do you understand? >> i do, but i also understand when something goes into effect it is harder to undo it than to prevent it from happening. >> but we don't have a vehicle at present -- i mean, again, i'm just missing the psychology here and i want to understand it because i would like for us to continue as a committee to build out to a place where we actually have an ndaa type authorization process. >> right. >> each year it is getting broader and broader and broader. i just don't understand how withholding has any effect whatsoever on the re-org when they're telling us they're going to come back and consult with us anyway in that process all the way through. but it is a conversation we need to continue to have. >> mr. chairman, if i could just -- >> yeah. >> -- briefly intercede. i want to get an authorization bill done this year, so i'm with you on that. but i think it is a reality that we have to look at what's being done in the administration. let me just give you one example. tonight there was a p

i read your book and i hope you can help meet understand this. there are a couple of famous that run through your book and a number one is sympathy. why is that the theme of your book?. >> as i studied the subject seriously for the last couple of years while i was writing i found out a the came up more and more and it seemed to be essential for good communication and it would boil down to empathy. at first i was not crazy about that idea because i did not trust the word when it first began to hear about empathy that would show up in our culture a few decades ago when i started to think about it it sounds like very soft new age notion any motion based that i'm not sure that i believe that notion but then the more i realized my definition of empathy is not the way that everybody thinks about it. there are many meanings for many people some people it means compassion and getting to be other person because we have that bounty of good and and the teetoo me is useful as the important tool for communications i even wonder if you can do communication eff

i don't understand that. we are continuing to build up a state department authorization each year we make it larger and larger and at some point we will have the whole thing done. i don't understand how because they are going through not taking action benefits us. i know we talked about that, and income any one person can keep it from happening and we got it. i don't understand how that retains authority i just want to raise that point. as i understand the authorization that we are looking at, we don't deal with usaid is that correct? >> which is how we setup the process on the front end again to accomplish as much as we thought we could under unanimous consent. >> i guess it feels to me like if there were a reorganization that makes a recommendation for the bureau of consular ffairs that when that goes into effect we don't have a ehicle that we can help to move to raise the congress is concerned about those organization policies. when something goes into effect it's harder to undo it. >> we don't have a vehi

government that understands it as well. we have to work closely with our partners at defense and state and homeland security and the fbi to make sure we have deep understanding what is really taking place around the world. i've now spent six months nearly working for president trump. he is a demand customer, and frankly, we like it that way. it shows he depend on us and values what we do. let me give you a brief example to illustrate that point. back in april one afternoon i got a call from the president. he wanted to talk about disturbing images he saw from syria. i'm sure you saw them yourselves, scenes of innocent civilians in agony, the apparent victims of chemical weapon attacks. the portland had a very direct message for me. he wanted to know exactly what happened and wanted to know quickly. we assum belled -- assembled a crack team to diagnosis what took place. the put together evidence, working closely with partners in the intelligence community. the next day the president called the cabinet together. then he turned

i understand it. the american people understand it. again, you've got insurance companies. you have 83 insurance companies before this administration came into office that fled the market. that said, we can't do this anymore. you're going to have 40% of the counties in the country next year that only have one insurance company providing coverage. that's not a choice. you'll have dozens of counties in this country that have no insurance company providing coverage. this system has failed. that's what the president is saying. he's demanding congress act. if we could fix it by regulation, we would do so. it takes an act of congress. to take care of it. that's what the president is demanding. >> let's talk about specifics. as for insurance subsidies, the president tweeted if a new health care bill is not in place quickly. bailouts for insurance companies and bailouts for members of congress will end very soon. how soon could hhs stop paying cost-sharing payments to insurers? next month? has the president made a decision? >> no decision is made. i'm not able to comment anymore be

the democratic party must, finally, understand which side it is on. that cannonot be the side of wall street or the fossil fuel industry or the drug companies. brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters, these are difficult times and pivotal moments in american history. and i am more than aware of the political obstacles that we face. i understand very well the nature of our corrupt political system, which, as a result of citizens united, allows billionaires like the koch brothers to spend unlimited amounts of money, allows them and their billionaire friends to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in an election on ugly 30-second ads that try to undermine the honesty and integrity of progressive campaigns. and that's all they can do, because they can't stand and defend their position on the issues. and we just saw this a few weeks ago in montana's rob quist. and what happened to rob is going to continue to happen. what happened to rob is he did a great job raising money from small individual contributions. i think it was 25 bucks a contribution. fant

