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Diplomatically in iraq. Gennaro odiernos comments were part of the hourlong speech on the future of the u. S. Army. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Press club. My name is Angela Greiling keane. Im a reporter for Bloomberg News in the 106 president of the National Press club. We are the worlds leading professional organization for journalists committed to our professions future through programming with events such as this fostering a free press worldwide. For more information ab...

The issue of statelessness among syrian refugee children . Ill take that and get back to you on that. I know statelessness is one of the unhcrs key mandates, fighting statelessness. And its something we pay a lot of attention to globally. And i dont know the answer so ill get back to you on that. Thank you. So lets use this opportunity to give a shoutout if weve failed to to private sector efforts to try to help in this refugee situation. I understand ikea is trying to develop a new shelter, i d...

Welcome, everyone, to brookings. Im bill, the managing director here. And were delighted that were joined today by senator murkowski. One of my favorite johnny cash songs growing up was called springtime in alaska and if you remember the chore us, he says, when its springtime in alaska its 40 below and by that standard its downright balmy here tpwheasheds. Were delighted that senator murkowski is here today. We wanted to make her feel at home so we deviled up some summer weather for her and im s...

Security issues . What are the things that we have to be concerned with as a nation and what is the armys role in those National Security issues . So i hope we will have a good discussion on that today. We face many challenges today, whether it be budgets and balancing our budget, reducing that debt and what is the right level of funding for our military . We face social problems which was mentioned, such as assault and harassment. We are working on the issues of suicide, the issues of taking ca...

Say yes to your life. When it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. First Lady Nancy Reagan as our original series first ladies returns monday night at 9 00. On cspan and cspan 3. Also on cspan radio and cspan. Org. Next, the army chief of staff is at the National Press club. He recently spoke about the u. S. Armys future. He covered a range of topics including budget cuts, Sexual Assaults in the military, and the u. S. Role in afghanistan. He also talked about the situation in iraq, regardin...

Want to admit how long weve known each other. Bill nonetheless, its been 15 years and the one thing is if we get together, its chatterbox time because you love the news. And i love the news and you love the analysis that i love to get your analysis. I would write that marginal, but thank you. Dana it was a big day for me too. I came here after i left the white house, had the opportunity to work on the Daily Briefing as an anchor but never had an opportunity like this and im thrilled. I will say ...

Energy. I hope we dont have to wait until oil and coal run out until we tackle that. I wish i had more years left. Perhaps edison contributed to us the next best thing. It is described by historian ernest freebug in his book. While the electric light is not a natural subject for the computer history museum, i have invited professor freeberg because of his profound observations about the nature of invention and inventors. The lessons that he draws out speak across the decades to a time and place,...

Since i know the character of mr. Putin, i am surprised why he has been so restrained. Hy he has kept silent i am talking about you. Introduce yourself please. First, mass media have been reporting that you met with the sector. Set thisrm the fact . Regret conducting these talks . Representatives talks with the representatives of the opposition for negotiations. Theresentatives were a lot of them. The goal of all of them is to to find aoodshed peaceful solution. There was nothing wrong about tha...

America. [applause] [applause] by the way for those of you that want to continue celebrating latino heritage month in a very celebratory way the giants just won. [applause] [cheers and applause] thank you to all honorees. If you take a seat we will begin with the rest of the formal program. Thank you mayor lee. Thank you leader pelosi. For joining us here today and go giants. [applause] woo dont you love when were all together. So were going to try to get through the program quickly, so now were...

Absurdity and then going around altering the provisions of the contract . Of the statute . I mean to take Justice Breyers bubble gum example, yes, i suppose, would you have to make an exception for bubble gum in the display window if the statute were subject to two interpretations, one of which would include display windows and the other one of which wouldnt . It seems to me of course you would have to adopt the interpretation that didnt include display windows and thats whats going on here. Yes...