the real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. and the air force mission is very unique. within 72 hours the air national guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. this is my good friend here from the international guard. we have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the united states there are pilots and jets. and that mission of the air force is unique. it takes more get up and going. the air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. on the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. the wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didn t see on the news, after four states rolled in with national
utah s reform started in the 90s. i happened to be governor at the time. frankly we held together a collaborative process that lasted eight years where we put together a collaborative process to every year put forward toward what we called our health print moving toward a more integrated system. you have two very different cultures in terms of regulation but both move them forward and frankly long before the federal government did. making the point here that different states with different fiphilosophies can move a state forward toward integration in their own unique way in a fashion that frankly the federal government has not yet been able to achieve. yes, please. i would add our experience in colorado is interesting as well and so probably falls somewhere between massachusetts and utah sort of spectrum of regulation but it s another place where you see things happening in a bipartisan fashion. before i was governor, a republican governor, governor owens formed a commissi
accurate way. sometimes i found it was easier to do the things then to write about those things, but it was interesting. story in a cover insight magazine, which is published by the washington times, and the cover story looks like this i want to show the audience, a couple of people you probably know pretty well. we talked about the fact that you were born in israel, 61 years ago, how about these two gentlemen when you look at here, mr. peres and mr. shamir, were they born in israel? no, they were not born in israel. what country did they come from from? both of them are born in poland. what about some of the other people we know? he was born in israel. golda mayor was born here, wasn t she? she was born in russia and came here. does it matter at all? yourave been there all of life, does it matter to you or others if you came from another country, whether or not you can be a part of the no. we live in a democracy and everyone might be elected. i do
talking about at the aspen institute conference. guest: that is right. we will be there with most of the government that deals with security issues. i hope people will live stream that. ervin,lark kent executive director of the aspen institute s homeland security program. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you, john. host: that is our show for today. we will take you live to tennessee for the national governors association conference that has been going on since thursday. hope you have a great saturday, and will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 a.m. pacific. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] and c-span is live in nashville, tennessee, for the second day of the national governors association annual meeting as they have a discussion about health care with two governors, bill haslam and peter shumlin. we will have two more sessions later today on c-span. they will be dealing with
your entertainment last night. i want to call to order the meeting of the health and human services committee. by saying we have a few administrative items to take care of. the governors should have received briefing books in advance including the agenda and nga updates. sitting next to me is melinda becker, legislative director for health and human services for nga, and she will be available after the services if anyone needs further details about what we are talking about. a reminder that the proceedings for this committee are open to the press, and all meeting attendees, i would ask you to silence your cell phones and electronic devices. the discussion will focus on two issues every governor spent a lot of time picking about and working on, first given the democratic demographic changes, rising cost of health care, and other factors, how can we expect the u.s. health system to evolve over the next decade? for all of us, i m willing to make the save that that health car