this seasons of the period of one of transformation. and i think there's something appealing about this feeling of openness and urgency implicit in the idea of crisis even though it's also fraught with danger. so just think a little bit about what this means and what the challenges and opportunities are that offers. just to look back, we've talked about some of the areas that were perceived as being incrisis, but one of the interesting things about that time is that many intellectuals invoke this idea. in his 1969 essay "political theory as a vocation" the political scientist writes about crisis as a kind of systematic derange some that social problems appear not as random consequences of a system which otherwise works tolerably well but as the necessary result of a more extensive set of evils which can be predicted to produce similar results. and as both heather and donna suggested, the sense of crisis, the naming of crisis means to imply that things have reached an intolerable point that cannot go on as they have been. some kind of ch

is the 225th anniversary of the proposal of the bill of rights. of the new exhibit opening at the constitution center which displays one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. and this was one of the copies that george washington sent to the states on october 2nd, 1789. we're displaying it with rare copies of the declaration of independence and the constitution. if you happen to be nearby philly or want to jump on a planed today, you can get -- on a plane today, you can get $5 admission to the museum and see the bill of rights. but i hope that around the country and around the world people will join us both here at the museum and online to learn about how the rights that we're promised in the declaration of independence were implicit in the constitution and finally, codified in the bill of rights. i am now thrilled to introduce an old friend and a very distinguished scholar who's written a superb book called "the great debate." yuval levin is a herring to fellow, founder and editor of the superb journal "national affairs," a prolific sch

there's a lot of evidence of that. really quickly, a couple of minutes here, and then i'll let you guys as some questions. 1874, at the territorial government was canceled, for four years there was a temporary form of government, guess what? it was seen at the time in 1874 as permitting congress to work out, to sort out how they wanted to govern the district. what happened in 1878, when the permanent ordinance was finished , the commissioner -- presidentially of pointed -- presidentially appointed three commissioner government, it was embraced 1874-1970 4, 100 years. the commissioner -- day, working closely with the new board of trade, and the board of trade really combined political and social and financial power. a lot of people -- but they didn't generally in the earlier years support things that were good for the city, but once again emphasizing the beauty part of washington, not the just as part. they were businessmen. they wanted to see washington become an elegant national capital. would you take the next life?

in the name of the people of vietnam. in the name of the people of chili. in the name of the people of vietnam. in the name of the people of east timor. in the name of the people of cambodia. in the name of the people of laos. >> i would like to say to my colleagues and to our distinguished visitors this morning that i have been a member of this committee for many years. i have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable as the last demonstration that just took place that you know, you're going to have to shut out or i will have you arrested. if we can't get a capitol hill police in here immediately -- get out of here, you low life scum. [applause]

on behalf of the people of st.ke to extend a welcome to all of the visiting dignitaries, state and local officials, and visitors from around the world to be here on this very special day. french, spanish, african population who made the line to defend the country that had adopted them through the louisiana purchase. as president of the parish, it is an honor to host this prestigious event that was so important in our nations history. since 2012, my administration has worked with our partners at the national park service, the state of louisiana, the living history foundation, and many other groups. they bring attention to this consequential battle and honor those who fought here. thank you for being here at st. bernard today. thank you. >> thank you, parish president peralta and mayor landrieu. the united states postal service has issued three postage stamps to commemorate the war of 1812. the stamps depict the nations sacred landscapes, national flag, and vivid images conjured by the u.s. national anthem. here toda

of the program of -- fallacy of the program of the policy to invade iraq there was no sense of what happens after you invade. >> yeah, that's clear. in dealing with a society as complicated as iraq that once you take the lid off and saddam hussein with all his infinite brutality and oppressiveness kept the lid on society which had a lot of sectarian passions -- >> charlie: as we have seen. yeah. so it's an argument when you think about trying to contribute to those kind of changes in other societies of thinking about so what's the alternative? what comes after, which is a much harder question to address sometimes. >> charlie: and clearly we saw it there. we saw it in the arab spring. >> we did. that doesn't sometimes make the choices any easier because sometimes you have to act to avoid some humanitarian disaster, at least that's what drives the policy. but it's easy to underestimate the unintended consequences of some of those kinds of actions. >> charlie: to underestimate it. >> yes. >> charlie: so the president, what is it you understand the president's policy to be because of th

of some of the people of publication in the report.e ended up spending six months in federal prison command is less is removed for six months, waited it out, participated in things like the medical aid and some of the guerrilla wars around the world, helping out and let a good life. but to have this complete book manuscript to be able to draw on -- and it was one of many manuscripts. it was just a treasure. .. that changed everything after. have you considered writing about world war i? >> i have and i kind of missed the window. i mean this was the year of the book on world war i. i would love to go back and do it. there still shoals of material that hasn't been dug up. for that matter i don't know if you know that the national archive in washington there's a whole room full of manuscripts medical documents in particular from the american civil war that have never been opened. they are in brown paper wrappers tied with a ribbon and no one has ever looked at them for 150 years. but i have of course the first world war was extraordinary

