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I am not just thinking about the election but the issues and giving serious thought to where our country needs to go on energy, education, Foreign Policy, health care and a number of other areas. Strongly encourage anyone else to do that. I dont know how you get into a race this important without giving serious thought to the issues. That is part of what im doing at this time. When i did make a decision, it will not be a secret. Im happy to tell everybody. I will say this. For me, it will not be...

Provide Financial Information to the younger ranks, to the guys at first come in so they dont buy a Lincoln Navigator and try to live on their paycheck and Lincoln Navigators bills whatever. Host time for one more call. Phoenix, arizona. Ben is on the line for democrats. Caller [indiscernible] host ben, you are breaking up. We will have to let you go. Must be a problem with cell service there. That will wrap it up. Thank you for all the calls. If you missed any of the Senate Armed Services Commi...

Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you ...

Choosing people which is one of the most important jobs of president has. It is an open question. I am not saying she would do a bad job but in the past, she sometimes has chosen people for their loyalty rather than for their talent. Not always but sometimes. This has been a real problem with the Obama Administration is that there has not been a real reaching out to the best and the brightest. He pretty much has the same people who he had on the hill who got him elected. I think through four peo...

Adviser for reconciliation to iraqi forces in baghdad in 2008. Before we start, just a quick reminder, please put your mobile phones on vibrate. We are live on cspan today, apparently. So well start with mike knights. Thank you very much for coming today. Its great to see such a full room. And my colleagues on the panel with me, its a real honor to be alongside them. So im going to talk today about some of the themes coming out of our new study. The long haul rebooting u. S. Security corporation...

Have defeated a group of ethnic albanian fighters after a day of violence. Plus the pope and the president , cubas raul castro said the catholics leader could persuade them to return to the church sport merz aidies continues mercedes continues domination in spain after days of violence houthi fighters responded to a saudi offer of a ceasefire in yemen, nothing is formally agreed. Houthi rebels say they would react positively to end the suffering of the yemeni people. An offer of a 5day pause on ...

Tanzania. Plus happy birthday pac man, the arcade game inspired by eating pizza turns 35. In sport pakistans long wait is over. [chanting] after a six year hiatus they welled cricket in the country. Hello a Group Calling itself a newly established saudi affiliate of Islamic State of iraq and levante said it bomb in northeastern saudi arabia a suicide bomber killed 20 people during friday prayers in a shia mosque. The blast happened in the i maam mosque in alqadeeh in the province of qatif home o...

Let me begin with National Security. Tell me how you see from where you sit the threats to america. Ambassador power from where i sit, the u. N. , i see a lot of countries finally getting past some of the free riding that they are used to doing and stepping up in a coalition against isil because of the particular gravity and horror of this movement. Isil is a movement along with al qaeda that we and most countries are very focused on. You would be amazed, it even in latin america and places, the...

Let me begin with National Security. Tell me how you see from where you sit the threats to america. Samantha from where i sit, the u. N. , i see a lot of countries finally getting past some of the free riding that they are used to doing and stepping up in a coalition against isil because of the particular gravity and horror of this movement. Isil is a movement along with al qaeda that we and most countries are very focused on. You would be amazed, it even in latin america and places, they show u...

General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairma...