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Raids in belgium and france, et cetera. That shouldnt surprise and thats appropriate, but in many ways, the larger lift, the 20year plan, the thing that is going to be a lot harder to do is integrating communities that have become ghettoized and not at all integrated, and ill leave you with just one strange and disturbing statistic. I asked local Police Officers in brussels if they were able to work with local imams in brussels when they found people who were drifting off either into criminality...

And launch the Global Counterterrorism Forum among other institutions. And eric has now joined the prevention project, which is organizing against violent extremism. So with that, let me turn the microphone over to matt. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for turning out so early on a friday morning. I wish it was for a more better topic, but here we are. Last week i as it happens, spent the week in belgium, meeting with belgian intelligence and counterterrorism officials. As it happens, i was sitt...

Present. Commissioner. Present. Commissioner karshmer. Present. The second item on the agenda is approval of the minutes, one of december 3, 2015 and december 15, 2015 and i apologize commissioners i noted that commissioner pating was at the december 15 meeting so i will take that off the minutes. Okay thank you. Commissioners we will take each of the minutes separately. First the minutes of the joint meeting. A motion is in order for acceptance and is there a second . Are there any other correc...

So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. ...

Is the president paying for the flight back from hawaii . Personal travel the first family will appropriately fund in line with past president s. Viafirst lady will travel government aircraft preview are accurate in your description that this was a government aircraft. You are accurate in your discretion that this was her decision to remain in hawaii. Kids, you know that telling your spouse they can spend a week away from home is a big presence. Not that we dont love our kids. Acknowledged her b...

From you that we need to take steps to lessen the damage of the supreme courts hatch act so im pleased to announce my colleagues in Indian Affairs have issued a final rule to do just that. They issued it yesterday and that will help with Greater Transparency to make sure that lands will be taken into trust for housing schools and businesses that we want to continue to work with you to ask things like that. Next the Land Buyback Program and the historic cobell. We want to implement that in a smar...

Mothers we are concerned. As first ladies we are committed. As citizens of the world we plan to do whatever we can to stop. However different we appear there is far more that unites us than divides us. We are here to find Common Ground so we can bring dig nity and respect to girls all over the world. All of you are a part of the conversation because in the coming years all of you will be building the businesses and making the discovery and drafting the laws that will move the country and world f...

Authorities deliver on their ommitment, which we have every reason to believe they will. Gentleman in the middle . Chris giles from the financial times. Madam, the i. M. F. Regularly gives other countries advice and cause for a plan b, most recently asking the e. B. Foment give effort on things. Is it time now for a plan b. For the i. M. F. Where you circumvent the u. S. . You know, i dont think our institution should move to plan until we have full certainty that plan a is definitely dead. Im n...

Guardian. Lets just start with the nsa stuff, since it is the big issue right now. Can we talk a little bit about how the introduction of the snowden leaks has changed the way we are doing business and how much harder were easier it has been . It has cut both ways. I have not been writing much on the snowden documents themselves, but i have been writing on related nsa issues in the midst of all the snowden revelations. I found as many people, less inclined to want to share information. There are...

Now they dont have that for a number of reasons. One, we dont have a good way of understanding what our losses and what are risks are. Often when we talk about the theft of competitive data we usually think about the special sauce. When cocacola was hit in 2010 so it was literature be due to the group associated with the Chinese Government. Did the bad guys go after the secret formula for cocacola . No, no one really cares about that. But we do know is that less than 10 days after the attack hap...