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Quite difficult to assess in the heat of the moment. The humanitarian organizations were preparing for, quite rightly, a worst Case Scenario where without they were very large numbers of people trapped on the mountain. I think a combination of possibly overestimation of the number of people there originally. The fact people are insensitive resourceful, and night after night numbers of people were getting themselves off the mountain, and the involvement of the peshmerga forces, in rescuing groups...

They are close to as big a problem as not having people. You have doctors there but you dont have examination rooms. Do you have a construction plan moving forward . I know its unfair. You have been in the job six weeks. Im not trying to be critical. Its five, actually. All right. Obviously, you are right. Facilities are very important. The action you took with the bill gives us the ability to have 27 more facilities. Not surprisingly, one of the facilities will go in phoenix where, obviously, w...

Do believe it could be a shortterm and longterm threat to the United States. Mr. Wagner . Yes, i also agree. And looking at the systems we have and how we look at the information we get with a persons reservation information and looking at itineraries and other characteristics of their travel, do they fit what we know about, you know, what the intelligence reporting are known factors . Try to talk to them and determine what their purpose and travel is. We have good systems to help us do that. We...

Of the United States. Correction. I believe in the constitution. I will obey the constitution of the United States. I tonight know what happened from the trip from the capitol down to 1600 pennsylvania avenue how this changed. But i guess the presidency can change your view of the world. May not be an accurate view of the world but it can change it. I think what then senator obama said rang true then and rings true today. It is about the separation of power. Let me tell you something, my friends...

T what im interested in doing is policy and ideas and where do these ideas come from . They dont just drop from the sky. They usually do not automatically appeal to everybody as a matter of logic. Where did the ideas come from . Who were the people and there were a lot of comp eating ideas. How did this particular set of ideas get transferred . Was there resistance . How was the resistance overcome . It usually isnt just one person. Its a community of people. How did this Community Form . Will w...

I mark begich and i approve this message. Host liz ruskin is joining us on the phone. She is a d. C. Correspondent there. How did Lisa Murkowski feel about being mentioned in a mark begich add . Caller i believe that was the second ad he used that picture, theres a picture that ran without showing the two senators smiling at each other, smiling in her office. Senator murkowski issued a ceaseanddesist letter to try to get the campaign not to use her image, and she said that they were implying tha...

Told the Armed Services committee that the basic the most important fact in this strategy of defeating isis is to give some moderate sunni tribes to join the coalition against isis. On october 53 new plants in iraq in syria pledged allegiance to isis, which tells us that the tribes so far do not seem to be betting on the United States or its allies. Then, so many reports and criticism against the Syrian Opposition, the tribes, we call them cops. Theyre not up to the fight. So the question is, ho...

My colleagues to speak more in depth on the intelligence front. I would say operationally, what you are suggesting, that the program ought to have a heightened scrutiny on iraqis is in fact what happens. This was a chronology and when the United States government announced a largescale resettlement of iraqis in 2007, we immediately looked at what we should be doing in light of this particular population which was different, in nationality we had not been resettling a great deal. We looked at enh...

Enough and lucky enough to take advantage of the Sunni Awakening , the decision of several sunni tribes to switch sides and fight against the iraqi branch of al qaeda. He was a remarkable general, a remarkable man. Vietnam whentudy he did his own doctorate work at princeton university. Counterinsurgency very deeply. I was privileged to work with him on rewriting the marine corps counterinsurgency, which we published in 2006 just a few months before he took command of the effort in iraq. A fairly...

We feel like we have a really good shot in alaska. We did a megatakeover of all the Digital Properties in the days and weeks after the republican primaries to let they stood onere these issues. Now we have mail, phones, and every other way you can think of to Contact People in alaska. Not easy to do. They are various spread out. What kind of gender gap numbers do you need to see an alaska and North Carolina . Point to can you just speak about that. What you need to see. We are talked about the p...