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Dow climbed 82 points, s p closed the at a five year high. Why did the stocks rally . Why . Sometimes it is pretty calculable, simple, because the biggest driver on earth, china, reported a blowout export number showing the countrys plans to reignite growth are, indeed, working and we believe in that. When that happens, buyers swarm in, they buy commodities, thinking how could they not roar now that chinas spending. They buy the industrials because china relies on a lot of our companies to power...

[applause] well, one of the things thats fun for me about being here tonight, as gary mentioned, i am from san louis. Its always good to do these things in san louis. I have some wonderful people who shape my life in the front row. My second grade teacher. Please help me to welcome that. [applause] and i know that if this book can have the kind of affect on just one persons life that pat and my other teachers had on me, this will be a very successful book. Thank you very much for being matter to...

This book in some ways gives voice to those people and those concerns, and hopefully will cause others in the community to at least engage the question at a more serious level than just the reflex reaction against guns that is sort of a caricature of what the actual conversation needs to be. Host certainly has given me rope to revisit my thinking about guns and with a more historically informed perspective. Thank you for that contribution. Guest thank you for your interview. Next, robert gates a...

An element, a memoir. Colonel mansoor is a professor at ohio state. He was executive officer to general petraeus. He has a ph. D and holds the Raymond Mason chair and military history at ohio state. Happy to have you. After colonel mansoor to this presentation we will have joel rayburn, a long front of the American Foundation who was sort of produced some responses to what colonel mansoor says. Is writing an opera study of the iraq war for the u. S. Army. Hes also studying for his ph. D at texas...

Judge heaphy. Mr. Bachus im appearing as a conference witness and i can only speak on issues on which the conference has taken a position and its not taken a position on the mansaray. As you know the commission focuses on penalties and not the elements of the crime so we have not taken a position either. Im sure it wont come as a surprise to mr. Chairman that most of our clients are not facing regulatory misdemeanors. [laughter] im sitting here asking these questions and kind of the elephant in ...

Said of the 50 brigades, only 24 those are in iraq. Im talking about iraq. He would have messed this together. But im looking at iraq. Are we vetting iraqi forces that are supposed to be the ground troop s troops . The general is nodding and you are saying no. Im nodding because i understand the question. I can understand the question. Were not vetting iraqi forces and troops. What general dempsey was talking about is the most capable Iraqi Security forces, Iraqi Security forces, vetting in that...

Cspan q a. Next, the confirmation hearing for three senior military nominees im a Northern Command, the Afghanistan International Security Assistance force, and u. S. Special Operations Command. They took questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Topics included Border Security in the ongoing situation in iraq and syria. This is just under 2. 5 hours. [inaudible conversations] , laud[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The Committee Meets today to consider the no...

With their archrivals, if not enemies, the iranians. That also holds true, to a large extent, in iraq, even though it has a shia majority. Theyre not persians. Theyre arabs. Iraq fought a bitter, brutal eightyear war with iran from 1980 to 1988. Hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of those casualties on the iraqi side or iraqishia arabs. So again, it is a great phrase. Our enemys enemy may still be our enemy. We have to be very, very careful here. Thank you, sir, for that que...

[inaudible] a chance of success we must be prepared to back up diplomatic soft power with military hard power when necessary. We must not only develop the capabilities we need, we must also demonstrate the political will to use them when required. So i welcome the important efforts by the United States and other allies and partners to act against the socalled Islamic State. We have seen again and again that crisis breeds crisis. Force is still effective. And if we fail to defend freedom and demo...

Level of capacity and they dont have your kind of stick and background, theyll be under tremendous pressure and theyre going to say yes. I yield back. Chair thanks the gentleman from illinois and recognizes himself. It strikes me there are at least two issues at play. Two major issues. One is the efficacy of the arb process itself. Whether or not it is in our best interest to allow any entity to essentially grade its own papers. We dont do that in any other category of life. We dont get to sente...