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c-span.org. r send us a tweet at c-span #comments. cameronay, david condemned the violent attacks in australia and pakistan. his comments came as he appeared before the british liaison committee to take questions on the u.k. climate change priorities and combating extremism. the prime minister meets with of themmittee made up chairs of the house of commons committees three times a years. this is 90 minutes. >> welcome, prime minister. we have two things to ask you about. the first is climate change. the second is radicalization. before we start, i think it might be right after the events of yesterday -- >> i was going to give you time at the end, but my like to do it now. >> i would just like to pay tribute to those murdered in australia. and today's outrage in pakistan. i'm sure everyone in this house and committee will have their thoughts with the families of the ones who perished. in australia, there are tales of bravery and sacrifice that are being told about what happened in that cafe. that is what we would expect from that remar

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e-mail us at comments@c-span.org or send us a tweet @c-span, #comments.ke us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> u.s. ambassador to ukraine, geoff pyatt, outlined the ongoing conflict between russia and ukraine earlier this month at the atlantic council in washington, d.c. ambassador pyatt discussed u.s./ukraine relations and russia's violation of the territorial integrity of ukraine. this is about an hour. >>> good afternoon, everyone. let me ask you to take your seats and get started. if you haven't turned off your cell phones, please do. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. executive vice president here at the atlantic council. i'm delighted to welcome you today for a discussion with an exceptional front line diplomat. u.s. ambassador to ukraine, geoff pyatt. our conversation today is about the future of ukraine at an existential moment for the country. i would like to offer a special welcome to our distinguished speaker and audience watching online especially all of those in ukraine who tuned in to our live broadcast. i also want to welcome the am

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c-span.org and let us know about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >>> roger b. taney served as chief justice at the supreme court and delivered the majority opinion in the controversial dred scott case. next, rhodes college professor tim huebner discusses public opinion of chief justice taney and how it was shaped. the supreme court historical society hosted this event. it's a little under an hour. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, mr. goldman. i -- historians like me because, you know, every faculty, every respectable law faculty has a legal historian on it. but how important they are depends on how much you think the history behind the constitution or any other statute depends upon what was the understanding at the time. which is what historians can tell us. so i use historians more than more people. and they like me more than most people, i think. well, i'm happy to welcome all of you to this -- i guess it's the third in our series of lectures named after the former president of the supreme court hist

c-span.org. or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> next, the reverend robert cirico discusses the free market, conservative values and morality, founder of the institute of freedom and liberty and spoke at the steamboat institute recently. it's about an hour. >> thank you very much. what a great event this is. and what wonderful, warm people are here. i can barely catch my breath way up here in colorado. [laughter] >> lord acton is the name we chose as our kind of icon for the acton institute which families to engage religious thinkers to understand the moral foundations of things like private property and free trade, the importance of contract, the rule of law and the like. and acton once said, he said a lot of different, wonderful, memorable things you probably know best of all his statement that power tends to corrupt an absolute power corrupts absolutely. it's one of the most incorrected quotations in history. people usually say power corrupts but it's power tends to c

tweet. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook follow us on twitter. the feist chair of the federal reserve board of governors stanley visscher talks about the u.s. economy. he spoke to a wall street journal economics correspondent. >> good morning everybody. thank you vice chairman ficsher for joining us. we have a special treat, in addition to being the vice chairman of the fed, mr. fischer was the former governor of the bank of israel and the number two at the imf so you have a unique perspective on the global economy and global landscape. people in this room have footprints all over the world so i wanted to talk to you for a little bit about the global economic backdrop. i think everyone is talking right now about oil prices. they have fallen 25% this year and in the last few weeks what does that tell you about how the economy is behaving? >> there is clearly a big supply factor which is the united states in particular. a sort of unexplained increase in libyan output that is taking place at the moment. the deep underlying factor is the change in th

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saturday on c-span 2, university of new hampshire assistant professor jason sokol on h. then sunday, arthur brooks. with your phone calls, e-mails and tweets. and on c-span 3 saturday night at 8:00 on lectures of history, martha jones on female slaves and the law. sunday at 8:00, president h.w. bush's secretary of state james baker on the fall of the berlin wall and liberation of eastern europe. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-of 26-3400 or e-mail us the comments@cspan.org. >> welcome to the session on the situation in iraq and syrian specifically the threat imposed by the event. a name tag is not included in the well-deserved knight hood. thank you for coming. if i could begin with a relatively straight forward question. if you could just please perhaps, gentleman i'll begin with giving a sense of what you think priorities should be for defense engagement in the middle east. >> the defense seems to advise for the middle east. and carry the enjoy to the kurdish region of iraq. although that is made across all of iraq. and my fairly consistent theme about

at c-span a tweet #comments per joined the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter bush was interviewed at the wall street genie -- journal ceo council. this is 45 minutes. your only on the left, jerry. >> yes, governor bush is on the left. you are to their right. this is ok. you brought your coffee. you can get over caffeinated as we talk. that will be good for the optics. thank you for being with us. thank you for being with us. i appreciate it very much. a lot of familiar faces in the room. red some speeches you have been giving lately and discover that one of the significant developments of 2014 was that you became a grandfather for the third time. and you told me about to be a grandfather for the fourth time. >> that was in my speeches. [laughter] >> when i tell people in my bureau that i'd cover the bush white house am a they think i mean your brother. , and igeorge h.w. bush had the privilege of going to kennebunkport with plenty of children. >> can i bring up a point of leverage and pride that relates to my dad and first granddaughter, jeb and sandra's grand

c-span.org. let us know about the complete programs you are watching. collis, email us, or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. "washington journal" continues. >> "a conservative and compassionate approach to is the tion reform" title of his new book, former attorney general alberto gonzales. judge gonzales, we'll get to the book in just a 2nd, but i want to ask a couple of quickly about the cia and the interrogation and what has been going on here in washington. sir, what was your role in terms of approving or knowing about the interrogation techniques used. guest: sure. the kind ure these are of questions that can be discussed very quickly, as you said in your introduction. i was on the council in 2002 about enhanced s techniques began. is the cia t, who director, felt strongly that he information about pending attacks. they needed to find a way to gather information consistent with the law. the e asked members of national security council -- he h this predicament that was in -- aand presented the option of enhanced techniques. of course, that began a

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find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. us, or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation and follow us on twitter. our q&a program is 10 years old now. to mark this decade of compelling conversation, we are featuring one interview from each year over this holiday season. there is one now from 2008. >> this week on q&a, renu universitysident of of houston. chancellor of the university of houston, what is the biggest problem that people like you have when they think about the future of education? it is actually a double-sided problem. one is trying to see how is it that higher education provides for so many individuals and so many that may not have college education. in from the other side of the coin, keeping american higher education competitive in the global marketplace. >> was the best thing about american higher education? >> i have been asked that question repeatedly. recently when i went to india, it allowed me to do a lot of reflection. successes have academic freedom. i think both of those, the model of governance and the creative space was to be very

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@c-span. s a tweet at -- at @c-span. hillary clinton was interviewed on friday, topics included the middle east, and the fight against isis. this was hosted by the brookings institution center. >> do you want to say hello to all your friends? >> i'm kind of waving to everybody. ice to see all of you. >> before we start, on behalf of the whole team at brookings and myself, we would like to send our condolences to administrator lieberman on the passing of his mother. >> i think we can all join in that. in addition to those whom you've named. >> thank you, hillary. madam secretary, we have had 11 forums so far. you participated in nine, traveled to jerusalem a few times. i have to share with you that this audience has one very important question on their mind. as a matter of fact, the united states has an important question, the whole of the united states, the world, has a question on their mind. and i hope and expect that you would give us a straight answer from this stage. how does it feel to be a grandmother? [laughter]