Venezuela’s New Chapter of Authoritarianism

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With Debra Burlingame, A.B. Stoddard, Rep. Mark Meadows, Paul Bonicelli

DEBRA BURLINGAME, member of the board of directors of the 9/11 Memorial Museum:

• Links between border security, a strong economy, and American national security
• Is the U.S. justice system’s reach long enough to bring jihadists to justice?
• Islamist claims that parts of the 9/11 Memorial Museum are racist

A.B. STODDARD, Associate Editor and Columnist at “The Hill”:

• The significance of a new Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF)
• Congressional hesitance to take definitive positions on Iraq so close to election season
• Inconsistencies on national security policy within the Republican Party
• The President’s announcement of a delay on an executive decision on amnesty

Rep. MARK MEADOWS (NC-11), Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee:

• Should harsher, more direct military action be applied against the Islamic State?
• The case against a specifics-based authorization of military force in Iraq
• Updates on the current West African Ebola crisis

PAUL BONICELLI, former Assistant Administrator for USAID Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean:

• The nexus between Venezuela and Cuba
• The Monroe Doctrine’s lasting relevance to American national security
• Venezuela’s crumbling stability under Chavez-successor Nicolas Maduro