he is introduced by jane harman. >> and the security in this building. backus to welcome someone who is a wonderful friend of the wilson center. i am jane harman the president and ceo, a recovering politician and someone who cares very deeply about the work that saeb erekat is doing. tracking the ever shifting tectonic plates of the middle east. signaturef of our ground troops featured experts in hotspots around the globe. commented on breaking news and , serious, egypt, iran ia, and the middle east process. there have been 63 events in the last year alone. that program is keenly interested in the latest leg of the peace process. two weeks ago on the sidelines visit,amin netanyahu's we hosted a chief negotiator here at the center, as well is the minister of intelligence. as a member of the u.s. congress over 17 years, i traveled more than 25 times to the region, and i continued to visit. i just invited myself to saeb home next year, along with my large family. i was in gaza in 1998 when they removed the provision of the charter, calling for the eliminati

senator santorum, as a hard-liner on social issues, how do you answer tamara and jane harman? >> i throw out a couple individuals, a guy named tony abbott, a hard-liner who is now the prime minister of australia, and, you know, australia is clearly to the left of us on most of these moral cultural issues, yet tony abbott is a conservative catholic who didn't change his positions one bit but was able to go out there and connect with average voters. one of the things that i talked about at the cpac speech was we've done a very bad job of connecting with working americans, and we -- we're out there in a very stressful time in american history. people are full of fear and anxiety about their future, and we're out there talking about cutting things. i'm for reducing the size of government. i'm for reducing taxes, but when your whole answer is i'm going to cut your benefits or cut taxes for rich people, you're not cutting it with average people, and that -- that to me is the real missing link here. one other person i mentioned, too, pope francis. pope francis hasn't changed one doct

i'm jane harman, the president and ceo and a recovering politician. we have at least two ambassadors in our audience, ambassador of the arab league ambassador at the jordanian ambassador. perhaps with others. we have many supporters, senior staff from the wilson center, especially the fearless leader of the middle is. our scholars track the ever shifting tectonic plates of the middle east on a daily basis. nearly half of our ground troops featuring expert in hotspots around the globe commenting on breaking news as it unfolds is focused on egypt, iran, the peace process, and serious. are middle east program has held 63 events in his last year alone, about half of them this week i think, and it follows events on the ground in syria very closely. recent speakers included israeli minister of intelligence, usaid minister raj shah, foreign affairs as an action, let's agree secretary jeh johnson who made headlines at the wilson center when he said quote, syria has now become a matter of homeland security. but with more than one the 30,000 dead, syria is much

i'm jane harman, the president and ceo, a recovering politician and someone who cares very deeply about the work that saeb erekat is doing. as most of you know, our scholars closely track the ever-shifting tectonic plates of the middle east. nearly half of our signature ground troop briefings, which many of you listen into featuring experts in hot spots around the globe commenting on breaking news as it unfolds, have focused on egypt, iran, syria and the peace process. our middle east program, led by our iranian inmate, has held 63 events in this last year alone, and that program, too, is keenly interested in this latest washington leg of the peace process. two weeks ago on the sidelines of israeli prime minister bebe netanyahu's visit, we hosted israel's minister of justice and chief negotiator, zippy livni, and we also hosted here at the senator the minister of intelligence. as a member of the u.s. congress over 17 years, i traveled more than 25 times to the region, and i continue to visit. and i've just invited myself to saeb's home next year along with my large family. i was in gaza

there is jane harman from california. >> the jordanian ambassador, perhaps we have others, we have many supporters, senior staff from the wilson center, especially the fearless leader of the middle east project. our scholars track the ever shifting tectonic plates of the middle east on a daily basis. nearly half of our ground troops briefings featuring experts in hotspots around the world commenting on breaking news have focused on egypt, iran, the peace process and syria. our middle east program has held 63 of vents in the last year alone, half of them this week. and it follows events on the ground in syria very closely. recent speakers include the israeli minister of highligence, the eu representative, jeh johnson, who made headlines at the wilson center when he said " syria has become a matter of homeland security." with more than 130,000 dead, world catastrophe. as the new york times reported, 42% of all syrians, more than the population of new york city, have fled their homes. in the u.s., this is equivalent to 131 million americans on the move. as a former non-term -- nine term nu

jane harman is the classic example to reach agreements across the aisle that makes america a better governed nation without the basic core beliefs because there is a lot of identity of interest most of which comes down to have a better life for their kids. >> let's talk about the fertile ground is said to saw a few nights at the end of the tunnel and decided he saw as senator wide in taken over the finance committee as opening a door to dynamic scoring and the tax reform plan that republican congressman camp has put forward also the czech cable budget to you still think they are realistic? the ground has shifted and now sarah taylor and says it is retiring its head raising questions if we want to tear down the defense budget as we once thought. >> yes. of three. dynamic scoring is dangerous as former chairman i'll always defended the rights of the cbo to be irrational which today are on all sorts of scoring issues there is no relationship to common sense or the practical effects or people's reaction but with tax policy some things are very obvious. one of which is if you ask people to invest