none of us are home until all of us are home. none of us are home until all of us are home. as children of god let's send up to the value of every woman man, and child because we are all equal in his eyes in work to end the sin of human trafficking and set the oppressed free. [applause] if we are humble, if we drop to our knees on occasion, we will acknowledge we never fully know god's purpose. we can never fully fathom his amazing grace. we see through a glass darkly. rap wing with the expanse of his awesome love. -- grapping with the expanse of his awesome love. even with our limits, we can heed that which is required. to do justice and love kindness and walk-on glee with our god. i pray that we will and as we journey together on this march of living hope i pray in his name we will run and not be weary, walk-in and not be faint and we will heed those words. may the lord bless you and keep you and may he bless this precious country. thank you very much. [applause] >> mr. president, thank you for your message. we are honored by your presence here today. we close our program

is the defeat of its idea and the defeat of its attractiveness of a long-term. >> and the pace of operations which we discussed, with the passage of the aumf does that change it all? >> the pace of the operation we will be judged as time goes. commanders take stock of the operational environment and ultimately resource the operations that either -- that takes advantage of opportunities avail to them by the changes in the operational environment. we could well find that based upon our current estimates that the activities that we we will undertaken a counteroffensive we will follow along the pace and timeline that we anticipate. we could easily find that as the counteroffensive unfolds that dash is unwilling to receive and defeat after defeat at the hands of the iraqi security forces which is exactly what we want to see and decided is time to pull out. we may see the operational environment could change, and it is the responsibility of a very capable commanders in this case to constantly be monitoring the success of the unfolding operation to ensure we are getting the most out of the resource

we are part of a network of what we call law and economics way of thinking about the world, and that way of thinking about the world relies on the vision of, um the selfish person the egotist. and actually i tie that pack to hobbs. it's a little bit of sort of hobbs arises. and the founders are very anti-hobbs january. hobbs has an egotist view of the person. people are fundamentally self-everybody, that's it. you want to leverage their self-interests for as good a things a possible. when they're thinking about policy they're thinking about themselves. the law of economics embeds that in the law of personality. another is related to law and economics, just a belief that the best way to govern is outside of democratic representational government. like a market -- i find this so fantastical that i have a hard time even expressing it but a market is a better distributer of public goods than a kind of collective public coming together in representative ways. so as much as we can remove politics from the distribution of goods the better it is. and that visioning is politics and democratic

in lots of places you get a lot of markets. but fighting for the cause of minimum wage is something that isn't something the public-sector workers it's aimed at raising the wages for everybody. >> what is your name into question. >> my name is john and my question is for michael and it might imply that i'm sort of unsympathetic to public unions but the office i'm sympathetic and supportive but my question deals with process and it is my understanding in washington state that when the unions but when they unions negotiate the wage and benefit packages the general structural auto is that the representatives meet with the governor and the region agreement that go to the legislature. the washington state model was sort of replicated reasonably uniformly across the country or are we sort of a standout in that respect into second do you support the basic process by which the union contracts are negotiated at the state level? >> i am not an expert in what is happening at washington state for that level of negotiation. i do know the pe

all of you know the hundreds of thousands of young people have literally given up on the dream of going to college while others are graduating schools deeply deeply in debt. a result of that crime is that she is $300,000 in debt. that is nuts. and we have got to learn countries like germany scandinavia, many parts of the world people are smart enough to understand that the future of their countries depends on their education their young people get, their college education in graduate school is free. we have got to learn that lesson. free public education does not have to end at high school. president obama is, president obama's initiative for two years of community college is a good start. we have got to go further. further we cannot run away from the fact that the greed and recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street caused the worst economic downturn in this country and, in fact the world since the great depression. that's a fact. i know it's easy not to talk about it but that is the fact. today six huge wall street financial institutions have assets equivalent to 60% of our gdp.

some of these sort of what i would call sort of special operations type training of some of the syrian forces. hezbollah is involved in yemen. hezbollah certainly involved in lebanon and some of the disruption of things in that particular country. and hezbollah is involved in iraq as well. so members of hezbollah are in fact inside iraq fighting with what i would describe as what we used to call the court organization which is which we know is led by members of iran's irgc. hezbollah is a very dangerous organization. they are responsible for killing many many americans. and we need to not let them sort of get a pass on any of this speed that thank you congresswoman. let me just say very quickly that hezbollah actually has been in a very typical position for the last several years because of its role in syria which has been quite controversial. it's exposed out in ways that never was before. it enjoyed in the past a very solid basically impractical base in the south of lebanon and from there was able to play a dominant role in not just shia politics in lebanon but in the overall lebanes

communities of color that lift up the needs of aging america and help us forge the kinds of jobs we need to create, help us forge that type of support and services that we need in this country, to ensure that all of us can live with dignity, all of us can work with dignity, all of us can age with dignity. and that's really the goal and the vision of the campaign and this effort applause but -- [applause] >> ai-jen, any final words at all about the campaign before we close? >> i just want to say thank you to all of you. it takes a village apparently to write a book and many of you were part of the process and i'm so grateful to all of you for this report in writing this book and releasing it and building the movement, and looking forward to those whom we have worked with directly to begin a relationship and start working together. there's a lot of work to do. [applause] >> great. yeah, thank you so much to all of the. i just want to remind you before leaving, all of you have relatives and friends in other cities in this country, and this book "the age of dignity" is about to be celeb

freedom of religion and freedom of expression and those kind of things. so when chairman smith brought up the different areas of abuses like gender abuse, women's rights and things like that how do you go about enforcing that and is it different between country to country and how do we hold that government accountable? >> that as an interesting and important question congressman. i think, i can't remember whether it was you or chairman smith that asked about working with faith-based organizations and we do work with that. and in fact, miss clements and i visited with the archbishop in kurdistan to talk about the work they are doing. the king in jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders in meeting with a reduction of the lure of isil and working with the various religious groups and syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the middle east before all of this took place. so it is important, but there are many groups that we work with. and that is a way to try to reduce the tension that is going on. >> but is there a way to

the government whose exercise of power consists of the systematic violation of its human rights of thepeople. [speaking spanish] >> translator: just before he left cuba to be here last january 28 of the day we celebrate the birth of our founding father. [speaking spanish] >> translator: dozens of activists were arrested in havana for attempting to place offering flowers at his statue. [speaking spanish] >> translator: in its totalitarian vision the dictatorship seeks a monopoly. on her national identity for use of force against all independent activists. [speaking spanish] >> translator: those respected international human rights organizations documented by human rights in cuba. [speaking spanish] >> translator: on october 28 2013 the commission on human rights issued an injunction on behalf of members of the ladies in white to report protection in the state of systemic repression by the cuban authority. [speaking spanish] >> translator: to afford protection in the face of the repression by cuban authorities. [speaking spanish] >> translator: i submit precautionary measures for these p

five to 7 million people dying and the loss of tens of millions of livestock the wealth of the country could in some ways the soviet union never really recovered from this episode and in some ways it's the central crime of stalin's rule of collectivization. sometimes you watch a movie and there is a murder in the movie but it's offscreen it's off camera. maybe you hear a gunshot, maybe you don't. maybe there are shadows and maybe there is blood splattering on a window or something like this. this was the effect that i tried for in the book. the actual episode of collectivization is not there but the decision to go forward into a despair. along with that decision in 1928 where the book culminates there is stalin's malevolently torturing psychologically torturing some of his closest associates including those who he is treated like a brother like the younger brother he never had. so you begin to say a malevolence of gratuitous malevolence of making people suffer psychologically certainly by 1928 which as i said doesn't seem to be visible in the summer of 1923 and he's one of the particip

the question of will of law but what discussions of rule of law and enforcing rule of law can sometimes miss is at times the laws law enforcement are commanded to enforce are in fact and just. we seen that in our and nation's history. my question is what is the role of the fbi and law-enforcement in general when they are commanded or ordered to enforce laws that are in fact and just? >> very thoughtful question. if we believe than to be unjust our obligation is to raise our hand and speak out, to raise it within the justice department, to raise it to the attorney general, to raise it with those who make the laws that we enforce. i don't think our job, one thing i am very proud of the fbi today is full of people who care about doing the right thing, not just doing this thing if that makes her sense. our obligation is to try to understand, this is why is critical to understand the people we are staring and protecting and locking up, are we doing something that seems off-track to assenting consistent with our notions of what the right thing is? we have got to raise our hands and got to sho

out of the heat of the day. he was needlessly killed and propaganda for the taliban. all these things are interconnected and is almost a direct line up ever since that probably friendly fire to that being -- perhaps a number of young men from the village. civilian casualties the moral aspect of it and the counterinsurgency counterproductive this a bit the actual individual who does it either through mistake or completely jena action or some kind of combination of the two i think it does wear on people. >> host: you kind of reconstruct where this battalion came from, its history and background of a lot of the rank-and-file and the outsourcers that frequently come from a completely different world. that is sometimes the case on the american side as well. you start the book early by explaining the importance of the falklands in terms of the cultural importance in the unit to that conflict in the 80s and the way that a lot of these welsh soldiers came up. why include that level of detail? why was an important? >> gu

