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e you can understand a true leader. c-span: let me read some more. people like you and you ended up being president 67?ó[ >> guest: yes. c-span: and his cronies.i take it from reading the book that he didn't like them. >> guest: yes, yes.>> i london. >> in london. c-span: did he come here to die? >> guest: right after the fall of vietnam, two days before the fall. help with help from americans he went to taiwan and then the american government said this is open to taiwan and he is not welcome inu america. so hthey help him, you know. and so he was in england for about three or four years or five years and then he moved here from boston. and he just passed away like tw, months ago. so too tough to criticize that >> ian answet the right thing. and i can answer your question [inaudible] but i can't talk about what he t did and his personality. and he's the only one that knows and understands. he has already stressed the fear and if we do something against the well, they will likely be with them. and so that is something that is a part of this. c-span: were the americans responsible dirty assassinationa >> guest: i'm not sure, but i know with the

c-span doll wj or e-mail c-span@journal. he's formerly with the fbi joint terrorism task force and the name that we are hearing more of is how vico abdu. >> guest: it goes to speak to the experience that has been gained over the past ten years. of the leader of isis was captured and imprisoned and then released. he's fought against the united states. he's been operating for quite some time today i think you saw one of the articles this morning talking about how many of the military officers are being used as a sort of integrated into the ranks so you see a lot of military experience and they know how to command the unit and they are well equipped and these leaders have created a deliberate plan that is separate from al qaeda. with baghdad when you see how he's created the state of deliberate steps he's taken, he's following what is laid out in the book called the management of savagery which was translated by william as a combating terrorism center written by a name to a sensually cover their real identity but it lays out in very specific detail how to build an islamic state. what you see these leaders doing is following that blueprint in iraq. so it's interesting about him he comes from the legions there are much more men of action and what you see with the old al qaeda leaders they are much more. they are propagandist and a sort of ideological theologians but they are not the ones that are fighting on the front lines and any experience they got from that with bin laden had in the 1980s. however they are inspiring on the front lines. you will see reports from the actual fighters in isis saying i saw him out here in western iraq and that's very inspirational and motivating and set them apart in terms of their leadership and al qaeda. >> host: there is this question is the war against isis winnable? >> guest: i would say this. i wrote an arc will yesterday called why does the u.s. want to be a foreign enemy. there is a belief in the united states that it is about taking on the united states and i think this is very different from al qaeda. specifically they said that in order to topple the enemy or the regime's power corrupt dictators throughout the middle east and north africa you have to go to the united states. essentially to let them fall. isis is very different. they are going after different objectives. there are elements in iraq and syria with their support that they receive from iran so there are very different dynamics. what's been interesting the past two weeks is this push especially what i've seen in the news, the u.s. needs to step in and deal with isis. and to that, i would say we need to clearly define what our interests are. in a certain sense, isis has been attacking the regime in syria. so, by stepping in to take care of isis, we are empowering a solid two is a corrupt dictator who's been oppressing his people. so, we really need to think about what is a war with isis and why do we need to pursue it. i absolutely believe that if the u.s. turn all of its military efforts and focus on isis that isis could be decimated. and if you look at the history of these al qaeda affiliates and the rise up and down, al qaeda and the arabian peninsula with their group in yemen, you know they essentially took over and were quickly eliminated by the yemen a letter a with support from the u.s.. if you look at how this has gone with al qaeda and the islamic sahara, the same thing has happened. they rose up and then with support from the french in this case during intervention that so-called islamic state immediately evaporated. and so yeah i think sure, we can win a war with isis. i don't think that is really at all a question. the question is what do we seek to gain by going in on behalf of the entire region and eliminating this threat. a isis in my opinion poses as much of a threat to the stability of the iraqi government to iran in terms of just being a pain on the border and then saudi arabia, i think a lot of the countries where these fighters are coming from, saudi arabia being probably the largest should feel very nervous about the risk of the foreign fighters coming back home. >> host: let me ask you about a couple hostage related issues. this is from msn that confirms an american woman is being held hostage in serious. she's a 26-year-old humanitarian worker held captive for about a year and is the third american known to have been kidnapped by the militant group, and there's this video pleading for her son's release. the story this morning inside "the new york times." in that year since he vanished in syria as family asked news organizations to abide by a complete blackout. that changed with the beheading of the 40-year-old james foley. this is a portion of the plea for her son's freedom. stomach the terrorists of the islamic state, my son is in your hands. steven is a journalist who traveled to the middle east to cover the suffering of muslims at the hands of terrorists. he is a royal and generous son, brother and grandson. he's an honorable man who's always try to help the weak. we haven't seen him for over a year and we miss him very much. we want to see them home safe and sound and to hug him. since his capture i've learned a lot about islam. i've learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. stephen has no control over the actions of the u.s. government. he's an innocent journalist. i've always learned that you can grant amnesty. i ask you to please release my child. >> your reaction and comment? >> guest: i think it's extremely sad situation. the u.s. policy has been and i sure will continue to be not to negotiate with terrorists groups for the release of hostages. while i feel for the mother, and