, we are delighted to have jean-pascal lombart, supervisor of student volunteer groups national tsing hua universityt the -- at the national tsing hua university. welcome to the program, father jean-pascal. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be here. i'm happy to have the opportunity to share what we are doing with the taiwanese students. it is the 60 year i'm going to take a team to sierra leone -- sixth year i'm going to take the team to sierra leone. there will be two other teams going to tanzania and one from tsing hua university in july to mid-august. i look forward to sharing that with you. >> let's backtrack. tell us about yourself. you were born in france. why did you decide to come to taiwan in 1998? >> i belonged to an international group of priests. during the course of my formation, i went to tanzania for two years as an experiment to discover if that is the kind of life that i want to live. then i went along with my studies and towards the end, when i was about to be a priest, i was invited to apply for the country to serve. i had three countries in mind. tanzania was number one because i

we had the pleasure to receive, last year, the president of the taiwan national university in brazil.made an agreement with some brazilian universities. probably next year, we are going to have some exchange of students from brazil. in these academics without borders programs, the brazilian government is paying the tuitions. it is to provide high-quality students studying outside, and coming back to brazil. that is one art of the investment in education. inside brazil, we have a similar product that has given one million -- one million free tuitions to students in brazil. >> the education will certainly be useful, in terms of brazilian growth and development. the experience in taiwan, that certainly has been the case. we will be right back. >> welcome to the final part of today's program on the taiwan outlook. we will continue our conversation with the current deputy director of the commercial office of brazil in taipei. you have arrived in taiwan just about nine months ago. when you first arrived, i suppose that you studied a little bit about taiwan before coming here. upon arrival,

oflet's get some analysis the national depend -- defense university. much.ank you very does the focus mean that affiliate's are currently the most active and powerful? mobilizationu.s. shutting down in 22 countries. , thecomes from a traffic head of the arabian peninsula. the ones that have international outrage from one country to another, it is based in yemen. there is a special pressure. the government is helping u.s. on the ground. of their affiliates have been able to reorganize. >> it is how to read the defeat of al qaeda. they have asserted that with the killing of bin laden, the head of al qaeda, and others by drones and other means have put al qaeda on the run. they cannot bet terminated by the killing of leaders. it is an ideological movement that produces wave after wave. isthe ground, the reality that the u.s. has been obligated to shut down some of the indices, it is evident that they are still strong and still expanding. >> we will have to leave it there, thank you for your analysis of the national defense university in washington d.c.. a

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. >> covering the nation -- university of delaware police are investigating an on-campus shooting spurred by a basketball dispute. university police say ew woman got into a fist fight late monday night -- two wl nine got into a fist fight late monday night. the gunmen fled the scene in a silver sedan. a texas judge sentences a teacher to 30 days in jail. what did she do? it is the extreme action she took to discipline one of her studious -- students that has ever behind bars. ambroseros cynthia addresses ---year-old cynthia andrus -- cynthia ambrose addresses the judge. she was convicted of official aggression. in may of 2012, she ordered students to line up and take turns hitting seven-year-old aiden neeley. she said the boy was acting up and teaching him a lesson. cynthia ambrose even encouraged students to hit harder. >> when the first of the students struck aiden neeley, the phrase she used was "hit him harder. , that speaks to her character. >> the judge sentenced her to two years probation and as a condition she will have to serve 30 years in jail and will not be allowed to teach. >

he and casey jones came out of the university of san francisco back in '54. they won the nationalmpionship. you think about african-american domination in the world of basketball. these guys were the first guys to show the prowess of the basketball stars. look at the prejudice he faced at the university of san francisco, the prejudice he continued to face in boston playing for the celtics and that dynasty they represented. there was a lot of prejudice back then this guy overcame. bill russell is a great, great figure and i'm so glad he was here today. on jobs that's the key. sure we'll get a living wage. i want a living wage not just a minimum wage. but jobs. this president has to get up. the government of the united states is capable creating jobs. it does it in war time with defense industries. it's a fact of life like gravity the government can create jobs. it's got to do it. >> big day. we'll have continued coverage. thank you to brian stevenson, eugene robinson and chris matthews. that's all for now. karen finny fills in for me tomorrow noon eastern. until then find us on fac