kinship, born of a sense of common identity.bear in mind that the continental officials in question were english speakers. two, the americans first began formulating prisoner policies in 1775 and early 1776. even after nearly a year of hostilities, there were still roughly six months from declaring their independence from britain. many americans were still hopeful at that point of reconciling with the mother country. this feeling of common kinship informed continental officials' approach to their first british captives. in 1775, george washington assured general thomas gage in north america that despite the many abuses american prisoners suffered under the british, the colonists treated their new captives quote, with a tenderness due to fellow citizens and brethren. in january 1770 six, john hancock, who has been president of the continental congress, remarked of lancaster's earlier arriving prisoners. quote, as men they have a claim to all the rights of humanity. as countrymen, though enemies, they claim something more. even af

of the bravery of others. and as i stood to give my speech in 1982 at selma high school, i remember standing up and saying, maybe one day i could join the likes of a charlie rangel, of a john lewis in the house of congress. i said it as a pius, overly competent -- confident teenager, but i said it with every vigor, because i believed in my heart that i could be and do anything. why? because the people of that community nurtured me, black and white. my teachers, my girl scout leaders, sunday school teachers yes, i had proud parents who were educated at alabama state university and because of their education at this wonderful quality institution of higher learning, i had a chance to go to princeton, but i had more than that. i had an obligation to give back, to make sure that others had an opportunity to walk through those same doors. it wasn't enough to be the first . in fact, i was most proud five years after i graduated from princeton, that april williams from selma high school got to go to princeton. i must

appeal of which they are all aware of? . . the same ideology perhaps from certain countries in the middle east but coming from western europe and coming from america is civilized and cultured society and civilized might not be the right word but obviously you know what i mean are you looking at bad and is there a way for us to counter the social media saying this is what you're getting into which is a pretty tough situation. >> that's a terrific question senator and isil's propaganda runs the gamut. you are absolutely right to point to some of these horrific videos including -- that sends a signal and attracted some element of isil's propaganda also includes a fair number of messaging examples in which they paint a fulfilling life in the caliphate that they project to individuals who may be disenfranchised, disadvantaged dissatisfied in their home environment. so the range of factors for people than that going to places like syria now ranges from ideological that you pointed to but also to the psychological catering to som

keep them ever mindful of the brevity of their days and the greatness of their work. we pray in your holy name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to h.r. 240. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 5 h.r. 240 an act making appropriations for the department of homeland security for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for other purposes. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. mcconnell: it's good to see the new senate come together and pass another bipartisan bill just yesterday. it was a win for our nation's heroes and it was yet another win for the american people. but that was the, that was only one of the votes we took. because j

out of the 12 then women members of congress there were only 12 members of congress, 11 out of the 12 voted to add a sex discrimination prohibition in. and he didn't serena not only yesterday but in her book representing reasoning from race is a really excellent job of unpacking, build on the work of other scholars, the totally racist rationale that was often used oh, my god, you have this without gender. white women will have less protection than black men and women and how portable would be? but the reason it's taken on the senate side is because of the work of, explaining that it was essential to keep gender, except into actually help african-american women. here's the interesting thing. the words became part of the law but because social norms were not yet at a place where men and women were actually considered to be the same at least for employment policy purposes the eoc, the agency charged with enforcing the law, and subsequent the court found it hard to accept title vii prohibition on sex discrimination at face value. so here's an example. september 1965, just a few months aft

taiwan is part of the american side of the 100 euros on rate? or they are not and the americans don't really involve themselves with taiwan at all where there is something in the middle going on that day in washington are competing for taiwan's love. and so who is going to win that reign are they going to get taiwan to have mcdonald's hamburgers? or is china going to do better because they say hey, we are all chinese yellow emperor, you know? they read the taiwan textbooks very carefully. and the textbooks talk about chinese history. but it is pretty clear that taiwan is part of chinese history. so who is going to win the 100 year marathon for the love of taiwan? washington or beijing? i think it is an open question. >> thank you very much doctor. it was great. we appreciate you being here today. it is a very lively discussion, the book is "the hundred year marathon." thank you all very much. [inaudible conversations] >> on our next "washington journal", looking at president obama's executive order on immigration and a district court judge petit

the release of the film "the birth of a nation" start offing with an interview of the author this showing of the entire film followed by a live cal-in program with harry jones and author dick lehrer, and on sunday focus on how artists captured the spirit of george washington. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org, and let us now what you think about the programs you're watching. you can e-mail us at comments at c-span.org, or send us a tweet at c-span hash tag comments. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> next, a look at what liberia is doing to address the ebola outbreak. then another chance to see some of today's white house cyber security summit beginning with president obama talking about information sharing between government and private industry. followed by homeland security secretary jeh johnson, with business leaders from american express, pacific gas and electric and kaiser permanente. >> liberia's assistant minister of health spoke at the center for strategic and international studies friday about his country's response to e

