Public Health Emergency preparedness. He was also the acting assistant to the president for domestic policy during which time he ran the domestic policy council. He is presently writing a book about president s and disasters and how they respond to them. He has a bachelors of science and industry and Labor Relations from cornel and an emmy and ph. D. In American Civilization from the university of texas at austin and our fourth panelist is dr. Tara zubaydah Mission Manager and senior fellow at in detail. Dr. Otoole was undersecretary for science and technology at the department of Homeland Security. She served from november 2009 to september 2013. She before that was the ceo and director of the center for biosecurity at the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a professor of medicine and Public Health at the university of pittsburgh. She also was a major designer and after into major biorelated exercises and before that one known as dark winter in the other known as atlantic sto
I would not say that they were nasty. They tell you how much bush 41 was more engaged, dropping by the Briefing Room from time to time or seeing them in a casual kind of setting. And carter would do all of these things. And that was not the case with clinton, but the very first airforce one trip i took with clinton, he came to the back and was telling these southern eight stories in a funny voice, imitating royal folks. And you cant imagine that today. Obama does come back, but even then it is very, some lecturing. So i think that what we miss, though, to give him credit, he does more interviews than his predecessors, has less to predecessors. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i am not getting these interviews. I am saying, give him credit for at least doing this. What he is not doing in the bread and butter of what the correspondence do is where you take a day in and the. [roll call] are two questions, how about this, that is where you hear the president day and day out about the m
Not a surprise to those of us who have been following him for many years. It was the opening of the debate and Governor Scott not coming out he did came out and the debate went on and they talked a lot about standard issue like jobs and education that we fact checked but it started with that pretty funny exchange. Are going to look at some of the big whoppers of the 2014 campaign. That floor to debate and many others, more than 100 we have covered, are available on our website at www. Cspan. Org. Lets get the calls before we get to those whoppers. From florida, jim, go ahead. You always depose republicans. You always say the dog whistle or the koch brothers. Paletta fact is a far left, far,. Far leftwing organization. But. That it was started by the st. Petersburg times its like reading the packages of pravda. Yourwas the last time newspaper endorsed a republican president . You cannot trust them. Host is there a wall between what you do at politicized and the Tampa Bay Times . Guest t
President obama is trying hard to ease growing concerns with his plan to degrade and ultimately destroy isis will lead down a slippery slope interest a long, bloody ground war in iraq. The commander in chief said flatly the United States will not have a combat mission there. Secretary of state john kerry has been saying the same thing up on capitol hill where lawmakers are ready to approve and pay for the president s initial plan, and in a slick new video, isis is making clear it is ready for whatever the the u. S. Military has in mind. Our correspondents and analysts and guests including the White House Press secretary josh ernest are all standing by and lets begin with our chief National Correspondent jim sciutto. Jim . From the president today from secretary kerry it arc peers the administration has settled on its message about the war against isis, what it will be and what it will not be. It will not be a grand Ground Invasion like you had in iraq in 2003 and that u. S. Troops will
See the whole video. Heart pounding stuff. Just another vacation for me. Not at all. Thank you again for joining us, the cia director rarely holds a news knks, but he had a lot to say thursday about the u. S. Is not report on cia interrogation tactics. One word he did not use is torture, but as we are about to say. He appears to be falling in line with how the white house views the program. The cia director defended his agency, an unprecedented press conference. The detention and Interrogation Program produced useful intelligence that helped the United States stop plans, capture terrorists and save lives. But with a strong note on those enhanced techniques, now better aligned with what the house has been saying. Let me be clear, we have not concluded that it was the use of eits within that program that allowed us to obtain usefulful information from detainees subjected to them. The cause and effect relationship between the use of eits and useful information subsequently provided by the