class but not in the economic middle class. you're worker and more and more young people specially millennials like my daughter they are in the working class but they have cultural, you know, journalists and so on, cultural interest and cultural capital and that gives them the opportunity to make income but they could be dumped any time any place and she's been dumped four times in the last three years. that's true. she got her first job and they dumped her recently. >> that's interesting because what i think about my definition of middle class i wrote and i would describe my family lower-middle class, to me what upper middle class it meant not only did you have to not worry about shelter and food and clothing month to month but also if there was some sort of cats -- catastrophe that you might not be emptied on all your money and pushed out in the streets. there was definitely anxiety that one thing could ruin my family and i don't think my pierce that were middle class or upper-middle class shared. i don't know that i would des

tunisia is showing what it means to be builders in the middle east. y second point is more of a plea. please do not accept the view of some that the middle east must inevitably be divided along secretary and lines, especially between sunni and shiite muslims. nothing kills the propaganda of dsh and other terrorist organizations more than the smith. this simplistic and cynical view is not only not true historically, it is not true today. after all, coalition to defeat dsh includes every sunni region in the northeast. last june when the ash suicide bombers attacked and killed muslims while they are praying in kuwait at the start of ramadan, 27 were killed, what happened? the speaker of the parliament immediately rushed to the site of the tragedy, 1300 people volunteered to give blood the first day, sunni religious leaders urged their followers to show solidarity by praying at shiite mouse. the government blew the bodies of the victims for burial in accordance to family wishes. back in kuwait, 35000 people of every single sector came together and attended

the face of the middle-class is changed dramatically. if you did the makeup of the country there are 45 million poor people in the country today, entirely too many but just above that are another 50 million that i call in my book covering for, a twist from an experience of poverty. one of the leading causes of bankruptcy for the lower and middle class is cancer diagnosis, a trip to poverty might involve something as simple as an accident in your car or a kid and sudden illness or the loss of a job so all these poverty fighting organizations whose sole motive was to get people above the poverty line, that no longer works. take a much that snap, food stamps, supplemental nutrition assistance program this. look at how that has grown. in the year 2000 we spending $20 billion on snap. 2012 we responding $83 billion, 48 million people in our country were on food stamps. when i talk about having poor, 40% of the children in this country will spend some part of their childhood receiving food stamps. that is how the face of this country's middle-c

. >>> tonight the middle east is in flames. president obama's foreign policies failed the region and the united states say critics. in the panel secret x-ray surveillance on the streets of new york. you may be dosed with radiation and not know it. like most americans - i love football. will injuries of athletes in school weaken our like for the game. >> this is "third rail". >>> the greater middle east is burping. critics say president obama is not doing much to stop it. maybe because when he try, he may as well be talking to himself. >> i have indicated repeatedly that president bashar al-assad's lost legitimacy, and needs to step down. message. >> maybe he did, a message about american weakness creating a vacuum that russian president vladimir putin fills. >> translation: we think it's an enormous mistake to refuse to cooperate with the syrian government and armed forces fighting terrorism. >> did vladimir putin describe the middle east process as a mistake, is the u.s. to blame for turmoil and violence. joining me is neil fer

but if you look at the big things that have happened to the american middle class, virtually none of them have had any direct effect on christianity. not any significant effect. world war i, no significant effect. world war ii, the significant effect was the baby boom afterwards which increased the total membership of churches but didn't increase significantly the proportion of americans who are members of the church. the civil war, what was the effect of the civil war on christianity? i can't find a significant effect. but a lot of the things that have been important in american christianity have, for instance, the prohibition movement which blew up in american christianity in 1820s, 1830s, what great event in the middle class, what great problem in the middle class did that respond to? people try to explain these things with respect to some movement in the middle class, and the middle class is afraid that, oh, there's an upper class of rich people who endanger us, and religion will be our defense, and we have to defend ourselves with religious methods against the incursions of a ris