do you understand? >> i do, but i also understand when something goes into effect is harder to i do it then to prevent it from happening. >> but we do not have a vehicle. i mean, again, i am just missing the psychology here and i want to understand. as i would like for us to continue as a committee to build out to a place where we actually authorizationpe process because each year dishes getting broader and broader and broader. i do not understand how it can have any effect on the reorganization when they are going to come back and consult with us anyway. it is a with us anyway. -- conversation we need to continue to have. >> roughly. i wantzaon build on this year so i with you on that. i think it is a reality we have to look at what has been done in the administration. let me give you an example. tonight there was a press report that the secretary of state is considering the elimination of the special coordinator for global criminal justice issues, which basically deal with atrocities and war crimes. t

those are people i understand. senator manchin: it's still frustrating to me the way we communicate by mail. 10% of our i.r.s. notices don't reach their intended audience, which represents a total failure of communications as roughly twice the industry average when a taxpayer receives a notice, it is often an indecipherable block of text using stock language and no visual or graphical clues what the taxpayer should do or why. moreover, i also have plans to address this high failure rate, which involves moving to online communications are destined to be incomplete. solutions because of what we just talked about. my recommendation for it would be the i.r.s. is to learn from the best practices as used in the industry. when we all get statements from credit card or our utilityities, they use a caller, modern, iconic graving, and the credit card utility knows it is in the best interest for all of us to understand the information. so, is the i.r.s. have plans to implement caller to make its notices more understandable to

we may not be able to change the past, but an in understanding our history, we come to understand the role we have to play in the promotion of justice in our world today. isaac hawkins and anne marie becraft will serve as reminders of that role in that challenge. thank you. [applause] >> in my remarks at the ceremony in november 2015, replacing the original names of these buildings with freedom and remembrance, i close my comments with a reminder that we are all reminders of georgetown's future. over one year later, i am proud to say that the georgetown community has deeply engaged with georgetown's relation to the institution of slavery from a variety of different perspectives. from dorm room discussions and personal introspective to creating thoughtful theater performances, students across campus have engaged with the deeper question on our proper role as members of the georgetown community. today, we remember to of the early members in the story of him this hilltop. today, we are here to permanently dedicate isaac hawkins hall and anne marie becraft hall. today we re- acknowledge t

the understanding i don't know where she got that from. i don't try to understand my grandmother in a certai and a cd of adventure disputed on the male side which is pretty much unknown for may. so she is the resource over the years moving us are bound to the community in detroit. but when i talk about my history in the city, it's really her history.y people will find immediately who she is not only our understanding of that history that her whole life. it's kind of the biography of her life and i know to some degree she takes exception. and i can understand that but the lessons of her life should be shared with a much larger population than just our family. i try to convey and capture the essence of her spirit. she goes to the food pantry to get goods to bring it back to s the complex to share with all oa her friends. i love that kind of commitmentth and we always hope you can bring up some of the same energy and understanding but she taught me well to understand how to get back so that's why i try to do that in a different way of course

i don't understand that. we are continuing to build up a state department authorization each year we make it larger and larger and at some point we will have the whole thing done. i don't understand how because they are going through not taking action benefits us. i know we talked about that, and income any one person can keep it from happening and we got it. i don't understand how that retains authority i just want to raise that point. as i understand the authorization that we are looking at, we don't deal with usaid is that correct? >> which is how we setup the process on the front end again to accomplish as much as we thought we could under unanimous consent. >> i guess it feels to me like if there were a reorganization that makes a recommendation for the bureau of consular affairs that when that goes into effect we don't have a vehicle that we can help to move to raise the congress is concerned about those organization policies. it's tif the buildup to a placet we actually have this type of authorization

