ambassador lyman and others are already having conversations. i think having a high level, real strong endorsement of the need to deepen the partnership will be really helpful. and also -- and you are going very soon, senator kerry, to qatar to talk to the emir. a lot of these guys are billing these guys out. it is easy for them to be in transit if they are getting soft loans that they will never be back -- it is easy for them to be intransigent. for president obama to say this is not the right time, hold it, and use it for leverage for a comprehensive deal to address all of these problems. and finally to on the unilateral level the united states has, we have plenty of sanctions. it as many know, we are not enforcing them. so getting the treasury department, the office of foreign asset control, the capacity to enforce, having a couple of people on the staff full time chasing the assets. as george said, even if we can freeze them work in another country to freeze them, by exposing them -- what was the root of the explosion of popular sentiment du

ambassador lyman and others are already having conversations.aving a high level, real strong endorsement of the need to deepen the partnership will be really helpful. and also -- and you are going very soon, senator kerry, to qatar to talk to the emir. a lot of these guys are billing these guys out. it is easy for them to be in transit if they are getting soft loans that they will never be back -- it is easy for them to be intransigent. for president obama to say this is not the right time, hold it, and use it for leverage for a comprehensive deal to address all of these problems. and finally to on the unilateral level the united states has, we have plenty of sanctions. it as many know, we are not enforcing them. so getting the treasury department, the office of foreign asset control, the capacity to enforce, having a couple of people on the staff full time chasing the assets. as george said, even if we can freeze them work in another country to freeze them, by exposing them -- what was the root of the explosion of popular sentiment during the a

ambassador lyman and others are already having conversations. think having a high level, real strong endorsement of the need to deepen the partnership will be really helpful. and also -- and you are going very soon, senator kerry, to qatar to talk to the emir. a lot of these guys are billing these guys out. it is easy for them to be in transit if they are getting soft loans that they will never be paid back -- it is easy for them to be intransigent. for president obama to say this is not the right time, hold it, and use it for leverage for a comprehensive deal to address all of these problems. and finally to on the unilateral level the united states has, we have plenty of sanctions. it as many know, we are not enforcing them. so getting the treasury department, the office of foreign asset control, the capacity to enforce, having a couple of people on the staff full time chasing the assets. as george said, even if we can freeze them work in another country to freeze them, by exposing them -- what was the root of the explosion of popular sentiment

we support very strongly ambassador lyman is a special envoy, inc.e is doing an important job so we're in touch on some because want to be supportive of the administration. by the way, which is a very bipartisan strategy, and has been to the last three administrations on sudan. and, of course, congressman payne was sort of the incubators of this bipartisan effort. so we wanted to know him as well, and raise. but i think there's few opportunities right now, just a little fine point on what this moment does present with a cutoff of the oil come is that president obama will need very soon. this is a chance to put this issue high on the radar screen of the two leaders to talk about how specifically the united states and china can forge this kind of partnership were talking about. ambassador lyman and others already having conversation so again were not telling somebody something they don't know. i think having a high level real strong endorsement of the need to deepen the partnership would be helpful. and also, senator kerry coming going to qatar to talk

and russia certainly an interesting exchange over the weekend between the two leaders thema lyman writer and host of the progressive radio news hour if you. all right so let's talk now about something that's been going on in new york city this is a program you've probably heard about we've certainly talked about it here before but it seems to be expanding and also getting more attention this is the new york's police department surveillance program which was created quote to keep the city safe from terrorism but what ended up happening is that quite a few innocent muslims have been targeted information about where they shop about the businesses they own tracked and kept written down a lot of people are starting to look at the program and say you know in a lot of cases what is going on here is entrapment trying to get people to take part in or help plan things to then turn them in and arrest them so a whole lot of new yorkers don't see a problem with what's going on when asked if the n.y.p.d. has been effective in combating terrorism eighty two percent of people say yes and when asked if t

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they heard from a special envoy princeton lyman and actor and activist george clooney. two hours. >> members of the press, pleas. this hearing will come to order. >> first will be the state department special envoy for sudan. thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you. mr. ambassador, we are delighted to welcome you here today. one of the privileges and responsibilities of our committee is to shine attention on important issues when they are not part of the daily drumbeat of the news cycle. we all remember the famous moment in charlie wilson's war, when having achieved the objective of driving the soviets out of afghanistan, charlie wilson is stunned to see how quickly his colleagues have moved their attention elsewhere, despite, as wilson said, "the ball keeps on bouncing." we know what came next. tragically, too many policy makers only return their attention to afghanistan after 9/11. i believe our committee would fail the test of history if we allowed attention today to drift from the critical situation in sudan and south sudan. i have the privilege o