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ation for that. >> we received an e-mail and i want to read this into the record so your commission can bear in mind the service bus stations in the future. my name is raj and it's come to my attention that the board is considering installing -- the upper haight retail district has ongoing challenging with quality of life and drug dealing and blight. i would like to give you some perspective of issues we continue to have with the existing bus shelters on masonic and haight street we have individuals on masonic who drink at the shelters and my officers have to focus on because the shelter becomes un useable for riders. deal ers stand at the shelter. >> this is a 2-minute limit here. what is supervisor breeds advice to us this afternoon. >> i think you have a difficult decision in front of you based on all of the feedback today i wish i could be more helpful on that we've been involved in a lot of the outreach process and heard from people on both sides of the issue and public safety with respect to the bulb outs and size and homeless population and everything else i wish i could give

the wall but it something called overseas continues is ations, that non-impacting through sequestration. that is why you have not seen a direct major effect from actual war on on the in afghanistan. impact is on an like the air ing force. all last the currency, wwhich is the ability to actually fly and be able to go to war. get the money back, were able to retrain and get a certified flight. the lines are open. jeff, your first from indiana and independent caller:. caller: i came on the phone with a question. i am interested in, you talked about the base budget and the extended budget, how is comes to cting when it our forces? and our forces for military contractors and how is that a higher or lesser cause for military contracts? what is the approval and what the understanding in congress? my answer. guest: the pentagon has expanded what that money is being used for. in the f the basis middle east, like in qatar and elsewhere, they are all pointed through this account. work is paid for but it is difficult to tell where that money is being spent. operations and maintenance, essentially i

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usually a month or two before the election, we would say, if you feel strongly about this it was just ation political amount of stuff going on, at least that's what it looks like. that thethink it shows speaker of the house is the leader and regarded as the most powerful person in the house. the ethics committee is made up of equal members of both political parties only. are about the only committee in congress like that. purpose is to make sure it is not used for political vendettas but is in fact an instrument of the institution to act on the merits and not on the politics of different things. i think we did that as effectively as we could, in that case. we never did reach a conclusion because the speaker chose to resign. >> there are some congressional historians or analysts who look at that as one of the seminal partisanshiphyper truly began. to the republican revolution, ultimately, and things have been pretty intense between the two parties since. do you have any sense that that was a watershed moment? >> may have been the perception. the chairman of the committee, democratas a stalwa

ation in >> yes and no. on the one hand, it is making countries small around nervous about china. and as a result, they're all rehing out to the united states in one way or another, because they recognize that the united states is th only country in the world that china.ditably balalance and so in that regard, people theseee, they're driving countries s into the arms of the americans. i believe that the chinese don't care. they don't care is they can read a map, because all of these countries are always going to live in the shshadow of china. they're always going to be in the neighborhooood. economies are increasingly interlinked. and they know the chinese are economico play hardball. so kind of the story you hear countriestheast asian is w we're scared to death of te chinese, but if we cross them, up our going to screw economy. so china has enougheverage to esessentially not worry too much about the fact that vietnam is getting closer to the united states.s. now, on the other hand, they are also sweetenening the pie with incentives, this maritime silk road, in which $40 billion o

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them, and french and, english, and, in english, they knew enough about process to, know aboutvish she ation, as a rule of the senate. and that was in the 1830's. >>> that's a lot of knowledge to have back then and, it's a lot of knowledge to have today. >>> i'm really impressed, by our ann says tors, and what they were doing, and i'm impressed by the united states supreme court, when it keeps its word, and when it says, treaties are to be understood as a native people understood them at the time. >>> it's pretty impresscism that suggests as legal of sophistication, back then that we don't have right now. >>> people do grow, and people do learn, countries do grow and, down cries, do learn. >>> the, when we were trying to get an apology, for the massacre, on the occasion of the sen tenney el, so, this was in 1990, that we were trying to get an apology, the survivors, association, they wanted a apology. so, their attorney and, myself, were trying to get this for them. the south dakota senators would not allow the word apology to be used. >>> would not allow it. so, in our, a lot of our good fr

