pandemics aren't inevitable.eaks are inevitable, it's our option if we will be lazy, our it's option whether we will deny the risk, it's our option whether we will refuse to face the consequences. >> we have a chance to stop something that otherwise could be horrific, but it's going to take all of us. >>>. >>> hello and welcome to this special post edition of "unseen enemy" and questions if the world is equipped to deal with it if it ever happens. we have the director of the film you just watched, dr. sanjay gupta, our medical correspondent and dr. anthony facci. and the author of the book, why we're at risk. let's explain some terms, sanjay, there's outbreak, epidemic, pandemic, endemic. >> outbreak is usually when you see some sort of eruption of an infection that you wouldn't otherwise expect to see. so even if it's a single case of something that's brand-new, that could be an outbreak. epidemic is when something starts to spread rapidly among the population, pandemic is when it's spreading around the world. e

pandemic flu, what we're talking about with high lly lethal pandemic flu. it's a different virus.ted so much, we don't have immunity to it. pandemic flu, nobody has immunity to it. that's part of the concern. >> shannon, her case was just shocking, within, what, within a week -- >> within a week, yeah, she was dead and her mother was doing mouth to mouth on her, trying to keep her alive, which is every parent's worst nightmare. and i think there should be more awareness that flu does kill. doesn't always kill the extremely immune compromised or the elderly. and that we should do better in terms of diagnose nostics and te absolutely need to support the research to get to a universal flu vaccine. >> shannon hadn't gotten a flu vaccine. would that have made a difference? >> i think this is the issue. we're in an environment where there's lots of reck luck answer to take vaccines in general. this is the pack drop and now we're insisting from a public health messaging point of view that everybody needs to get the vaccine, which i think all of us would agree needs to happen. >> you can'

pandemics aren't inevitable. are inevitable, it's our option if we will be lazy, our it's option whether we will deny the risk, it's our option whether we will refuse to face the consequences. >> we have a chance to stop something that otherwise could be horrific, but it's going to take all of us. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome back, everyone. we're welcoming our viewers in the u.s. i'll cyril vannier in atlanta. >> i'm ivan watson. mike pence landed in seoul hours after another failed missile launch by north korea. aides to the vice president says he has been in contact with president trump. the launch was made from the port city of sinpo on the east coast. the type of missile has not been identified. but the u.s. military does not believe it was intercontinental. a u.s. official says

pandemics aren't inevitable. are inevitable, it's our option if we will be lazy, our it's option whether we will deny the risk, it's our option whether we will refuse to face the consequences. >> we have a chance to stop something that otherwise could be horrific, but it's going to take all of us. >>> welcome back, everyone. we want to welcome our viewers here in the u.s. donald trump had little to no experience of foreign policy before he took office. but that changed quickly. mr. trump's policy moves have the world's attention. the message, that washington is willing to flex its military might. >> reporter: new warnings from china, as tensions rising with north korea, the chinese foreign minister warning, if war breaks out, there will be losses on all sides. russia and syria issue warnings to the u.s. threats after president trump's to conduct two military strikes, afghanistan and syria. >> we have given them total authorization. that's what they're doing. that's why they've been so successful lately. >> report

explain the differences between epidemic, endemic, and pandemic. guest: if we don't do a good job of endemic, and democrat will cross borders. then it becomes an epidemic. villagent from a small to across oceans, it is when it affects multiple continents. the worse case scenario is an a diseasehere that was originally an outbreak became an epidemic, hit every comment, and is now a part of the landscape in almost every country of the world. from aou are an expert documentary that will be airing this friday evening on cnn. you're a journalist that is focused on a lot of issues, but this is your passion. why? guest: i think we have a chance to really make the world better if we do the right things. we are at a tipping point. we need to start using 21st-century tools to fight a that comesy problem, from organization and travel and population growth and biodiversity and climate change, and if we don't use 21st-century tools we are going to be really vulnerable. we don't want to be in that situation. host: dr. fauci, a tipping point? guest: what do you m

pandemic. it is a matter of when of which virus and how bad. the world changes around us at increasing speed. we cause a lot of that change. migrating to cities, stricting the earth of its resources. >> we are seen full entire ecologies that you can see with your eyes and which you only can see with the microscope. >> one system after another completely reshaped. in every case, this affords opportunities for viruses and bacteria to seek out new homes and causing new havoc including disease for human beings. >> when contagious, life alters in an instant. you don't feel safe. we lose trust. >> it spreads really quickly when you have an infectious disease. >> it is happening so fast and so much vividly ever before. the contagent of fear moves faster and the fabric of society starts to deteriorate. >> there is something that destroys the soul of the community that happens when an epic is o epidemic is out of control. it is not just the large number of casualties and deaths which are unthinkable. bu

if we do nothing, it's not a matter of if there will be a global pandemic.of when and which virus and how bad. >> the world changes around us at increasing speed. we cause a hot of that change. migrating to cities, stripping the earth of its resources and altaring prime evil jungle. >> we are seeing whole entire ecologies, that which you can see with your eye and that which you can only see with a mooirk scope, sun one system after another completely reshaped. in every case, this afords opportunities for viruss and bacteria to seek out new homes, cause new ha ok, including disease for human beings. >> starting just in a moment. thanks for watching "360. "unseen enemy" starts right now. . >>> there was a young doctor in africa when aids hit. i saw how it could devastate populations. i also saw how first responders, doctors, nurses and health care workers make the difference. infectious diseases are a global threat. the unseen enemy is a compelling, urgent film that urges the important conversation about what we can all do to protect our families from these di

debra: next up, it's the pandemic that has touched millions--aids. 30 years aftter the first confirm c cases appeared, whwhere are we now? and what's working in hiv prevention? find out in a spealal rept frfromsi andd vwchange.g. announcer: "viewchange" is about people m making real progress in tackling the e world's tought issues. can a story change the world? see for yourself in "viewchange: hiv prevention-- looking back and moving forward." debra: i'm debra messing, ambassador for psi. it's been 30 years since the centers for disease control l confirmed tthe firirst cases of hihiv in the united states. since 1981, more than 30 million people around the world have died of aids-related causes, particularly in the developing world, where the disease has devastated entire families, communities, and generations. but thanks to ththe medical advancement of anti-retro viral therapy and progress in prevention, saving lives is now possible. aid groups and governments have been working hard to bring innovative hiv prevention methods and tools to scale. and it's working. in mozambique, one yo

there's a growing threat from infectious diseases and a deadly pandemic.. >> the last three decades there have been about 30 newly emerging diseases that had the potential to be pan democratics. if we do nothing, it's not a matter of if there will be a global pan democrat irk, it's just a matter of when. which virus, and how bad. >> the world changes around us at increasing speed. we caused a lot of that change. migrating to cities, stripping the earth of its resources, and altaring prime evil jungle. >> we have seen whole spire ecologies, that which you can see with your eye and that which you can only see with a microscope. one system after another completely reshaped. in every case, this afords opportunities for viruss and bacteria to seek out new homes, cause new havoc, including disease for human beings. >> i'm joined by dr. anthony fauchi, of the national institute for allergy and infectious disease. which disease worries you the most right now, doctor? >> the thing that's most worrisome for a long time now is the possibility of a pandemic for a enfl

infectious diseases and the director and producer of the film unseen enemy discussed the potential of pandemicsround the world and what can be done to prevent them. and dave spencer talks but his assessment of the republican party and what needs to change. then european union ambassador to the u.s. david o'sullivan discusses the decision by british prime minister theresa may to formally begin the process to leave the european union. we should watch c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. a -- day night on q and it was everywhere in decline. nationalists were rising up. the big strategic weapon the u.s. faced was should it bit that should support britain against the nationalist or create a new order by mediating between the nationalist and the british. america's rising dominance in the middle east about the 1956 suez crisis and its aftermath. >> they're trying to present the soviet union coming in aligning with the nationalists, undermining the british and taking control of the oil. oilas 100% of european coming from the middle east. we

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infectious diseases, and the director and producer of the film "unseen enemy" discussed the potential of pandemics around the world and what can be done to prevent them. republicanally founder dave spencer talks about his assessment of the republican party and what needs to change. the european union ambassador to the u.s. discusses the decision by british prime minister theresa may to formally begin the process to leave european union. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. >> in case you missed it on the foreign policy research institute at the senate intelligence hearing. >> the russian influence system began pushing themes and messages seeking to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election. russia sought to sideline opponents on both sides of the political spectrum with adversarial fears towards the kremlin. they were in full swing during both the republican and democratic primary season and helped sink the votes of candidates more hostile to russian interests. >> the total force was short 2100 11th fi

