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egypt but i assure you the area will not be decided by iran over by turkey or by russia over by america a nd or europe in the absence of that a part of this region which is the out of work. right from the sea. first try to use. and i do think that you're. on the record. welcome to the red caps it's been a wave of tensions that soldier with the swiss government voting for immigration limits that he used citizens which would be a keg except the country is probably in the e.u. and enjoys advantages of free trade and this decision goes against the basic principles of the e.u. so we'll have analysis to come on that one and more tensions with britain's chancellor george osborne making it clear the scotland will not be able to break away from the u.k. as well as keep the pound me while the tensions on the streets of ukraine continue as the economic situation in ukraine. in the situation is in some way connected with our desire to be independent part of an economic unity on the political tensions a result from body so first of all it starts with person right ahead so as scotland gets set to decide i

and we have to come to terms and i applaud the president in corporate america if they will step up ndeal with this issue. i also want them to have up and boost theircapital spending iivesting trillions of doars that they have overseas to get thatoney repatriated here what we could do in the hands of the private sector in the country. it's time to cut the nonsense. this president has an opportunity o leave and it's time that he does so. in a just, i couldn't agree more. users were having a conversation with governor huckabee about tax to one. d i think that the chairman of thehouse ways and means is onto sothing here. why aren't people all over the cotry saying yes, let's do something. why isn't president obama jumping on this thing that this isolitics and a republican plan and even beaker boehner and mitch mcconnell, why are they playing loudon this instead of saying that this is an oprtunity? that plan was scored by the joint taation committee including some of that money to be brought back home that you are talking about. >> could it be because they don'want o commit clinical suicid

fast forwarding now to your comments on post-middle east america. ,nd i have a couple questions and iill go to the audience and we will go back and forth between the audience and myself a little bit. you talked some about energy, but perhaps you can go a little oil deeply in the role of and energy in the picture you are painting of pax americana in the middle east, but also now the impact or the potential impact as you see it of the u.s. energy revolution. wasou said, the u.s. exporting to the region. we are now facing another change in terms of our energy relationship with the region. i wonder if you could talk a little bit about how this might influence the issue you were talking about. >> if you look at the history of presidential doctrines about the inordinate, an percentage of all presidential doctrines issued since truman have to do with the middle east. to the carter doctrine, how to deal with protecting the free flow of energy and oil from the middle east. specifically from the persian gulf region. whether each the -- whether it be from the threat of soviet encroachments, late

think the 99% across america should pay attention to politics, follow where it's going, do read the newspapers. don't try to get everything over twitter and facebook. it's not there. nd worry about the future. because right now i think america faces a very, very troubled future. i feel that we -- i sometimes feel at least that we've gone past the point of no return. i hope i'm wrong. >> do you feel their frustration though? >> absolutely. of course i do. i have members of my own family that are living in trailer parks. not my immediate family but relatives. sure i do. of course i do. >> you were called the king of silicon valley i believe at one point. how would you describe yourself? oh, i certainly have enough arrogance to be royal. old man. i look back upon my career with great happiness. i think i've accomplished a lot. if i had to do it again i don't know what i would change. and i'm at peace with myself. and the fact that everybody now hates me is part of the game and i'm sorry about that but that isn't what i meant to do. >> my interview with tom perkins, founder of kliner perkins cawfield. you can catch the full interview with your phone, tablet or bloomberg.

america. >> watch first lady's influence .nd image you see it today on c-span. host: emily miller, a senior editor for the "washington times" joins us for a discussion on gun ownership and second amendment rights in the u.s. let's start with what is happening right up the street at the supreme court. we are waiting to see whether the court will take up three sort of high-profile gun rights cases here. what are the cases, what are the about? guest: these are sponsored by the nra, and a look at gun ownership in the 18 to 21 span. mcdonald established once and for all that you have the right to keep and bear arms. every case coming after that now, the lower court has been going different ways on the right to bear arms, what are the limits to bear arms, and so these two cases -- this is specifically about whether 18-year-olds to 21-year-olds can buy handguns from a dealer. there is as odd blip in the law where if you are over 18 but under 21, you can own any gun, you can buy a rifle or shotgun from the dealer, from your friend, from anyone, you can buy a handgun fro

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we the people have been the foundation of america since her earliest days. people from all walks of life nd from all corners of the world. people who come to america because here, no challenge is too great and no dream too big. that is the genius of america. tonight, the president made more promises that sound good. but it will not solve the problems facing americans. we want you to have a better life. the president wants that, too. but we part ways when it comes to how to make that happen. so tonight, i would like to share a more hopeful republican vision, one that empowers you, not the government. it is one that champions free markets and trusts people to make their own decisions, not a government that decides for you. it helps working families rise above the limits of poverty and protect our most vulnerable. it is one where washington plays by the same rules that you do. it is a vision that is fair and offers the promise of a better future for every american. if you would have told me as a little girl that i would one day put my hand on the bible and be sworn in as the two hundredth woma