they were trying to make me understand. we had the same connection that we would've had if we were in an improvisation. it was an improvisation. it was really happening in that moment. that dynamic relationship between us is when i begin to realize and i left the program, maybe we could teach scientists to communicate at that personal level through the connection to achieve with an audience. and teach them how to do that while we're teaching them to be scientists so they would leave their education not as accomplished scientist but has accomplished communicators. there was all this other stuff happening with the scientist. wasn't just there were learning to communicate science. one scientist told us this training has stayed my marriage. i realized, and another scientist said you've got to do more people about this. my wife is an art historian. i can't understand a word she says. all she has to do showing pictures but he wasn't getting it. there were tones and jargon that he wasn't getting. everything can be communicated bet

the turkish position is understandable and create. one caveat. if much of iraq falls under the control of iran the way lebanon has, on the margins this might be revisited not just by turkey but by washington. i don't think there will ever be an acknowledgement of an independent, sovereign state of kerd stan kurdistan, but i think there might be different arrangements if that negative siff situation arose, but turkey and american have a joint interest in seeing it doesn't arise. let's wait it out. >> on the issue of the existential threats, we were so not threatened in an existential way by everything we saw happening in the syrian conflict we hesitated a great deal, even when we thought we knew what should happen there, that assad should go. we did very, very good job of avoiding a substantial and categorical commitment to make that happen. that's because, frankly, it is really complicated. it is a policy composition what should happen in syria and all of the different players in syria is difficult and complicated. the only thing that got us to t

>> just so i understand the answer and i think i do. you were essentially given the number by owen b. that you were supposed to hit, that right? it was not a decision based on the merits of the program in a sense. started out as an instruction to you to find cuts cuts. is that the case? >> we were given the total number in the budget. >> i think all of us like to see the budgets put together by the experts originally on what the country needs going forward and mr. chairman and the ranking member working with you as we consider this budget because in addition to those cuts which i think will have harmful impacts there's also cut in the public space telescope program. there is some language in there saying we are going to find efficiencies with no indication of what that is. sounds like another example frankly of you have got a number you just said we are going to cut this budget sounds like another example frankly of you have got a number you just said we are going to cut this budget by 8 million and we are going to find efficiencies. do

we have to understand the importance of the local election. this is the one time that we need to understand the importance of the word federalism. healthcare reform, local level, immigration reform, local level. understand the importance of investing in the foot soldiers doing the work. i would just challenge you'll to use the hash tag. we have so much on the line and we need to act like it. we talked about the shrub administration and what's going on that it's but it's being branded on the department of justice and they are coming after you and your weed. maybe you don't have some that are causing might. it really is a war on drugs so it is no laughing matter. it would make voting harder. once we realized we knew what we are up against in maryland is right they have everything to do with this but we have a responsibility we may know it and coming from an elitist view i urge you to go back. it's the importance of showing up. thank you all for being here today and to the panel thank you all so much for being here.

you have to understand the priority set. you have to understand how it can change. thisave to make sure, and is counterintuitive, you have to build the reservoir of talent and resources. you have to have the right people and the right technologies. i try to spend a little time each day to make sure we are taking care of things long after i am the director of the cia, putting in place the tools for five and 10 and 13 years from now. if we try to build it in to that -- in two years when it is a 10 plan, it is too late. we need to meet the demands of the future. mr. allen: on the sixth of january this year, the cia, the fbi, and the national security an assessmented that said the russian federation through cyber and other covert means tried to influence the results of the u.s. election. do you have any comments on that particular assessment? [laughter] mr. allen: how do you feel about the current sanctions against the russians, and what is the outlook? as we go downstream with the president? mr. pompeo: i will leave the policy issue like sanctions to others. it is not

if i don't understand that word. you should go to some trouble to understand what i mean by that. math is extremely hard to communicate. i'm still trying to find a way to help mathematicians communicate better. >> what does the title of the book come from? >> guest: the fact that the first one didn't go over so well. the first title i used i was talking to the editor about it. one of the great editors and i mentioned the title and asked what she thought and i'd heard first titles. so i thought the book is really about observing the other person and finding out you can't communicate very well. it's kind of amusing i think. >> host: other books are never have your dog stuffed and things i overheard while talking to myself. how did this study that you have been doing over the years help you choose your profession? >> i grew on what i learned as an actor to apply, i grew out of that and i was learning about communication as i applied the acting skills to it but it's also helped me as an actor because to me the basis of acting is if not one of the most important it is the most importan