[cheering] for the middle income people of which we do not have too many in this room. they are all upper middle income people end up for people, but for the middle income people, because the middle class in this country has been totally forgotten about. it has been totally forgotten about, so we are cutting corporate taxes. we are cutting taxes for the middle income. we are cutting a lot of things like carried interest. the hedge fund guys pick a side. if it goes up, they make a fortune, and they go down, they find another job, ok? along with -- a lot of it is luck. the democrats and republicans both agreed that we should bring [indiscernible] 40.5 years they agree and they still cannot make a deal. -- for 3.5 years they agreed but they still cannot make a deal. it is a lack of leadership in washington and we are going to stop it. [cheering] and it will be an amazing. we will have a dynamic, really dynamic country. the other day, i watched a general being interviewed. i said to a group before, i the hell is the debt -- is the general being interviewed on television? i d

it was taking it right up the middle. the freshman offensive linemen and dobbs refused to lose. then the davis drop. >> verne: in a moment like this, i think of the late jim mckay. the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. allie laforce made her way over to talk with joshua dobbs. >> allie: josh, congratulations. you are up here celebrating with your biggest fans. what is that like? >> there is nothing like. it i love you too, coach. the defense had our backs. great to celebrate with our fans. >> allie: congrats. >> player: thank you very much. >> ♪ >> verne: rocky top gives way to the alma mater. >> ♪ >> verne: that's joshua dobbs's mother. what a scene. for gary danielson and allie laforce, i am verne lundquist. so long from knoxville. the final score tennessee

and president obama himself nowhere to be found as russia expands its influence in the middle east. >>> also tonight, another foreign policy failure in afghanistan nearly a year after nato ended its combat mission there. u.s. special forces are now on the ground in the northern city of kunduz trying to help afghan forces retake it from the taliban. they seized it earlier this week at a major military victory for the taliban. we take up the president's embarassing handling of afghanistan and the war against the islamic state. we talk tonight with general jack keane, ambassador john bolton, former pentagon official k.t. mcfarland. >>> and donald trump reigniting his presidential campaign. a new poll shows trump with a 10-point lead over his republican rivals as the billionaire ends his six day boycott of fox news. we'll discuss all things politics with former reagan political director ed rollins, fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt. >>> top story tonight -- russian president putin defying the west and the obama white house by launching airstrikes in syria, putin significant

no one is understanding that we are in the middle of a desperate situation. w will the people move. they don't have the money, where will they go. >> last year california pledged 600 million to drought-stricken communities throughout the state. driving through a dozen communities, you realise help can't come fast enough. >> these towns are not dying, some are sinking into the earth. the unregulated and unsustainable drilling of groundwater made the land collapse. we leave the central valley, with a feeling people are waiting. waiting for help from above >>> next stop, where the tries are tying and the lakes are sandpits. apocalyptic images from "america tonight"s >>> our drive takes us through the sierra nevada. we find a community that could go up in flames. only problem, they are running out of water. we are off-roading it, from a mountain climb to 4400 feet. and what a 4-year drought does to a forest. it is not pretty. >> i'm standing at an epicentre. this is the geographic center of the state. this is a major disaster. nowhere is it worse than right here.

. >> and for the first time on camera, the little girls in the middle of the tug of war. >> it sounds like you're passing kids around like they're pets. >> a fire storm of outrage, coming down to a single question. when things don't work out with your apoptdopted children, can you give them away? >> trying to find a forever family, but what happened when those girls had demons. some wondered if those parents were the demons. one note, to protect the girls, we're not showing their faces or using their names. >> reporter: come to northwest arkansas and here amid the beauty of the ozark mountains you'll find a landscape dotted with hay stacks and church the air filled with birdsong and the joyful noise of gospel choirs. as you drive south from fayetteville, you reach the tiny town of west fork. blink and you'll miss it. >> do you think it'll be about how to be saved or -- >> reporter: it was here that justin and marsha harris were raising their three boys in a devoutly christian household. >> heavenly father god, we come to you in the name of jesus. lord, we just thank you for today. >>

she was really cute. >> reporter: what about the middle daughter, what was she like? >> she was just over 2. she loved bows in her hair. she loved matching flouncy little tutus. she loved to get dressed by herself in the morning. >> reporter: but the harts can one sign? it appears the youngest, still a baby, has already been sleep-trained the hard way. >> she didn't cry? >> not really. >> not much. you could see that she hadn't gotten any attention and she wasn't used to people, you know, fussing over her or whatever -- >> reporter: so, even at nine months she learned not to cry because -- >> nobody came. >> nobody came. >> reporter: and the middle girl indicates some of the attention she had received was the wrong kind. >> she said, "my baby sister, is she safe?" and i said, "yes, she's safe, why?" and she said, "um, i don't want the boogeyman to get me, i don't want him to get my baby sister." so it didn't take long to figure out that she had been abused. >> reporter: still, the harts say the girls never really acted out. >> never. >> no, never. >> reporter: instead

