i name is dr. paul coyer, research professor at the institute of politics. we are for many of you that don't know, we are not a think tank. we do like to think, but we are not a think tank. we are actually at graduate school. we have about 17 one-year graduate certificates. several masters degrees and it just started a doctorate in strategic studies. we are privileged today to have michael present her from the hud financed to do. i give you a bit of his background. recently we have come into contact with them last year or so as i become more good traveling there in getting more involved in the dynamic there. michael has many years of experience. not to make them sound too old. he is still young. he is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. senior middle east analyst, former adjunct lecturer for the college of international security affairs. and a visiting fellow at the institute of national strategic studies at national defense university. michael is a former intelligence officer with 28 years of experience working security, countering terrorist -- in the

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