all that but clearly we understand a little what happened and we need to reengage.that's the most important and most promising line of thought and inquiry and i hope your people take that. for me, the two conclusions that stand out at the end of the year is understanding that to an unprecedented level, there was a fractional war within the turkish military for control. and even for those in the united states who are not willing to say that gulen himself new and design the entire thing, initiated and pulled the trigger as it were, they have to see the relationship between the faction that was at the center of this coup and the movement. that should help to take some of the energy out of the suspicion that somehow this was really done and manufactured to the instrumental light. i'm not saying it hasn't been instrumental i am on the side of those who say that the quicker that the investigations and punishments can be done and done, the quicker something like normal politics can return for turkey, the better it will be for the bilateral relation but it will help our vie

how do we understand that? i want to take a second to point out that one of these databases that, in addition to the nutrient database that can -- that handbook 8 has in it, we have bioactive compounds in it. the isoflavones was done at iowa state university. isoflavoens are found where? what is the source of an isoflavone? soybeans. these are the estrogenic compounds that are found in soybeans and other legumes that we were very interested in around 2007, trying to figure out what do the eight do in the bodyy -- what do they do in the body? dr. murphy developed the techniques to another these include. -- measure these in food. you can go out and search that database on the usda website and you can be proud that that came from iowa state university work. i have the others on this chart. they are on the databases as well, and there is more. than we have to figure out, how do we get from preventing disease to optimal health? we know enough about nutrition now, what should we be eating to make sure we have optimal

i think we all understand why the budget control act was i think we all understand why the budget control act was passed, but for fema, it is a very negative thing. what i mean by that is that every year, because of the formula that the budget control act uses, it basically says katrina and sandy never happened. whenever you hear the average that gets funded goes lower and lower and lower, despite the fact that disasters are going up. with that, we have to all make a stand if we are going to do predisaster mitigation from a whole community perspective, as michael and i have both been putting forward, and two, that is something else i have to tackle that i recognize, so there is pressure to possibly start fighting wildfires on federal land. there's cyber attacks, new hazards and different things the budget control act does not recognize. the act does not recognize changing environments. the other thing is that when i was first at fema, i interviewed with fema on the morning of 9/11, and i watched a lot of changes. but i worked in the national hurricane center directly helping interpret for

when you understand who we are, you understand that about your neighbors. we care about the economy. we are talking about the economic impact. when i landed here, our attorney general is on our patronized list. [applause] the governor called me last night, what are you doing in texas? i said at the moment, i'm two-step and i failed miserably. [laughter] it behooves us to have other states weigh in. the fact is now no one from our legislature can attend conferences in texas or mississippi or alabama. this is a coordinated effort for us to push back as well and to be able to demonstrate that we are an economic engine, that latinos contribute to the economy and be able to demonstrate that by hurting folks temporarily where it matters the most which is their pocketbook and understanding we have an additional perspective and support our legislative colleagues here in texas and empower them to push at every level of government here. there is light at the end of the tunnel. california was that place before and to see how far we have come, to be able to demonstrate

the third is, maybe we do not understand all of it, but we clearly understand a little bit of what happened. that is the most important and most promising line of thought and inquiry. i hope more people take that. for me, the two conclusions that stand out from the coup is, first of all, understanding the to an unprecedented level, there was a factional war than the turkish military. even for those in the united states who are not willing to gulen himself knew and designed the whole thing, they have to see the relationships between the faction at the center of this coup and that movement. that should help to take some of the energy out of the suspicion that somehow, this was really done and manufactured to be instrumental allies. last,ot been instrumental and i am on the side of those who say the quicker the investigations and punishments can be done and gotten past, and the quicker something like normal politics can return for turkey, the better it will be for the bilateral relation. but it will help our views and support for that process to come to that understanding. was a real factional