what i would like you to address today is the need for strategy long-term in the middle east. enneth pollack of the brookings institution several months ago mentioned in a statement it may take a long time so i asked him the whole problem of extremism in the middle east. this spasm of violence racing throughout the entire region how complex it is and so i followed up. you are saying this could last 10, 20, 50 years and i remember vividly he looked at me and i got an answer you don't often get. yes. that was his answer. and do we need to strategy, long-term strategy that can deal with that? i have asked that question to russell mead and he said he had never seen us as a nation be so unfocused and a strategy, the historian that he is. the entire panel i believe the week before last general keane ambassador another scholar agreed we need to strategy. we really don't have one and i asked secretary gates last week and this is what he said that i think is relevant. he said my concern is that i don't see an overreaching or overriding strategy on the part of the united states with this

and steve, i guarantee you that there are factions inside the middle east. i guess factions inside the republican party who think that we should, should send endless number of troops into the middle east. that the only measure of strength is us sending back several hundred thousand troops that we are going to impose a piece, police the region, and that the fact that we might have more deaths of u.s. troops, thousand of troops killed, thousand of troops injured. spend another trillion dollars. they would have no problem with that. there are people who would look to see us do that and unless we do that, they'll suggest we're in retreat. >> they'll say you are throwing in the towel? >> no. steve, we have an enormous presence in the middle east. we have bases. we have aircraft carriers. and our pilots are flying through those skies. we are currently supporting iraq. as it tries to continue to build up its forces. but the problem that i think a lot of these critics never answer is what's in the interest of the united states of america? and, and, what point do we s

we don't have anything like that with respect to the middle east. so we are dealing with each of these crises individually rather than backing up and saying, what's our long-term game plan here? and who are going to the our allies? where do we contain? where do we let it burn itself out? we haven't addressed those long-term questions. it seems to me we are thinking strictly in the short term of month-to-month. i know we've got nine points, secretary carter, but i don't sense anyone in the region or in the congress believes that we have a deeply studied and long-term policy for the middle east that can extend for decades. first of all, do you think we need one, and do we have one? secretary carter: we have a strategy toward the middle east. many elements of it are decades long standing. again, our strategy begins with the pursuit of american interests. that involves protecting our own country and our people, defending long-standing friends and allies who include the gulf states and israel, opposing the introduction of nuclear weapons to the region, wh

role and strategy in the middle east. think first we need to underscore our interest in this region of the world. yes, it is to stop the spread and use of weapons of mass distraction, it is clearly to underscore our commitment to israel's security, it is for top counterterrorism and by lennox dream is them, it is good govern men and respect to human rights. that is an area i've concentrated on the u.s. makes it very clear with respect to human rights you cannot have long-term stability and security in a country, considering the energy resources in that part of the world, freedom of navigation, free flow of congress, and it certainly ending through regional civil wars. recognizing that is critically important not just force the ability and in the region but the humanitarian crisis we see today by the refugees fleeing civil war in syria. so, against this backdrop of broad u.s. interest, what are our objections and hashem's shape u.s. strategy going forward. that is. that is the purpose of today's hearing, to understand the

some people want to stay focused on the middle east. but we have to focus on the shift to the pacific. it mead to be a priority and i believe it is for this administration and congress. i have had opportunities to host congressional delegations. in late march, i hosted a delegation for many thad that didn't have the money to go to the pay debrief, the one that talks about the mission that pay com and the entire area, including the indian ocean has. if you get a brief like, even if is unclassified, you understand the challenges in that part of the world. more than 50% of the world's mass is covered by pay com. most of it water and all of the air. we also celebrated and the end of world war ii on september 2nd and the 70th anniversary of the u.s. war happened birthing at pearl harbor facing the uss arizona memorial. we had the pay com brief and with those members of congress, mostly republicans, 28 of us or so. the focus on asia was something they said we need to focus on. i believe it. despite the cuts we saw in the army in particular. we

the middle east is on fire, and u.s. policy in the region is coming undone in places like iraq, syria and yemen. we're seeing civil wars, powe power vacuums and world powers like russia and of course the united states. but amidst all the turmoil the decades old conflict between israelis and palestinians continues to fester. israel bombed gaza for 50 days. at the same time they would will be shells at israel. a war broke out after another round of the u.s. brokered negotiations broke down. a peace process back then was for the process to end with israel withdrawing from arab territories it seized in 1967, and with palestinian independence. well, that has not happened. the palestinians today have nothing more than limited self-rule in parts of the west bank and in gaza. meanwhile, the violence in and around gaza has flared off, and israel has confiscated more than half the land in the west bank where it has employment settl built settlements for half of million israelis. mahmood abbas announced that the palestinian side wou

