whereome of our winners en-hua holtz and ethan stewart.ll stop by what the s violated. i five if i could have been ukraine, a good happen to any nation gathered here today. two centuries, a relationship with russia has been complicated. we have always been rivals who depend on each other. although we are allies out of necessity in world war ii, mistrust dates from the russian revolution, when the allies invaded russia out of fear of communism, which continued in the cold war. u.s. russian relations have improved with the new approach to russia. however, let them if you didn't has revived -- however putin has revived an age of military aggression. >> in late august, we specifically asked the russians, what are you doing? they said, according to the administration, well, we are fortifying our interests there. there just as scared of islamic state as you are and we think something needs to be done. the adopted a sort of watch and wait, and i think it sort of wishful thinking posture. >> i think that our relationship with russia is one of the

today, you don't know any families whereom is not working, dad is not working, the kids are not working. we work the longest hours of any people in the industrialized world, you know that? we work. the japanese are very hard-working people. we work longer hours per year than do the japanese. and yet at the end of all that, listen to this, mom is working, dad is working, kids are working, people working crazy hours, 58% of all new income generated today goes to the top 1%. [booing] sen. sanders: in fact, the wealthy are doing phenomenally well. the last 30 years, the top 1/10 of 1% has seen a doubling of the percentage of wealth it owns, while the middle class continues to shrink. that is a rigged economy. our job is to create an economy that works for the children, that works for the elderly, that works for the working families, not an economy that just works for the 1%. [applause] [cheers] [applause] sen. sanders: but it is not just a corrupt campaign finance system in which billionaires and wall street and their super pac's buy elections. it is not just a rigged economy, but also a br

whereome from washington think tanks and panel discussions are a way of life. some of them are not so good. i hope we have a great one tonight. i think you are aware that we are here to talk about an issue that is extremely important to the military and i would argue as a reporter who covers the , import and military into the nation the immigration -- integration of women in all roles in the military and in combat roles. what happened for those of you who may or may not be familiar with the contours of this issue is that the current defense secretary ash carter announced in december after three years of study that all jobs would be open to women across the military. it was an interesting announcement i found sitting mr. carter has been the secretary since last year. very interested in this issue. make the announcement with standingnfare and alone at a podium in what we call the pentagon briefing room. the optics of the announcement struck me, and occurred to me that it contributed to the idea that there has been some debate about the issue. and what we are here