i do understand that it is a terrible situation, it has been demonstrated time and time again and most recently by an ap article that describes how these groups essentially look to extort as you brought up earlier by capturing hostages from western countries in order to finance themselves. in this case, i'm not sure what the situation will actually turn out to be. i imagine that isis is trying to evaluate the reaction that came from the beheading of foley just last week and what tools they can use in terms of that in terms of their own propaganda with the united states. i'm sure they know that any sort of act of barbaric like that is likely to just bring more pressure on them and we've seen that in the last two weeks in the media but in terms of release or negotiation the u.s. is a tough spot. in a tough spot. what i thought was admirable if they tried to go in that rescue mission that sounds like last year. it must have been one of the most dangerous missions to try to rescue the hostages. it is a negotiation against their very own policy but can continue in the future. >> host: homecoming for one, plea for another. and the "boston globe" reporting all a load the perils for freelancers in global hotspots. good morning david. it had had an inordinate, they ended up with an inordinate number of children going into adult hood getting into the police system and many of them end up in prison. prison has always been the ground for the spread of islam. what do you think about this and the effect of the spread of islam through the prison system. i think prison radicalization and globalization is a very, very small influence of the situation. the number one influence -right-brace social media specifically facebook, twitter. pretty steadily and homeland security has done a lot of research. it pales in comparison to what we are seeing today which is one and two predominantly in social media out of the 140 that have gone to syria i would ask 12010 of those are mostly recruited through social media with some facilitation and the local network so in the case of serious or even some ali a these recruits that were going overseas i don't think that is coming through prison radicalization. prison radicalization is more of an issue for domestic extremists and even in the case of al qaeda is staying in the united states attack. >> host: according to fox news confirmed as the second american killed in a fight that broke out he joins douglas macarthur also killed so what can you tell us about your prospective what do you think happened? >> guest: as long as it goes on in syria and there is a success it is achieving they are going to attract more crudes and it is just a basic number seen. as the conflict goes on and isis continues to have success, you will have an exponential growth and that is globally. and in the case of the united states lets say the number is i think quoted 140, that is probably double what it was a year ago which was 70 or so and it will continue to increase. the more media attention that isis get, the more success they achieve the greater the growth and recruitment will be. but i think it's important to understand is that these foreign fighters especially in the case of the suicide bomber in syria from florida these fighters transited back and forth. there seems to be the belief that once they go over to syria syria maybe they stay there but we have seen several instances as well where the fighters travel from the united states and have gone to syria they come back and maybe even returned to the middle east. so that is a great concern. many of the plots are by the technical ability you see disrupted by the fbi quite a bit but may be recruited by the internet or just decide they want to undertake an attack on al qaeda or in the future and this is their ability to pull that attack off is very limited. there are lets say 140 of them would but if they come back to the united states they are now trained or even all qaeda and the arm. i think that is the greatest fear because they have the capacity to pull off the substantive attack inside the united states. >> host: joining us from new york to senior fellow at george washington homeland security policy institute. prior to that he was an infantry officer and fbi special agent on the joint terrorism task force and served as the executive officer of officer of the combating terrorism center at west point. mark joining us in new york, good morning. >> guest: i have been to be of the jewish faith and israel does not behead people. i'm probably going to switch parties because i did like romney and i'm not a wealthy man but i think that he stands for something and they hope to have them as the leader of our country. >> host: thanks for the call. let me take his point and ask about the response to all of this. how has the white house handled the? there is one that we have the competing interests that are also going on. but one is we would be helping out the regime in syria which has been in the two-year civil war now destroying large parts of its own country and by pushing down the isis or clamping down on them too hard, we can be empowering or helping out his regime. on the other side is the crumbling government in iraq which is really turned to iran for support as isis has grown and so by helping out in terms of pushing down on isis, we are actually empowering iran which is one of our known adversaries in terms of nuclear negotiations and iran which by all measures was really hurting us inside iraq in the past decade when we were trying to stabilize that country. what i think is smart is the united states has done one is to protect kurdistan and the kurdish people they stood by the united states multiple times and they've been one of the bright spots in the transition period. the other one is going after the mosul dam and they control baghdad from isis because it gives the ability to actually unleash a huge disaster on all folks that are south of the river so what you see in terms of the measure so far have been very limited and smart in terms of protecting the interest. the question is where do we go from here? we have antagonized isis to a certain extent and came up with the james foley beheading video and this is a response to the strikes of the question is how limited can we be to that antagonized isis where they are doing retaliatory attacks against the u.s. homeland and at the same point about and power of their adversaries we have in the region mainly iran and syria. >> host: republican for kentucky presidential bid has a lengthy piece about the president's handling of isis and the middle east and one close the article this morning in the journal, senator paul saying the middle east policy is unhinged to see who to act against mixed with little regard to consequences. next is jim joining us this morning from south carolina from george washington university. >> caller: good morning. what's your guess originally for the iraq war to overtake saddam hussein? >> guest: i believe most of what was told to me and justified and i am disappointed with the reality of what's come out. >> host: should the president has have kept troops in iraq? >> guest: i don't think they should have kept them in iraq it was time to make the transition to the iraq he government. >> caller: [inaudible] every country and every citizen [inaudible] fighting each other just because we go to iraq to fight the war that we shouldn't have gone to. thank you. >> host: we will get a response. >> guest: if i understood the question correctly it is what should the u.s. response be after being in iraq the u.s. needs to realize it's not the center of the universe and much of what is going on in the middle east has very little to do with the united states. the trigger point was the 2003 invasion of iraq. but since the u.s. has left all of those stakeholders in the region are trying to seek out their own interest. some of them are state actors like iran, serious, saudi arabia. but a lot of them are not state actors. so i think the u.s. needs to vary narrowly decided that its interests are and then support those. but i what i am concerned about is that it has been almost 11 years now since the initial invasion of iraq and i'm not entirely sure as to the way most of the american people for their interests are in the middle east and what do we want to achieve moving forward and i don't think there is a real consensus on that in washington. and so our policy will continue to drift over the near-term crisis is or trying to contain what the problem is in externalities in the objectives because i don't think there is any consensus. >> host: on the line for independence. >> caller: i want to state i think it is a given that we shouldn't get too involved in this sunni shiite religious war which is going on. we should have learned our lesson not getting involved in that. it's like a family feud goes back more than 1,500 years between the sunnis and shiites. where do we go from here? there was a diplomat from kurdistan that in the united states through weeks ago he stated that his objective through visiting the united states was to try to get the american public support for the aspirations of the kurdish people for independence. i don't think that's got much coverage, but i think that's an interesting concept. perhaps we should support the aspirations for independence. it seems to be going along the way also giving some support and we would then have a very reliable area and return we could possibly monitor the situation in kurdistan and be able to react quickly in the event. >> host: what about that scenario? >> guest: i'm very critical of that scenario. kurdistan has been functioning in terms of its own governance. they are prepared militarily to defend themselves and they can maintain their own security. a lot of very strong business interests are there and they can really be that sort of democratic state that we have always sought in the middle east from the u.s. perspective. one of the frustrating things that have been revealing to me is that the notion of democracy as a way to sort of bring all of these entities together is a flawed philosophy. it is not going to bring about the results we want. we are not going to see another version of the united states in these countries due to the ethnic and tribal differences that have been there for centuries. and so, i am for looking at breaking up these countries are allowing them to become autonomous. and that doesn't just apply to iraq. somalia is another example where we have seen essentially the country that functioned as three function as three countries were three nationstates for quite some time. and that can actually give us allies. it can give us some sort of strength in these regions rather than try to compete with other adversaries like iran to peshawar influence in the country like iran. so i'm open to it but in terms of the international system there is a lot of resistance to creating autonomous regions. though one might be south sudan that has recently become its own nationstate. so we might look at something like that as a model. but i agree i don't believe that forcing the countries to stay together is an amalgamation of different ethnic groups painted long ago was the best solution moving forward depending on what our interests are and i think one of the u.s. interests in the middle east is backing and supporting a strong kurdistan. >> host: our topic what's next for the u.s. dealing with isis. our test as clinton watts. this is from the "the washington times" focus on douglas macarthur became who was killed in a fight between fury and forces and is a member of isis he's an american and now to americans reportedly killed in a fight. the headline u.s. citizens joining the islamic state a major threat to the homeland if i mentioned this headline because they say to you the cd you think isis is in spite of the u.s. already? >> guest: to say there are no card-carrying members of isis so they don't necessarily get issued an id card but i think you have a couple different elements of what can go on. you have the numbers that are in iraq and serious right now and some of those are from the united states. and they will likely try to return home should they survive the battlefield. it will be a small number and they are of a great concern when they migrate back. however i think the u.s. counterterrorism architecture since 9/11 has improved dramatically and they have done a great job. fbi and homeland security law enforcement attracting that down. what's more concerning is the unknown which is the random isis supporter who doesn't actually travel to the region, doesn't actually make contact with the group that is inspired and then conducts violence on their own to this is the violent extremist created inside of the united states somewhere. i wouldn't say that is under isis control, but i think it is concerning that it's very sour to the mr a inspiring folks inside of the united states to conduct attacks inside in spite of the u.s. homeland and that is a sick because concerned and one that we need to watch out for. you can see this play out and it will continue the next one to two decades where you have people suffered in a conflict overseas and a nonstate actor and they will rise up and go down based on the nature of each of those conflicts. so, al qaeda, the arabian peninsula for the concern you don't see much of it now. now what you see is a lot of isis and in the time here kelly saw the foreign fighters being recruited. so you will see this up and down dynamic pretty routine over the next ten to 20 years based on what the conflicts are going on around the world. >> host: at the american legion convention he talked about his approach in response to our pullout from iraq and how the u.s. is dealing with the ongoing terrorism threat. >> the answer is not to send in large-scale military deployments that overstretch our military and lead for us occupying countries for a long period is time to end up feeding extremists. rather than military action has to be part of a broad strategy to protect our people and support our partners to take the fight. so we are strengthening our part is. more military assistance to government and kurdish forces in iraq and opposition in serious. we are urging them to forge the kind of inclusive government that can deliver the national unity and strong security forces and good governance that are ultimately going to be against terrorists. and we are urging countries in the region and building an international coalition including our closest allies to support iraqis as we take the fight to these barbaric terrorists. >> host: comments of the president at the american legion convention and this morning in "the new york times" and taste you're interested in reading questions on airstrikes in security is the editorial. we will go to sean joining us in key west florida. good morning. it is unquestionable that we would rely on this and based on this concept we have made mistake after mistake after mistake and we are involved in making another mistake which is going to lead into other mistakes. we are told that isis is worse than al qaeda ever was and that we need to go back and re- train these people after we've trained the iraqi army for 11 years. many many think the intelligent decision which is to get out of there immediately. let those people handle the problem in whatever fashion they decide is necessary. we are only going to be creating future mistakes by the actions we are taking >> guest: i thought it was a more formalized version of the statement about how we want to engage moving forward. i have my skepticism about some things the president said that in general he's right in terms of the approach that we need to protect american interests and help our partners that are in the region that we need to not go all in. what's been fascinating and some of the claims that we need to deploy i think one of the estimate was ten to 15,000 troops. our history the past decade told us that is not a solution. believing we can build strong enough governments in these regions and in these countries that don't have the economic basis to support themselves, that don't have the diversified economy and that don't have a social capital necessary to really support a democracy that we can build these governments and institutions i don't believe that. and i don't think i would stop terrorism anyway. at least to have an element in the countries that are dissatisfied in the way they are going to try to change the status quo. i don't see as necessary and we've just seen in the past 12 years no matter what we put into it we cannot force a good governance system on the countries in the region. we can be supportive, but we can't force it. what's been interesting while we talk about the governance in the post-arab spring north africa middle east, we haven't really done a whole lot in terms of supporting the good governance of the countries. and even if we did, i don't think that would stop the foreign fighter migration of species from the middle east to south asia. >> host: the next call was caller is from centerville virginia on the line for independence. good morning. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. a couple of quick things. the idea that these folks are here is false. i was telling the call screener you are going to get breaking news one afternoon that some of these guys -- he key was too late for that. they crucified children and what they did to mr. foley was a horrible thing that they aren't going to go away unless we remove them from the planet and the only way is to go in and get it done. >> host: the headline is focusing on the beheadings are a common practice in serious. this is on the usb port but also that isis is bringing children, mostly boys in the around the age of 14 and some as young as 10-years-old for training. >> caller: i understand that and my point that is basically have to worry about united states security and interests overseas. the interest overseas and those that operate are our problem. the people we need to worry about our begins, the women, the men that make this country work. this is a cancer and say a man or woman had cancer that isolates the cancer and get [inaudible] one other point before i go, 1986 i was in the reserve center and i had a guy walk in off the street and he was working for the mujahedin. >> host: we are getting some feedback. we got most of the plate and we will get a response. thanks for listening to us on c >> host: i don't think that the policy of decimating isis would be a feasible or productive. on the productive part, we just tried that approach over the last ten to 12 years. we went throughout the entire planet eliminating every al qaeda linked affiliates battling them down and many of the actions especially when it comes to military occupation only a rate of the recruitment to the nonstate actors. so the policy definition while not feasible but acceptable to the public would also generate more fighters to the ranks of isis. the best way to destroy isis is too much isis destroy itself. there are violent practices and lack of popular support among the population will ultimately lead to the demise. i think that there are strategies, some of what the president either did to that will help isolate isis said that it comes to their own doing and that is the best way to defeat the movements like isis. >> host: we are talking about the next step dealing with isis from massachusetts. the lin

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>> i want to respond to the guy talking about iraq. to put everything on the government, part is a civil war in syria and the isis rebels ca causing the problems. it's the civil war spiraling and the arab spring and the causes of the arab spring. the other things with article 241, i think it was or it was about that voting for independence and taking kirkuk and which is -- they have done now patrick, republican line, go ahead. >> i wanted to know what you think that the indifferents between hillary clinton's or jeb bush's foreign policy would be as opposed to say, rand paul's. we have heard even oftentimes that hillary would be more of a neocon than rand would on foreign policy. >> i won't give me mine what time do you think the general differences are? >> caller: i think the past 3 president sees have been unconstitutional when it comes to going to war, even if it's not a wide-spread war like we had in iraq and afghanistan. they don't go to the congress to seek approval. i think rand would from anything to a drone strike or a much more widespread war. >> as you vote for the