rhodes: we still have to mitigate threats in the middle east. have affirmative interests there, partners there that we would like to see stronger. israel first and foremost. we would like to see a resolution to the underlying conflicts that are taking place in the middle east, which are sectarian and political as much as they are rooted in terrorist activity. but i do think there is a certain component of american policy that will have to be mitigation. we have tried the affirmative project of building democracy there. the fact of the matter is we cannot determine for people by force how their society will be organized. we can provide incentives and disincentives for people to pursue models in which there is a political accommodation and stability. unless we realize that, we will find ourselves i think repeating a lot of errors that would be very costly. mr. goldberg: ben, thank you very much for doing this. appreciate it. mr. rhodes: thank you. [applause] >> a senate committee investigates the financial impact that the gold king mine river has

he said what's happening with isis in the middle east is a genocide. this time you guys are getting it first. he said i'm trying to wake the jewish people up to what, basically, what's happening to the christians. so i'm gravely concerned about what's happening there. but i'm also concerned that we have hardened our hearts, and i openly admit and regret i played a role in thety vice i haveness of our -- divisiveness of our country, and that's not good. and, you know, i'm currently going through a -- this is the only interview, and i'm giving a speech tonight. i am supposed to not be speaking for a month. i don't know if you can hear my voice is a little rocky, but aye been having some issues with my voice and some other health issues for the last five years, and that kind of clarifies things. that puts you into perspective when you think you may not speak again, you may not have long, you know, to work or live. what are you doing with your life? and it's clarified. and we were -- any role that i have played, i'm trying to make up for. we are in a very d

you remember it is not the lower to middle 70s like we had yesterday. we've had a few building cumulus clouds in the skies a piece of energy that's coming through over the next couple hours with a few scattered clouds and clear back out and temperatures cool through the lower 50s by 5 p.m., sunsets and cool into the 40s by the time we get to 9 p.m. over night tonight, we drop into the 30s in fact some of the coldest suburbs will dip into the upper 20s mostly clear, there may be a touch of scattered frost that develops as well across the anterior with a wind that will turn what about the weekend? tomorrow we'll start off on a cool note halloween 54 degrees, sunshine thin whispy clouds, and fall into the 40s at trick or treat time, we'll have a few more clouds on sunday but be milder up around 60, an isolated shower but most will be dry no problem we'll talk more about the weekend in detail coming up. >>> a lot of people looking forward to the extra hour of sleep. now at noon a man accused of sneaking into the schools by posing as a repairman and he goes b

so the rise of the middle class can destabilize the society if it's needs are not met. i think what you are seeing, 10 or 20 years ago, the world was talking about the environment in china. today, the world doesn't have to talk about the environment in china. the chinese national people are fully aware and are demanding solutions from their government. anna: when you look around -- we have policy experts, experts in the world of finance -- when you look ahead to what might cause the next destabilization of the growth story globally, do you worry about china and the emerging market growth story? do you worry about commodities? do you worry about a bubble in high-yield debt in the united states, particularly in commodity companies? where are your worries focused? >> well, i am not worried about high-yield debt. debt, it is about really a market of bonds and debt issue, not a market. some companies will make all-time highs, some all-time lows the same day. in technology has really changed the world, but most of the companies in the world -- 99% -- they create almost all th

highs in the middle to upper 70's. a cold front on the way friday. more on that and the chance of thunderstorms in october. that is in a few minutes. leon: a 19-year-old in custody for sexual assault that the arlington on edge. the police say he confessed to three cases and is being held without bond. edtotal of nine women report attempted sexual assaults in the last two months. the police are now trying to determine if he is tied with any of the other cases. alison: a different type of rocket blasted off from wallops island tonight. >> 3, 2, 1, mark. alison: the launch of what is called a sounding rocket. this not a cold term, to sound, means to take measurements. it released to green and red vapor clouds, which allow scientists to study the wind between the atmosphere and space. the launch was visible up and down the east coast. ahead -- incredible new images from south carolina, crews working around the clock for the recovery efforts after historic flooding. alison: they are also bracing for more evacuations and damage. discover the w world animal

