and hit it hard, it will bac

ahead of the summit, michael pillsbury, senior fellow and director for chinese strategy of the hudson institute to have you on the program. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you, maria. maria: you may have heard tim ryan railing against president trump -- >> i did. maria: in terms of what he did with huawei. first can you go through what the strategy is with china at this point? what just took place in osaka? >> sure, the most important thing was to get president xi to return his delegation to the talks. there was a major breakdown six weeks ago. the talks really faced extinction at that point. they were taking back a lot of major points and refusing to go further on the enforcement mechanism so it was a pretty bleak situation. i think what had to happen is president xi's team made clear in their media that he needs something on huawei at this meeting. he also needed to have the tariffs at least not imposed at this meeting. otherwise he would be saying no to any further talks. that's what president trump did. it is a brilliant stroke. the president deserves a lot of credit. he hasn't

joining us hudson institute senior fellow, author of, the 100 year marathon, michael pillsbury.ichael, you were saying for a long time, that wall street was getting over its skis, anticipating a deal. it was far too early. you were 100% correct. >> thank you. charles: i think wall street is adjusting to a deal may not happen or happen overnight? >> i wouldn't be overly pessimistic. it is quite possible the two presidents will have a very serious talk in private and then come out and say something like, we have instructed our negotiators to get back together again based on our consensus that we've achieved in our conversation here. i think the chances of that happening are at least 50% that would be good news indeed. on the other hand, wilbur ross is quite correct and white house is saying for some time now that the chinese have balked. they tried to renegotiate. they reneged on a great deal and we didn't even have enforcement and other things locked in place. there is still a long way to go. but i don't want to be giddy with enthusiasm but president xi has politics. we got to un

i am abraham of the hudson institute. i have a question that was underlying a lot of this discussion. you talked about your role as connective tissue, interactive with the public. what is your sense for why public citizens in the u.s. want this right for privacy if they could have more security at the expense of exposing personal information? what is the reason that people are not as willing to share data in your opinion? >> it goes back to the founding of the country itself. right? think about the reasons for the revolution. it was british shoulders coming into american homes -- soldiers coming into american homes and taking information, it was the quarter and, it is literally who we are is to think about this. that is always true, true for americans and the americans who are cia officers. privacy and civil liberties, this is not a tack on, not an addition, not something that takes away from a mission, collecting information against threats in a way that protects privacy and civil liberties is the mission. it is how we d

. >> the head of the defense intelligence agency, general robert ashley spoke at the hudson instituteian and chinese nuclear weapons and the state of u.s. missile defense systems.

i work at hudson institute which is a thing take your in d.c. i work on a project for the clip talk initiative and we looked at the way authoritarian regimes abuse the financial system particular u.s. system to export crime and corruption around the world and how they sort of use that process to in furtherance of their geopolitical aim to undermine the security of our democratic allies. obviously 1st and foremost particular the uk. >>> i want to start with the primary statement on the public-private partnership and jmlint and corporate ownership. there's another really great facet to anticorruption which is the scale and scope of the anti-money- laundering regime. many of us will spend a brief second on this but in the u.s. we have the bank secrecy act which is the legislation governed money- laundering systems in the u.s. and specifically the financial institutions as the name suggests. in the uk, in recognition of the fact that financial sector is not the only sector at risk of money- laundering, and problems they have expanded the anti- money

. >>> panelists of the hudson institute discussed the role of a rocket as tensions build between the u.s.a and iran. this came after president trump's recent announcement that he was deploying more troops and military resources to the middle east to deter threats from iran.

