in oxford. i'm not particularly worried about the sources of funding i find it interesting that 2 such disparate sources have both decided this is a good idea but that doesn't stop me from thinking that it's a good idea too and looking at the contributors i see and andrew bass of each and there who's very much along my lines of sort of conservative libertarian on a lot of international issues i see parsi from georgetown with whom i agree on almost nothing but the whole idea i would think is to have people of various points of view coming together to discuss these issues and get people outside of their echo chambers that's one to paly put don ok i'm going to start throwing some cold war water on it here ok you have george soros and his relationship with the atlantic council a very you know that is the mouthpiece of nato it's staunchly anti russian if you look at the koch brothers they have been supporting this illegal who in venezuela i could go on and on ok so i'm just happy i'm left but we'll d

for bill kristol go ahead in oxford in oxford. here. it's a case of same stuff different day from crystal i was sort of so. look this is a necessary point of view being put forward it has been put forward individually by a number of people and when you find people as disparate as rand paul and bernie sanders agreeing on american military foreign policy needed to take a backseat to american diplomatic foreign policy and i say that as a diplomat of 26 years experience with the u.s. foreign service then i think something good is blossoming here now if we're still worried about the koch brothers and show us you know half a 1000000 each that's that's a rounding error on their petty cash account sure hey they're not deeply invested here but there's certainly making a point of investing and i think there's a difference ok don you seem to be more of the skeptic on the program react to that . well 1st you know the objective conditions are such that imperial retreat is you know on the agenda of the ceci and trump represents that certainly the pol

it's been a roller coaster ride earlier i spoke to the director of the crisis research institute in oxford that's mark home and he says the aim for the prime minister now is to try to come up with a deal that will be acceptable to the majority. the basic majority they have the conservative party members and the democratic unionist party and that is an essential part of this dilemma that ever since mrs may called last to certain action and reduced have authority she's been in the week a position on the other hand the opposition can defeat her because as we saw today if you have a vote of no confidence in the tory government tory m.p.'s including very prominent are mailers rally to the tribal identity and it's quite striking that m.p.'s like on a subaru who are painted next to mrs may as leading remain are tories no less wear the most aggressive towards jeremy corbett in their interventions when he was speaking so you have this ball here but we have your pin issue which divides parties and then there's the party political issues which tends to draw them together to clarify for anybody watchi

peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying eastern european studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and and indeed in september 89 i was in west berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin is arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the eastern european communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all. the events that we remember now the jangling of keys in wenceslas square in prague the the torches the candlelight the songs and so on all that was nothing but operetta it was political operetta it was froth on a tidal wave of history but it was not the cause of the tidal wave of history the cause i'm afraid was much more basic and much more realistic it was the decision as i say of the soviet union no longer to support. those regimes