morning what i believe is the most timely topics today in light of what is going on right now in the middle east. the title of our panel today is the palestinian future and i would venture to say that it is best we put a question mark after that the because i am not clearly sure what the path forward is in light of the current events. luckily we have expert panelists today who will answer some of those questions. many of the questions have to do with what is the palestinian authority dog right now and we're proud to have the ambassador, for the palestinian liberation organization who i had pleasure to work with over the past few years. i venture to say he is if not the best the best rep l tiff for the palestinians here and around the country. we have pleasure of dr. jim zogby, president of the arab-american institute but will help us understand not only what arab-americans are thinking. he has written a terrific book about. what the arab world is thinking about palestine. also due to his political activity he has close relationships with the administration and members of congress. we're hop

the middle class argument that more or less left. is that the unions created the middle class of the united states. whether it's above my pay grade. let's consider it's truly. in the 1980s, they created a labour mechanism and rules to differentiate the contractor. they created a w 2, and have between four and 20 criteria. a reasonableness. as to which one you are. now, those rules have not had as major upgrade. our economy has. what did you do. >> former employee of mine. was a c.e.o. of a great company. serving the health insurance products. an interest in the game because it comes from the right place. >> he offers an insight. that may be there's a third way between a contractor and an employee, someone who is on demand with the right or privilege to buy benefits that are portable from gig to gig. >> what about the loyalty, the idea that you go out of your way to recruit great people. you are in the basic skills, against very big companies that may pay more or less. you want to nurture some environment. where people want to work for

i have to prove that we can reshape the middle east. herwise, the rest of my administration, various terrorists groups and dictators are going to take advantage of me. >> richard clark was in charge of counterterrorism in the white house on 9/11. it was that very night, clark says, when the iraq war really began. >> on the night of 9/11, we all meet in the situation room in the east wing of the bunker and rumsfeld is there straight from the pentagon which is still on fire at the time. the president is there. and in that conversation, rumsfeld starts talking about invading iraq while the pentagon is still burning. the president, he said, you know, saddam, saddam. go back and look at everything and find whether saddam was involved. >> so even as the fires of 9/11 still burned -- >> the people who knocked those buildings down will hear all of us soon. [ cheers ] >> -- one of the most disastrous chapters in the history of american intelligence began, building a case to go to war against saddam hussein, even though he had nothing to do with t

strategy in the middle east. hearing of the senate armed hearing services. they covered u.s. operations in u.s. and syria, the fight against isis and russia's involvement in the syrian civil war. john mccain chairs this three-hour hearing. >> defense secretary carter and chair of the joint chiefs ofmidd staff discuss u.s. military strategies in the middle east at a hearing at the armed services committee. they talked about u.s. operations in iraq and syria, the fight against isa and the fight. senator john mccain host this three-hour hearing. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. the committee meets today to receive testimony on u.s. strategy in the middle east. i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. before i proceed, i would likeri to remind our witnesses of the rules that require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing and i would like to try to adhere to that. the tragic loss last week of master sergeant walker reminds

the one true democracy in the middle east. then as now, some sought to deny the one and only jewish state a place among the nations. i ended that first speech by say saying gentlemen, check your fanaticism at the door. more than three decades later, as the prime minister of israel, i'm again privileged to speak from this podium. for me, that privilege has always come with a moral responsibility to speak the truth. so after three days of listening to world leaders praise the nuclear deal with iran, i begin my speech by saying, ladies and gentlemen, check your enthusiasm at the door. you see, this deal doesn't make peace more likely, it makes war more likely. just look at what iran has done in the last six months alone. since the framework agreement was announced in lazan, iran boosted its supply of devastating weapons to syria. iran sent more soldiers of its revolutionary guard to syria. iran sent thousands of its fighters to syria. iran did all this to prop up assad's brutal regime. iran also shipped tons of weapons and ammunit

point the next one it is clear there by some .03 it is almost on the property line the point in the middle does show it is over by .13 which is e development by an inch nature so it on over to the neighbors property by inch and nature that tells me we can go bart whether there is a bow but at least not a straight line the one the corner and is third point the point in the middle is bowing out it is not a straight line whether it was built or formed over the hundred and 16 years is quite a bit of time maybe movement to this wall so i would suggest that whether it be bow or lean it is not a straight line between those two points that's what i'm seeing commissioner president melgar. >> can do you do when you have a survey it is over the line an inch one half what do you do in the field. >> what we try to do is use common sense and judgment and understand a hundred and 16-year-old wall may have movement over the years and in cases where it is obvious it is straddling the property line we write one for both sides and they'll have the responsibility we didn't have access to this survey back in m