that's early 20th century, late 19th century, we're in the realm of a culture-ation where by enteringulture, we change the culture. by finding our voice, we change the voice of america. so that's number one. your deep question about class and opportunity, look, i feel like as the son of immigrants two things. one, every child of immigrants in this country on a certain level, whether they are rich or poor, i'm not talking materially, they have won the lottery to have been born in the united states at this time in history. my job is to make sure we have bigger conversations about what allows us to face the fact that people are falling behind and that often as americans we use a facilitied language of race to cover for the fact that we don't know hoult talk abo-- how to ta class. >> i'm glad you called it "a chinaman's chance." i know the story because i've gone through the book obviously. for those cure youious, why call it "a chinaman's chance"? >> some know that has origins as a slur. years ago when chinese immigrants first started coming here and were working on the railroads, given

china, with their 1.3 billion gdp,ation, $9.7 trillion it's creating tremendous amount of growth.y bode well for technology companies. quitewas credit to bash coup for credit suisse to get you. >> i think they have a great corporate culture. they have very strong bankers. it's a joy to be a credit suisse. they are very thoughtful bankers. some of the best bankers i have ever met came from credit suisse. i learned a lot from them. it's a good entrepreneurial culture. >> credit suisse missed facebook and twitter. how you make sure you don't miss the next thing? >> we have to be focused. it is a competitive business. we have great competition, great bankers. we have to be extremely focused and spend time with the coveney's early on, to do what we did with alibaba. we just had one of the biggest ipos out of new york. i try and see as many companies as possible. it is an exciting time. i'm excited to stay focused. >> what do you think about a company raising money at a $40 billion plus valuation, rather than going public? >> i don't have an insight about that. it's a private company an

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he tells us at the end in that little or ation i have to say why i feel so strongly about this issue. so strongly, in fact, that he invokes scripture to support his executive order. if he felt so strongly about the issue, why did he delay announcing this until after he got the past the election, because he knew that had he announced it earlier and after all, it's supposed to be so urgent it would have damaged the democrats' chances in the election. why did he not do this before the 2012 election? because he didn't want to jeopardize his own re-election. but most important, if he feels so strongly about this and scripture dictates that this ought to be be done, why did he do nothing about this in 2009 and 2010 when he had control of the white house, the house, and the senate and he could well to have done this constitutionally by passing legislation. he wants the issue and he wants to use it and that's what he has got about. >> anyone listening to you tonight, and what you just said, will then take away that the president is a complete phony, that he is doing this for venal reasons, no

on c-span 3, to join the us on ation, like facebook at c-span history. >> october 29, 1929 was black the stock market crashed and the beginning of the great depression. over the next decade as the nation faced the longest dorothea in history, lange start to humanize the effects of the depression through her work. on lange. gordon this event was recorded in city r, 2009 at the university of new york graduate center. >> this book is my first biography. it will be the last. write.e too hard to i learned my book belongs to the category, the life and times biography. in fact when i began, i felt the times would dominate. the book would focus on the political and social culture of world war ii,, of of the cold war. and that the life would be a illustration. that was not to be. the ea langeis the star of story. with her forceful personality, driver's into the seat. and in a certain sense took charge back and forth quite a of years. biography is one life seen through another life, in this case, mine. i'd written a great deal about gender. forced me to examine more closely how gender an s in

debates also promote a positive ational image. i recall debates in peru picked up an additional 25 million viewers because cnn cover the event. debates are seen as signs of a healthy democracy. debates can project positive images internationally that can encourage tourism and investment. countries that whole debates re a model for their neighbors. i'm reminded of an editorial that appeared in zimbabwe which made that case. jamaican debates led to inquiries from groups seeking to follow suit in guyana, trinidad and tobago. the benefits of debates for candidates are many. debates provide a chance to speak directly to the electorate unfiltered by the media. candidates can reach more voters in one debate. the nigerian debates in 2011, i heard estimates that they were viewed by 50 million people. that is coverage that you cannot buy. candidates can connect with undecided voters were less likely to attend a campaign rally. debates level the playing field where one party dominates access to the media and they allow parties to show emergi

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fund,ation, highway trust opportunities and or. >> same question. jobs and mood log. >> i agree jobs is the biggest issue. i support equal pay for equal work. something that can be worked on. put the policies and politics and we will find a solution. i think compromises how we have to go about solving problems facing our nation. dave of the senate when they actually took a and it was not just getting harry reid and mitch mcconnell together and having just two people's voice heard. representatives from all the states. i think the problem is washington is broken. i think it will take a new and different kind of senator in .ashington washington is broken. if you keep sending the same people back your after year, it will not change. senator graham has been a senator for 20 years. it is a tea party radical. clear alternatives. the crisis -- does the dialogue going around ebola, does it represent you a broader national security dialogue? do you does things in common. they are dangerous and and we want to keep it there so it does not come here. i have been

