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Stories this morning. Deal news dominating this morning. Valeant ends the buyout deal for allergan. They made an unsolicited deal last spring. It looks like the soap opera could end, 210 is more than they expected. Hackman and valeant are going to share the profits that ackman has reportedly made with the stock at 40 . This is a winwin situation because of the way he structured this. But valeant shareholders effectively split the profits with ackman. With the purchase there. Thats pretty interes...

We will want them to continue to reduce purchases. And we will want Oil Producers like the saudis and others to maintain high production so there is alternative supplies. Iranians will know that we are beginning to make these preparations now we need to recognize this. That getting russia and china on board with an end to the negotiations and a return to sanctions is going to be very challenging, probably not possible especially in the context of this. But up until now come the most important sa...

My apologies. 30 more seconds. The hear ing will come to order. Sports have always played a huge role culturally and otherwise in the United States. Just last week on thanksgiving millions of americans were probably paying more attention to their tv sets than to their turkeys. Its part of our cultural deal. I hope its a good one. Athletes have become eicons in america. I remember my at that time 10yearold son had this poster of ray nichke that took up half his room. Thats the way it was then. He...

Sponsors. Second to our incredible speakers and moderators. Third the entire team especially rachel hof and Ryan Richardson our external affairs team. Incredible work they did to make today as seamless and credible experience as it has been. I thank you all for coming and appreciate you. Have a good evening. The house and senate are in session today. The Senate Working on several judicial and executive nominations. The house debating and set to vote on a couple of tax related measures today. Ear...

Explore possibilities for useful legislation. As i say, they wont be easy, but it is amazing how if you try you can come up with something. One of the things that has been impressive about u. S. Negotiators with iran is how many good ideas they have come up with. And i would simply note to our audience that even david has come up with very interesting ideas that he slips in in the middle of paragraphs in his testimony. For example, when he testified last week before the house he said a sounder s...

On thursday, the Potomac Institute for policy studies brought together the former Defense Department and fbi officials to discuss the terror group isis. They reviewed the groups evolution and spoke about why the International Community did not detect them earlier. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you very much, mike, for the introduction. I would like to welcome the panelists as well as the audience and those who collaborated with us over the years in the Diplomatic Community in washi...

What is the mission . Is it to tempt them down . Tamp them down . To contain them or defeat them . Should not be to tempt down or contained tamp down or contain. We saw what happened with hamas. Israel has attacked them. Six months or two years later, they are doing the same thing again. Wrong for thes way the u. S. And the europeans handle this by continuously beating up on israel. Clearly, they going to eliminate them as a threat. Same with isis. If you dont take this seriously and have the co...

Invest in new American Energy to make our economy stronger. If we make high quality preschool available to every child, not only will we give our kids a safe place to learn and grow while their parents go to work, we will give them the start they need to succeed in school and earn higher wages. And for more stable families of their own. Today, i am setting a new goal. By the end of this decade, lets enroll 6 million children and high quality preschool. That is an achievable goal that we know wil...

The weapons. It became lucky. Obama issued a redline challenge. They brokered a deal in which syria gave up chemical weapons. They can still use chlorine gas and other things not classified officially as weapons. They are terrible and brutal. The Syrian Civil War led to serious not having chemical weapons. Ub. It makes the regime more tolerable from an israeli point of view. As for the alternative, there is a phrase going around they are at the fence. Israel holds most of the golan heights. Rebe...

Get it done. We will get it done november. We will cover it we will get it done in june. We stood and nothing happened. There was courage to get something done. Was not am is, there marco rubio in the house on the republican side that would stand stand upke courage and to anybody, the tea party, and say, look, we have to get this done. Pastor, i teach that there is power in prayer. But as a citizen, there is power in my vote. And the best thing i can do is tell my constituents and we are doing t...