our efforts are directed both at daish core networks in syria and iraq and strangling attempts to establish branches and inspire attacks elsewhere in the world including in the united states. we have known from the moment that we formed our international coalition in the fall of 24 teen. by the way, it merits remembering that this coalition has only been out this for a little over a year now. we knew that success was not going to be measured and a matter of weeks and months. it is measured in years as it was about qaeda. i said at the time, 2014 that it would take some time. so did the president. but in the end, mark my words, as a matter of fact, daish will be defeated. every country in the region that surrounds iraq and syria is

supposed to daish. iran, jordan, lebanon, qatar, turkey down through the amorites, saudi arabia and beyond which is why we have a coalition of 65 nations. the progress we have already made towards baghdad and defeating them is undeniable. last month, iraqi forces with coalition support we take most of the provincial capital of her body, further reducing the area controlled by terrorists. in the past half-year, the coalition and partners have worked with iraqi forces to liberate to create an 100,000 sunni have been able to return to begin to rebuild homes, find homes. we've been able to freeze in jar, remove terrorist commanders from the battlefield, including a dozen leaders in the past few weeks alone. and we worked together to cut off the terrorist supply line to

him either oil facilities, to take away resources, to deprive daish of the territory once occupied in iraq. daish has not been able to seize a major town or city since last may and the coalition is stepping up the pressure even further here and we are intensifying airstrikes in northern area, assisting partners along the border between syria and turkey and helping to squeeze the remaining stronghold in mosul and arauca and we are opening the aperture for further cooperation with others in the region including russia. meanwhile, we are doing more every day to prevent foreign fighters from joining daish and to stop those who do from returning to their countries and engaging in terrorist activities. we are also doing more to rebut terrorist propaganda, to drive revenue resources.

we have opened a number of facilities on a global basis. one in the emirate, another opening also that will help deal with the challenge of social media management in an effort to be able to take away the recruitment and the lone wolf challenge. we know more than ever about sources of income and that has allowed us to be more strategic in our efforts. the greater impact on daish's ability to sustain itself. there is no question that we have significantly degraded transcendent ability to profit from the oil that controls and we have made anyone who might consider doing business with them think twice. so degrading and defeating daish is the first pillar of our strategy. the second is to work with our partners to prevent the violence from spreading.

just the other day we had a significant meeting with respect to libya and you can anticipate additional efforts with respect to daish's efforts to spread its tentacles into libya and elsewhere. and that is one reason why we are now providing a record amount of humanitarian assistance. more than 4.5 billion today, which is more than any other nation in the world directly to what the problem of displaced people out of syria and iraq. we are doing more to strengthen the defense capabilities of jordan, lebanon and other friends in the region. this is really important work and i guarantee you it is going to continue. the main reason for these after is the outrageous human suffering that this war has visited upon syrians and their neighbors. many of you may have seen the so-called caesar pictures last year, more than 10,000

photographs, each individual. so not repetitive, but individualized, showing massive torture, starvation, extraordinary government policy by the assad regime ,-com,-com ma bombing of children and innocent families, schools, hospitals, not to mention the fact there was widespread use of gas, which we thought we had outward after world war i. this is precisely why we are expanding our focus now and our response to the worst refugee crisis the world has seen since the second world war. this fall, president obama will host a summit on the margins of the u.n. general assembly in new york. this event will be the culmination of a rigorous effort to strengthen the humanitarian system for delivery of health to

be able to secure new funding and increase opportunities for resettlement and humanitarian admission around the world, a comprehensive effort for millions of syrian refugees, but also those from any country who qualify for refugee status. in that vein, and i am pleased to announce that we have plans to expand the u.s. refugee admissions program in order to help vulnerable families and individuals from el salvador, guatemala, honduras and offered them a safe and legal alternative to the dangerous journey that many are tempted to begin, and making them at that instant easy prey for human smugglers who have no interest but their own profits. i might add, making them also pray for one of the great scourges of the world today, which is human trafficking and

many, many people, 20 million plus living in a state of modern slavery. the global efforts also need to focus on ways to better integrate refugees into foreign communities in order to help them regain dignity after the turmoil they have endured. this is in the best traditions of our country and many countries around the world. that is why measures to help refugees builds self-reliance through education and opportunities for local employment are so important so that the men, women and children who come to our nation's are better equipped to contribute to the communities of welcome. after the speech, i will be heading to silver spring, maryland where i will meet with a group of dedicated americans who work in one of our resettlement centers, helping refugees integrate into their new communities in the united states and lately, this critical

work has been conducted against the backdrop of some nasty politics. the people making statements on the refugee issue, designed to scare our citizens, but have no basis in the. let me be very, very clear. we can both maintain the highest security standards and lived up to our best traditions as americans by welcoming those in need of help to our great country. that is who we are. that is what we do. that is how we wrote our history. that is how we became who we are and we dare not turn our backs on future people, generations seeking the same set of opportunities. we have the ability to protect ourselves, even as we remain a country that welcomes my nation.

and that is while i have been silver spring, i will also meet with the group of refugees, duly arrived. some well established in order to hear about their experiences and to emphasize how welcome they are in our nation. the refugee crisis is not just a serious problem nor a middle eastern problem or european or african problem. it is a global challenge of historic or portions and dimensions and it tests our values, our self-confidence in our very humanity. we have to do all that we can to respond effectively in the most effective response of all, my friends involves the pursuit of peace. i said to my staff at the state department, engaged in the syria conflict at the end of last year, you know, i am tired of

going out and brag and we are the biggest donor to refugee needs. write a check, help the refugees. i can go on endlessly. but keep writing checks, we can set up in your camp. the question is can we make peace and end this endless supply of refugees. in the past four and a half years, when theory and in 20 has been killed or wounded. one in five is a refugee. one in two has been displaced and the reality is there'll be no end to this crisis, no into the pressures on lebanon, jordan, turkey. no into bulgaria, germany. no end to this crisis unless there is an end to the conflict itself. one person who stands in the way of that. and that is bashar al assad.

that is why we must de-escalate syria and that can only happen through political transition. every leader i've met with, there's no military solution. you have to have a political solution. i suppose you can sit there and make the argument that the military solution and you can wind up. primitive desert called ip's. sure. but if you want to hold the country together, if you want to restore the secular united syria that once was, if you want to bring people together in a way that allows sunni, shia truths, christians all live together, then you need a political transition. last november in vienna, the united states and other members

of the international serious support growth by agreed upon a series of specific steps to stop the bleeding area, to advance the political transition to isolate the terrorists and tout the syrian people begin to rebuild their country. i can't stand here before you today and tell you it is going to work. i know how it could. but it is going to require cooperation of countries in conflict. it was monumental we were able to bring saudi arabia and iran to the table together to join ms and it is important that both have said they will not allow their current differences to stand in the way of working towards a settlement. in december, we in the other members of the u.n. security council passed a resolution endorsing work of the vienna support group of the international serious support group, bringing the fall rate global community behind this is.

for the first time, every one of the major international players has come around a table together with a specific timetable for negotiations between the responsible opposition and various government and because of the hard work of all of those parties, and those talks are now slated to begin later this month on january 25th. it will be difficult. it will require a good-faith effort by russia, iran, all of the players to push for the implementation and communiqué which calls for restraint -- and government. it is not to be missed by anybody here that even iran put forward an important contribution to the dialogue and a peace plan that called for the unity government, constitutional reform, cease-fire and election.

and that is part of what has been embraced by the vienna support group. so obstacles to peace always germane. there's always an obstacle to peace. look at the frozen conflicts in the world. but the need for a settlement is clear and the more progress we make towards that goal, the easier it will be to mount a truly affect and sustained unified effort against daish. daish benefits when great powers are squabbling among each other. leave a vacuum in governance and they've got of people out there with mal intent to can fill the vacuum. in addition to our efforts in syria and iraq, another priority the coming year involves iran and the implementation of the joint comprehensive plan of action that we agreed on my server and dns.

the jcp away as it is called is a blueprint for blocking all of iran's potential pathways to a nuclear weapon. as agreed, iran is now well on its way to dismantling, dismantling critical elements of its nuclear facilities. just yesterday the foreign minister reported to me that the co-entry of the plutonium nuclear reactor is now out and in the next hours that will be filled with concrete and destroyed. all of their enriched material has been put on a ship and taken out and onto russia for processing. that shipment that was taken out in one day more than tripled our previous timeline of two to three months for iran to deal to acquire enough weapons grade uranium for one weapon and it is

an important part of the technical equation that was during the breakout time to at least one year for the next 10 years. .. essential challenges are at

stake here, and we will ensure that the specter of the nuclear armed iran is removed as a threat for security and global peace, and it is not insignificant that iran has agreed to submit to this, agreed to take these steps, agreed that it will not build this weapon. implementation may, which is the day that iran proves that it has sufficiently downsized its nuclear program and can begin to receive sanctions relief is going to take place likely within the next coming days somewhere. and when that happens, we are convinced it will make us and our partners around the world more safe and secure. now, any agreement only works if it is fully implemented, and

that takes me to the next priority for 2016, which is building on the momentum that was generated last month in paris when nearly 200 nations, 186, 195 and 186 submitted plans for the reduction of the mission of a global basis. so nearly 200 nations came together to reach a historic agreement of climate change. it was made by unprecedented collaboration on climate issues with the united states and china which began an initiative we would engage in order to bring china into instant using it outside as it has been in most of the meetings previously that we have had on climate change in the together china and the united states stood up and announced well in advance what our goals would be with respect to our reductions and urged

every nation to announce its own targets for reducing carbon emissions. you heard the president say last night if you don't get this by now, if you are going to argue the other side of the case but it's not happening where you want to be in denial you are going to be very lonely. that's what the president said because our military and our experts, our scientists, people all around the world can see with our own eyes and experiencing the impact of climate change. this plan is designed to keep the pace with technology and to get stronger as time goes by. the agreement sends an unmistakable message to the private sector alike. that's the power of this agreement. none of us went to paris with the belief that we will get to the 2-degree holder that is

necessary to prevent a tipping point. but if you have 200 nations, all coming up with a plan agreeing to reduce all moving towards alternative renewable clean energy the message to the marketplace at large is unmistakable. the message is that the chinese time is now to undertake a permanent transition to a new and low carbon energy future for the world and i can tell you for the evidence i see, this message is being heard and integrated in policies by prime ministers, governors, mayors, by energy investors and innovators and entrepreneurs and consumers in several society. we have to now stay vigilant to keep the pressure on here in the

united states and around the world to formally adopt the agreement and take the bold innovative steps into transition in the transition to clean energy sources and to pursue every opportunity we can to cut carbon pollution including i am ending the montréal protocol to take on hydrocarbons. now, the momentum is with us because the world is coming to understand not only is curbing climate change essential to our environment, and our health, not only is it essential to our security which is something every one of you as leaders have been telling us for some period of time that addressing climate change is pushing us to take advantage of one of the single biggest economic opportunities that the world has ever seen, this is an economic bonanza.

fastest growing jobs in massachusetts right now in the environment clean energy sector. and that's true in many parts of the world. we are creating more jobs there began in the old sectors of energy production and by 2035, energy investment is going to reach close to $50 trillion. much of that money is going to go towards clean energy development. we will have 20 times where we were before president obama became, three times the deployment of wind. the economy will be bolstered when they approve a trade agreement that includes 40% of the global economy, and that is another priority for this coming year. in 2015 after seven years of negotiations, the united states joined 11 other nations along

the pacific rim and completing the negotiations on the transpacific partnership. the tpp includes the highest labor and environmental standards of any trade agreement in history. it represents 40% of local gdp. it will support american prosperity by lowering the barriers to the exports. 18,000 different taxes will be taken off of items that the united states tries to export into shape trade in the asia-pacific for years to come. it is a critical component of the united states rebounds towards the region. the american leadership in the largest emerging market in the world. the fact is the path we have

done to the course for progress from every corner of the globe in africa we are working with local partners to train the leaders of tomorrow to increase access to electricity, to improve food security and deal with debilitating conflicts we have special envoys in the great lakes area. all of these we are engaged in pushing back against al-shabaab and might i say making progress in ensuring our success. an example of that is what we did in the ebola crisis. a million people were predicted to die by christmas a year ago but they didn't. we stepped in and thanks to the courageous efforts of our united states military and the decision to send several thousand of them there, we built a platform for the platform for which we were able to build the spawns and so

we were able to knock it down to a nuisance level if not gone. we also made enormous progress slowing the spread of hiv aids and we are on the brink now perhaps seeing the first generation that will be borne aids free in africa. in latin america we reach out to the people of cuba by resuming diplomatic relations after 54 years. we are also supporting colombia with another special envoy engaged and on behalf to help to seek to negotiate an end to its decades long struggle with the group the longest running conflict in 50 years on the planet. we are working with a afghan president and chief executive officer to address the security challenges of their country and

to continue to move afghanistan towards the better safer future as people deserve. that's been going on for 14 years and which began in 2001 there were less than a million kids in school, and almost none of them were girls. now they are upwards of 8 million in 40 plus% are girls and when that goes on for ten years, kids that are 10-years-old or 20 k. they are going to make a difference in that country. they have a different set of possibilities. in europe we are standing firm with our allies in support of a democratic and sovereign ukraine and in sending a strong message of reassurance that nato's promise of collective defense will be upheld. so this is going to be a busy year for the united states of america we recognize as a critical role to play on the world stage.

as i said in the beginning of my comments, we welcome and that is not going to change. so, in many ways we don't have the luxury of slowing down and this last year will not see a slowdown. sometimes we forget that history isn't actually broken up in 24 year or eight year increments. the rest of the world doesn't pause cause for the united states election cycle and president obama has tracked at all of us across the administration to keep our eyes on the future. ultimately, we need to end sure that the next president can continue to build on the success that we have seen over the past seven years to pick up on the the efforts still underway and benefit from the progress that our nation has made on so many

different fronts. this is not a new concept as the man for whom this home was named, abraham lincoln said in the first state of the union message to congress back in 1861. the struggle of today is not altogether for today but for a vast future also. >> in spite of the uncertainties that we face i have to tell you, and i say this after many years of public service as the general said earlier, i am optimistic. i have a sense of confidence about the future because i know there is one constant. we are a nation of doers in the empire. we've survived the burning of the capital, the disgrace of

slavery, a devastating civil war, a great depression, to global conflicts, prolonged military confrontation in the mom and the gulf, a superpower rivalry, for presidential assassinations, terrorist attacks and new york, boston, california, and unfortunately elsewhere. we have endured a whole lot more. now obviously no nation is perfect. we are not. no country on earth is or ever will be. we are strong and i believe we are as strong as we have ever been and if we remain engaged, if we believe in diplomacy and in the effort to dialogue and work we will continue to mobilize to help and support

across the globe if we make the most of every single foreign-policy tool at our disposal, if we think not just about getting through next year but about building new foundations for generations to come, then i'm telling you, we can and we will live up to the magnificent legacy that we have inherited and we will enable those who follow us to do the same. that's why you're here and where those uniforms and what we must accept as our responsibility. i'm confident that we will and we will be successful. thank you very, very much. [applause]

for the next budget cycle again that starts at 12:eastern on c-span2 and 7 p.m. the west virginia governor will deliver the state of the state address that will be live from charleston and coming up right now it's the new jersey governor chris christie three at

yesterday of yesterday delivered his state of the state address in trenton. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause]

to be home. lieutenant governor from a speaker, mr. president, members of the state to switch her, friends and family, and my fellow new jersey and data database is now the sixth time that i delivered my annual report on the condition of the state as required by the constitution in the state of new jersey. before my first visit to the chamber i received a number from across the state's political class. i was warned not to come here

and waste my time talking about real reform. as a way to over deliver or at least break even by those sworn by the class not to pick battles of special interest and to only pick the fights that i knew i could definitely win no matter what. i was told not to raise expectations of actually governing because new jersey i was told was basically ungovernable. when i arrived here what did i find? new jersey was broke, depressed and we were failing. decades of governing turned the state into an economic basket case. we have grown zero net private-sector jobs in eight years, zero. we were dead in the water.

we have one of the most heavily taxed states in the state in the nation, jobs and businesses were fleeing, on employment at nearly 10%. the same people who told me not to try of course. we would bring real change to the city and here we are. it's growing stronger every day. [applause]

anyone who says new jersey is ungovernable is wrong. in 2014 or economic recovery went from strong to stronger. we achieved the best private-sector job growth in new jersey in 15 years. after creating new jobs for eight years we created 224,000 new jobs in the last six years. [applause] it falls to 5.3%, the lowest it's been since 2008. home sales continue to recover in 2015 rising by nearly 14% over 2014 and the number issued as 10% is 10% higher than it was in 2014 with the level of

permits since 2006. last year for closure still by 20% with declines in every one of our 21 counties in the state on our watch new jersey has pulled back from the economic brink. we've got the discipline back to the public finance as well. we now have six consecutive balanced budgets with no new taxes on the people of new jersey. [applause] our discretionary spending for

fiscal year 2016 is $2.3 billion below 2008. we've shown for smaller government is better government. we shrunk the size of government with better more efficient public services. there are fewer state employees today than the day that i took office six years ago. [applause] property taxes or increasing 7% a year for a decade before we arrived and the last half decade on our watch and under our 2% chance of channel of 1.9% we could do even more. with the state investment in the school system with more than

$12.8 billion in funding for the schools this year. we established renaissance rules and now we have seen two years in a row of graduation rate increases in what was once the worst school district in new jersey in the city of kansas. he continued to make progress for the sovereign communities within the law enforcement indicating offenders off the street and also helping to build the conditions for long-term peace in our communities. from 2011 to 2014, crying and in new jersey fell 20%, and the incarceration rate in new jersey is falling nearly 10%.

in camden once the most violent city in america for murder rate has dropped 52% in the last three years since we transformed the police force. [applause] one of the achievements i'm proudest of, we helped thousands of people whose lives have been devastated by drugs because the help that they need instead of prosecuting the failed war on

drugs and against our own citizens to leave classified drug addiction as the illness if truly is a to rehabilitate some of the most vulnerable members of the society. that year alone i i find ten new walls that would address this issue and today we will talk about the next steps we need to continue making progress. furthermore even points on the scoreboard or indians and these were live states and communities transformed. every accomplishment means a child with a vehicle to reach their full potential in school and in life. with employment to provide for their families means hard-working business owners are able to bring growth and jobs to their communities and new life and energy to our main streets.

and we should feel proud to call the street or home. we should raise a new generation and create a new future for new jersey. we have a different kind of politics instead of accepting the cynicism and the mediocrity. we showed it needs to remain the confidence and policies of principle and yes, policies of compromise. instead of hiding from the problems and pretending they don't exist, we have confronted them openly. more often than not, we have done it together as republicans and democrats. we don't agree on everything but we don't have to. as long as we keep talking to each other and try to do the right thing the sound bites are

governed through hard conversations and i certainly have plenty of them and many of you in this room but it's never about that. the only thing which i can win is a better deal for the people of new jersey. instead of going for the quick fixes into the easy solutions, we have gone for hard solutions and long-term revolution in the way that we run our state. this is what it means to be the governor, what it means to be a real leader. it's a difference between talking a game and attacking head-on and being responsible for achieving the results and the solutions to matter how unpopular, is it right for new jersey new jersey in new jersey in the way that we teach our children and the way that we care for the members of our society in the way that that it keeps our streets safe and believe me build better neighborhoods and in the way we

grow stronger businesses year after year the results tell us that approach works. we turned the calamity into six years of growth, six years of growth. we/unemployment nearly in half. we went from a massive budget deficit in a row without reaching taxes and we passed the tax reform and simplify the tax code for small businesses and pass criminal justice reform with a statewide expansion of statewide expansion of a mandatory drug court all across the state and the reform of the system to give violent and nonviolent offenders a chance to become productive members of society. education reform for the first time in more than a century if it was right for students and parents and educators particularly in the urban areas that needed help the most. we passed and mark pension and benefit reforms with bipartisan support, generating a savings of

more than $120 billion for the new jersey taxpayers. in fact, the fiscal year budget provides a $1.3 billion payment in the state pension fund, which is t largest pension contribution in the history of our state unlike what you will hear from the selfish public union leadership by june we will have contributed $4.4 billion pension, more than the last five governors combined. so, here in new jersey we have achieved a historical reforms in our state is even better prepared to face the future. we proved new jersey can be governed and leaders to step up and take risks can make a difference for the people we represent and we still have more to do. and please, please let's not start taking steps backwards after all this hard work. in washington that's not true to what we are going to hear tonight