. >> so should any of this change our strategy, what is your observe vaks ation of our strat far and what should it look like going forward? >> well, a contact of mine at the pentagon said there is a strategy and it has three parts. number one, do as much as you can within the political limits imposed by the white house in the region. number two, take your time. because there will be no shock and awe here. this is sadly have to be a very protracted campaign. and number three, do it at a minimum cost to human life and treasure because the american people can't stand the image of american men and women dying in the region. so there is no overt strategy, but to anyone in the pentagon, they will tell you there is a covert strategy. >> do you think we'll see boots on the ground? >> absolutely. you already are. 3,000 soldiers on the ground in iraq is not a small commitment. and i suspect over time once this phase of it fails, this advise, assist and train part fails, and isis begins to hold on sadly very well in the months ahead, marie, a we may see more. >> general, good to see you. thank

to increase number of terrorist financing prosecutions my recommendrecommend ation is the treasury partnership intensified and accelerate its efforts ensuring financial intelligence information with the doj says doj has the evidence that it needs to bring criminal indictments against terrorist financiers and take those indictments to successful prosecution. the last point has to do with recommendation has to do with the bsa bank secrecy act, and i would add under the bsa there have been over the last 10 years only to enforcement actions or fine to be imposed on banks for noncompliance with the bsa do with terrorist financing. thank you very much. >> dr. levitt, you are recognized. >> thank you, chairman, ranking member, it's an honor to be or to discuss the time an important issue. u.s. government effort to counter the islamic state or isis is focused on five enforcing lines of ever. one of which aims to stop isis financing and funding. that may prove to be a difficult task in large part due to the differences between funding models employed by isis and other al-qaeda affiliates but not one be

has issued ations new morning over the plight of refugees displaced by war in syria and iraq. on tuesday, u.n. spoke person melissa fleming warned a funding shortfall threatens up to one million people as winter looms. ande are very concerned by over $58 million funding that could leave as many as one million people without proper help. this sharptly due to increase of internal displacement that we have witnessed in iraq. peoplee to 13.6 million have been displaced by the conflict in serious and iraq. hashuman world food program cut rations for four .20 5 million people, and more could be on the way. a u.s. drone strike in pakistan has killed at least or people. the victims were described as suspected militants in the northern waziristan tribal district. meanwhile, at least seven people have died in a u.s. drone strike in yemen. the yemeni military claims those killed were on their way to carry out an attack. israeli settlers set a palestinian mosque on fire amidst worsening unrest in israel along the west bank. the torching of the mosque followed separate palestinian knife at

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do you believe that that any ation is valuable in counterterrorism theafert the united states understatesdo you personal nooij that information has led or assisted in any counter terrorism investigation to help defend the investigation? >> i certainly think it's been of value her assistance. >> it's really important to me. no content is collected on any of those phone calls under selection the 215. you get a review every 90 days and how you processed it and how you handled it. if you want to go for another 90 days we have to make the case. you know, there's some notion that we shouldn't be participating in this. i think it's a bit confusing right by the end of the bulk by the government putting it in one place even though those protections are one place. it was legal. constitutional. but maybe that's not the way to do it. you've adjusted to that. >> yep, you adjusted to new requirements. there are two competing bills that want to get this right. >> i would be cautious of shedding that would be my caution. i know some others have called for something different. and secondly on the p.i. fro

is ation by that the bank of england will focus on data. we also understand when we talk about data, we will be focusing on inflation, wages or labor costs. so far those variables have been growing around 1%. as well to wait for those variables to catch up quite a bit before the bank of england considers any change. what we also understood from several statements is that the bank of england was attaching a different rate to the risk of hike to go soon opposed to hiking too early. definitely they will go for the later choice if they have one rather than the sooner choice. >> let's talk about that mix. you have got back end of 2015 in for when you think the first hike comes. >> that is the biggest battle. >> is the risk to the 2016 side of that and how does the rate ath look to you in terms of a, the gap between first and second hike and where you think rates actually are and how long it is going to take to get to them? >> end of 2014 will be an interesting time for the u.k. we expect it to slow down. we should expect growth at the end of nex