of task of writing a script for it. they went through several script writers because it's a comprehensive book about lingcoln and it was hard to figure out what to do. ultimately a brilliant script writer came on the idea of focusing on only five pages in the book. those five pages dealt with the 13th amendment. the movie itself was ironic pretty well done, but it was filmed, ironically i always thought, it was filmed in the virginia. if you look very carefully one of the sons in virginia a man who grew up in virginia and wasn't always recognized as such was woodrow wilson. if you look carefully in the movie, in the state capitol, there is a bust of woodrow wilson. obviously, he hadn't been born yet. in terms of the vote, there was an inaccuracy in one respect. you may remember the votes are being called, they were called by state. and actually votes are not called by state in the house they were really called by individual names. but in the end i think the movie is pretty historically accurate and i think it does a gre

a second topic of the book is the lessons of of escalation between nuclear weapons powers. the atomic bomb is not new and there have been multiple instances it could have been used and the book goes the thinking and planning into the doctrine's of massive retaliation, flexible response, and considers how the capability of countries in terms of defense capabilities, the reputations the governments have for using those capabilities and the public statements threats and warnings of defense officials, come together or fail to create believable defense commitments. another topic in the book considers the lessons of counterterrorism. i deal with terrorism not much as focusing on the fact that terrorists use violence against civilians or that their adherence believe in some radical ideologies. what i focus on is the fact that what makes terrorism so difficult you're dealing with violent groups that don't have territory and they don't responsible to the same incentives thats a very sayrear governments do. fortunately violent nonstate actors are not new and there's a long history of

the face of muslims in the minds of americans and face of muslims in the mind of the world should not be osama bin laden, it should not be the faceless murderers of the journalists of "charlie hebdo" in paris. it should be the student that was murdered in north carolina this week. to defeat isil america must be seen as their champion, not as their enemy, and if we are able to align ourselves with as mir agencies and hopes of muslims all over the world then isil can be defeated, and only then. so i do not disagree with general flynn's characterization of the threat posed by isil. but i believe it is extremely important we approach this threat from perspective of the need to constantly seek to deflate their pretensions, to marginalize them, to expose their extremism in the eyes of not only us but muslims they seek to recruit to mobilize and ultimately to lead. now, this was i believe one of the great accomplishments, great bipartisan accomplishments of both bush administration after 9/11 and obama administration. the immediate understanding of the strategic divide and need to not allow

so out come of that has been one of the trip of jim to iran.that history was not just officially being invite as the congressman or former congressman. he was invited as someone who cares for families a friend of the community. we have been working for years. so that is the problem of even getting visa for him or other issues. so that is how we were able to go to iran. and since we went we received very well, again not as an official guest but as a friend. so concerning to i think those whoever came here, yes it has happened but not just direct think because of this abrahamic phase. but they came for other reasons taking part in world bank or imf meetings or whatever from the parliament. there are other official meetings going on. but those mps, some of them have been part of this abrahamic dialogue. so since they are friend with each other it's natural to call each other or have give them a tour. >> so that's how some members of the iranian parliament have been in washington over the years. >> yeah of course. yeah of course. they are coming --

and all of the other aspects of the government -- the whitehouse department of justice, department of state -- and also the press, i think the most amazing disclosures of the book is the way the cia manipulates and plays with the press and understanding how they operate. what you see at the end of the day, looking at all of this is the cia and the national security apex and i didn't talk about the department of defense, but the cia and apex and the cia a subject of dread or fear on the part of many other institutions of the government, people don't want to cross them. people are afraid of what they might do if they take a negative view to particular political actor or political institution. their power is certainly perceived at the being at the system's apex. and when we go back and test the specific points reported against what happened we see individuals who make the most stupid decisions, wrong decisions, arresting people who are completely innocent and a couple of cases torturing them to death or filling prisons in fact with people who are if anything chaff and not senior official

the reaction of that community after the loss of a life in the hands of the police. they have done a great job trying to change the trojectory and relationships that still exist in that community today. there is plenty of opportunity here i think for us to continue to progress the field. as i often hear ron davis say and who has been brilliant for leading us through this. i would like to say thank you and look forward to the dialogue. >> thank you. let me turn bak let me turn ba do so. and with that madam co-chair we are prepare today start. >> in introducing the panel i am going to make brief induction introductions. the full bio's for the witnesses are on the website. these are very distinguished and accomplished individuals and unfortunately we don't have time to go into their full backgrounds. starting off with dr. philip garth. welcome and look forward to cower your comments. >> thank you co-chair and to the task force and those working behind their scenes. it is my honor to be here and particularly on this panel of distinguished individuals. my work as a resear

military forces to operate alone in a a part of the spectrum of national security of.if their is not a sufficient state department persons and capacity building and local communities and military efforts to pick when we change should responsible. so can so can i assume -- i will assume, but i will just just as you talk about you have to be conscious every agency of the government that isn't to protect the security of the united states. >> senator, that is certainly fair. although we really were more focused on the department specifically for men the 2010 we have a chapter about and better: every much along the lines were discussing it is your right. just solving is crucial. i would say it is a necessary condition for almost everything else. power that we don't want to see withering on the vine without adequate funding. >> comments. >> i would agree. in just about every operation we conduct, every problem we try to solve there has to be an integrated balance interagency approach. one instrument is well-funded and the other is on life-support it does not work. our intent

, the days of suspicion, the days of fear, the days of hatred, and on the other are those of us who believemericans are better than that that this is still the land of opportunity, that if you work hard and lay by the rules, you will create a better life for yourselves and your children. the democratic party is the voice for all americans and search of that her life. so today, let us begin reclaiming the confidence of the american be, thank you. -- the american people. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you so much for that clear eyed set of truths that is sobering and difficulty here but one that i know our membership is ready to take to heart and thanks to the task force for your hard work. i know that members will have questions, but if you can hold your questions until we go into the informal sessions after we adjourn the meeting, that would be incredibly helpful. now, i'd like to ask you to turn your attention to these greens once again because as we rapidly approached 2016 campaign cycle i know we are all watching the roster of candidates taking shape on the other side

from about 75% of gdp down to 73% of gdp by the end of the window, so by 2025. and i think perhaps even more importantly, the key things that we're doing unlike sequestration, the key things that we're doing for our long term fiscal future grow in importance as you get beyond 10 years. so the tax changes we're talking about, for example, on at that particular time -- capital gains, they're scheduled so that the scale of revenue they bring in grows over time. immigration reform is something where the impact would grow substantially over time, and many of the things we talked about before on health care costs, delivery system reform and others the benefits would compound over time as you bring the growth and health care costs down below the growth of gdp. so all of those are the most important things that you can do in the long run to bring down our debt. at the same time what we should recognize is that we owe a debt to our seniors who have paid into social security and other benefits. what we can't do is make reforms that break that promise to them and recognize

first of all, what does it mean in terms of the zodiac for the year of the sheep.year of the sheep is for people who describe it as elegant, intelligent, dependable, calm individuals, who are very creative they can be shy, pessimistic, and puzzled about life it says and prefer to be alone. so that's the year of the sheep. but there is also whether you accept this or not is another matter. but there is also in any new year, a time of looking forward. that's what it's about. and in this country, in korea, it's about two things. in south korea, clearly, it's about the economy. there have been jitters about the economy in 2014 and those jitters continue. people are worried about growth. growth will be something like 3.5%. tidy growth but maybe a bit less. not so good. the other thing, of course is this divided peninsula. what's going to happen between north and south korea? both pyongyang and seoul here will be making softer noises. they seem to want to get together. the americans are a bit tougher. so, what's going to happen with the economy? decent growth but we're n

you in our past as the board of supervisors and members of the board this is, of course, jane kim andngly believes in the education foundation for the kids and spend evidence i appreciated your work (clapping) you know, i also see our school board members thank you. the current school board members i have to say as a body of you are the best school board i've ever had and i know you are coming out of great negotiations recently and i just wanted to staying say thanks for being personality in working with us i compliment to you you will also have a mayor that works with you along with the teachers association and certainly with your superintendent i want to say briefly i had the pleasure of working with hydra for years now before i became and after became mayor i've valued her support not only is she did education advisor but the also family services advisor to my administration and she has the ability to get everybody together in the room whether it's marie sue or chet roar everywhere city college or the leadership council or the ability to spark a comment from a mark ben hoff or the

i want to commend those of you around the table and those of you who are members of the council of governors for your fine work in this regard. governor snyder has established a resource center for state cyber security. governor mcauliffe has appointed a cyber security commission. governor mead of wyoming has been very active in putting together a cyber security summit last week. governor haslam of tennessee has received briefings from dhs as has governor bullock of montana, governor sandoval of nevada. we salute and appreciate the partnership in cyber security at the state level. we urge that we do more in this regard trade at dhs, we facilitate new cyber exercise opportunities for states provide states with information about cyber security and dhs and we ensure states help to contribute with the development of policy documents. congress has provided us with new legislation in the area of cyber security. late last year we had the national cyber security protection act of 2014. congress does something to pass legislation once in a while, which gives dhs explicit authority to provide assistan

i can't think of a single thing , the release of mr. gross, of course. but in terms of a policy shift a concession, i can't think of a single one. >> the only other -- i believe that we also will get some things that matter in opening our embassy and hopefully the ability to travel throughout the country and see more people and support more people. we can't really move outside havana right now. >> that's what you hope to negotiate. >> but that is necessary for opening an embassy. that's part of this. i also think that, you know, we will have all of these dialogues that they want to have for cooperation. that will be part of those discussions as well. it is to come, i agree. >> madam chairman, i know my time is up, but i want to underline, i always think it's a mistake in foreign policy to give it away for nothing. >> thank you, mr. connolly. and now we turn to mr. duncan, the chairman of our subcommittee on western hemisphere. >> thank you, madam chairman. you know, trade and lifting of sanctions is seen as a cure-all with regard to the oppressive regime

thousands of people rallied in the center of athens ahead of what is being described as a day of reckoningeturnminister to formulate aay post bail out strategy. greek stocks and bonds rose on friday as both sides indicated a willingness to compromise. our next guest says it is inevitable that greece will drop out of the euro and find its own way out of the debacle. danish us is former diplomat, senior research fellow of southeast asian studies. thank you for joining us. why are you so pessimistic about greece? you think it is really going to leave the euro? >> i do not think so. i am actually quite optimistic for two reasons. first of all, the euro zone economy is picking up. growth is faster and stronger than it used to be. the predictions told us a couple of months ago. secondly, the cost for greece of nearly leaving the euro would be exorbitantly high. it is estimated to be somewhere between 20% and 30% of the gdp. i think is extremely unlikely. opinion polls indicate that 74% of the greeks actually want to stay in the eurozone. it is very unlikely that greece will leave the eurozone. i

it was composed of thousands of computers all across. botnet is the term for an internet of compromised computers. they've gotten into people's computers and they use a thought or ability to take control of your computer and use it for their purposes and that can be used to launch attacks and it can also be used as it was by this criminal group a type of probe called cryptolocker. so they would blackmail you and say if you want to see your data again i'm sure there's so much you value on your computer you need to pay us money. various groups get access to that type of botnet they can block people's access to health information or try to keep people out of the financial sector and they are not going to offer payments to set it loose. they will just cause they massive amount of destruction. so it doesn't take too much imagination. and some of the botnet are for rent. it's even without is that even without having the in-house capability in the terrorist group, you can see how over the horizon this is a capability they are going to develop.

like officer ramos, of people like officer lou, of stories of heroes like dr. michael davidson so that maybe the voices of these victims can prompt us to action. i yield the floor. mr. inhofe: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: madam president i'd like to make a unanimous consent request that lieutenant colonel anthony mccarty he's a defense fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this year. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: and -- and madam president, along with senator hatch, we have a concern that we want to share with this body and one of the reasons i do is because i had planned to go ahead and introduce the bill having to do with the aumf. in fact, i actually had introduced it a year ago. but i understand now that we're coming into an agreement and we stand together, senator hatch and i to speak about the need for the new aumf authorization for the use of military force against the terrorist organization known as the isis or isil or whatever you want to call it i

what sold cars was a promise of freedom, a promise of speed, a notion of excitement.till see it in the automobile advertisements today. sitting there watching these commercials with my family i always have to point out, notice how all the streets are empty? when you see these cars driving they're driving and having a wonderful time was around today to get this much more complex is we don't usually have wide open road when we are driving in a commute time. but the automobile manufacturers, to their credit saw this as particularly in the 1920s and '30s, as a major impediment to expanding the marketplace. they were concerned about government regulation. it was possible for a state or municipality to demand speed governors. the technology was there to keep an internal combustion engine from creating enough speed for an automobile to keep it well below 40 miles an hour. there were devices, sort of these curious devices light bulbs went automobile surpassed 30 miles an hour you fast forward to today, the technology of our automobiles is smart enough that it can measure like

one of them of course that europe enjoys four centuries of history as a sender as a source nation ofnts. it's only recently become a destination. that's a tough adjustment. a lot of governments, a lot of voters, a lot of people are having a hard time accepting that, but the world accepts it. the world is coming to where they feel there's safety, there's dignity, there's employment for them, and they're leaving places where none of those things were available to them. it's europe's unfortunate position to be within only a few hundred miles of some of the worst conflicts on earth. but this is inevitable. this is not something you can decide shouldn't be or can be stopped. you have to embrace it this is the future for mankind and we've got to play a role. >> john millman, thank you very much for joining us. joel is speexokesman for the international organization of migration. >>> prince charles is continuing his tour of the middle east with visits to qatar and abu dhabi. earlier, he visited archaeological sites in saudi arabia, seen by only a few westerners. he also met the new king of