next president in 016, how much foreign policy will impact how you vote? >> severely. >> besides maybe the economy is my most, you know, my most. i voted for john mccain and i never will again. the only person i could see myself voting for would be rand paul although i don't agree with him on everything. i think he will at least finally be a president that will abide by the constitution and bill of rights. >> you can hear from senate paul's father actually on our book t.v. program like i mentioned today >> caller: as far as the border, anyone whether or not comes across, they broke the law. once it starts, you don't know where it will end. the law is the law. period. host: host: katy texas. up next. >> i am a hispanic and i have siblings that obviously are hispanic, too. guthey don't approve of immigration reform. and i am like, if they don't approve, it's like there are so many people against it. signature the main hurdle they have to jump over is hispanics. they are so many against immigration reform. >> the first of two americans to be treated for ebola is highlighted in the pages of "the new york times" this morning. it was built with the cdc with the headquarters nearby. dr. brantley and ms. writebol will be held in a position away from other patients and probably have limited contact with visitors, communicating with non-medical personnel through telephones and an intercom system. a sheet of glass will separate the ill from the healthy. the unit has been used three to five times since it was built. all of the patients were suspected of having serious disease like sars but turned outed to not have those illnesses. this is the first time the unit held patients who truly had a dangerous disease. from arizona, here is don. republican line. >> hello. i am a core ian war vet. i want to comment on the va situation. host: host: okay. >> caller: i was pleased with wh they are doing 238 miles from me, i go. and at my age, that's a long, long trip i am glad they are going with the 40 mile rule. >> will help. >> from liberty texas caller: i was wondering why the water empowered, since we are in the middle of a flood, it seems like it would be a perfect time to start to work on this project. host: host: for those who don't understand, what is what is it and a short explanation? caller: it's a solution that's come up by the la rouche foundation about waterways, clean lakes and? >> since we are in a severe drought this would be the perfect solution. i am wondering why congress won't take it up or talk about it. >> why do you think it will work? because it's simplistic's. if you look at the plan online you will see why it will work. >> from liberty texas, again, we are doing a set of open phones this morning. for the remainder of our show, 202, 5853881 for republicans, 2025853880, democrats and 202585382 for independent. "wall street journal" writes about the fancy farm event in kentucky. you may have seen it and heard about it, featuring highlights of the kentucky senate race. this is "the wall street journal" writing up saying this hamlet framed the experience. still stark terms mr. o'connell, the current incumbent warned the attendees of casting a vote for ms. grams would amount to a vote for president barack obama. a little bit of sound from both of those candidates through this last half hour. first from mckown and talked about his intelligent, allison grimes. >> the reality is that the obama administration and their liberal allies are making americans weaker at home and intaud. barack obama by any stand has been a disaster for our country. if you think about it, that's what you get for electing someone with no experience. he was only defense he was only two years in his first job when he started campaigning for the next one. sound familiar has campaign raised millions from extreme liberals. sound familiar? he didn't have any qualifications at all. sound familiar? every time he got in trouble, and every time he got in trouble and his inexperience became obvious, he called in bill clinton. sound familiar? >> again, that's senator mitch mcconnell. we will hear from the other candidate in the race. nancy, kansas city, kansas, indent line. caller: i wanted to talk about the va. i do recruitment for the va. i don't think anyone is talking about the future when they give this money to the va, you know, for veterans to go to private doctors. obamacare is going to cause a real shortage of physicians in my mind. house that going to help the veterans when they go to a private doctor and they can't find one? so, that's my comment. thank you for letting me -- >> hold on. blozs because you work for the va, what do you think about the organization you work for? what goes through your mind caller: well, i see waste. i see lots of waste where i work. and really, nothing is ever done about that. the other problem is they can't get rid of bad employees. not just because of the unions. because of tof the courts. when someone is fired, they go straight to the courts and get their job back. and in a lot of cases, they are bad employees. so there is a lot of problems. there really are they are to look at getting more doctors at the va. >> this is glen from pennsylvania, democrats line. ca glen, good morning. caller: good morning. pedro. i am calling about the palestinians. host: host: caller: calling for theitsis p it's time to talk about one state. hear me? host: host: i can hear you. go ahead. caller: for 60 years, been trying this two-state solution. it's time to talk about one state that would take care of the killing going down there. one state, one state. host: host: barb from sioux city, iowa. republican line. caller: my name is barb. good morning. i would like to comment on the iraq situation. >> started when obama add announced that the time and date he was going to start withdrawing our troops. when you have an enemy and you are fighting an enemy, you don't tell -- you don't tell your enemy, well, i am going to fight you until this and then i am leaving. you don't do that. i think that's when this problem started and the whole state of iraq just pretty much collapsed. and i think that's the reason. it was working with bush's surge, the violence had decreased tremendously. and right after obama made his announcement, the violence started to increase. now it's just a total disaster. >> you heard from mitch mcconnell at the fancy farm event we just showed you. we will hear from his challenge, allison grimes talking about senator mcconnell and her desire to be in the senate. >> it has been a hard year for mitch mcconnell, 35 at my age, that's also his approval rating. the senator is worried about the results in november. when you see his campaign manager wearing a michigan for governor 2015 button. sorry, al, sorry, jamie. when you finally, see senator mcconnell and i on this same stage, you realize only one of us believes women deserve equal pay for equal work if he were a t.v. show, he would be madmen treating women unfairly stuck in 1968 and ending this season. . >> back to open phones, here is tom in concord,cal, independent line. hi. >> how are you doing? >> fine, thank you. go ahead. vets, our government is not there for them. it's a sad thing because, you know, child support and family law system to this country does the same thing as the va hospital does. and the government pays these people to do crimes and ruin families that should have their work done for them. they have to drive 300 miles to another doctor. obama or all of the senators don't have to drive to go see their doctor. they don't with a to wait six weeks for permission to drive 300 miles. why is that? i don't understand. we need to stop worrying about other people's problems and worry about our own here? >> next is charles and just a reminder, if you are waiting to get online, if you would turn down your television set to stop the feedback, we appreciate it. charles from kentucky, democrats line. hi. >> hi. yeah, this is charles calling about your earlier segment about veterans. i am army-retired. a lot of veterans don't know when you are retired from the military and you receive va disability, if your disability is less than 50%, whatever va gives you, they take it out of your army retirement check. but if you are over 50% disabled, they do not take it out of your army retirement check. you know, the government preaches equal opportunity. to me, that's not equal opportunity. if you do for one, you do for all which means if you are going to take your va check less than 50% disability out of the retiree's army disability, then you should do it for people over 50% or vice versa. if the people over 50% are not getting it taken out of their army -- their military retirement, then the people that get less than 50% shouldn't get it taken out of their military retirement. >> john from tennessee is next on our independent line. hello. john from tennessee? caller: yeah. this is john from tennessee, vietnam era veteran. my comment is that i had a chance to sit in on phil rose open forum in jonesboro, tennessee. his comment was at the end, what we are doing for the veterans is what for the future veterans and the vietnam veterans, probably 80% there and we just all left stunned. that's all i have. >> from the politics of the nation section of "the washington post", a story about common core, the education policy. state lawmakers take the lead on school standards. lindsey leighton writing that the back lab against common core has prompted lawmakers in 12 states to get more involved in settling their own k-12 academic standards and adjusting politics into a process usually conducted in obscurity by bureaucrats. in several states, legislate temperatures made restrictions on state boards of education and in others, lawmakers have opened up the development of standards to greater scrutiny requiring that the problems receive public vetting. academic standards lay out scope and knowledge that students are expected to learn by the end of each great, adopted at the state level while decisions about how to teach and materials used are usually made by school districts. state boards of education whose members are often appointed but sometimes elected usually control educate orders and subject matter experts as the craft's academic standards and highlights the states and specifically how they handle their standards under common core. you can read that for yourself in the washington post this morning. dale from texas, democrats line. hi. >> hi. good morning? >> good morning. >> listen. i just have a few short comments i want to make. i have been listening to c don't know how long. i want to start off by talking about congress. in my opinion, you know, i think it's so sad where we are headed in the congress. the old folks say when i was real young, it's something like this. congress been out all night and ain't got shit to show for it. i am talking about democrats, republicans, independent alike. also, the only thing it's good for is making someone bad look good. the va, it's not -- i worked for the federal government for 30 years. what i found there was they just don't document and follow up. bring in family members and they train them to what they know, which is not always a whole lot. but if they spend time documenting, meaning what they expect of somebody, i was an account and i am saying yes, they ex pent what you expect. host: host: at that time trick, republican line caller: my name is patrick. i am a carpenter, been all my life, since i was 16 years old, framing houses and still doing it today. i am 58. but i had so many people here

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>> it depends on the time so on the boston bombings happened there was the most popular content was all hard news content and we had reporters covering the bombings and people in new york who are using their knowledge of twitter and instagram to figure out what was going on in the web. we were the first site to authenticate twitter accounts because we noticed that the avatar predated the pictures that was in the news. we looked at who was following the account and they all went to the same high school. we were able to figure out what was happening and follow-up with reporters making phone calls. during those moments most popular content is news content. during slow news the most popular content is things like 23 animals who are extremely disappointed in you. what city should you actually live in, things like that. >> how are people discovering the journalism fund thing? >> as you look at facebook you see hard news next to cute kittens and when you see that max. we decided why not do that because people like to move between different types of content. it is hard to put things in terms of percentage. back to looking at the history of media. one of the things i found interesting looking at the early history of newspapers was there was limited space. you had to make these decisions because of limited space about how much news and advertising you're going to put. how much serious and how much frivolous stuff. the new york times and the herald tribune were in the battle to be the number one paper in new york and to be the number one paper in the country. and there was newspaper rationing, paper rationing. there was limited space. there was less stuff to print on. the herald tribune shrunk the size of the noose of the could keep their advertisers happy and made huge profits and the times had limited space to cover news. and so they lost money during the war but when the war was over their circulation was higher in all the advertisers came back to "the new york times." the decision of how much do you use your limited resources for ads or, to use for news really meant something. what is different about the internet is would you not have to make that choice. we can say we're going to do all the news we can possibly do because the internet never runs out of space. we will do all of the cute animals and quizzes and lists because we are not going to run out of space and we will do all the rented content and all those things can exist in their track without scarce resources. that has created a really interesting opportunity to build the media company that does not have the normal constraints. >> other times when there is different focuses come into conflict with one another? >> we have a tremendous food and food section and the test kitchen where we are making incredible [inaudible] and it is awesome stuff. many people are discovering it through pinterest. so there is not this conflict. not so much -- media is a -- less about adjacency. and that is why there is conflict. there is a lingering legacy of print where people think that if you do one thing image you cannot do something else. that is not true. people who are used to the newspaper dropped on your doorstep and you can count the pages that are in sports and foreign news and how much ads, if you take that calculus, buzzfeed is a weird site. there is no constraint on what you can do and there is no adjacency is things are spread on different platforms. the new start understand -- then you start understanding what we are doing. >> there is a -- how many times do people come across a serious article and doubt the credibility because there is the buzzfeed brand? >> the classic network television, you had edward armour road during the evening -- edward r. murrow doing the evening news but you had soap operas in the morning and comedy shows and variety shows treaty had alfred hitchcock on the same network and people are used to having that mix. i think the bundle is something that has always been so important to media. a lot of the journalism wars were between papers fighting over the comics. "the washington post" when it was bob are the family, he said to his deputies, do comments matter -- comics matter, he had to fight to get the comics in the paper and it was a big protected anymore because fewer people would read the journalism if the comics were not there. the comics to of more readership of the journalism. it is something that our news content reaches a much larger audience than it would if we didn't also have under 200 million video views a month and massive amount of viewership on quizzes and lists. >> there has been a lot of new media startups that have been launching recently. why do you think there are so many media startups happening? >> media startups are more of a thing now than they have an in a long time. there have been a lot of tech startups. if you look at the history of media, new technology emerges that is a distribution technology. the technology starts to get dealt out and people start creating content companies that take advantage that did not exist before. a lot of people do not know the story at cnn. wtbs was ear -- owned by ted turner. we -- you could, ted turner realized i could beam my local station by satellite and then it seemed like he will was an exciting new thing. people thought why would anybody want to watch the local television station. in phoenix or new york or somewhere else but he started licensing television shows and movies and lots of other kinds of entertainment. in started to be a distributor of this kind of entertainment. when he saw the adhesive event there is going to be someone to dominate news on cable and he started cnn. it was interesting he started with entertainment and moved into news. at the time, the networks were spending $200 million year to do half an hour of news on the evening news and the plane was just made 20 to $30 million to do news 24 hours a day. everyone thought it was impossible. you could cover things in ways that you could not if you only had a half hour. he had this else in advantage to -- that make content fit with distribution. it has grown into a jane company. when you look at or with time, this papers were exploding. time said let's aggregate the newspapers. people would listen on the radio and they would hear someone's voice. life magazine let people see what people liked. when you look across or even radio. people thought he would go back to cigars because cigars are much better business than radio. no one would stand for ads that interrupted the flow of audio and radio. the key is the reason there are so many media startups is because there is an explosion of distribution technology. whether it is radio or new printing presses or cable television there follows close kind an explosion of new kinds of media companies. with smartphones and social media you're saying the ability to distribute media internationally more quickly than ever before in history. lots of companies have started to form to take advantage of that map of distribution that did not exist five years ago. when buzzfeed started the iphone did not exist. that is -- has enabled distribution that people do not think was possible. >> is there a point of saturation where there is only so much that media startups can grow in room for only so many con a unlimited distribution context ofthe unlimited distribution? >> there used to be what people called natural monopolies. if you are the biggest newspaper in philadelphia you would have a natural monopoly. you had the big printing press and had the trucks to drive the papers around and who else can start something to compete with you and the argument was on the web we would never see that happen. any blogger can start a site. there is no limitation of space. likewise with radio. there is limitation. if you get a slot on the dial you have an advantage. you have -- what you're saying is the competitive advantage is having to come from technology. it is the ability for editors to make content more quickly. pages loading faster and better data to optimize your site. the way that you build competitive advantage is in technology. that is why we have a focus on building technology. that is why companies are focused on that. >> what is the future role of technology in media? >> you cannot tell a good media company unless you have great technology. >> is that limited to the platform or is it beyond the lab form moving forward in terms of hiring data scientists? >> we build a lot of the tools we use everything that allows us to make a better product because all the pieces fit together. some sites -- everything is powered by some other start up and they are stapling them altogether. that is a better approach. i think there will be some startups that into modifying the layers. google analytics will be used by people because no one wants to build their own platform from scratch or something like that. it is still up for grabs which players will end up eating -- being outsourced to other tech companies in which one should -- will polacek -- publishers build themselves. i think there will be several -- when you look at cable or newspapers and you see that there is this cycle where people who build a better platform and of attracting better talent and that talent ends up improving the platform and it is a cycle. there will be several companies in this current crop of new companies building media businesses that get that cycle going. and becoming big players and building companies that will last for a long time. if you work that buzzfeed they should be able to reach a larger audience and have better understanding one of how people -- understanding of how people work. so we're focused on building that cycle and other people are also -- also have a similar focus and that will lead to interesting new companies that will keep growing. >> given that there is this rise of the new media startups and given that you do not think that there is a saturation point, what advice would you have for someone who is launching a media star today? >> i think it is good to look for new emerging platforms that people laugh at and think are not that important. people laughed at radio and cable when ted turner went to cable. looking for areas where people think this is silly and this will never amount to much is often a good base to go because other people are not there and you can figure out how to build some guys unique for you a new distribution platform. we thought we would be a new site focused on social. we saw social becoming the dominant way of how people consume news and entertainment. mobile became better than pc's and that was not something we predicted or expected that we were interested in social almost for election reasons more than anything else. being interested in something when it is small have a deeper understanding and a unique approach before something that everyone is chasing. >> what are some of the lessons that people should look into, such as lessons learned from old media? >> every big media company was once a started. if you look at cbs there is not that much you can land because they are a giant and your small and starting out for you if you look at them when they were losing money, that looks like a lot of startups. when you look at time magazine that looks like a lot of new media startups that are starting today. people do not realize, i was surprised reading about the early days of hollywood that you would go to a movie theater and you would see a bunch of short films and then you would see in israel updating you about the war or something and then you would see a 60 minute western. that is what you paid to see. people look at startups in the media space and they are doing these small, silly things. they're not like these big movie studios but if you look at what paramount was doing, they were making short films that are more similar to what we are doing on youtube than they are to the future films they're doing today. it is a case where there is something to learn from history. there is lots of differences. old media companies are the model and there is lots of interesting lessons to learn. >> do you have a list or what would it look like if you were to give advice or wrap up the history of old media in a list? >> i am not as good at lists like the pros at buzzfeed. newspapers, early magazines, early hollywood studios, and early cable television and those are huge interest trees that wound to be multimillion dollar industries. when you look at their early days it is shockingly similar to the way small media startups are operating now. it would need a better name created by an editor and not by me. >> it looks like we're just about out of time. we have some time for questions. we have a question every year. -- over here. >> you published the 96 page report of the new media people as to what they need to do different. good advice. did you see some lessons and therefore new media companies, what they need to do differently based on the new york times research of where media is headed? >> it depends a lot on what the new media company is. certainly mobile is huge and cannot be ignored. if there is a new media company that are not thinking deeply about mobile they should create -- they should be. that report was -- had a lot in it. there's also the question how do you focus. there's a lot of good ideas that you can only focus on a few things. there is the question of what are you going to focus on if you are a particular company. you still have to stay focused. sorting through all the good ideas is sometimes the hardest part. even harder than coming up with them. >> other questions? >> do you see yourself as a media company, getting into other media like conferences and events that you stage and record for your own purposes? and other areas. >> we do some of that. we interview people like jerry seinfeld and anthony weiner and the ceo of hbo. it is an interesting way to generate media as a live event. there's a trend of live events that is pretty interesting.h it. you are seeing that with the super bowl and industries like this one. >> any questions? ask you one right here. -- you one right here. it will be quick. >> i want to tell you how much i isk at your business model. am from atlanta. you are absolutely right. it would mean nothing if it wasn't for him. he is in his 80's and lives in new york. in his book reads was that -- reese was the one took them to atlanta. they lived in a flea brag hotel -- fleabag hotel. >> i read his story. lots of amazing there is -- of the-- stories entrepreneurship. running theactually news operation. >> t coming up, journalists discussed the role of race in the congressional elections. a communities of color are being portrayed by the media. it will be live from the asian american journalists association. we will have more from the convention about asian communities, also live on c-span. >> here are some of the highlights for this weekend on c-span. tonight, a history tour looking at the civil war. saturday, the communicators. sunday, q&a. pat buchanan. books on hillary clinton, barack obama, and edward snowden. helper --daniel halper. tonight, the negro league's kansas city monarchs. saturday, the civil war: slavery in the movies. let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us. or e-mail us. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> the national business group on health released its annual theings wednesday on how nation's largest employers are changing their health care coverage and working with aca. the news conference about the report is a half-hour. >> good morning, everyone. health isal group on a nonprofit membership-based organization. we are devoted primarily to finding health care solutions and health improvement for large employers. we also support among public policy. we are not a lobbying or

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