through issues, he continues to raise publicity, but he really does try to show this emerging all,ation, warts and showing crimes, successes and uses the paper to be a counter narrative to the model minority narrative, which he considers to be destructive. it does not cite -- it does not survive past 1982. angeles aboutlos eight years later, in 1990, to edit the korea times, the english language version of the korea daily. when he returns to koreatown, korean immigration has continued and the population has grown. large andown is sprawling in a generation of people who have been kids who have now come of age. by the end of the 1980's, the figure of the korean become very has recognizable in public discourse. you also have it entering popular culture. w comes in at this time realizing that what he will do now is try to address the tensions emerging. in the first issue, he writes, these are volatile times for the emerging korean-american community. the struggling newcomers are pitted against another ethnic minority. i don't even know where to go with this because it is so dense, or and de

question,ation of the is it emphasizes the point allies a maid. the line between government collection is increasingly blurring. that regulation of the government but no regulation of at ae's collection sits dissonance. if are places that are halfway between. that suggests one a set of answers to me. i'm willing to think about wholesale government regulation. there is some there. it definitely emphasizes the confluence between them. >> that ends my part of the panel. >> thank you very much. thanks to the panel and for the audience questions. we will take a break and resume at 10:30 a.m. with the technology panel. >> good afternoon. >> thank you to all of our panelists for being here. the way we have structured the day is the first panel had to do it the theoretical underpinnings of privacy. the second panel had to do with technology and the third was the government panel. this last panel is on solutions, folks from the private sector might be able to suggest them. each panelist will start with remarks and for the panelists yellow and red cards. th

>>i\ational guard: police, grenades, helmets, shields.aring for war instead of peace." >> reporter:t's not clear when a grand jury will decide whether to indict officer darren wilson. >> reporter:regardless of the outcome, a lot of minds are already made up. >>"people have formed opinions about it. those that want to believe that officer wilson should be indicted, i don't think any decision by this grand jury is going to change their decisions about that." >> reporter:governor jay nixon says the national guard is a precaution in case the announcement sparks violence -- like what has seen in the aftermath of brown's death. >> reporter:while they wait, ferguson residents have new information to consider. surveillance video showing officer wilson entering the police station after the shooting. with no sign of injuries he's alleged to have suffered before he shot brown. >> reporter:and a police dispatch audio after the shooting, with a woman screaming, and wilson asking for backup. >>: "frank, 25." >>: "get us several more units over here. >>

how do we get to the fact that station a sin that just -- the just station -- gest ation periods are higher. >> that is a great question. i would say that somehow we would have to link the research to benefits to humankind. we did that in the 1950's in terms of research for the vast segments of the developing world. i think there has been a feeling that the research agenda over the last 20 or 30 years has not been as innovative and supple and productive in the public sector. in the private sector, they have been able to produce certain benefits to crops and other things that people are found beneficial. you are going to drive people. some people said it is terrible for the nih to get so much research and agriculture does not. you have cancer or heart disease or alzheimer's, you can pretty much understand why the nih gets more research because it impacts people's lives so directly. i think we have to do a better job of that and relating the both to agriculture but also to the consuming public. but at leasto do there is the growing recognition led by you and others, this trend does nee

because governor jindal slashed higher education by $700 million in this state, the largest cut in the ationwe went looking for our congressman to join our efforts to make college more affordable. and here we go again. where was bill? the crawfish farmers came to me in 2000 and said, mary, the chinese are dumping an inferior product in our market. it's costing our jobs and our livelihood. we took on the chinese and the president of both political parties and just last week, mark henson we delivered $20 million to our crawfish producers. where was bill? so louisiana voters know they can count on me when our seniors deserve respect for a life of hard work and needed someone to protect the best parts of medicare and social security. we stood up for our seniors and said no, we will not raise retirement age to 70. but where was bill? whether it's for louisiana veterans or women workers, our middle-class families or our students, to be a senator you need to know how to put coalitions together, be willing to stand up even to your own leadership at times and to your own party to get the job done. fo

his last line was often spoken to us in the family as an ak lamb ation of somebody he had admired, like the plumber who fixed the sink. ben was stopped in his tracks by anyone who authentic dignity. he was the captain of his soul. out of the night that covers me, black is the pit from pole to pole, i thank whatever god may be for my soul. in the clutch of circumstance, i have not witnessed nor cried aloud. in beyond this place of wrath and tiers tears -- yet the menace of the years find and shall find me unafraid. t matters not how charninged the punishment is scrolled, i am the master of my fate, i am the aptain of my soul. singing] good afternoon and thank you for coming. i'm ben bradlee junior. i'm proud to be his namesake. my first memory of my father is a bit of the traumatic side. it was in june 1951 when i i was not quite 3 years old and he put me in a swimming pool out of a blue. there were no floaties in those days and of course i was thrashing around, gulping for air. after watching me for a while, dad hopped in the pool and casually scooped me up amused as i recall by the ent

where as here we negotiated the underlying mandate for this work,ation and have been it through from its early fadeses. the first year or two, to the point now where we're much more kind of negotiations toward a, toward what will turn into a text. i think that there in fact will elements of what happened in will be visible happens in paris. obviously i don't know what's going to happen. going tonow what's happen in lima much less paris, ideas.have thathis is a negotiation is intended to produce a new somement that is in fashion, is that a legal agreement in some fashion, the fashion wasn't spelled out the mandate. the language in the mandate made fullyar that it wasn't fleshed out. youink the language is could negotiate a new protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force. applicableed to be to all, and to us i think to a great many countries that was an few words critical us, sorry,t said that said to us that we weren't kioto. and kioto is in some, you could some technical way, it's applicable to all, because all in some sense under kioto, but it wasn't. ob

new to -- i was new to when ation law and policy i came into this job. before that, it was fiscal law, i still deal with fiscal law. and ve been disheartened disappointed with how volatile the issue has become in american application -- politics. hope people will look at immigration reform from a common sense point of view. what makes common sense? what's practical? what's pragmatic. and i hope that through the good work of your organization, simon, and others and the speeches i will continue to make, people will recognize the great strides we've made in border security over the last 10, 15 years, in this administration and the two prior administrations. illegal migration has, in fact, gone down significantly in the last 15 years through all the nvestments we've made in resources, it's gone up significantly. there's more to do. clearly there's more to do to meet future border security challenges. we're going to do that. we're committed to doing that, and i'd like to do it with congress but will find ways to do it without congress if we can't. a lot of pe

curriculum that is well peoplered can help bring from very different perspectives, very different over ations together certain set of common material. and getting to your earlier question, i think we worry about the range of civil discourse. this gets back to the lack of common foundation. ,n thomas jefferson's day jefferson and madison were talking to each other and they could be sure that they knew what each other was talking about. they had read the same things and had the same foundation. then.as happened since obviously, we have many more things to look at. but i do think that colleges and universities are missing out on using the curriculum to provide that common conversation that can help us unite. it won't mean we all agree, but we will have a foundation on which to have a discussion. i see these kids today who love the watt -- love to watch "the voice" and other shows, and i love those choice, too. and i think the reason they find them so enjoyable is that then becomes the common conversation that they have. instead of having a book -- a conversation about a book that they have in co

nonetheless, in my opinion a welcome ation, push back on this ongoing discussion. of we have lots newsworthy issues here. comments from ibsa, they do not support mandatory quarantine. very thoughtful editorial -- this is from nbc news -- again showing why this is a bad idea. lots of discussion on this and it is not resolved. let me just touch on a couple of the scientific papers that i could come across from the basis of some of our discussions. saw sure that many of you this most recent edition of the new england journal of medicine. i think this is 16 october. this is an overview of the situation in west africa. so let me draw your attention down here to the frequency, this is the incubation period. contact between index case and the onset of disease. you can see a nice curve here. 21 days as i cut off. there are a few cases which appear to occur after that. you'll recall the criteria for calling a country free is 42 days. everybody has always known that this is biological and there are some occasional outliers. is e numbers appear -- this 9.4 days average for in

we have both made this had ations and been accepted.l recommendations are made options are and high risk options. high-risk option would be groups that would meet fight. we do not think that is the thing to do right now. we will continue obviously looking at that, we are very concerned of the success or to t the president goal is defeat isil. >> thank you to both of you for being here. i was writing down a lot of what you are talking, because i think that will reflect my constituents concerns about what we are doing there . but what i've been hearing in month in my district, and i have t repeat things. you expect some detail the isis threat, regionally. what is the threat? >> the threat -- you started with originally -- regionally the extent and inhumanity of or they have been they continue to do, have expanded their base until most recently we got into this. they are a threat to the iraqi as was noted here in an earlier question. this till control the second-largest city in iraq, mosul. if they will be allowed to they would not only as