if you go back to the president's speech at national defense university in may, he separated core al on one hand and al qaeda affiliates on the other, this is exactly the way the administration has approached the broader threat from al qaeda, broadly understood. going back really years. critics call it the disconnect the dots theory, the idea that the affiliates are their own operators, don't take direction much from core al qaeda, not associated much from core al qaeda. what this revelation tells us that that's not true. we ha've known it is not true f other things, we know he was communicating with al qaeda in iraq in the past three, four months. also know going back to the days preceding the attacks on not just benghazi consulate on 9/11, 2012, but u.s. interests across the region. zawahiri was in communication with a number of affiliate types at that point, including one of the ones training people involved in the attacks on benghazi, zawahiri's brother involved in the protests in front of the u.s. embassy in cairo. taking a step back, the idea that al qaeda core is diminished an

you have been in the learning part of the defense community come of the national defense university institute for strategic studies. policy action oriented job so we gathered these smart people to do these reflections on lessons learned but then when the reality hits and these deployments are six-month turnovers, people are in the field for short periods of time, what is your sense of -- are the right people learning or do the scholars learn and the action folks have to get the cliff notes version of the learning? how much of these insights actually get absorbed by the people being deployed for short tourrs? >> fascinating question. importance of lifelong learning of practitioner education, as one goes forward through a career, doolars and the policy world live differently. they think differently. i recall long ago by walden pond, henry david thoreau lamenting we have become tools of error tools. you have to understand how tools work in washington and downrange. in stewart's world, legal authorities, funding, how to work effectively in an interagency domain, what can we tong together - you ha

as i said at the national defense university back in may, in meeting those threats, we have to strike the right balance between protecting our security, and preserving our freedoms, and as part of this rebalancing, i called for a review of our surveillance programs. unfortunately, rather than an orderly and lawful process, to debate these issues and come up with appropriate reforms, repeated leaks of classified information have initiated the debate in a very passionate but not always fully informed way. now, keep in mind that as a senator, i expressed a healthy skepticism about the programs and as president i've taken steps to make sure that they have strong oversight by all three branches of government, and clear safeguards that prevent abuse and protect the rights of the american people. but given the history of abuse by government, it's right to ask questions about surveillance. particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives. i'm also mindful of how these issues are viewed overseas, bus american leadership around the world depends upon the example of american dem

as i said at the national defense university back in may, in meeting those threats, we have to strike the right balance between protecting our security and preserving our freedoms. as part of this rebalancing, i called for a review of our surveillance programs. unfortunately, rather than an orderly and lawful process to debate these issues, repeated leaks of classified information have initiated the debate in a very passionate but not always fully informed way. now, keep in mind that as a senator, i expressed a healthy skepticism about these programs. as president, i've taken steps to make sure that they have strong oversight by all three branches of government and clear safeguards to prevent abuse and protect the rights of the american people. but given the history of abuse by governments, it's right to ask questions about surveillance, particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives. i'm also mindful of how these issues are viewed overseas. american leadership around the world depends upon the example of american democracy and american openness. because what makes

as i said at the national defense university back in may, in meeting those threats, we have to strike the right balance between protecting our security and preserving our freedoms. and as part of this rebalancing, i called for a review of our surveillance programs. unfortunately, rather than an orderly and lawful process to debate these issues and come up with appropriate reforms, repeated leaks of classified information have initiated the debate in a very passionate, but not always fully informed way. now, keep in mind that as a senator, i expressed a healthy skepticism about these programs. and as president, i've taken steps to make sure that they have strong oversight by all three branches of government. clear safeguards to prevent abuse and protect the rights of the american people. but given the history of abuse by governments, it's right to ask questions about surveillance, particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives. i'm also mindful of how these issues are viewed overseas, because american leadership around the world depends upon the example of american d

