Industry to share information on Cyber Threats. Before signing, the president talked about why it was important to address the issue now. He also spoke about the governments attachment to keep people safe while attempt to keep people safe while protecting Civil Liberties and privacy. This is 30 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, to introduce the president of the United States please welcome, Stanford University president , john hennessey. [applause] welcome back. Its now my great privilege to intro our nations 44th 44th president , barack obama. President obama came to office just after the Global Financial crisis in 2008. His presidency has been marked by the complexity and challenges of governing at a time when people are more interconnected than ever. Sometimes in ways we dont even realize. And the idea of Community Extends far beyond physical boundaries. So many aspects of our lives have been digitized and technology is central to almost everything we do. But our increasing reliance ha
Significant event in philadelphia with amtrak. I want to make sure i pass along our sincere thoughts and prayers. Hopefully have a speedy recovery. The other thing important for us to recognize, 1st responders were on. Immediately. Our deepest thanks. The other thing this is really bad always silver lining. We have the significant events in the United States. Up. You see people helping each other trying to recover can help people get out of the wreckage. That is inspirational. Talking about her experience she looks at her shoe and said, these are my shoes. That is what we need to be doing its. I just wanted to recognize that. Infrastructure week us dot we would hope that infrastructure week was a really. Linda solomon a lot of things. In todays world the whole package is important for us to recognize longterm importance of investing. Investing. We have been working hard for part three or four years now trying to get the country to push it up to look at Infrastructure Investment. Recent
Are right good, i will leave. [laughter] anybody have a question . Of course, have to get funding somehow from the paul ryan ways and Means Committee but as a know from past experience with shuster at the helm riding shotgun good things can happen. Also for the record for the 10 billion he got back and he was secretary that is the great airport with 100 million for that one. But we want to move right along first average just like to get each member of the panel to be recognized. First of all, of the president and ceo and regina who was president and ceo of the society of america. And the congressman from utah the knowledge of his house on a lot of good things including trade in then we have Michael Lewis president and ceo of the deputy secretary of transportation got a few things going but then allowed him a to ease out with the panel. But i think the timing is significant as a leadership in the senate with the infrastructure funding we need to do what is necessary with though whole pa
You have no other identity. [speaking spanish] translator and that is what makes me stand here today and raise my voice to say enough. President obama spoke with reporters today following a daylong meeting at camp david with arab leaders of the gulf cooperation council. He addressed several issues including iran nuclear negotiations, conflict in syria israel and palestine and todays vote in the senate to advance trade legislation. He also talked about u. S. Commitment to maintaining security in the gulf region. The president s remarks around 35 minutes. Good evening. The four i get to what we discussed here today with our Gulf Partners i want to get again express my deepest condolences to the families of those who died in tuesdays terrible Train Derailment outside of philadelphia. I want to express my gratitude for the First Responders who race to save lives and for the many passengers who despite their own injuries made heroic efforts to get fellow passengers to safety. And for a lot
132 million. These are impressive numbers and keeps us aware of the system here today. To address the first question if you look what the faa tried to do, to shut them down because they didnt have funding, majority of those more contract hours but more faa towers, majority of them were in Rural America. That is one of our biggest concerns about status quo. Thanks for looking out for Rural America. Thank the senator from montana for looking out for Rural America and i think he and i would probably both agree at the end of this we would like to see more direct flights to and from, is that right . I appreciate i think weve run out of questioners and i do appreciate very much the panel great remarks today different perspectives this is the senates first foray into the issue of reform and we have to figure out a way as we move towards reauthorization of doing whats best. We all have the same goal in mind as was pointed out. Sometimes maybe slightly different perspectives on how best to get