Ere is a look they are fighting well and we are winning. I wanted to wish everybody a very merry christmas. We say christmas again very proudly. A very merry christmas. We will have a great year, it will be an incredible year. I am thrilled to bring seasons greetings on behalf of the first lady and our entire family and most important way on behalf of the american people. Today and every day we are incredible thankful for you and for your families, your families have been tremendous. Always underappreciated the military families, the greatest people on her. We have five deployed units joining us today. One from each branch of our armed forces. I want to welcome colonel Chuck Lombardo and all of the soldiers of iron degree brigade. Deployed to support the operations part in showed and resolved im brigade that it is currently serving as an active partner in the iraqi, kuwaiti, saudi and jordanian armies, theyre doing an incredible job. You also provide force protection. It is a minor mission and we Vital Mission and we want to thank you very much. Great job. Colonel chris gideon, and the special Purpose Marine Air force and their Ground Task Force joins us from kuwait as well,. The task force is central command, Crisis Response force and a powerful force it is. Colonel, i understand that among your many other missions, the task force has provided more than 4000 flight hours of Close Air Support to the campaign against isis, everybody is talking about it, youve done it an incredible job. So we want to thank you very much. Where is the colonel . Great, thank you, colonel, great job. Merry christmas to all of the sailors aboard the uss sampson. Commander tim ends, i want to thank you for your outstanding work with highvalue assets in the straits of farmers. The also provided defense coverage and the reigning gulf and the red sea. I know they recently set a new standard in readiness and it has always been ready but we are already. That is a tremendous credit to all of those aboard, congratulations on the new standard, we are all talking about it, a High Standard you set. Thank you very much. The 69th expeditionary bomb squad joins us from qatar. Colonel goossen, welcome to you again and to all of the nighthawks, the safety net has engaged within 700 isis and taliban targets. This is in five separate countries. They were recently rewarded an amazing achievement and an unusual one. Thank you very much. From the analysis costar, you have done such an animal job in texas and florida and puerto rico, they had plenty of work right here, we want to welcome captain matthew at Port Security unit station down in guantanamo bay. This unit does as any work in providing expeditionary antiterrorism and force protection around the globe in fact, we saw to your tireless efforts and action at the 200 as you know at our great Republican National convention and many republicans are very happy but i have to tell you the people of florida, texas, puerto rico are even more happy, what a job you have done. They said thousands and thousands of lives. It is almost unbelievable when i looked at the charge and i saw the number of lines you said. I was too graduate the coast guard for having done an incredible job as we celebrate this most precious holiday, we are grateful that each of you spend this christmas away from your families and defend all of our families. Our freedoms and our flag. