robin has come a long way but still has difficulties.i know of children who have fully recovered with the proper therapies for their medical conditions. and my daughter is on that path to recovery. i only hope that everything we are doing will be enough so that some day she can live a normal life. once we learned of robin's medical issues and sought out properly trained medical professionals for appropriate treatment, she began to improve. the symptoms we see in robin and so many children like her are not psychiatric in origin. needing only psychological therapy. autism is a neurobiological disorder, a set of physical disorders with behavioral characteristics. many families hesitate to use the word "autism." we call it the a word because these underlying medical problems exist in our children and can cause the very symptoms that are labeled autism. i have been involved in multiple meetings with elected officials, doctors, parents and researchers for eight years. discussing the root causes and treatment issues. because no action has been

i remember powell coming back and sailing, that robin cook, i know i can do business with him. this is a good, good guy. . . maybe i'm anticipating a question, in which case i apologize, but to understand the context, it has to be emphasized that the regime change in iraq was from united states policy, and went back to the iraq unification act of 1998, when the bill was passed unanimously by the senate, passed overwhelmingly by the house of representatives, signed into law by bill clinton in october of 1998. so regime change, and to quote the act, to establish a program toward democracy and iraq, was an official american policy which george bush inherited from bill clinton. he was a little bit knocked about by monica lewinsky and the impeachment business, but that was the policy that george bush inherited. sometimes people say to me, well, it was the administration with right-wingers. absolutely wrong. it was inherited from the democratic administration, as were a number of other policies as well. >> this time you are stressing that regime change was using the iraqi policy. whe

their victory follows fairly hard on the heels of a victory in 2007 by the warner robins little leagueboys team and the little league world series. baseball series. and so it's quite a treat that warner robins now is the only city in the united states that has had teams successful on both the girls sides and boys side as little league world champions. i think it's particularly poignant that not only do all members of the georgia delegation co-sponsor as original co-sponsors, this bill, but many members of congress are also a co-sponsor of this bill. i want to specifically recognize debbie wasserman schultz. she at the time that she signed on to the bill was suffering from an injury that she incurred playing softball in the, i hope to be, annual, but it was the first annual softball game to raise money for charity among women here in the house of representatives. so we are all softball fans, baseball fans, we are delighted that the warner robins girls team was successful this year. we hope they have great sucks is -- success in the future in their individual lives. no doubt they value t

robin has come a long way but still has difficulties. i know of trojan who of fully recovered with proper therapy. -- i know of the children who have fully recovered with proper therapy. we hope that someday she can live a normal life. once we learned of her medical issues, and she began to improve. these symptoms we see in robyn are not psychiatric in origin, needing only psychological therapy. autism is a disorder with behavioral characteristics. many families hesitate to use the word "autozone." we call it the a word. -- many families hesitate to use the word "autism." i have discussed causes and treatments. no action has been taken. more children have suffered and more families have been destroyed. the financial burden will fall to their parents and also to taxpayers as some of the older children cannot work and must collect disability checks. care will cost millions of dollars. i have to accept new york invitation to set the record straight. you cannot address the a-word without addressing of a-words. we have the sickest generation

is she the little robin girl or the little princess? >> well, i think we could learn -- we could learn a lesson from fairytales which is you need to avoid the brothers grimm which we would get. >> order. order. order. order. i say to the right honorable members good humor is one thing. but disorder is the other. we have to impress and ensure the public not to discuss them. mr. andrew mckinley. >> the minister may recall on the 7th of may i drew to her attention the plight of migrant workers and those people whose papers are languishing where it's prevailing. will she arrange for a meeting with the charity london citizens and the faith groups, the bishops, the bishop joe lynch and others, he met with his colleagues to discuss the problems of migrant workers and those peoples whose status is yet to be determined? >> well, i will ensure there is a meeting of ministers, the relevant minister with london citizens who are a very good organization. i'd like to pay tribute to the work they do. and i'm sure that they would be reassured to know h

i will sing for the blessed babe ♪ ♪ on this joyous christmas day ♪ oh ♪ bring your little drum ♪ robind 33 highway. i saw that on the epa site. so how come the malibu costs so little. it's a chevy. you have cop hair. now during the chevy red tag event, get an '09 malibu with o percent apr for 72 months. see red and save green. now at your local chevy dealer. >> larry: for many of you watching "the night before christmas," is a story that parents read to you on christmas eve. and now you read it to your own children. i'll bet you have never heard it read like this. queen latifah puts her own spin on the classic as she reads to children from the milton hershey school. >> oh, a wonderful christmas story called "the night before christmas." you with it, kids? >> i'm with it. >> good. >> 'twas the night before christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even the mouse. the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that st. nicholas soon would be there. the children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.

cynthia robins currently serves as a consultant to time banks u.s.a. and a long with doctor edgar khan, his codirector, cofounder of racial justice initiatives. and initiative was launched earlier this year to address the consequences of structural racism and social injury resulting from violation of the constitution and federal law and public systems, including juvenile justice, child welfare, and public education. she has experience as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney as an adjunct to professor of juvenile law. and we will be joined hopefully during the program by tonya clay house is the director of the newly is established policy director of bush bush to be on funeral rites of rites of the law. she's a former policy public policy director of the people for the american way, and former legislative counsel for congresswoman sheila jackson lee and senator arbor boxer. so we will begin with nancy jones. >> thank you, mr. scott. i am nancy jones that i am an attorney with the american law division of crs. and crs does provide objective and no

at this point i'd like to have robin robertson come up.omedical advance medical facility and talk to us about eggs, cells and beyond. >> past present and where we'll be ten to fifteen years from now. introduce you to one of the new kids on the block so to speak. pandemic has a prepare edness biomedical advance redevelopment research. barta where we're providing medical counter measures for chemical nuclear threats and emerging infectious diseases and we've moved a long way with pandemics and we'll be starting soon with emergency infectious disease. this could be in the form of vaccines and even ventilators and other nonpharmaceutical products. where we were in the u.s. government to provide these products, as you see, we're right here. we take an and off for the,nih and some of the department of defense and early and research and early development. we do advance development and we do acquisition and stockpiling and work with our partners at,cvc on the storage and maintenance of that and work with them to make sure it's deployed and utilize

but robin williams had a buckley impersonation. you also got the door of that just by being in his presence. if you were walking along the street with him or getting out of his car with him, there was a little ever-present sense that people are looking in our direction. they were not looking at me. there were looking at him. it was that, yes, i am walking with him, sort of feeling. >> you said there were no checks and balances on his benign dictatorship. who were the of the key players at the time? >> two people he relied on to make his career go where his sister, priscilla who was the managing editor, and his secretary and assistant francis bronson. francis was like the wrangler of his life. france's bronson was the regular of his life. she made sure that everything there was supposed to happen happened. at the peak, there was hundreds of things. the tv shows he did, all the writing assignments he had, the speeches he gave, the appearances, the parties, this, that, and the other thing. she told the story many times that there was

ron and robin. [applause] >> good afternoon.s a great honor to be here today to join with all of you in sending a clear and unmistakable message to attorney general eric holder and president obama, that their decision to allow the five terrorists to step foot on american soil is an abomination. [applause] it is beyond despicable. it is sacrilegious. it is inconceivable to me that at some date in the future of these terrorists will stand in a court room of our country and have bestowed on them all the rights of the country they want to destroy. this is more than a debate about the finer points of law. it is about the raw emotions of the american spirit. 9/11 to us is a connection because 9/11 was ckyle's birthday. in 2001 on 9/11 he was in georgia at the fort, training. when i watched that television and saw the first airplane did the tao work, i had no idea what it was. -- airplane hit the tower. then i saw it coming toward the second tower, then i knew we were at war. i turned to someone and said my son is going to war. we did

bruce gallen, carol hyman, robin robinson, jesse goodman, and especially tony county whose leadership in this whole area over the years has put the united states in a position of international prominence in terms of the technology and the way in which vaccine can both be developed and tested. so i think it's going to be very interesting morning, and again i think those listening on the web will feel free to send in questions through that address that was mentioned a moment ago by bill hall so that there can be a chance for back and forth, including people in the room and people beyond the realm of. finally, i would just like to say thanks to the secretary, secretary sebelius could not be here this morning but it was clear he played a critical leadership role over the course of these many months of pandemic flu. she made a joke about how she didn't expect to have a pandemic in her welcome wagon, but she has adapted to that, i think, quite brilliantly and certainly would like to give a great deal of credit to her leadership in pushing the agenda forward and making sure that all of the a

to the late robin cook focused for whatever it was, eight, nine months, on trying to do narrowing andled. >> after the visit to washington, which, of course, you were there, what was his input at that time with regard to the sanctions debate? >> he had -- i didn't want to say this, but somewhat to my surprise, struck up an extremely good relationship with colin powell very quickly. powell had come to london in eier

i remember powell coming back and sailing, that robin cook, i know i can do business with him.i'm anticipating a question, in which case i apologize, but to understand the context, it has to be emphasized that the regime change in iraq was from united states policy, and went back to the iraq unification act of 1998, when the bill was passed unanimously by the senate, passed overwhelmingly by the house of representatives, signed into law by bill clinton in october of 1998. so regime change, and to quote the act, to establish a program toward democracy and iraq, was an official american policy which george bush inherited from bill clinton. he was a little bit knocked about by monica lewinsky and the impeachment business, but that was the policy that george bush inherited. sometimes people say to me, well, it was the administration with right-wingers. absolutely wrong. it was inherited from the democratic administration, as were a number of other policies as well. >> this time you are stressing that regime change was using the iraqi policy. where there groups who said actual milit

miss, let's try to hatch the eggs in incubators like don experimenting with the last of the black robins to try and increase the number of eggs laid by what is now commonly done as double or trouble clutching. you destroy a nest and raise -- normally put the eggs in an incubator and then they make another nest and you take the second day this and have them hatched and leave them with their third nest. >> how do i say this, the a satiric skill set that they have, the ability to sit for days on end in the blazing sun and watch a bird in a cave to count as one early i believe one early biologists counted the number of lives that it picked off of its wings in the course of a day. [laughter] and were there any particular skill sets that you were impressed by in your travels? >> guest: i was absolutely impressed by some of the rock climbing ability. the story, one of the stories i love is the real discovery of the islands stick insect which is this thought to be extinct for 80 years and then rediscovered and was surviving on a pinnacle of rock miles offshore with only one quote of digitation,

elton john constantly plays robin williams. raises a ton of money. documented for the charter school sends underprivileged children to college. >> there's a break point chance. a couple of loose moments for sampras and the door is slightly open for courier. and again the body serve. and it gives you and you good chance of at least playing a volley that you feel good about. . >> if you haven't seen his serve in a while, you're reminded of that little toe move that he does as he creates his rhythm. how many young people have followed that and mimicked that. it's such a pattern thing. i know i'm geeking out on seeing sampras play, but it's kind of cool, you know? >> you have to be aggressive. you're the one taking the risk coming to the net. you can't just put your volley for play. you have to be aggressive with it. another thing sampras does so effectively. amazing how quickly it get gets to the box. >> i know back in the day and i imagine he still might, he put lead weights on. >> he's got plenty of weight on him. >> courier well-known in france and a

but i do think that he thought the current version of larry summers perhaps like robin williams in the more recent version of hook is now much more grounded. he has a family. he owns a house. and he doesn't believe anymore in pixie dust i'm wondering do we believe your own version of larry summers or do we believe the other? >> i think larry summers has certainly had his views altered by the crisis. and, in fact, at the conference that i was alluding to earlier, he said, if i remember this correctly, he likened it to the impact of the cubin missile crisis on the need for serious nuclear disarmament. so there's no question that larry summers has been frightened and is now out making the pitch for reform of the financial regulatory system. i just think that it's also true that if you look at the details of what's coming out of our treasury, and if you look at what the administration is saying about the bills that are on the table in washington, there's still some vestiges of the market fundamentalism that we should have lost by now. this idea that, first of all, the business cycle functi

gentleman that called in from michigan, this economy was bad when george bush was in there, but when robins there, everybody tried to keep everything -- when republicans was in there, everybody tried to keep everything hush,. the other thing that i did not like was when they were calling him hibbert -- hibbert and signs and guns and everything. i think it was distasteful and disrespectful. thank you very much. you have a blessed day and a merry christmas. host: thank you, a couple of opinion pieces from some washington newspapers. this is inside the "washington post" for michael kirsten." -- from michael gerson. another opinion piece this morning in the "washington *" they have a piece on the war. opinion this morning in the "washington times." what is your favorite political story of the year? caller: i do not know if it is my favorite, but it is funny. like the one where there were to try to make me buy something, that ain't gonna happen. the lady that just called a minute ago, met at lieberman and stuff like that. you have got to understand that your reed said he was smart for doing that

but robin williams had a buckley impression and comics had imitations of him. so it was -- you know you also got the kind of the aura of that just by being in his presence. because if you were walking along the street with him or getting out of the car with him. there was a presence that people were looking in our direction. and they were not looking at me, of course, they remember looking at him. and you got the, yeah, i am walking with him sort of feeling. so it was exciting. >> now you say there weren't checks and balances on ogmñhis dictatorship, but who were the other key players? >> the two people that he relied on to make his career go were his sister, priscilla, the managing editor and his assistance francis bronson. francis was like the wrangler of his life, she made sure that everything that was to happen, happened. there were hundreds of things, the tv shows and writing assignments and speeches and appearances and parties. and she told the story many, many times, i put it in the bobbing. -- book. there was one phone call and there was a list of thing

. >> jeffrey robins. >> his trip to afghanistan. in particular his direct conversations with president karzai. the number of troops they are committing is encouraging, but the quality will be very important. could be, perhaps, a stark progress by some reorganization of the kandahar future government. >> i talked to president karzai about the governorships of kandahar and also helmand and about the appointments he is going to make to his cabinet in the next few days. my honorable friend is absolutely right. it is the quality of the local government on the ground and the quality of the afghan army and particularly over time the quality of the police in afghanistan that is going to be so vital to the success in the future. what i saw yesterday was afghan recruits training at a high level demand from the british trainers and acquainting themselves well. what i also see in helmand is a government that insures the content and resources directed to the people and build up a system of law. wherever that is not happening actions should be ta

gentleman that called in from michigan, this economy was bad when george bush was in there, but when robins was in there, everybody tried to keep everything -- when republicans was in there, everybody tried to keep everything hush,. the other thing that i did not like was when they were calling him hibbert -- hibbert and signs and guns and everything. i think it was distasteful and disrespectful. thank you very much. you have a blessed day and a merry christmas. host: thank you, a couple of opinion pieces from some washington newspapers. this is inside the "washington post" for michael kirsten." -- from michael gerson. another opinion piece this morning in the "washington *" they have a piece on the war. opinion this morning in the "washington times." what is your favorite political story of the year? caller: i do not know if it is my favorite, but it is funny. like the one where there were to try to make me buy something, that ain't gonna happen. the lady that just called a minute ago, met at lieberman and stuff like that. you have got to understand that your reed said he was smart for doi

robin williams was mistaken for a monster when he came on the show. [laughter] >> bert and ernie were the original breakout stars. now it has been elmo, elmo, elmo. >> tell me about it. >> when will people finally recognize the true genius of grover? dodge thank you for that question. maybe starting today. >> you had a visit from first lady michelle obama? what were your impressions of her? >> she is a lovely lady. and very tall. i think even big bird had to look up to her. >> she did say that that was the coolest thing they had done since they moved into the white house. >> would you think the politicians here in washington can learn from sesame street? [applause] -- [laughter] >> that is all the questions i have time for today. thank you very much. goodbye, everybody. [applause] >> we are actually almost out of time. he has excellent timing. let me remind members of our future speakers. on december 14, karen mills, the administrator of the u.s. small business administration will discuss their efforts to boost the small business sector to drive econo

robin williams was mistaken for a monster when he came on the show. [laughter] >> bert and ernie were the original breakout stars. now it has been elmo, elmo, elmo. >> tell me about it. >> when will people finally recognize the true genius of grover? dodge thank you for that question. maybe starting today. >> you had a visit from first lady michelle obama? what were your impressions of her? >> she is a lovely lady. and very tall. i think even big bird had to look up to her. >> she did say that that was the coolest thing they had done since they moved into the white house. >> would you think the politicians here in washington can learn from sesame street? [applause] -- [laughter] >> that is all the questions i have time for today. thank you very much. goodbye, everybody. [applause] >> we are actually almost out of time. he has excellent timing. let me remind members of our future speakers. on december 14, karen mills, the administrator of the u.s. small business administration will discuss their efforts to boost the small business sector to drive econo

thanks, robin. we will review the petition and respond appropriately.i have never believed and this agency has never believed that setting a national ambien air quality standard for greenhouse gases was advisable. that being said, we need to look at the petition. i don't know that there's anything in there that would change my view. but we'll do that. >> [question inaudible] >> well, today's action, again, is the basis for the rule. you have to find endangerment in order to then be compelled. and it's not a choice to act under the clean air act. further action would certainly be warranted when we talk about a threat to public health and welfare. so e.p.a. continues its work on the regulatory front. and i want to emphasize again, i believe it's not either/or. i don't want anyone to leave here thinking that because we continue our work, i don't stand firm in my belief that we need legislation. that being said, i also believe quite firmly that there are things that the clean air act will allow to us do, clean cars, emissions reporting that we've already do

but robin williams had a buckley impersonation. you also got the door of that just by being in his presence. if you were walking along the street with him or getting out of his car with him, there was a little ever-present sense that people are looking in our direction. they were not looking at me. there were looking at him. it was that, yes, i am walking with him, sort of feeling. >> you said there were no checks and balances on his benign dictatorship. who were the of the key players at the time? >> two people he relied on to make his career go where his sister, priscilla who was the managing editor, and his secretary and assistant francis bronson. francis was like the wrangler of his life. france's bronson was the regular of his life. she made sure that everything there was supposed to happen happened. at the peak, there was hundreds of things. the tv shows he did, all the writing assignments he had, the speeches he gave, the appearances, the parties, this, that, and the other thing. she told the story many times that there was

robin williams was mistaken for a monster when he came on the show. [laughter] >> bert and ernie were the original breakout stars. now it has been elmo, elmo, elmo. >> tell me about it. >> when will people finally recognize the true genius of grover? dodge thank you for that question. maybe starting today. >> you had a visit from first lady michelle obama? what were your impressions of her? >> she is a lovely lady. and very tall. i think even big bird had to look up to her. >> she did say that that was the coolest thing they had done since they moved into the white house. >> would you think the politicians here in washington can learn from sesame street? [applause] -- [laughter] >> that is all the questions i have time for today. thank you very much. goodbye, everybody. [applause] >> we are actually almost out of time. he has excellent timing. let me remind members of our future speakers. on december 14, karen mills, the administrator of the u.s. small business administration will discuss their efforts to boost the small business sector to drive econo

nq,t call is robins, north carolina. john, independent line. your on the air. caller: hello.is my first time calling. c-span. i've been watching it on and off for the last several yearj and i try to keep up on things. i really agree with doctor dean, i thought thought should pass something but now i realize it's a poison pill and i trust doctor dean. i think obama has been co-opted by wall street and it's a shame. i agree with many of the callers because people are thinking more and áup)ting to see. one thing i heard from the lady from michigan she said she thinks the insurance profits one of the least profitable companies. but 2-5 percent perhaps that's true but maybe the executives are loading up packages and salaries. i've heard they have 25% administrative costs or somet$ing. insurance company executives are not starvint and they do have health insurance and i don't. many of my friends don't and i work construction. unless your in a city or state where there's unions you're not going to get insurance. 70 percent of the jobs created are, what do they say? by small business

bruce gallon, gary nabel, carol heilman, robin robinson, jesse goodman and especially tony fauci his leadership over the years has put the united states and the position of international prominence in terms of the technology and the way in which vaccines can both be developed and tested. so i think it is going to be an interesting morning and again feel free to send in questions through that a dress that was mentioned a moment ago by bill hall so that there can be a chance of it back and forth for people in the room and people beyond the room. finally i would just like to say our thanks to the secretary, secretary sebelius it could not be here this morning but the u.s. played a critical leadership roll over the course of these many months of pandemic flu. she made a joke about how she didn't expect to have a pandemic in her welcome wagon, but she has adapted to that i think quite brilliantly and certainly i would like to give a great deal of credit to her leadership in pushing the agenda forward, and making sure that all of the areas that needed attention got that kind of attention.

now, we know that on february 25 in an interview with abc's "good morning america" robin roberts, joe biden said, and i quote, we got to make sure this is done by the numbers, man. we have to make sure people know where the money is going. this cannot be squandered. we have an opportunity to get the nation back to work and back on its feet and the first piece of that is generating some economic growth here. we have to do it right. now, that was february 25. now, again, here's where they said we'd be without the stimulus. here's where they said we'd be with the stimulus. here's where we are. here's where we are. and my colleague who spoke earlier about the horrible problem of unemployment, and it is. my home state of oregon has suffered mightily. but this stimulus hasn't produced jobs out there. it may have produced them to contractors back here, but not out there. so where are the jobs and where's the money going? we were promised, the american taxpayers, when we borrowed all this money from china we were promised that we'd know. by golly this is going to be accounted for. everybody's

. >> jeffrey robins. >> his trip to afghanistan.particular his direct conversations with president karzai. the number of troops they are committing is encouraging, but the quality will be very important. could be, perhaps, a stark progress by some reorganization of the kandahar future government. >> i talked to president karzai about the governorships of kandahar and also helmand and about the appointments he is going to make to his cabinet in the next few days. my honorable friend is absolutely right. it is the quality of the local government on the ground and the quality of the afghan army and particularly over time the quality of the police in afghanistan that is going to be so vital to the success in the future. what i saw yesterday was afghan recruits training at a high level demand from the british trainers and acquainting themselves well. what i also see in helmand is a government that insures the content and resources directed to the people and build up a system of law. wherever that is not happening actions should be taken

ron and robin griffin have kept up the fight in their here to speak to list out. -- speak to us now.good afternoon. it is a great honor to be here today to join with all of you in sending a clear and unmistakable message to attorney general holder and president obama that their decision to allow these five terrorists to step foot on american soil is an abomination. [applause] it is beyond this pickle. it's sacrilegious. it's inconceivable to me that at some date in the future, these terrorists will stand in a court room of our country and have bestowed upon them all the rights of the country they want to destroy. this is more a debate about the finer points of law. this is about the raw emotions of the american spirit. 9/11 to us is a connection because 9/11 was his birthday. on 9/11, 2001, he was for benning, ga. training. when i watch that television, and saw the first plane hit the tower, i had no idea what it was. when i saw the second in the background and saw coming toward the second hour and finally hit, i knew we were at war and turned to someone in said my son is going to wa

right now, barring an agreement with robins, the final vote on passing the bill could happen on christmash it live on c- span2 an edited and commercial free. you can listen to highlights on c-span radio. go to our health care ohub with live streaming video from the senate floor, a complete archive, briefings from leadership and other key senators, and the latest from the reporters and editors fromcq and roll call. there is a new free iphone app. coming up in a little less than a half-hour on "newsmakers," center kent conrad talks about the national debt and his proposal to create a national commission to make recommendations to congress. that is today at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> c-span christmas day, a look ahead to 2010 politics, including republican congressman eric cantor, david gregory, buzz aldrin, and nasa astronauts. laced -- letter, a former c.i.a. intelligence officer on former -- on strategy against al qaedaf abraham lincoln, great american historians on our 16th president. from lincoln's earliest years to his life in the white house and his relevance today. in hardc

robin williams was mistaken for a monster.] >> bert and ernie were the original breakout stars. now it has been elmo four years. when will the world finally recognize the true genius of grover? >> thank you, thank you for that question. maybe starting today. >> you had a visit from first lady michelle obama. what were your impressions of her? >> she is a lovely lady, and very tall i think even big bird had to look up to her. >> they did say that was the coolest thing they have done since they moved into the white house. >> what do you think the politicians on k street here in washington can learn from sesame street? [laughter] >> i think that is all the questions i have time for today. thank you very much. goodbye, everybody. [applause] >> ok, we are actually almost out of time, so grover had good timing there. on december 14, karen hills, the administrator of the u.s. small business administration will discuss efforts to drive economic recovery. she will not be bringing any burry monsters that we know of. december 15, the hon

. >> jeffrey robins. >> his trip to afghanistan.particular his direct conversations with president karzai. the number of troops they are committing is encouraging, but the quality will be very important. could be, perhaps, a stark progress by some reorganization of the kandahar future government. >> i talked to president karzai about the governorships of kandahar and also helmand and about the appointments he is going to make to his cabinet in the next few days. my honorable friend is absolutely right. it is the quality of the local government on the ground and the quality of the afghan army and particularly over time the quality of the police in afghanistan that is going to be so vital to the success in the future. what i saw yesterday was afghan recruits training at a high level demand from the british trainers and acquainting themselves well. what i also see in helmand is a government that insures the content and resources directed to the people and build up a system of law. wherever that is not happening actions should be taken

robin piacine, the cold war and pow/mia. and mr. broward, the mia advocate. our second panel, and we were very pleased to have them participate also in july will be the honorable charles ray, deputy assistance, secretary of defense for pow/mia affairs and commander chris for the accounting command. i want to welcome y'all. and again if you can give us your testimony in three minutes, do y'all have that information that we were hoping that you could do that? we always make a habit to come back and make sure you've had a chance to make sure to say something that's critical and important in the end. do you have any comments? >> thank you. indeed. i appreciate your efforts that nobody is going to be cut short. chairman davis has been terrific about providing for time. and we'll be back. i want to begin by thanking the distinguishing members of our two panels. we look forward to hearing your testimony and working with you to fulfill our commitment to our american heros who are missing in action or prisoners of war. i want to highlight some of the strategic themes