i understand how hard it is to do something like that. so it is a pleasure to award you the second year in a row. [applause] [applause] hello, everyone. i just want to start by saying how honored i am to be here with you today. i remember when i met mr. caro last year. i wanted to study the history of relations in 1973 and i was going to go visit china to do some research. the plan i had back then was hazy. i knew i was going to visit and go check out a couple of resources at different universities but that was about it. what struck me was the reaction he was incredibly encouraging and he encouraged me to pursue whatever topic i was interested in. afterwards, he inspired me to contact and interview different diplomats and professors and i can honestly say that my perspective on the topic has been fundamentally changed by all of those interactions i've had with the witnesses and diplomats. >> and i also remember him saying that one of the reasons he studies political power is that of political power from 40 to 50 or 640,50 or 60 years agos

historians have no better place to go if they want to understand shaping the us in the 20 century is to get a power i encourage all of you to listen to bob's most recent book on power, which was released last month and i'm guessing many of you probably don't know it exists, but it's amazing the more following bob from his earliest days through the research and writing of his powerbroker and lyndon johnson books and i only hope they bring out a hardcover copy of the book sometime in the future. i was talking to clyde, the executive director at carnegie hall who tells me when he arrived in new york city 12 years ago from london he knew next to nothing about the city. i was told i had to read one book, he said in the next day a gift, the best possible introduction to understanding new york, the powerbroker appeared on his desk and then as if a miracle he was invited to a dinner party where he ended up sitting next to bob and soon clyde, bob and ida became friends and clyde told me this is a friendship each heiresses. if you look at the brochure of the 201718 carnegie hall season you wil

government that understands it as well. we have to work closely with our partners at defense and at state and our partners in homeland security and the fbi to make sure we have a deep understanding of what's really taking place around the world. i've now spent six months nearly working for president trump. he's a demanding customer. and frankly, we like it that way, because it shows he depends on us and values what we do. let me give you a brief example to illustrate that point. back in april one afternoon i got a call from the president. he wanted to talk about some disturbing images that he saw coming in from syria. i'm sure you saw many of them yourselves, scenes of innocent civilians writhing in agony, the apparent victims of chemical weapons attacks. the president had a very direct message for me. he wanted to know exactly what had happened and he wanted to know quickly. so we assembled a crack team, couple hundred folks at the agency to begin to diagnose and understand what had taken place. they began piecing together

i hear you, i understand. i hear you, i understand. it was ineffective, but there was no security there to stop it. she cannot stop it on her own. she knows that the cameras are running coming into the other thing, this is interesting. not a violent thing, it's people yelling and protesting. but it is how america works it out, right? they are arguing with each other, but what is interesting is the woman that was speaking, it seems to me that she agrees with them, so there might be some more common ground than we realize -- >> chris: you mean the woman in a crossing guard vest? >> jesse: if you have a crossing guard vest, that puts you in an immediate situation of authority. >> let me try that next time on the five. >> kimberly: she came dressed for success indeed. for more back on the story, we will go to in the newsroom and trace gallagher standing by. >> and, kimberly, you have to realize the genesis of this. this was back to last saturday night and the way this whole thing was handled. one was touching on this earlier that the fact

her grasp and understanding of the -- having only a tenth grade education, but the kind of worldly understandingthat she possessed. i don't know where she got that from. tried to understand my grandmother, who in a certain kind of adventurous spirit, the male side of the family, which is pretty much unknown for me. so she is kind of the -- a resource over the years and moving us around the community of detroit for the most part when i talk about my history in the city, it's really her history. and the close read of it, people will find immediately who she is and what she meant to not only my understanding of the history but her whole life. it's her biography of her life and i know some degree she takes exception -- don't be be putting my business on the street, that kind of attitude, and i can understand that. i think that's instructive. think the lessons of her life should be shared with a much larger population than just our family. i think what she has meant to me and i try to convey that. try to capture what i feel is the essence of her spirit, and because at 97 years of age, she still expre

