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Understanding of this truly devastating problem. That concludes our hearing. Thank you. We are live on capitol hill this morning in the Canon House Office building where up next counterterrorism and intelligence officials from the departments of Homeland Security, justice, state and the National Counterterrorism center will testify before the House Homeland Security committee about the threat of far win and domestic terrorists who the United States. Its expected to get under way in just a moment...

Master on how to get things to happen. Her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. Before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. The book is dedicated to bill moyers. There is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. You are experiencing it now. Thank you. Gr...

The time i was in government you could count how many . It depends on the government policies. A strong and secure economy is needed. There are too many children. 100,000 children in scotland moving into poverty. Is that up price is that a price worth paying for the westminster government . The labour party they said that they will continue with labour the labour policies area, is that a price worth paying . As a society i said we had it an obligation to get the children out of policy. Stop inte...

Society and limiting personal freedoms. We have to strike the correct balance as we combat terrorism. In pakistan and iraq, terrorists have become together and are becoming more powerful in committing increasingly bloody acts and the rest of europe risk of europe being affected is huge. Nevertheless must respect human rights because we need to retain the trust of our citizens in the eu democratic system. The eu has lost much of that confidence, however, because of its uncritical involvement in c...

Greater understanding of the conflicts of challenges we face in the middle east. I understand the logic. We were told to hug our kids and defy the terrorists, to go out and shop. I understand all of that was a necessary response to the trauma of the moment. But it was a crisis that i suspect escaped real purpose. And we find ourselves, 14 years later, it seems to me, in many respects, still adrift. Host pat joining us on the republican line. Caller my question is, the country is grown up. The we...

The next initiative was we worked with a native energy in 2,007 to be the very first to offset all the carbon emissions. That was an important thing. People thought that was nuts too. I had people at cocacola and other Large Companies saying, kid, what are you doing . This makes no sense and i said i care about it and i could use all my little cans and little bottles to tell a story about carbon offsets. So i actually used the Beverage Business because of our over consumption with a story on the...

They are extremely adaptive. Their ability to Leverage Technology should not be taken for granted. They are very smart. The leadership enlightened in some cases i would say in how they function and how they connect to each other. How they get their message out, how they internally speak to themselves. How they learn. They are a learning orization nd an organization that pays very close attention to their failures as well as their successes. And they share lessons learned. The funny thing is that...

The end of the fiscal year. With that i yield back. I thank the Ranking Member. Pleased to have three distinguished witnesses before us today to discuss this important topic. First, the honorable francis taylor. Became the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security in april 2014. Hes held a variety of senior level positions over his 35year career in government service. Most recently undersecretary taylor served as the assistant secretary of state fo...

Couple years there there were republicans fighting for all efforts to do that were fought by the democrats unfortunately to fix fannie and freddie, should bush have fought harder for it . Absolutely. Did the democrats stop it in the senate . Yes, they did we need reform. The first thing obama did when he came in was make that spending in iraq and afghanistan in the base line of the budget to make it infinitely into the future. We took that back and stopped that abuse with the budget deal going i...

Its sitting over in the senate and now its time for the senate to do their job. Good morning, everyone. As we continue to advance an opportunity economy, today i wanted to highlight just one of the things that makes america exceptional. And that is the spirit of generosity that we see all across this country. We see it in homes, in schools in hospitals, in hearts. And yesterday kevin mentioned that we had the chance to visit d. C. Central kitchen right here in the heart of the nations capital. A...