that and evenn in health getting health systems around the world to be decent enough so that as pandemicssee them early. you can catch them before they get completely out of control. , which did of ebola not spread very quickly, thank goodness, we still had to dispatch military act committee to try and avoid it covering all of africa, and even getting into the richer countries, so if we underspending on health, we will have a flu epidemic, and epidemic of some unknown pathogen that within economically and for military activity, be very expensive. we have had some leaders like now secretary of defense in the united states, talk about how if you don't have that aid budget, it forces the military to buy more weapons, so the balance of soft power and hard power, particularly being ready for health crises, that if there is anything that could horrifically kill millions of people, it would be an epidemic, so you don't want to get out of balance. in thehave been vocal foundation has been vocal and deeply troubled about the potential cuts in health funding and united states of america. when i see

by necessity, also, by the fact that their own country impacted and looking to others to combat pandemics that area has been more advanced and is modeled look at. the question here is institutionally, back in my time in government and dealing with that is one of the global issues, that we weren't looking at institutions to correct that but rather we were looking at coalitions. in fact, there was was a coalition form, global coalition that dealt with influenza. it was effective. give your perspective on that. say why you selected that is one of the areas that should be looked at. >> again, you're right here. infectious disease doesn't respect borders. as we've seen with sars or ebola, wherever it starts it the travels and people get on airplanes and for all vulnerable to outbreaks just about anywhere. everybody realizes this. this is a good example of where ideology gets cast aside and you have very practical responses. it often means countries doing things to make themselves less vulnerable but you also have to go to the source and deal with these issues. it means the world often rallies

if we do nothing, it's not a matter of if there will be a global pandemic, it's just a matter of whenrus and how bad. >> the world changes around us at increasing speed. we cause a lot of that change. migrating to cities, stripping the earth of its resources, and altering prime evil jungle. >> "unseen enemy" airs tomorrow night, must see, on cnn at 9:00 p.m. i think when you're faced with the disaster that strikes a country, you do see that people care. people were dying. we have to do something about this. we have something in development, so we'll accelerate. i think it was really necessary for people, companies to step up and try to do something about this. when this bell rings... ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. on a perfect car, then smash it into a

to have a few outbreaks of pandemic diseases, fewer humanitarian disasters into which we have to go andople who are suffering unimaginable disasters will stop so we benefit from the prosperity and the peace and the stability that our aid programme helps to build. do you know how much is wasted and how can we go about stopping that waste? regrettably, i think there is some waste, both in the sense of spending money on things that are not as good as other things we could do, and sometimes there is theft people making and a lot of money out of the aid programme. we should do everything we can to stop that, and we do everything we can to stop that, and wedoa everything we can to stop that, and we do a pretty good job of keeping that to a minimum. when you think of the health service, for example, sometimes we give patients treatments that do not work. they seemed like the right treatment at the time, but not everything works all the time and you have to take chances. sometimes, rhetoric, there is poor at ministration health service, sometimes wicked and evil people steal money or do harm to

debra: next up, it's the pandemic that has touched millions--aids. 30 years aftter the first confirm c cases appeared, whwhere are we now? and what's working in hiv prevention? find out in a spealal rept frfromsi andd vwchange.g. announcer: "viewchange" is about people m making real progress in tackling the e world's tought issues. can a story change the world? see for yourself in "viewchange: hiv prevention-- looking back and moving forward." debra: i'm debra messing, ambassador for psi. it's been 30 years since the centers for disease control l confirmed tthe firirst cases of hihiv in the united states. since 1981, more than 30 million

with common-sense and compassion we may have done a much better job to prevent what became a goal pandemic and an overwhelming tragedy. >> host: "when we rise" my life in the movement". cleve jones is the author. live coverage of the 22nd annual l.a. times festival of bucks held on the campus of universities southern california you can watch the full schedule today at booktv.org we will be doing a call in later on the book the mother of all questions but right now let's go inside to another panel on writing history. live coverage on booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> i am not putting down fiction i have aspiration for anybody who can write a great fiction that they were talking about what kind of book tells the story about what you already know? widely read the book widely read books about what you know about because you need to know more. so of the great writers of fiction that meursault popular you're not reading the information and to see what happens in these books will we are discussing today with the authors is how they get to that conclusion and make those choices through a massiv

if we do nothing, it's not a matter of "if" there will be a global pandemic, it's just a matter of "when" and which virus and how bad. >> the world changes around us at increasing speed. we cause a lot of that change. migrating to cities, stripping the earth of its resources, and altering prime eem al jungle. i think when you're faced with the disaster that strikes a country, you do see that people care. people were dying. we have to do something about this. we have something in development, so we'll accelerate. i think it was really necessary for people, companies to step up and try to do something about this. e*trade's powerful trading tools, give you access to in-depth analysis, and a team of experienced traders ready to help if you need it. it's like having the power of a trading floor, wherever you are. it's your trade. e*trade you can count all the ingredients in real milk on three fingers. and you can count all the ingredients in flavored almond milk on ten fingers and five toes. time's up, insufficient we're on prenatal care.es. and administrative paperwork... your days of drowni

