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Deliver theama will commencement address at west point 11 00 today. We may get some indications about Foreign Policy. He was speaking about the military pullout of afghanistan. Ian bremer will join us as well. Lets do a data check. It just goes higher. The 10 year yield is 2. 49, a euro, hydrocarbons are elevated as well and the vxx is the complacency, gold has gone south. We spent some time looking at gold yesterday. Critical support is 1219 per ounce. Is a big theme for us today this is the vx...

Sanctuaries to launch suicide and car bomb attacks into baghdad. Theres already some of that going on now. This is precisely the tactic they used against the United States, and so they were pushed out by the american surgery and general petraeus in 2007 and 2008, and i think its likely theyll return to that. Host michael gordon, were you surprised at how fasthis host were you surprised at how fast this seems to have come on or have you been monitoring this for a while . Guest these days even tho...

And that was what prompted my direction to say we are going to overhaul the standard performance contract for Medical Center direct recent visitor directors because we are not going to have a contract with their result is aligned with the patient outcome. I think is going to take some of those kinds of structural changes as well to ensure we get people focused. The last thing i would say is this. You know, we are so focused on wait times. As we think about how we teach timeliness of that is in t...

Health initiatives, and they were very effective. One last thing, weve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it . The medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we dont have the whats the word . They go out of the state residency. And so we dont have those slots. What ca...

To increase local contracts to include for primary care and we are removing leadership where w appropriate. We are going to we have suspended all s. E. S. Performancs awards for vha for fy14. Ng we are focusing our hr hiringay efforts on bringing clinical engineering and administrative staff to the field. Secretary gibson will travel ton a series of facilities over the weeks to meet with veterans, their families and employees toh identify obstacles to Quality Health care. Ee and secretary gibson...

Commissioner. Questions i will be able to dodge some if they are particularly difficult. Perfect time to talk about an evolving vision thecbp and talk about pressing concerns that we fisa and also where o that we face and where our agency is headed. Let me first talk about the workforce because i think that is actually the premier part. Soon to have 62,000 employees and 42 in 40 countries. Range and diversity of people and skillsets and as many you know from the federal Employee Survey we dont d...

Many ideas. But there is also real darkness at the heart of the vision for the next four years. If there is engagement with the sunnis, it is about creating a new class of sunnis from the tribal and political groups at low level and trying to completely reduce and eradicate the National Level leadership of the sunnis. It struck me that the sunnis that wanted to support the sense of there being a Sunni Community who could Work Together, those people are the ones that the Iraqi Government were pla...

Cold and not giving out favors. He was from new england. Did not talk a lot. Waved his arms a lot. Temperamental, a temperament. He was a shy person. It also was a political or biscuit if he did not talk a lot, people would stop talking. A president or political leader is constantly up aborted with a request. His silence was his way of not giving in to special interest. Shlaes on taxes, depression a president s on in tv. H on cspan 2s book , last nights hearing before the House Veterans Affairs ...

Has been putting out a lot of the wait time data as part of being very transparent about this. There has been concern that at the facility level they may not be looking at exactly the same data that we were releasing. We wanted to be very careful that we didnt have facility or Network Directors appear to be misleading their congressionals by saying, well, this is where we are and then having this National Data release Say Something different. So there was a caution put out to wait until we had d...

Mention from every leader to that workforce. And important things. We are doing lots of experimentation in expanding telecommuting, changing the environment within the organization. But i think when that message comes across from all of the leaders, many of whom are seated in front of me today, that message comes across from all of the leaders about the importance and the value that they place in employees that i think translates well. The better that workforce does, the more efficient they are,...