They were trying to show you hear stories about hagel. Hes lazy. Come on. Theyre trying to demean him. And at the Staff Meetings he agreed with kerry and general dempsey. If they were right, why not . In other words, some people who got to say, got have my opinion, whether or not it whether or not its agrees or disagrees elm think were trying to show theyre shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like we were surprised by isil. Oh, general clappers fault. Well, do you want to fire him . No. So, hagel was easy sacrifice because, a. , a republican, who the republicans dont like. And, then you have and of course he wag weakened by the confirmation hearing. Again, ive known chuck. We worked together in the Reagan Administration. He was number two at va. Not 35 years old. A pretty big job. The head of va at the time said, agent orange is no worse than teenage acne. Can you believe that . So hagel said either he goes or i go. He went. That
Vo advisory teams on the ground, joint tactical Forward Air Controllers and other groups. These are small numbers of highly trained professionals. They would make all of the difference going out there with iraqi forces, be they peshmerga, National Guard or awakening sunni or the iraqi army, the nine brigades forming. Theres a huge difference between how these people perform and other conflicts perform when you have american advisers with them and how they perform without them. We dont have the luxury of having them perform in an inaccurate way. That needs to be done right now. And i dont understand why the administration is dragging its heels when it hears from dempsey, hears from others this is something that should be and is being contemplated. Thats it. A. Mbassador ford, your three recommendations for president obama. The first would be within the region itself to prioritize. I think most everyone would agree that syria and iraq are probably the two highest priorities because of th
Parents, saying that they could get kids in. We brought that back down so the numbers are now below what they were two years ago. Overall, the border is less porous than its been any time since the 1970s. And we make huge investments down there. We can still do more, but the truth is, were working that part of it real hard. And then theres the issue that i did deal with in executive actions, although not for everybody, and that is the 11 Million People who are here undocumented but the vast majority who are lawabiding. And the one principle i guess, if, in fact, we can still get a comprehensive deal going forward, even if its somewhat piecemeal, is i am not going to preside over a system in which we know these folks are in the kitchens of most restaurants in the country, are cleaning up most of the hotels that all of you stay in, that are doing the landscaping in most neighborhoods where you live, whose kids are going to school with our kids, and we tolerate it because its good for us
Flow of foreign fighters. It is about degrading and reducing isils ability to finance itself. It is about of losing its narrative of hate and its bastardization of islam. We have brought together about 30 states in a coalition to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. Some are involved in humanitarian assistance. Some are in a military campaign. It is a very endeavor. Progress is taking two forms primarily one, we have begun what will be a longterm process of working with the Iraqi Government under the new leadership of Prime Minister abadi. To combine with efforts to hold up the capacity of the sunni tribes, ultimately in the form of a national guard, also our support for the Kurdish Peshmerga to provide a viable ground force that can take that territory from isil. We have seen in the effort to hold back and repel the assault, taking the refinery and the mosul dam, we have seen success. Holding back an assault on baghdad. Incrementally and it is very tough going in anwar, seeing some pr
. If the speaker says that is what he will do, i will take his word for it. Is your bandage gone for good . Is this a sign you are Getting Better . Uh, we are working on my beauty. For a change. I have these on, tomorrow we will try other things. I can see out of my right eye, but not very well. I have to be patient. I appreciate your interest but this is the best i can do. Senator what project . [indiscernible] with the judge in texas has said is that it has not passed. He never ever said, that anything the president did was unconstitutional. I am sorry what . I do not know what is popular, i just know it is the right thing to do in my mind, and to the right thing to do is to make sure that we do not run up another increase the debt by 7. 5 billion. We want to continue moving forward, improving the economy of this country. Did you hear from boehner that he would bring the bill of . They say, who says, when boehner wants to talk to me, i will talk to him. We will share a conversation.