--orrow we will be joined by to talk about the potential of pandemics around the world and what can be done to prevent them. davidl also be joined by spencer, nephew of nelson rockefeller and founder of practically republican. and david o'sullivan will join us, the european union ambassador to the united states. british prime minister theresa may formally begin the process to leave the european union. that is tomorrow on the washington journal at 7 a.m. eastern, 4 a.m. pacific. in the meantime, have a great saturday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] , next, the house committee considering legislation to make president trump's tax returns public. then fbi director james comey on the bureau's role and cyber security. then a house floor debate to block the obama administration rules on internet privacy. >> this week in c-span cities tour with help of our comcast cable partners will explore the literary scene and history of chico,

they've cracked the genetic sequences and he successfully predicted, the last pandemics.he was accurate. but the other 13 times, henry i'm going to keep an eye on it. it might go crazy but i'm watching here. >> dear member the panic over swine flu? and it never showed up. that's no one's fault. it was just the way science is. >> the 2009 swine flu did show up. >> thank you. >> to the disclosure, i had a maternal grandfather grandfather was a veteran of world war i and died of tubercolsis 13 years later. my question is edward jenner -- as you pointed out he had discovered the vaccine for smallpox, however it was very rare that cowpox was rare that time and i don't know why if it disappeared but if it did disappear is that something that we need to keep in mind? the other question i have is for both of you. i've been told if you have a disease called spanish flu you can be assured it is in from spain but it's from some other country. if you have german measles the left country you can blame is germany. do you have any thoughts as regards to the identification for these dise

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a pandemic brings an end to that end a heartbeat. with a real economic problem the movie should talk to somebody who knows about economics. live will stop there and take your questions. [applause] select trashing the media 1937 cbs blair word to rhodes scholars that rights the of the other bright desert anybody today but has read that? >> if they have read that i don't know. and then to design the book which about was better than any academic work. i don't want to chart an innocent journalist but there are some reporters that are out there that are that good. but journalists are aware but of course, some of them for obvious reasons but yang people who don't know the difference between bloodying and journalism. this is where they thread that problem so now listed of being apprenticed but when i was in my 20s with small towns in western, jr.. so now i went to college i am smart i have been plugging my thoughts for years now want to work at "the new york times." i have to lower their expectations but on the other to have that click grea

infectious diseases and it director of producer of the film "unseen enemy" discuss the potential of pandemics around the world and what can be done to prevent them. and practically republican founder talks about his assessment of the republican party and what needs to change. then european union ambassador to the u.s. david o'sullivan discusses the decision by british prime minister theresa may to formally begin the process to leave the european union. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on sunday. join the discussion. announcer: tonight on c-span, first lady melania trump attends a state department award ceremony honoring women around the world. that is followed by president trump at a women's empowerment seminar that took place this week at the white house. later, grassroots organizers hold a rally on the national mall to protest to bring court nominee neil gorsuch. this week, first lady melania trump attended a ceremony for the state department's 2017 international women of courage award. she called for continued progress on women's issues ar

you're much more likely to die in a pandemic than a terrorist attack. so that's part of the defense of the country as well. your testimony, which i hope every member of congress reads, you point out that we need to devote more funding to this critical research, not less. and we need to make sure it is directed to cases like your son's which have little or no federal funding devoted to them today. mr. spicer did not make the call, less funding is not a cut argument when president trump proposed increasing the pentagon budget by $54 billion next year alone. our committee had a hearing last week. just last week. on how the defense department is wasting tens of billions of dollars, but for some research, cancer research is decimated rather than trimming the bloated defense budget. i believe there are few investments more significant than the investments we make in biomedical research. the work of nih is transformational with. the idea to turn ideas into cures. the idea that there's a cure over here and we cannot reach it. we're reaching for it. we're trying

