Operative tried to cross the southern border, contacted what he believed was a mexican drug cartel, turned out to be dea undercover operative in mexico. His intent was across the southern port every nefarious objects with him to assess and the ambassador from saudi arabia here in the city at a restaurant that you and i may have been attending that i. Thats the fact. I want to give an example. I will ask the experts on the panel to answer the question. I would reiterate what i stated earlier, that we do date dont have credible information that we are aware of other known or suspected tears coming across the border, particularly related to this threat stream. Mr. Milner, mr. Wyden, would you like to clarify what weve heard so far . Either the members of congress or from your copanelists. Yes, thank you, and building upon that, the number of known watchlist individuals that weve encountered at the ports, between the ports on the southwest border is minimal compared to what we see in comme
Wisconsin, illinois, indiana university, all the president s of those universities will be joining us here on washington journal. Up, the Brookings Institution is holding a Panel Discussion on the independence vote in scotland. I believe september 15 is when the vote will be held. All indications show that the vote is close. Two administrators from the university of edinburgh there. It is just Getting Started now. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] i want to welcome you to one of our first event in our revamped brookings conference space. I am thrilled that the microphone works. It seems fitting to inaugurate our new facility with the big question of certainly next week, the prevent potential revamping of the United Kingdom. If the referendum moves to a yes vote, the renovation will be an overhaul to a system that we have known for 300 years, and many of us here on the panel are a product of. Welcome toghted
Congressional districts, thats one of the few areas the court has no control over its own docket. Heard by a special threejudge panel and then an appeal goes straight to the Supreme Court and they have to either sashays it is so clearly right were not going to hear it or have to hear it on the merits. Campaign finance is one area, and redistricting is the other, where they have to have more cases on this subject than they might like. I want to make sure we have just at least a few minutes to talk about willys and louriers cases. Willy, you were going to talk about some cases involving business docket. Maybe it makes sense to make some general observations about the cases as well as to talk about the specifics of cases on the docket. Sure. I think that the business docket is sometimes an overgeneralization because there are lots of cases that some people might call Business Case and other people might call, for example, a civil rights case, and one of these cases falls in that course, u
Than once talking to, shall we say, countries not keeping to the agreed deal. But on the other hand, i think when there is american pressure, what i have seen, even with the islamic front is that sometimes our friends, when we press our friends, they will in turn squeeze. And the islamic front had been moderating its position starting in may when they issued that statement backing off of demanding an islamic state. So even that can be done, but i do think going forward, this is one where i think, unfortunately, the president , himself, is going to have to take some of his time he is a busy guy but its going to take that, at times. There are lots of things delegated to the secretary of state or secretary of defense, but when theyre not making progress, then the president himself has to pick up the phone. You have to have a much more engaged president. Its leadership, yeah. Great. Well open up to questions in the front here. First, josh. Thanks very much. Daily beast. Thanks for staying,
Will get to serious specifically. You said we need more coherence on how we are going to do this with the syrians, and i completely agree because its going to be extremely hard its not going to be easy. Three points then first. I keep seeing in the press that there really is very little left of these syrian moderate armed opposition, and im here to tell you, please check it out. Get on the social websites, get into the arabic press, and check it out. The moderate armed opposition is fighting right now, friday september 12, fighting the Islamic State up along the turkish border. It is interesting that they are fighting there. The Islamic State actually things the battle for armageddon is going to come based on some statements from koranic teachings. Theres a big battle going on right now over that border area because the Free Syrian Army depends on the bylines that come down from turkey, and theres a sharp confrontation going there around aleppo. Theres not a confrontation any that, to