okay, we have to leave it there upon upon day at the hudson institute. thanks for joining us. thank you. thank ukraine's president woocommerce zalinski says he spoken to the german chancellor about imposing more sanctions on russia. medical officials say they found graves with the bodies of dozens of civilians in the village of lucifer, near keith. russian forces have withdrawn from the area of the last few days of sin, a series of high profile visits by will lead us to cave resort sir. dar has more on that recently. we have just seen that there has been a high level diplomatic wizards, the highest levels actually since the war began on 24th of february 1st wonderland, the president of the european commission, joined by the blogs or foreign policy of joseph world. they have visited here just 2 days ago, and also so a can from prime minister or so was here. and wonder leon has promised a 1000000000 a dog. the euro's worth of weapons to be supply to ukraine, and also promised a 600000000 euro worth or a location about a new budget for the the construction of ukraine. however, pr

john walters president ceo of hudson institute. i'm very very happy to be joined today by the authors of this new i'm very happy to be joined today by the authors of this new book viral the search for the origin of covid-19 if you are interested as we all suffer to the topic this is the best book written to date and explain the science and tells you something about the actors who have been a part so we are pleased and happy to be joined by the authors of want to say something briefly about them at postdoctoral research from mit harvard university and asked the authors to talk about how this started but to first introduce the author and businessman and biologist andha the house of the united kingdom that is as close to a renaissance man as you get in this day and age. thank you for joining us and to my colleague some of those have seen our broadcast before from the trump administration in the state department and looking at the question of origins so thank you all for joining us and for the work you have done. >> so to begin i ask b

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now the author is josh block who works as a foreign policy analyst at the hudson institute. they conservative think tank based in washington. you previously worked at the us agency for international development under the democratic administration of president bill clinton. a political communications professor at the university of to ron florida is adi says that the author acknowledges that the u. s. tries to solve its domestic problems by pursuing aggression abroad. what the author of that article is suggesting is by more water making by more aggressive behavior that the united states somehow is going to resolve its foreign policy difficulties. you read a lot of nonsense every day. the alter, basically acknowledges that the u. s. has lost credibility. the few people in the world take us seriously by attacking iran. not only the united states will not again anything. they will actually continue that line fail policies that they have been conducting in them, at least for the last 20 years. iranian government is actually defending itself when it comes to us, i guess if call thi

now the man who wrote the article is josh block who works as a foreign policy fellow up the hudson institute. that's a conservative think tank based in washington d. c. he also worked for the clinton administration at the us agency for international developments. let's say a discuss this further hall was good to her professor of political communication at the university of cheer round forward as audi live on the program for. welcome to you. so there you have an article literally calling for the u. s. to start bombing around. what did you think when you read this and you know, you read a lot of nonsense every day. people make suggestions that they realize they don't realize that sexually harassing their cause. and as you mentioned in your opening, we have a number of think tankers. and as condos in the united states, they're to realize that what the u. s. is doing to russia, as we speak, is going to make russia closer to iran and china and other countries that are on the receiving end of your sanctions. and they realize that the by the administration is actually it may gain some short term be

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i ended up on mondays from the hudson institute in washington, d. c. she says edwin. com can get thousands of his supporters to fill the streets, but he's lost the support of millions of voters. getting people out on the streets are in the name of protesting against the united states. is not new. it is actually quite or, but mister con himself has limited popularity and he will see that in the upcoming elections. i would say that mister con has been one of the worst prime ministers for pakistan when it comes to domestic politics, economics and foreign policy. almost every country in the world is upset, the pakistan, whether it is the middle eastern countries, or it is countries in the west, united states and europe. and pakistan's neighbors are, comes to economy or the pakistan economy is flailing. ah, the ruby has touched its worst in decades. ah, there's all sort of, you know, dead that because he needs money, but the i m f is not willing to release the next ranch. and all of this is because of mr. cons policies and his politics and finally, at the c

institute. he joins us live from washington, d. c via z. thanks for being with us here. what do you think will be the incoming prime minister's immediate agenda for pakistan? his immediate dinner has to be restoration of the economy, economy and shambles. boxed on who was in free fall. boxed on stock market was not performing well. boxed on the exports were not increasing under iran con and no attention was being paid to a substantive economic issues. the market so obviously reacted positively to shop ashley selection. the stock market has gained 1700 points and one b. the rupees fall has stopped. but he still has a lot of work to do in getting the economy to function again. yes, you mentioned the economy that what will iran cons legacy be then in terms of that and, and do some of the issues actually pre date him many issues do predicted run con, but in run cons, greatest problem was that he was not an administrator. he was not interested in governance in, in government. he behaved like the oppo

the hudson institute. he says, the new prime minister must be laser focused on the economy, regardless of any distractions caused by his predecessor is immediate that it has to be restoration of the economy. economy is in shambles. the box on he was in free fall boxed on stock market was not performing well. boxed on the exports were not increasing under iran con and no attention was being paid to a substantive economic issues. the markets have obviously reacted positively to ship ships. electron, the stock market has gained 1700 points and one b. the rupees fall has stopped. but he still has a lot of work to do in getting the economy to function again. and many shows do predate and run comp, but iran cons. greatest problem was that he was not an administrator. he was not interested in governance in, in government. he behaved like the opposition only criticizing his predecessors in wrong con will not be relevant, but he will be a destructor. that is what he was in the beginning. the army put it behind it,

he's a former pakistani ambassador to the us and is now a senior fellow at the hudson institute. thank you for being with us, what you make of this breaking news? it was a foregone conclusion that once members of parliament were allowed to vote, david ward against imran khan. once he lost the authority, he should have resigned which is the normal practice and the fact he did not resulted in a protracted court battle. the supreme court gave clear orders about how the proceeding of the house was to be conducted today. his followers refused to follow that. unfortunately he leaves the country in a bit of logical... he also has endangered relations with foreign countries. i think he will be remembered for having disrupted all of that rather than something positive. all of that rather than something ositive. ., ., _ positive. you are saying he endangered _ positive. you are saying he endangered relations - positive. you are saying he endangered relations with | positive. you are saying he - endangered relations with foreign countries, he has blamed america and the us for taking part in

john walters president ceo of hudson institute. i'm very very happy to be joined today by the authors of this new book viral the search for the origin of covid-19 if you are interested as i think we all have suffered through this topic in where this pathogen came from, i believe this is the best book that has been written to date is thorough it is explains the science and it it tells you something about the the actors that have been a part of the of the search for the origin and also gives you a chance to think about what the factors are that would would help us understand that origin more thoroughly. we are very pleased and and happy to be joined by the authors. i want to say something briefly about them elena chan is a postdoctoral researcher at the broad institute of mit and harvard university. i'm going to ask the authors a little bit to come tell us a little about how this started but let me first introduce matt ridley who is a author businessman a biologist and a member of the house of lords of the united kingdom. so but that

we are joined by former-mots cow correspondent and russia scholar at the hudson institute. david, thanks is very much for joining us. let me get your thoughts on really the latest moves by the russian forces that we were explaining there in mariupol. president putin as you probably heard in the last 24 hours has truly been putting a spin on this, saying it's opinion successfully liberated -- those were his words. we know that is not the case there is still that popular resistance but he needs to sell this at home, does he not? >> yes definitely and there is an important date coming up, may 9th. that is the anniversary of the soviet' victory in the second world war. it is a huge holiday in russia. and it's really the sim bowl of the regime's strength and legitimacy. so if their -- the reason why i think they have decided against a storm of the steel plant is simply because they are afraid of the sim bow he lizm. during the second world war, in stalingrad and the tractor factories and other factories in stalingrad against the nazi invaders. any depiction of ukrainians fightin

institute, there are two distinct wars taking place in ukraine, one in the north and one in the south and the latter has been radically more successful for moscow than the one in the north. russia has been able to move forces and supplies out of its bases in crimea and capture the cities of melitopol and kherson while surrounding the city of mariupol. the latter is encircled and invaded by russian troops and ukrainian forces trapped in there cannot be resupplied. ukraine's access to the sea of azov has been blocked and as pointed out russian forces have a con tin ug land corridor from crimea deep into donbas. they are trying to move west from kherson to odesa. odesa is the prize as the main port from which ukraine trades with the world, it is the most important city for ukraine economically. it's also a city replete with symbolic significance. it was here in 1905 that a mutiny on the battleship made famous by at movie marked the beginning of the troubles of czarist russia. were odesa to fall ukraine would be practically landlocked and the black sea would essentially become a russian l

let's bring in the director of the center for chinese strategies at hudson institute michael pillsbury, good to have you back. i want to start with this from "the new york times" saying china's zero covid mess proves autocracy hurts everyone. beijing insist on following the same playbook from 2020 that relies on testing, quarantine, and lockdowns. the approach has put hundreds of millions of lives on pause, sent tens of thousands to make ship quarantine camps and deprive many noncovert patients of medical treatments. they are to countering the pandemic, they are creating disaster as one legal expert said and he put that on a blog that apparently was taken down not too long after that. what do you make of the situation playing out now? >> i get a sense of fear, they have a very dense population and a large number of cds, if this gets out of control they can face a catastrophic spread of covid to. my think they are reacting so far on the surface. it looks to me there is more sense of panic if this gets away from them in shanghai and elsewhere. it will set china back a decade or more in i

let's bring it michael pillsbury he's a director for chinese strategy of the hudson institute and author of the book, the hundred year at marathon. try to seek a strategy to replace america as a global superpower. so michael welcome, good to see you. let me ask, do you agree with bill byrd's assessment that china is a silent partner with putin in ukraine? and how is it manifesting itself? >> well, there is been a big changes cia and their views on china. i very much agree with director byrne's testimony. it is really long overdue the cia change its old position on china to this new approach. the way the silent partnership is unfolding has to do with the chinese mandarin phrase, i love to teach you. it means a kind of deception maneuver that splits the difference so you have the term silent partner director burns is using. but what that means is, china wants to help russia but in kind of a subliminal way if you will. that they can deny to the rest of the world that they are in collusion for the aggression for the invasion of ukraine. they want to do it quietly. it really test our intellig

institution. and i had no idea and then taught he talked the paypal story imprisoned in a series of entrepreneurial workshops. and they became captivated by it. and anyone that came into the prison they would find articles about this group and then assemble a packet and entrepreneurial workshops inside this maximum-security facility. today they both run businesses. he works intact. his technology is helping cities do logistics for covid 19 testing. and chris wilson, has booked a butte on know he's a i globetrotting artist. he has real estate business and out bills that is a very successful artist using all kinds of things. they found inspiration in this. it was the place where there thought about it frankly went beyond where i had thought about it. it isou interesting to me and i had hoped it would be interesting to readers for. >> it is a remarkable story and it shows we rarely talk about the mafia on technology but really all had abnormal people's lives to its really powerful story. i want to tu

joining me now, hudson institute senior fellow rebeccah heinrich. rebecca, is russia simply re grouping right now, and getting ready for some type of second large-scale assault on the ukrainians? >> that's what some analysts think is happening. that has been the pattern so far , the course of this war is they continue to try to have these military operations, the ukrainians thwart them and regroup and try a different angle in a different part of the country. i am concerned if this war continues to be protractedded and goes on for a very long time and goes on something general milli said in front of congress is this is a long protracted war you'll see increased attacks like the one we just saw against the train station which is an intentional attack against civilians, because the russians think that this strategy is going to work, that zelenskyy government is simply going to capitulate and give in and say enough because the horrors are so bad but instead, cheryl, it's causing ukrainians to get mad, angry, and to continue to want to fight, so it's not

during a recent virtual event hudson institute senior fellow arthur herman discussed how the vikings and their scandinavian descendants shaped history. there's a portion of that conversation. by the end of the bike after the viking age in the history of scandinavia that it's really the women who become the most charismatic and the most powerful the most effective rulers all through the history of medieval scandinaves. it's something struggling to see and what's amazing too. is is that although the viking age and the post-viking age produced some great rulers. the vikings become, you know the ruling class of europe and like william the conqueror descended from the norman congress. from norway commute the great king of denmark and others that there's no no one ever manages to really unite all let's get an idiot, except one. and that's margaret of denmark. this is her effigy and her tomb. as a matter of fact who for a brief period of time with the union of calamar? managed through sheer force of will to unite the kingdoms of denmark's sweden in norway into one. it's the kind of undertak

>> with work on this at the hudson institute and it shows how vulnerable we are to the supply chains that are vulnerable because they are dependent on china. i am out of time so i yield back. >> the chair now recognizes mr. -- for five minutes. >> it's been talked about on the president level as close congress and all around the world for decades now. when it comes to clean energy the united states is leading of oil and natural gas and we have had numerous economic and if it's including job creation and greater competitiveness. nonetheless russians invasion on ukraine shed a light on us locally. i think the heads of corporations for determining their operations with russian it's important everyone understands ukrainian people and all people around the world who have been invaded by otherer countries and the atrocities occurring because of them. mr. muncrief prior to the prices at the pump how are you working to save energy domestically? >> thank you that question. are fundamental businesses producing crude oil and natural gas productionke and the best thing we can do is to be a stron

institute, that shows how vulnerable we are to these supply chains that are vulnerable because they're overly dependent on china. >> i'm out of time so i yield back. >> thank the gentleman, chair recognizes mr. carnus five minutes. >> thank you, it's interesting that some people say we're rushing to green energy when it's been talked about seriously from the president's level, congress, and along all the analysts along the world for decades now. all of a sudden it's a rush to energy, i find that quite interesting. when it comes to clean energy, today the united states is the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas and this is undoubtedly brought our country numerous economic benefits including job creation, opportunities and trade, global competitiveness, nonetheless, russia's invasion of ukraine shined a light on how interconnected we are globally and i commend all the individuals in our countries, and heads of corporations for removing their operations, terminating operations with russia and i think it's important everybody understands of course we stand with ukrainian people

joining me now us the hudson institute senior fellow, rebecca heinrich. what's your reaction. the mayor called mariupol the new auschwitz. >> it's absolutely horrible, maria. my thinking about the next t vote for the u.n. security council to kick russia out, of course that's a good thing. we should have done it a long time ago. it's a farce to are russia on the council to begin with. who is the driver's seat of the u.s. policy towards dealing with the russian aggression towards ukraine. it's the lawyers and the communications director. that's who is driverring it. it's as if they're saying what can we do so we can continue to say we're helping ukrainians without actually giving zelenskyy what he's asking for to push the russians back to get some real military victories. he needs these -- he needs real drones, not the small drones, he needs the big, killer drones. he needs more air defenses. he needs these jets. these are the things that the white house continually said the united states is not willing to help, that they're escalatory. so the administration a is risk averse. ou