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This is i think, as you all know, a place where Public Policy and research meet. I bring together the world of ideas with the world of policy action. Very happy that tim johnson, the director of the Latin American Program is here this morning. And also want to acknowledge sal low star who had a lot to do with the planning, and this is an event were cosponsoring with immigration works, to tamar a jacoby, and Arizona State university, working on the issues. I want to acknowledge cardenas, a former...

So, in those areas, citizens are coming together, trying to fill the vacuum or the gatt that is being created. I thought that was very interesting because syrians do not have experience governing themselves. Since 1962, the state has been highly centralized. The state to maintain control of everything in syria even if you permit to apply for a open a store. You have to check first with security forces. People in syria have to do this very well with almost no funding or very little funding. They ...

Host thanks for the call. Demonstrateankings there are a number of places that are not doing a good job for their employees or the american public. The reason we do these rankings is to make sure the individual you know is not one anecdote, but we are able to collect the data and demonstrate from a data perspective where things are working and where they are not. It sounds like, for your friends, it is not. There are a number of agencies where there are a lot of good actions were agencies are do...

A community away to grow back into the economy and succeed. The transition has to look at the transition of the people and the Community Getting back to some kind of help so you dont just pull the plug on them and say, you are on your own. Dodd. Is town or community another twitter question. Should unions get an obamacare exception . Whenever they have built the first automobile, it wasnt a perfect automobile. When we started playing baseball , it wasnt the perfect again. It has evolved. Obamaca...

Snowden recently asked brazil for political asylum. Ambassador to. Brazil talks about u. S. Relations with the country. From the Wilson Center, this is two hours. Good morning. Good morning to our good friends in the audience. I am jane harman. I am delighted to welcome you to this before the christmas holiday. The Wilson Center knows a lot about brazil. So does tom shannon. Our Brazil Institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u. S. Brazil policy. We were first to honor the pr...

Any part of the globe that you care to look at. Countries have division. This is marked when it comes to partisan politics. What is in theat balance as all the chatter goes states this is a very attractive but very large elephant. This is a smack down in the middle of southeast asia. They have sort of been poking the elephant to see what noise it will make. Just as long as the offer is there. These people will work out how significant the element is and how and what ways it is useful to. The imp...

Expectations and standards are. To piggyback a quick question off of that. Seems and these seem like significant changes. What impact will it have on credit overlays . I hope that it will substantially reduce credit overlays and that lenders will start operating more inside the credit box that fannie and freddie have said they will purchase loans in or guaranteed loans in that space. And based on conversations that we have had with industry participants emma my hope is a positive hope. I do not ...

Cuba. A report saying america secretly funded a texting app into creating an uprising. A Supreme Court ruling ending limits on financing some say it will lead to campaign corruption and politicians being brought. The fact that its orange means theres metal in the water. Land deemed too toxic to live on earmarked for a federal cleanup. Why its being given back to a native american tribe now, despite the dangers that remain. Hi there everyone. Good morning to you. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im...

Into the bay following that collision. Right now, as i had mentioned, there seems to be more and more search boats coming into this area so they can try to find more wreckage. We dont have a whole lot of information as to who all was aboard the cessna, how many people were aboard, obviously. That is the ongoing part of this search, and of this investigation. As soon as we have further details well likely be giving you that information. Reporting live in richmond, abc7 news. From the clipper play...

President obama says the incident illustrates that more work needs to be done in understanding a legacy of slavery and racism in the united states. We do have the expanded recording of the alleged sterling rant on our website, abc7news. Com. Despite the comments, the game went on, and what a game it was for the warriors. Mike shumann joins us with the highlight, coming up in sports. Search crews have been unable to locate a pilot after two planes collided above the San Francisco bay today. Thoug...