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If i could have everyones attention at this time and ask everybody to take their seats. If we might, im congressman ed royce, i chair the Foreign Affairs committee. [ applause ] and we have with us here mr. Force, mike mccall, many of you know is chairman of the Homeland Security committee. [ applause ] congressman brad sherman from los angeles. Congressman hank johnson, as well. What i thought i might do here is let me say a few words of introduction if i could on behalf of mr. Stewart force be...

He is in the middle east spending his second day insaudi arabia. This is the first trip abroad as commander in chief. He is expected to give a major speech about the fight against terrorism. We will have more on that coming up. We will talk about the reunion between a San Francisco mother and her son. The 21monthold boy was the subject of an amber alert on thursday. He was found safe in Southern California, finally brought back home yesterday. We will have more on that reunion shortly. As we men...

Professors yum harvard, yale, and georgetown university. Its an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for coming. Let me first say since this a larger event for a conference, im so honored to be here as your president this year. Its really a thrill for me to be working with all of you this year. And i am also so pleased to be working with adrian lynn smith, our Brilliant Program cochairs. So this is just one of the many events. And for the viewers at home on cspan, you sur...

Professors yum harvard, yale, and georgetown university. Its an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for coming. Let me first say since this a larger event for a conference, im so honored to be here as your president this year. Its really a thrill for me to be working with all of you this year. And i am also so pleased to be working with adrian lynn smith, our Brilliant Program cochairs. So this is just one of the many events. And for the viewers at home on cspan, you sur...

Ms. Satel welcome everyone to aei. My name is sally satel. I am a resident scholar here. As we know from reading the headlines, on a near daily basis, there is news of the fact that america has one big drug problem. And in fact, overdose from opiates Overdose Deaths come , from heroin and narcotic pills, are now the number one cause of accidental death in this country. So what can policy do about this . What can policymakers do about this . That is what we are here to discuss today. I am joined,...

Also, protection monitoring programs have kicked in in 2010 and 2011. Pill mills were cracked down on. Especially ohio, even of the prescribing is going down, the death rates are not. That is because people are moving to other drugs and other painkillers. Ms. , i am sure you are familiar with. I want to show that. This, i am sure you are familiar with. I want to show that. This is a rapid acting antidote. Available by prescription in all states. In about halft up of the states without a prescrip...

Haystack, youre looking for a needle in a stack of needles, and i dont really know how many people frequently dig their hands around a pile of needles, but it seems pretty painful and pretty difficult. And that highlights exactly what the problem is with the Insider Threat. These are people who look exactly like the person next to them. Its not necessarily about trying to figure out whats wrong or whats different. Its about identifying what some of these indicators or red flags along the spectru...

And in india you have a Strategic Dialogue that involves different agencies. Could you reflect on who does Public Diplomacy in the field, in addition to the state department, and what is the state departments role in leveraging those actors . One thing i can think of is usaid. In india it is huge. It varies. They are influencing the public debate out there. They have a public role. It has been different with what the state department is. They coordinate in everything they do, so you hope there i...

With each other. That was an important insight, and is one thing that we have to make sure we do not rely on english to out there to interpret what is going on because that is not where the action is. It is in the vernacular and it is important to be there. I wanted to talk about security, which i did in here. In afghanistan or around pakistan, and libya and yemen, security is a huge concern for us. In other places while we have these embassies that are much more secure, real Public Diplomacy ta...

First amendment, you need to explain that these are not mainstream people, that what they are saying is not something that a lot of americans are people picking up more americans feel. Certain ones do. The best defense is to be as open as you can about it, try to explain it, and in some ways that the message fall flat for the United States and say what effect does this have on what we do . Often the proof is it has very little effect on us. But we are constantly dealing with those guys. It is tr...