my wife teresa reminds me of the ideals of america. she is a naturalized citizen who came here from a dictatorship. and she loves the freedom and optimism that america has to offer. she is caring and strong leader on many causes, and she speaks the truth, and i love her for that, too. vanessa, alex, and christopher i thank you for taking time out of your lives. for teresa and me, all our children and now our first grandchild give us joy and pride every single day. as i look around at my crewmates and the veterans here today, i am reminded that the best lessons i learned about being an american came in a place far away from america, on that gunboat in the mekong delta with a small crew of volunteers. some of us had been to college. others were just out of high school. but we grew up together on that tiny boat. it was our sanctuary and a place for bridging distances between california and south carolina, iowa and massachusetts. we were no longer the kid from arkansas or the kid from illinois. we were just americans together, under the sa

over 100,000 people of japanese ancestry who lived on the west coast of the u.s. 62% of the internees were american citizens. a challenge to democracy from 1944 is a 20 minute war relocation authority film which attempts to justify the policy by showing the internment process and living conditions in the camps, sometimes admitting that there were problems, but are frequently glossing over the many negative aspects of forced relocation. ♪ >> evacuation -- more than 100,000 men, women, and children of japanese ancestry removed from their homes in the pacific coast states to wartime communities established in out-of-the-way places. their evacuations did not imply individual disloyalty, but designed to reduce the military hazard at a time when danger of invasion was great. 2/3 of the evacuees are american citizens by right of birth. the rest are there japanese born parents and grandparents, who are not under suspicion. they are not prisoners. they are not internees. they are merely dislocated people, the unwounded casualties of war. the time, spring and summer of 1942. the place, 10 diffe

>> well, i think many of them are. not all of them. but many of them are. and certainly the top leadership al baghdadi and folks around him, are formulating their concept of the caliphate on the basis of their interpretation of islam. >> okay. so some of them are. >> to a degree they are establishing a caliphate and hanging some of their notions of organization and discipline and battle based on that. there is a component of it that is a distorted sense of islam. >> who are the victims? >> well, but let me also point out. >> i'm sore griy -- i'm sorry, i want to get an answer for all three questions. >> i will give you an answer. and there are also criminals and thugs and adventurers and thrill-seekers involved in this as a criminal anarchy in all of it notwithstanding the basis they want to claim with respect to islam. and it is important in coming at this that you not empower them through the language we use to be able to make the argument to their peemt that in fact -- to their people that in fact, we are at war with islam and they are building that up a

of u.n. peacekeepers while a rebel leader has just said that they would not object to that. >> translator: with regard to peacekeepers, at the very beginning when this whole conflict started, we offered at that time to the russian federation and all the u.n. security council member states to look into this issue and send peacekeepers here. we were told no at that time. so if they want to send peacekeepers, we are not against it. let them send them. >> well in a separate development, the british defense secretary, michael fallon has said that russia represents a danger to the baltic states. latvia estonia, and lithuania, all of them have russian-speaking minorities. and mr. fallon said that it would be likely that russia could use covert tactics, such as undercover forces deployed in crimea against one of those three countries. well, international monitors from the osc have been barred from debaltseve but they witnessed the shelling from the addition. alexander hook described the overall state

i think a lot of people don't understand the reality of practice of medicine today. i'm also a physician and i can relate to your book, particularly because i also met my wife as an intern at the new york hospital. she is here. the question i have is not a medical question. it's more of a literary question. how does a writer doctor find an agent and deal with an agent which is something you don't learn in medical school. >> i was fortunate because i was writing for "the new york times" so the agent actually found me and reached out to me. but let's talk arwar .. writer? [inaudible] >> well, find me afterwards and we'll talk about it. thank you again. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to kramer books. this is yet another one of our events. can everyone hear me? is that better? okay. this evening we have these two authors from the brookings institute around the corner, the nice long trek. the more esteemed of the two. [applause] at the end we will have time for questions. save them until the end. thank you. >> i we will introduce the more esteemed. she ha

as you know the voters of the district of columbia voted for limited legalization of norming. you explained the limits -- of ma'amming r, you splaimed it -- alycia number ofajorkiewicz, you explained it well. it's not as if folks can go out on the streets. the counsel of district of columbia and our mayor are responsible leaders, wanting to regulate marijuana like colorado, and the state of washington. unfortunately the congress which has supervisory authority over the district of columbia precluded us doing that. that's why we do not have a strict and really informative regulatory regime. by creating a law where cultivation is basically all home cultivation, and there's no retail sales, don't you, in law enforcement terms, almost surrender oversight, regulation. it's hard to see what is king on in people's basements and homes. >> it is difficult, as it should be. the government should stay out of people's homes and bases, absent an arrest warrant. the reality is that what we are doing is all we can do for the citizens who passed the limited legalization bill and what we are t