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america. and a .0 on the new maverick. 8.0.nd a zone up in washington state. in anchorage 1960's type. are we prepared for that? presidential policy directive eight gives titans for national preparedness. we are working in that direction. we have been working very closely with fema, with north, thatith the state banners reside within the national guard as well as your state government. at what areng now the things you plan for. we will unfold those into an exercise. we are going to do three exercises this year including my good friend richard. we will be a part of that on private and public partnerships. our intent is to break the system in an exercise, to know where the weaknesses are in responding so that our focus will be you as governors. bringing the troops in to assist first responders at the local level. additional forces will flow into these disasters. at first it will be on paper but hopefully we will be able to do it live. they will roll in under emergency management contacts. we will push to see where gaps are. the intent is when a government calls under the national respons

the past --nd statements to be disingenuous. the history of america involves themselves and other problems, they look good going in, but the results have not been nice. history bears that all out. if the innate -- if the ukrainian nation wants to solve their problems, and they have a lot of them. the only country that has their and are inhe wealth a position to help them are the russians. anyone who steps on russia will have to be careful. while we wish to ukrainians -- foundingrming fathers told us that there is no democracy like we have here. there is no people in the world like we have here. the people in ukraine have to start thinking. arehey are doing what they doing here in america, i would ask my government to clean the streets. guest: i think you expressed some admiral sentiments. we have intervened in some places around the world. goingnot talking about into the ukraine. we are talking about using diplomacy to come up with a diplomatic solution. what mr. putin is proposing for the ukraine is not good for the people. he is not helping them. he

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of a certain generation, freld, may remember from nd the withdraw vietnam and the iconic image of pushed offters being to the sea. back in 1975, america could and be the forces confident that the vietcong follow going to americans down to l street in there's a d.c., sense and perhaps the america i encountered in my time of the here, that america could go home on the middle east, turn the back on the middle east, or pivot away from the middle east. that may prove illusionary. the middle east is not like vietnam. believe disengagement completely is possible. pax americana. right? >> wonderful introductory remarks. will come back to post-pax americana and post middle back to ica and come that. before i do that, some in the you've might not know gone further back in history of the united states in the middle east. going back to 176. overview in the recent book power, faith, and u.s. y event of how the involvement in the middle east. go into if you could that in cliff notes versions here. that's why i asked for the cliff notes version. notes of the f cliff notes but the comparative between the middle east and the founding of the united sta

as was pointed out earlier day, 2/3 of minimum wage earners in america are women. nd so the failure to raise the minimum wage, to have indexed it appropriately for inflation, to account for cost of living increases in america, disproportionately adversely affects women in this country. and the reality is, with a , aimum wage of $.25 per hour -- of $7.25 per hour, a woman in america can work full time, 35 hours per week, across an entire year, and in attempting to raise a family, full well below the federal poverty line. it's the classic definition of working poor. and so the failure to raise the consequences as for women, for the family, and for the overall well being of communities all across america. particularly when considering the fact that in 40% of american households, women are either the primary or the sole breadwinner. and so that means, particularly as it relates to some of our good friends on the other side of this aisle who often express concerns for family values, and i shir that concern, the best family value is a good paycheck. because if you ensure th

nd isn't it wonderful that the son of a secretary can now stand in the well of the house of representatives in the united states of america and the and write laws for united states of america? i thank you for the time, mr. speaker, i'm grateful to all who made it possible for us to have this hour and i believe that ours is the best country in the world. i believe that it really doesn't get much better than the united states of america. there are things we need to do, things we need to correct. but on a bad day it's good to live in the u.s. and on a bad day when your dog that you reared from a pup, on a bad day when your spouse wants to dessert you, have it happen in the united states of america. god bless you and i'd like to ield to mr. grayson. mr. grayson: mr. speaker, today is the sad anniversary, 0 years ago today -- 20 years ago the brilliant comedian bill hicks died of cancer at the age of 32. hicks' comedy has been an inspiration to me and millions of others. he's been voted the fourth greatest standup comedian of all time. and if hicks were alive to hear that, he would complain biterly about losing out to gandhi,

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want to support with the partnership for a secure america to do.ng that is to build a better sense bipartisanship in washington and on capitol hill. for nd i have worked republican and democratic stations. i was the career foreign service as aen and started intern in the jimmy carter went through and to the george w. bush administration. while politics is important, when it comes to the national the united states we americans have to unite and there is no reason why the two parties can't be in support of even other and of our most important issues and the iran nuclear issue i think is the number one of american foreign policy in 2014 because we are in a very critical, the is in a critical juncture. let me start by saying i strongly support what president and secretary of state kerry are trying to do. when i served in the george w. for administration working secretary of state condoleezza rice we tried to negotiate with ran and we offered negotiations, the p-5 plus one the one.eing britain, france, united states, russia and china. we offered in 2006 and 2007 publicly for the iran i don't knows to negotiate and they us down. we formed this