here's what he had to say. >> what i said in this same national defense university speech back in may to earlier is that core al qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated. but what i also said was that al qaeda and other extremists have metastecized into regional groups that can pose dangers. >> he was stating the obvious. is there anyone in the world that genuinely believes that because bin laden is dead al qaeda is decimated? of course it's not decimated. that's not what he said. what he was basically saying was he'd undermined al qaeda in one location with the full expectation that the acts of terror would occur in other places. >> well, you're absolutely right. what you've seen ever since bin laden was killed, the number two has resurrected himself but he's resurrected himself in order to give -- exert some command in control over these groups. the real problem we face is al qaeda's just no longer an arabian peninsula, it's now in syria and iraq and north africa. the underpinning gravr at a timed al qaeda to become a force in the first place is becoming a more influential force of

as i said at national defense university back in may, in meeting those threats, we have to strike the right balance between protecting our security and preserving our freedoms. and as part of this rebalancing, i called for a review of our surveillance programs. unfortunately rather than an orderly and lawful process to debate these issues and come up with appropriate reforms, repeated leaks of classified information have initiated the debate in a very passionate but not always fully informed way. now keep in mind that as a senator i expressed a healthy skepticism about these programs. and as president i have taken steps to make sure that they have strong oversight by all three branches of government, and clear safeguards to prevent abuse and protect the rights of the american people. but given the history of abuse by governments, it's right to ask questions about surveillance. particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives. i'm also mindful of how these issues are viewed overseas. because american leadership around the world depends upon the example of american demo

>> well, i was there at the national defense university. [applause] >> for those of you that don't know, i was actually an audience member and i was really hanging on every word that the president is saying. i have read a lot but this is going to be a shift in policy i was going to be a market change with what has been going on in this is something i have been working for no for 11 years. i was very anxious and i thought i might hear some of the things that you alluded to. i thought you might say that we are making this now and the u.s. will no longer have a fleet of killer drones in the military. i thought he might say that he was withdrawing the opposition to significant strikes that is not targeting an individual, but targeting people on the basis of suspicious behavior. i thought it was with relation to guantÁnamo, and how i thought that he would announce that he was invoking the waiver process, which would allow him on the basis of national security grounds to release those tunnel details. i did not hear any of that. so it was coming t

want to go back to a speech the president gave that i'm sure you recall on may 23rd at the national defense university here in washington, in which he basically said, we need to wind down the wars we've had over the last decade. he specifically referred to the authorization for the use of military force which congress voted shortly after 9/11, which is the authorization that allows the united states to go to war in afghanistan and also in pakistan, to some degree yemen directed al qaeda. he said, i will not basically renew an authorization for the use of military force. i won't sign that into law. and he was really calling for the end of this sort of war that we've been in. so if you look at what he just said, which i think was, by the way, one of the better speeches i've heard him deliver, that this is really in the context of somebody who wants to get us out of a permanent state of war, who understands that it's not just about his presidency but any future presidency, that if you have this kind of conflict that you really should go to congress and get authorization. he is, after all, a constitutiona

president obama met them months after the high profile counter terrorism speech in the national university in which he was lifting the release of prisoners to go back to yemen. this is what jay carney said at the time. >> it reflects a change in policy that reflects changes in yemen. >> despite the current terrorist threat coming from yemen the white white stands by his decision and return gitmo prisoners to yemen. the againesis of al-qaeda in the araban peninsula goes back to a prison break in yemen in february of 2006. that encluded the escape of nasaar ha shi spurred the closure in north africa and the middle east. they tunnelled out of a maximum security prison in the capitol of yemen and popped up in a mosque and walked out the front door to freedom. he teamed up with two high profile gitmo detainees that the u.s. released to saudi arabia. >> a handful of detainees, primarily saudi citizen made their way across the border and joined al-qaeda in yemen. it was that merger from detained in saudi arabia and al-qaeda escapees in yemen formed the al-qaeda in the araban peninsula and announc

that most of the egyptian command staff have worked their way through american military universities through the nationalense university, have been engaged with and developed relationships with our command staff. over not just one year, five years, ten years, but decades. and so the human relationships between our military and their military are extremely deep. the partnership between the intelligence operatives we have in both countries is very, very deep. so the money coming on and off, if they flipped over to china, over to russia, to replace that money, there's no way they can replace the great depth, the tectonic depth of that relationship with the united states. so signaling the cancellation of the joint military exercises is a signal to those commanders that they've overstepped. i don't think they've gone nearly far enough in sending is the signals they should to the command staff. it's not just the money at stake here. it is a very strew deep profound relationship between their commanders and ours and we should be using every element to try to get those command staff to realize they've gone over

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the national defense university speech. several weeks ago, you know, we can't fight this perpetual war. i kind of many have some, you know, empathy for that point of view. can't have a war machine that never ends. the fact is we do have real threats out there. to down play the threats, what looks like for political reasons last year, is really reprehensible. especially after what we saw with benghazi. >> i don't think down playing the threats at all. playing it straight with the american people. the fact is al qaeda still does remain a threat, but it's a loose collection without a unified structure. unlike an octopus, when you cut off the head the tentacles regroup and that's exactly what happened. taken advantage of the unstable governments. and thankfully flew n samplet and drone strikes we have been able to get rid of the lot of the senior leadership after the killing of usama bin laden. >> laura: those are bush programs. >> actually, obama ramped them up tremendouslily and unfortunately there is a lot of members of your

pakistan, the core al qaeda, it is the fact that the president gave a major speech at the national defense universitywhich he said the war on terror, this war must end. all wars end, this war must end, as if like god issuing the word and everything happens. he can say it and declare it and it will happen. and it is obvious he doesn't want to be involved in this war, he knows he has to be. he has to protect the american people, but his heart is telling him it is a war that is undermining our liberties and militarizing society, costing us a lot, he wants to nation build at home. this is the problem, at least incoherence in policy, at least with ambivalence in policy, in the end, word play over did we have an evacuation from yemen or was it an orderly departure? it is all the result of a president who is not sure why he is doing it and who the enemy is. >> what did you say, leks cological war? >> i think it is a word i just invented yesterday. >> we had trouble tracking it down. ab, he used that construction today. we have been at war against al qaeda, which is something frankly he has not said much abo

go back to the president's speech in may, at national defense university.ntire premise of his argument in that speech was that we have so much less to worry about because we have diminished al qaeda core. that we can recalibrate our entire war on terror. we don't need a war on terror any longer, he said. we can have targeted low scale operations against enemies who can't do significant damage to us. that's a total recasting of the war on terror. now, president ran on that, he made that argument, but it totally disingenuous for him to now suggest that he has been warning about how strong and dangerous al qaeda was. al qaeda core, al qaeda's affiliates all along. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned for an interesting vice presidential remix. ♪ if you're looking for help relieving heartburn, caused by acid reflux disease, relief is at hand. for many, nexium provides 24-hour heartburn relief and may be available for just $18 a month. there is risk of bone fracture and low magnesium levels. side effects may include headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhe

. >> what i said in the same national defense university speech back in may that i referred to earlierthat core al qaeda is on its heels and has been decimated. what i also said was that al qaeda and other extremists have metastasized into regional groups that can pose significant dangers. >> frederick flight is a former cia senior analyst and the chief analyst. it is great to have you here. i know you spent so much of your career working in intelligence. and i want to know if you -- first of all, agree with the president, decimated is a strong word. he used it several times. decimated means all gone. right? is he right in terms of the status of al qaeda? >> it is good to be here. i really don't think that what the president said is right. mohr is it consistent. first of all, the president said over and over again bin laden dead and al qaeda is on the run. now we have intelligence of a very significant threat to -- closed 19 embassies and 20 if you count pakistan. that's not an organization that's decimated. that's an organization that i think has rebuilt itself and is adopting new tac

the president alluded to it in his previous speech that he mentioned today at the national defense university. but the fact of the matter is that snowden's disclosures really prompted an assessment of the kind of tensions that david is talking about that really was long overdue. i have to say, there's a little bit less here than meets the eye. he sort of announced a four-point plan to have a four-point plan, the details are kind of to come. >> woodruff: well, he said these changes are coming anyway. he said they were going to come. they just came faster because of what snowden did. >> that strikes as about right. there's no question we wouldn't be talking about this without snowden. my paper was doing stories on n.s.a., and things were dribbling out, and it was sort of stuff we would write about but it wasn't a big, hot political item until snowden. there's no question about that. the one thing i would say, i think it's wrong to codify this entirely. when you've got a national security issue, we really have to rely on the discretion of the civil servants involved in this. when you've got a se