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Parents dont care. i think if you go back at that in another three years it will be vastly different. i think its -- its, even last week. its pro basketball. last week paul george had a concussion in the pacers game. its just a matter of raising awareness and the fact that its the cumulative effect, too, of small concussions. it might not be a complete bell ringing or however you want to describe it from the old way of thinking. >> yeah. >> but its the cumulative effect and the fact that you hav...

Cases in the military occur outside deployment so even those our wars are ending addressing this issue continues to be important to our armed forces and as part of a new national action plan we announced last year, were directing more than $100 million in research to find more effective ways to help prevent, diagnose or treat mental health conditions and traumatic brain injury because the more we can learn about the effects of brain injuries the more we can do to help the troops and that will gi...

Example. we cant exempt ourselves from the rules that apply to everybody else. we cant call on others to make commitments to combat climate change if a lot of our political leaders deny that its taken place. we cant try to resolve problems in the south china sea when we have refused to make sure that the law of the sea convention is ratified by our united states senate despite the fact that our top military leaders say the treaty advances our national security. thats not leadership. thats retrea...

You see, american influence is always stronger when we lead by example. we cant exempt ourselves from the rules that apply to everybody else. we cant call on others to make commitments to combat climate change if the whole lot of the political leaders deny that it is taking place. we cant try to resolve problems in the south china sea when we have refused to make sure that the law of the sea convention is ratified the united states senate, and despite the fact that the top military leaders say t...

Continue to support afghan-led efforts to promote peace in their country through reconciliation. we have to recognize afghanistan will not be a perfect place. and it is not americas responsibility to make it one. the future of afghanistan must be decided by afghans. but what the united states can do, what we will do, is secure our interests and help give the afghans a chance, an opportunity to seek a long overdue and hard-earned peace. america will always keep our commitments to friends and part...

Continue to support afghan led efforts to promote peace in our country through reconciliation. we have to recognize they will not be a perfect place. and it is not americas responsibility to make it one. the future of afghanistan must be decided by afghans. but what the united states can do, what we will do, is secure our interests and help give the afghans a chance, an opportunity, so seek a long overdue and hard earned peace. america will always keep our commitments to friends and partners tha...

Continue to support afghan-led efforts to support peace in their country through reconciliation. we have to recognize afghanistan will not be a perfect place. and it is not americas responsibility to make it one. the future of afghanistan must be decided by afghans. but what the united states can do, what we will do, is he is cower our interests and help give the afghans a chance, an opportunity to seek a long overdue and hard-earned peace. america will always keep our commitments to friends and...

Simply one about talking points. >> are you convinced that you will have the access to information and the tools that you need, as minority members of that committee, to contest what you are anticipating there? are you going to have access to information about witnesses, information about what theyre subpoenaing, information about what the committee itself is doing, enough to be able to play the role that you just described? >> well, were certainly going to try. theres no guarantees, and in fact...

And ultimately, our leadership concluded that it was important to have people in the room to contest the abuse of that kind of power and process. and i think thats a sensible decision, no matter how divided our caucus was initially, we have come together and were going to deal with this professionally and responsibly and try to prevent the select committee from degenerating into simply one about talking points. >> are you convinced that you will have the access to information and the tools that ...

On russia to live up to its commitments. russia says it has already gone too far, calling the sanctions painful. >> the obama administration has just named and shamed those individuals and companies that are now part of expanded u.s. sanctions against russia. seven russian officials and two of these people are said to be key members of vladimir putins inner circle. just last year was named by forbes magazine as number 60 in its list of the worlds most powerful people.