with common-sense and compassion we may have done a much better job to prevent what became a goal pandemic and an overwhelming tragedy. >> host: "when we rise" my life in the movement". cleve jones is the author. live coverage of the 22nd annual l.a. times festival of bucks held on the campus of universities southern california you can watch the full schedule today at booktv.org we will be doing a call in later on the book the mother of all questions but right now let's go inside to another panel on writing history. live coverage on booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> i am not putting down fiction i have aspiration for anybody who can write a great fiction that they were talking about what kind of book tells the story about what you already know? widely read the book widely read books about what you know about because you need to know more. so of the great writers of fiction that meursault popular you're not reading the information and to see what happens in these books will we are discussing today with the authors is how they get to that conclusion and make those choices through a massiv

innovation and health, even getting the health systems around the world to be decent enough so that as pandemicsy, you can catch them before they get out of control. so if we understand on health -- underspend on health we will have an epidemic that will affect us economically and even for military activity, it will be expensive. so the balance between soft power and hard power, particularly with health crises, if there is anything that could horrifically go and kill people it would be an epidemic, so you do not want to get out of balance. >> you have been vocal and your foundation has been vocal about being troubled in the cuts with health funding. when i look at donald trump and his policies on north korea and china, what about the threatened cuts being scaled back? >> i think there is a good chance that the administrative proposals, the executive proposal, will not end up being the exact budget. there are things like the life-saving work that gets done that has a strong backing in the congress. andets go through congress they require enough votes in the senate that it cannot just be completel

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while you're there, the unseen enemy, the story how the global threat to be another pandemic, that is >>> hours after storm warning from the white house, north korea launches what's believed to be another missile. what options are on the table and what's behind the cryptic response from the u.s. secretary of state? >>> there's seething anger around the world after a suspected chemical attack in syria that killed dozens. we'll warn you this is graphic content. in fact, yeah, we want to give you a chance to be able to step away, especially the children, step away.

while you're there, the unseen enemy, the story how the global threat to be another pandemic, that is it . >>> hours after storm warning from the white house, north korea launches what's believed to be another missile. what options are on the table and what's behind the cryptic response from the u.s. secretary of state? >>> there's seething anger around the world after a suspected chemical attack in syria that killed dozens. we'll warn you this is graphic content. in fact, yeah, we want to give you a chance to be able to step away, especially the children, step away. who and why -- why is the white house blaming the previous administration on this. our very interesting response from the white house on that. good morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. this is a pivotal week for the president to reset everything. it's about foreign policy. move aside health care and wiretapping. it's april 5th. good morning. the white house facing renewed threats on two fronts from two of the world's most serious trouble spots. a new missile launch from north korea and a suspected chemical a

>>> don't miss "unseen enemy," the story of how a deadly disease could turn into the next global pandemicastern. >>> that's it for us. thanks for watching. i'll see you right back here tomorrow. i have age-related maculare degeneration, amd, he told me to look at this grid every day. and we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression, including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd after 15 years of clinical studies. preservision areds 2. because my eyes are everything. >>> good evening, we begin tonight with new tweets and a new chapter in the president's ongoing effort to divert attention from the russia story and the ongoing investigations by the fbi and congress. and just moments ago push back from a close associate of the obama administration, just like the president's early morning tweets more than a month ago that accused president obama of wiretapping his phones, the latest allegations are big on

other times of the past us without our modern medicine, communities do what they can to try to stop pandemics. there was a movie about six years ago called contagion but i thought was good in terms of everything that was on screen but i was disturbed by most of the stuff offscreen because they didn't have any recognition that there might be problems of getting food and that sort ofacs thing. i'm wondering if you can comment on what the past epidemics in previous times have done and what communities have done to try to stem epidemics when they didn't have our modern medicines. >> most of them used isolation. they wouldn't let anybody in or anybody out. keep in mind most come in waves, they can't go an come and go ant the time. one wiped out half the population of europe and they would isolate the towns and villages. i want to point out there is no cure for smallpox or most viral diseases and if you can't smallpox now, which you won't there would be almost nothing they could do for you. comes the word quarantine is of italian. when boats came into the harbor they would have to sit there for 40

coming up on today's washington journal, a look at potential pandemics around the world and what can be done to prevent them. our guests include dr. anthony tobias, whonet directed and produced a new film on the topic. then, we hear from dave spencer, founder of the group " practically republican." and later, we discuss the uk's recent decision to formally begin the process of leaving the european union with eu ambassador to the u.s. david o'sullivan. host: good morning. all eyes on the u.s. senate this week. the nomination of neil gorsuch to serve on the u.s. supreme court expected to be voted out of the senate judiciary committee tomorrow. a full senate vote slated for friday, but not before a week of debate and ongoing threats of a democratic filibuster. it is sunday morning, april 2. at the white house, the president meeting with foreign leaders, including a significant meeting late this week and into the weekend. president ji of china traveling to west palm beach, florida. we want to begin with a tweet late last week by the president and get your comments, calling this investiga

second, a pre-funded global health account that will allow the president to stop a pandemic in its infancyather than having to wait once it reaches adolescence. estimates are that the billions spent on ebola could have been just the millions is the obama administration had the money to spend one year earlier. as you read through this report or the executive summary, i do hope that you will not think i've gone mad. i understand what i'm doing here. i'm arguing unapologetically for doubling of the foreign affairs budget over the course of five years at a political moment in time when the president is calling for the same budget to be cut by 30% this year alone. i understand that today this is not a realistic proposal. but it is a marker for where we should be. and a marker for the coming debate so that the terms don't start such that flat funding is on one side with a devastating 30% cut on the other. for the majority of smart thinkers on global security, that know that our foreign affairs budget is badly underfunded and we need to be on offense. president trump's medieval view of the world,

the story of how a deadly disease could turn into the next pandemic. that's it for us tonight. thanks for watching. be right back here tomorrow. >>> good evening. tonight after weeks of seeing one puzzle piece after another, something new happened. the puzzle itself just got bigger. it now stretches to the indian ocean a string of islands where a meeting took place making headlines. the brother of a trump cabinet member and black water met with a confident of putin. we don't know whether it involved any wrong doing at all, we do know it's another in a parade of russia items and led someone to say some people will end up in jail before all is said and done. and a poll showing a record low 35% job approval rating for president trump. no surprise they continue to try to divert attention from the fbi investigatio investigations investigating ties between trump and russia. what's the reaction on the hill that a donor and head of black water was trying to establish a black channel during the transition? >> well, the congressional investigators want to learn more about this, particula

it is the only threat aside from nonthinking pandemics that seeks to destroy our existence.al warming or globalism. as we work out disputes with russia or china, there will never be a way to work out anything with these fiends. even the heinous actions of assad somehow seems less heinous even though hundreds of thousands died under him. isis makes everyone look worse. raising the bar for all evil. radical islam cannot be reasoned with, only obliterated. it is harder than hitting an airfield. that's the advantage of sending out cultists to blow people up. retaliation is messy. at least we are trying and will continue to hunt this garbage down. such garbage will never truly and as long as there are newer methods of technology and communications, the threat will mutate. it's up to us to never look away from the carnage lest we forget it's also meant for us. someone needs to reclaim the concept of heaven from these primitives. their view is that life is just a delay, one can speed up if you kill a lot of people. the pope heads to egypt this month. maybe he can address that inste

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a new prefunded global health account that would allow the president to stop a pandemic in its infant stage rather than waiting for congress. estimates are that the billions spend on ebola could have been millions if the obama administration had the money to spend a year earlier. now, as you read through this report or -- it's a big report. at least the executive summery, i hope that you'll think i haven't gone mad because i understand what i'm doing here. i'm arguing for a doubling of the foreign affairs budget over the course of five years. at a political moment in time when our president is calling for the same budget to be cut by 30% this year alone. i understand today this is not a realistic proposal, but it's a marker for where we should be and a marker for the coming debate so that the terms don't start such that flat funding is on one side and a devastating 30% cut is on the other. for the majority of smart thinkers on global security that know that our budget is underfunded today, we need to be on offense. president trump's view of the world that we can defend ourselves with

a pan pandemic will bring an teo that fast. a real economic problem could bring panel back to saying maybe we ought to talk to somebody who knows something about economics. a war, maybe we ought to talk to diplomats or people who speak the languages of other countries. i don't want us to get to that and wheat -- that's why i wrote the book. let me stop there and take your questions. [applause] >> wait for the microphone and introduce yourself before asking the question. >> yes. my name is mark bernstein and trash thing media with the exception of myself, 1937, cbs sends edwardr. moreau to start news coverage. he hires howard k. smith. >> shyer writes, rice and fall of the third reich. anybody in the media today who could write that book or anyone in the media today who has read it? >> i can't -- whether they read it i don't know. think there are people out there that good. for years i got raised eyebrows from my academic colleagues. used to teach soviet russia affairs and i say assigned "lenin's tomb" which was better than any