and steve, i guarantee you that there are factions inside the middle east. i guess factions inside the republican party who think that we should, should send endless number of troops into the middle east. that the only measure of strength is us sending back several hundred thousand troops that we are going to impose a piece, police the region, and that the fact that we might have more deaths of u.s. troops, thousand of troops killed, thousand of troops injured. spend another trillion dollars. they would have no problem with that. there are people who would look to see us do that and unless we do that, they'll suggest we're in retreat. >> they'll say you are throwing in the towel? >> no. steve, we have an enormous presence in the middle east. we have bases. we have aircraft carriers. and our pilots are flying through those skies. we are currently supporting iraq. as it tries to continue to build up its forces. but the problem that i think a lot of these critics never answer is what's in the interest of the united states of america? and, and, what point do we s

it's the middle class that does most of the work.t is the middle class that gets up in the morning. it is time for us to give you the tools you need to make the most out of your own lives, at home and at work. and i will tell you what else would really help us in the economy, and that is to get comprehensive immigration reform finally taken care of. i really don't like with what the republicans are saying about immigrants. we are a nation of immigrants. we were built by immigrants. every one of us, grandparents, great-grandparents, we have somebody who came to this country. and aren't we glad they did. and aren't we relieved that we have the benefit of their hard work. my grandfather came to this country as just a little boy. he was a factory worker. he worked really hard. he did not ask for much. he made a good living by those standards in those days, by his because of his hard work, but he wanted his kids to have a better chance. and all three of his sons went to college. and my dad became a member of the military in world war ii.

so the middle east matters and it matters way beyond oil my friends, it matters a lot. in the context of this world when we're trying to bring people together to see the future. that is why it is so important that carnegie is launching this ambitious project this week called arab world horizons. to examine trends that will shape the middle east for decades to come. i encourage you to begin this project with a healthy degree of optimism. before you conclude that i have had too much caffeine. [laughter] let me emphasize that i mean what i just said. i mean it. a couple of years ago we asked the mckenzie company to study the economic prospects of jordan, syria, israel, egypt and the west bank, a good starting place for all of you is to go back to the arab report, study report report on economic growth a number of years ago which was stark in its appraisal of what had not happened that should have happened in many of the arab countries in the region. interestingly, my good friend the foreign minister recently also commissioned a separate study which similarly showed what we

look what we have in the entire middle east. es a lot of rearranging facts for the republican leader to come here every day -- most days i just sit here and listen and go on about my business, but i can't do that. it's just unfair. because everyone knows we need to look no further than president bush's invasion of iraq to find out what the real problem is in the middle east. he talks about the defense authorization bill. if it is such a great piece of legislative action, then why does all of our military think it's a bad deal? this would be as if you decided one day you're going to make your house payment, your car payment with money that doesn't exist. that's what they've done here. that's what the republicans have done. they have $39 billion in the defense authorization bill that doesn't exist; it's just on paper. it's a gimmick for short-term funding. and to have the audacity to come here and talk about, look at the all the threats we're having with cybersecurity, cyber threats. we've had a cyber bill that we've tried to get o

military strategy in the middle east. should get under way in a moment. this is live coverage on c-span 3. >>> good morning. the committee meets today to receive testimony on u.s. strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. before i proceed, i'd like to remind our witnesses this committee's rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and i'd like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. the tragic loss last week of master sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 combat deployments reminds us of the high stakes of our mission in the middle east and how grateful we are to americans serving there. we need a strategy worthy of those who carry it out and, unfortunately, we don't have that. what's worse it appears the administration has not even defined the problem correctly. a policy of isil first fails to understand that eye significant for all of the threat it poses is actually a symptom of another power that's now

kind of in the middle between ratio marquee. ults go. -- thethe two of them opposition candidate was ahead. he is the one the market wants to win. and exciting couple of weeks. argentinian politics are pretty colorful to say the least. this is the only country that i know of where a president actually calls a national -- if we have the opposition coming into place, how much will argentina actually change? how much will it become a modern country? katia: the thought is no matter who comes into place, changes will have to be made. the reason is because they are running out of reserves. it widening fiscal and trade deficit. happens -- if they want to come back to markets they need to -- they need to take care of the 2001 default. in order to have any changes, they need to do that because they need that inflow capitals of the can start bolstering the peso and having a free-floating exchange rate. francine: it seems that no matter who wins this election, investors in markets will take it positive view cousin will be better for markets