abraham joule from the hudson institute. i'm going to pick one question. this is for dr. sun. you talked about the hardware/software possibility of cooperation and one may be counterargument well hardware is hard. once that's in place, that's just going to stay there. software, particularly i'm thinking of people on the ground in the middle east coming from either china or the u.s., that's much more malleable and maybe the u.s. would have this conc n concern, well, if we do the hardware/software cooperation we're just going to get pushed out. i guess how would you respond to that? >> that's a very good question. actually, if you look at china and the u.s. cooperation in africa, we do have this kind of cooperation because the terminologies are accepted not only by the chinese side but also by the u.s. diplomats saying if you look at the post-war conflicts in africa, china does view a lot of infrastructure and new roads, hospitals and schools. and the u.s. has also a kind of humanitarian assistance in the forms of nurses and facilities, et cetera. it's kind of very a new consent

see the event hosted by the hudson institute live at 12:50 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. now a discussion on state budget priorities and sources of revenue. the urban institute in partnership with the urban-brookings tax pal si center hosted this event. it's 90 minutes. >> good afternoon everybody. i'm mark maze you are. the robert c pose en for the tech policy center. it's a great pleasure to welcome you here to the state of the state event sponsored by the tech policy center and the state and local finance initiative at the urban institute. welcome to the urban institute's new conference facility. i think it's a step up from the previous facilities at 2100 m street. titled the enduring work of tax reform and the search for new sources of revenue. the title reflects the need for many states to reform their tax systems partly driven by the changes to the federal tax system and partly driven by their economic circumstances. states were worried about the effects of the tax cuts and -- impacts of 2017. they in particular were worried that their state income tax revenues woul

. >>> panelists of the hudson institute discussed the role of a rocket as tensions build between the u.s.a and iran. this came after president trump's recent announcement that he was deploying more troops and military resources to the middle east to deter threats from iran. >> if you please put your phone on silent i would shake that. appreciate that. i am doing the same thing right now. my name is michael pregent , i would like to welcome you all to today's panel. also welcome our c-span audience. today we have a panel called stuck in the middle. iraq cut between united states and iran. these tensions are leading to discussion as to whether or not iraq could be the battlefield for these two powers in the region will iran being in the region this is likely to take place in iraq we may have some disagreements there. but today we are going to discuss it and we will do this like a sunday morning show format. i will provide a scene center and leave it to our panelist to break it down. we have a great panel today starting first with geneive abdo. she is the former head of research under k

and on c-span2 at 12:50 eastern time, live coverage from the hudson institute with a discussion about u.s. relations with africa. >>> sunday on q & a, blues mu sie sishen darryl davis talks about his book clandestine relationships, where he details befriending ku klux members and convinces to leave the organization. >> he walked in first and he was wearing military camouflage fatigues with the blood drop emblem right here, and the initials kkk right here on his chest. embroidered across his beret on his head were "knights of the ku klux klan." on his hip, he had a semiautomatic handgun in a holster. he came in, and he was followed right behind him by mr. kelly, the grand dragon, in a dark blue suit and tie. when the knight hawk entered the room and turned the corner and saw me, he just froze. and mr. kelly bumped into his back because the guy had stopped short. and they stumbled and regained their balance, looking all around the room. and i knew what they were thinking. they were thinking, you know, either they gave them the wrong room number or this was a setup. this was an ambush. s

hudson senior institute fellow, rebecca heinrichs. lot of people know president trump for a long time. that is his way of needling the press but of course they have taken it. now there is narrative being built around it. >> right. they were needling him there. the media seems to be singularly focused on the fact that the russian government meddled in our election. they did that. president trump said they did that. the u.s. government sanctioned the russian government on that. the reason they're focused it's a way to delegitimatize president trump's election that is the only reason for it. president trump's administration has been tough on all other maligned things russians have been doing. confiscating ukrainian ships and ukrainian sailors, which president trump canceled last meeting over the specific issue. arming ukrainians. trying to deter russia because they're modernizing the nuclear force. i just met with the director of the defense intelligence agency, the russians tested a nuclear weapon inconsistent with a zero yield standard

the hudson institute in washington, d.c. hosted this discussion, on nuclear weapons development, in those countries. and about the state of current missile defense systems. >>>. >> thank you all for sticking around, for the second portion of this event. now, we can spend a little bit more time considering together some of the policy implications and how the trump administration is navigating the current arms control landscape. and with us, i don't think we could have put together a better panel for this, so thank you all for being here with us and taking the time to do this and helping us think through these. directly to my left we have mr. timothy morrison, tim joined as a