Shortly after air strikes starts, some lawmakers start to push again for authorization vote but so far, leaders are not gearing up to bring members back to town. It says that speaker of the house John Boehners office deferred to the white house when asked about the issue. The speaker said he thinks it would be good for the country to have a new authorization for the use of military for the but traditionally, requested by the commander in chief and president obama has not done that. From role call, their story about congress not likely to come back to vote on isis authorization. Richard in georgia, democrat, good morning to you. Caller good morning to you. Host go ahead. Caller okay. What is your confidence level . Caller i think hes done everything in the world to try to help the United States in all the countries, allies. He backs everybody up. And hes tried to get the congress to act. And he aint washing away. Hes not turning his back. As far as the level about the troops that was lo
The problem of foreign terrorist fighters has seriously worsened. We need a comprehensive approach that encompasses social and ideological components and also that would ensure respect for the sovereignty of all states. We support the initiative of the u. S. Presidency and the Security Council to adopt a resolution aimed at choking off any activities of foreign terrorist fighters. Likee same time, we would to caution again the temptation to narrow down the problem because of the Islamic State with its ideology. There is a need to consider the problems of terrorism and in all its dimensions. Establish a form involving countries of the region, the african union, league of arab states, the permanent five members of the un Security Council council, and other stakeholders. We should address longstanding conflicts primary being the arabisraeli conflict. This is one of the primary reasons enabling terrorist to receive moral support and recruit ever new members into their ranks. We call upon c
Developing countries respond to that at the summit . I know you met with people on the side. Yeah. There are a lot of things that i saw being discussed that relate to the president s plan. We had and most of the meetings i went to were with industry, so it was really fun. Large industries as well as small. We talked about the 111d proposal and the broad context about its sort of gamechanging nature, that its a really strong signal for the u. S. The president s presence there was clearly another strong signal. I also had discussions with oil and gas on methane commitments. There are some great opportunities to work internationally and we have the Largest Companies participating in those discussions through our climate and what is it called . Climate and clean air coalition, which is an International Sort of collaboration with dozens of countries and business sector. We talked a little bit about hfcs. There were big commitments on those as well. There was a lot of discussion over the dev
For reelection without considering the dozens of proposals that are already out there, to pass a more specific statute tailored to isis, i dont know what Congress Left for president obama in that situation. I want to talk about International Law as well. To beh how can you craft legislation when the threat appears to be changing . Group f khorasan, no one talked about that. On tuesday the president mentions this group for first ou time. How can you tailor legislation to a specific threat when you dont know where the next threats coming from . Ve theres a great blog post on steves quout standing blog called just security. Org. It talks essentially about and i think its your response to Jack Goldsmith, the law ok, professor from harvards piece, that its one thing to say, iss okay, we want to narrowly tailon it towards isis and perhaps khorasan and other clearly identifiable groups that are that have core ties to al qaedao its another thing to say as chn Jack Goldsmith andge others are sa
Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to have around. I also learned that she liked to keep in touch with real people out around america, not just in washington. And that she grew up in West Virginia. One day, i found myself in a hard hat, deep underground in West Virginia in a coal mine with sylvia, barbara ven and rich trumka. I was not the only one who noticed that sylvia was competent and levelheaded hearing the president notice to that, president clinton. By the end of the administration, she was the director of shes had a distingu