the middle east is such a mess and it's critical to the whole system. it's the point of most likely failure. again, iran's bid for hegemony there. mr. preble: i think the greatest threat is what threaten ours greatest strength, which is our ability to mobilize power through a strong, vibrant economy. -- what threatens our greatest strength. therefore the greatest threat to our country are the things that undermine the strength of our economy and reduce our ability to mobilize in the future. senator manchin: mr. wood? mr. wood: one is actors of scale, somebody like russia or china, profound implications that dominate entire regions with very deep nuclear magazines. that's a different kind of threat than north korea or iran which will be very sharp and erratic and very pointed. senator manchin: i'm just talking about the greatest threat to our national security. you think russia -- mr. wood: yes, i do think they're our greatest threat. russia and china. mr. krepinevich: i think the greatest threat emanates from russia and china. i think the exiss ten rble

in the middle ages, we faced inquisition and expulsion. and in modern times, we faced progroms and the holocaust. yet, the jewish people persevered. and now another regime has arisen, swearing to destroy israel. that regime would be wise to consider this. i stand here today representing israel, a country 67 years young, but the nationstate of a people nearly 4000 years old. yet the empires of babylon and rome are not represented in this hall of nations. neither is the thousand year reich. those seemingly invincible empires are long gone. but israel lives. the people of israel live. [applause] prime minister netanyahu: the rebirth of israel is a testament to the indomitable spirit of my people. for 100 generations, the jewish people dreamed of returning to the land of israel. even in our darkest hours, and we had so many, even in our darkest hours, we never gave up hope of rebuilding our eternal capital of jerusalem. the establishment of israel made realizing that dream possible. it has enabled us to live as a free people in our ancestral ho

the us position in the middle east was entirely different. and the politics in israel was entirely different which i think is a fair point. succeeding and moving toward camp david prepared to make unprecedented offers to the presidency for palestinians. after the decade of the two thousands the politics were very different. the politics of the coalition that the prime minister put together was very different than the politics in the 1990s and much more difficult, frankly, to make the kind of progress that president obama sought to make. let me ask you both. i think the government from 1996 until 1999 was a narrow -based right-wing government. the government that is established when he is elected in 2,009 has barack and it, so there was a center, they said. what is different is that arafat is prepared between 97 and 99 to do limited deals, not the whole deal. but we are looking toward in 2009 clearly is the whole deal, not a limited deal. that is a difference. it is fair, and in every chapter i show the context which does affect choices, so it

i want to stress in the middle east, everybody can lose. don't think this is necessarily going to help russia. they're going to create huge walls between themselves and the sunni arab states for years to come. but at the same time, i think it marginalizes or appears to marginalize the u.s., we have no friends in the ground and we have no sort of diplomatic strategy going forward. i think it leaves the united states in a weakened position and i think we'll have to regroup. there were two myths of the last few years. one was that saddam hussein had nuclear weapons. and the other was that bashar al assad, the president of syria, was going to leave in a couple of weeks. that was back in 2011 and he's still there. i think the u.s. needs to really think through what it is we want to see going forward. otherwise we create a situation where russia, i think, is becoming a dominant force in the middle east, potentially with a long-standing interest finally realized of gaining access to warm water ports in the mediterranean. >> haven't we already shown

it still remains a puzzle to me, what in the background of the middle east created the nightmare that is real and its enemies are today. i was at a meeting ten years ago in which a lady spoke about the two children, that she had during the war and the two children after the war. the two children were completely deformed and mentally retarded, it puts what you say into context. so many people, millions of people have paid with their lives and paid with their happiness and everything else for the musings of this maniac. >> the crimes are still going on, and exploded ordinances' in laos and cambodia claimed thousands of lives a year including one died on kissinger's 92 birthday, big celebration, saying regis hotel, bombs explode, they hit upon a unexploded ordnance and died, claims 20,000 lives in laos and since the war ended. in terms of the middle east i am a historian of latin american relations i came to kissinger through his involvement in latin america so i relied on historians that i trusted to look at the middle east. in terms of israel/palestine, kissinger locked in an impasse,

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