could you give us a little more color or understanding that the -- understanding about the president and his top advisers and how he takes the briefings each day? >> sure. i've traveled several dozen stations in six months, maybe a bunch, one of the highlights is to immediate with officers that are working around the world to defeat the bad guys, and these are young, talented, aggressive people who are just dying get to out there and crush it. morale his high and i'm thrilled to see that. that with respect to the president, i talk about the fact i'm with him almost every day in the oval office, delivering him both things that are really current, trying to prepare him for the things right in front of him and also working hard to ensure we're building a baseline of knowledge in the same way i'm working to build my baseline of knowledge. it is hard work. the president is a tough customer. he asks hard questions and we hope if we don't have the answer that day, we can get back to him and make sure we deliver it to him. i've read the story, too. i can only tell you my experience, and the

i understand, i understand what our people think and how we've tried to separate ourselves from us blackolk and these black folk. >> yeah, yeah. >> we cannot, cannot continue to do that. this issue, as you have seen with everybody in this room stood up, has seeped in and pervaded our entire lives throughout all of our communities. and now it has taken the fastest growing incarcerated population are black women in this country. they're separating us from our children. women cannot mother from inside of a prison pay phone. it doesn't work. and so we have to understand the conditions are horrific. 90% of women who are currently incarcerated in our country's prisons, federal, state and county are women suffering from untreated trauma. they are women who are victims themselves. they're criminalized and they are essentially incarcerated for being poor and struggling with the illness of addiction. how dare us, how dare us as a country allow that to be the solution that we take the most vulnerable women, black women whose lives have been devalued by a system that has intentionally devalued the l

them, understanding the reviews of history, understanding the views of religion, understanding theirreviews of their own history. this is what gives us a better understanding of how they operate. this is what gives us a sense of predictability of what they going to do and i hope in this book in a small little way i contribute to that understanding, so i did not want to write another terrorism and book. i did not want to write another black banner or terrorism book like many of these, some excellent terrorism books out there. i don't want to write a book about policy or bad geopolitics. at one up book book about who fault if something like this happens. this is not what this book is all about. this book is about delving into the personalities and the characters of people who want to do us harm. men who calls so much bloodshed and suffering. understanding them, not only on a personal level, but also on ideological level for this book tells you the history of the terrorist organization in the terrorist message that we deal with today from the beginning until today. i start with bin lade

they didn't understand.there is one point where my mom said, bless her heart, this hitler guy, why do you like him? go for someone italian like al capone at least. [laughter] she would've tried anything possible to get me away from what i was involved in. thanks to my parents, i am here today because they never gave up on me. that's the white house calling. [laughter] i'm very grateful for the fact that my parents didn't give up on me. even when i didn't have a good relationship and wanted nothing to do, and i thought why can't you understand what i'm telling you, trying to save you. i really thought i was saving the world. if they would've given up on me, i don't know that i would be here now. >> right behind you. >> how do u.s. a nation get rid of me of me because of somebody like trump who encourages or thinks it's okay to want to punch the person in the face? how does that make it right, how do we get to change out because that's huge when we have a president who is such an idiot. >> your way up the subj

i didn't understand the process. i didn't understand the value. and it wasn't until a close friend of mine that i actually met through the pageant -- her name's sharon chung. she's so passionate about politics that that's what encouraged me to do it. and so sometimes social media is great to see all of that, but you really need someone -- a friend, a family member -- i think to encourage it to really happen. >> yeah, good point. and, lan, i want to get your thoughts. but first we have some video of your swearing-in ceremony as a san jose city council member. let's roll the clip. >> i, lan diep... >> do solemnly swear... >> ...do solemnly swear... >> ...that i will support and defend... >> ...that i will support and defend... >> ...the constitution of the united states... >> ...the constitution of the united states... >> ...and the constitution of the state of california... >> ...and the constitution of the state of california... >> ...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... >> ...against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> lan, you've spoke

we lack understanding enough. we are beginning to have understanding in the most important is that every single case will be different. we can find the things we can expect to see them figure out the proportions of each for each particular case. will be verypeople confused people, this is someone in terms of the islamist orientation, he describes but notas islamic state understanding the differences between different groups in there literally fighting each other tooth and nail. that was not the issue. are all groups that would be able to do something honorable and remove humiliation. therefore, it's critically important to be able to address political andal the psychological. the localnmental and global issue and grievance as well. any approach that would be effective has to address all of those. do model would have us things at a societal level that would make society strong and when you find a place that is susceptible like a neighborhood or school, you do extra things there. when you find people affected by the

it's an element of self-overcoming in this understanding of virtue. patriotism rightly understood is also aspirational in character. it is utterly natural sentiment who claim on our souls that we deny. it is up to us to refine it and elevate it if it is to be avenue by which we strive to live in accordance with the best things in us. it's the inherent difficulty of expressing the things that are the core of our american civilization. by this i mean not just that we've lost the ability to think about such matters, that's true. but that the matters themselves are inherently complex. let me give one small example from the not so recent past. some of you may recall the controversy erupted over the decision of the u.s. government in the wake of 9/11 to develop something called the department of homeland security. that word homeland caused a fuss at the time. people said, homeland. that's not an american word. homeland is a teutonic word. homeland recalls the german nationalists. but extended that homeliness to blood and soil nationalism. that is antithetic

i will say that we have to understand, be very measured, be very mature, and understand that these issuesing to do with the american people. these issues have nothing to do with the american goods. these issues have nothing to do with the american companies. quite the opposite. this is a moment where we have to be closer. this is a moment, an opportunity to show that together, we are better, that together we are more competitive, that together we have better creativity. so let's not be angry. let's be measured, let's be mature, and let's look at the positive side of all this. our thanks to all of our international friends, the consuls general of mexico, israel, and russia for taking their time to share their thoughts on building bridges of friendship. we invite you to become citizen diplomats, create your own events, small or large in your community, and please share those ideas and images with us on our social media sites. just go to our website, abc7news.com/community. we're also on facebook, @abc&communityaffairs, as well as @cheryljenningsabc7, and please follow me on twitter, @cheryl

i understand how important immigration is to our nation. said, this was discussed yesterday in the meeting i had and at the judiciary hearing where they brought in farmers, people who talked about how important immigration is to the economy, especially agricultural economy. with is farmsling that have 70% of their workers undocumented. reason is because congress has not said anything on immigration since 1986. it is incumbent upon congress to do something now when it comes to the immigration process. we need to make sure the people who are helping our economy are allowed to stay and contribute. i was a cosponsor of a bill that make sure people working in agriculture have a way to continue to stay here. there is a benefit but there are also obligations these men and women have to fulfill. it is not just about giving them citizenship here that is not what it is about. sure theyt making stay here and help the economy and our communities and the country. immigrants help our culture. we are people willing to take a risk to come to the country an

so i understand that the budget to go to your question, i understand that the budget reductions are an issue. and you know, and so we're looking at, at ways that we can make the programs more efficient and more effective and work with the private sector. >> i have one more question. i'd like to invite to you chicago, i want to you come to the programs that you're proposing are going to be cut. i want you to meet the people in those programs. when we say send in the feds. ky agree with the president, i want to send you in. come on over to chicago. take a look at what your programs are doing, what the cuts will mean. second point i want to make, h1b visas, to allow skilled workers to come into the united states if they don't displace american jobs. exhibit a, a pharmaceutical company in chicago announced to 150 of their i.t. workers who had been with them for years that they were being terminated. 150 terminated. and here was the deal. they were terminated, as long as, or would get an extra benefit for their termination. of one month of pay for every year of work if they agreed to two th

they don't understand it. they keep their kids from going to school or they decide to move to a more friendler state. we lost so many families to california, nevada, new mexico. they just left arizona. so when you start talking about the impact, yes the impact to our higher ed, cannot forget our k-12 schools where parents, families trust us with their kids. they're not going to allow their child to go to school if they believe they might be in danger some way. so you might see an impact. it'll be interesting to know if student enrollment drosses at all because of senate bill 4. >> what i'd like to do is ask each of you to take about two minutes and give texas your advice. >> i'm a little bit caffeinated and maybe you go to someone else because my advice might not be pg-13. >> yeah, we're live streaming, so please pg-13. >> i think one of the things that mobilize folks in california and arizona is really the hate rhetoric around 1070, and you really saw thought in texas all throughout the legislative session an