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first, and that is perhaps a kabooki that must be played out, and it will put pressure on the marshal ation to democratic forces in the enate. passage of a draconian bill. now, all of you who are used to complaining about republican obstructionism, remember, in six weeks, it's going to be democratic obstructionism, and that's going to be good obstructionism rather than bad obstructionism if you're a democrat. the democrats will have a lot of ways to block legislation if they choose to use them. what the administration has to worry about is a situation in which democratic senators give p on the administration. not so much giving up on iran, but losing confidence in the administration's ability to negotiate well or to handle them well. assuming that the administration is able to convince democratic senators that it will do the right thing with iran, what it probably so, i would think should do, is say to democrats, look, you have to work with us to kill the bad bills. we will work with you in private to see if there is a good bill that you could come up with afterwards or that you could come

he was going to try to do what he could to make the law -- well,ation law -- worked efficiently, and as intelligently as possible. to act befored the end of the year, but more than that, i do not know. >> you just rather reports? >> he did not say in our luncheon when he would act. he did say he would act by the end of the year. what theuestions about president might do to make the broken immigration system work better were posed by republicans. they were opposed by republicans. president was responding to their inquiries. i know that he was hoping that we would have more time during the lunch to discuss economy, jobs, some of the pressing issues like ebola, syria, iraq here i. he made it clear that he thought about this part of that. ,ort of congress acting congress has not acted. he was going to try to see what he could do to make the broken immigration system work better where he could under the law. >> the republican position on immigration reform -- especially executive order -- we've had several republicans today saying you are really -- his word was, there could be an explosio

outreach,ation of paid, social, earned, grassroots, what are some of the key messages? testing about -- talking about testimony is, people who are insurance.their deadlines. also talking about affordability and the availability a premium tax credits for the majority of people who come into the marketplace. taking sure we follow up, making sure we chase people who come into the system, using digital media and focusing on region, local partners, because that is where people obtain much of their information. now some basics on the affordable care act, where we have come to date. we look at evidence that the aca is working across three buckets, and i will walk through each one. first, the aca is making health care more affordable. consumers have saved $9 billion cents 2011. provision that a requires 80% of premiums be spent on medical claims as opposed to administrative cost and if not, families get a rebate. wasaverage rebate in 2013 $80. we talked about the tax credits. nearly 70% of consumers got covered for $100 a month or less. nearly half, $50 a month or less. 3% iner

i think it is interesting in take ational group to look at some of the different ways that one could come to these issues. in this country, our courts have a very libertarian perspective. a believe strongly that the best way to encourage the most robust is by issues of concern having no limits on spending. goes on behind -- that way this side could spend all they want and the other side could spend all they want and all the issues will be fleshed out and we will have a great, robust debate. that is not the only way one could look at this. one troubled to the north -- if one traveled to the north, they believe they are protecting the speech rights. they look at it in a different way. when you have no limits, that allows wealthy people to dominate the debate and drown out the voices of others. and the way to protect the most robust debate and make sure everyone has a chance to get their points across is in fact you have some kind of limit on spending. you have two countries side-by-side, some similar histories and legal backgrounds, and yet their sports and laws have evolved in very di

after investing so much energy and time in this region, there to retrench ation and look obviously into the huge challenges elsewhere. and i think that the senator has provided a good list of practical things to do. but to start off the conversation, senator, you know, as you said a balkans or a complex place and a lot of shifting dynamics and variables. but in the context of what you were saying maybe the ultimate variable is still the united states itself. so even what you say are the low-cost initiatives, i wonder if you could reflect on what you think the appetite is in the united states either in the administration or in the ongress to provide the type of support that you're asking for, the type of focus, energy, time, when there are so many other challenges in the united states. how do we do this? ne of your suggestions for montenegro obviously was directly involved in the senate. so it isn't just a question about the state department and the administration. it is really what is the mood and how do you think that we could reengage in the way that you're suggesting? >> we are focus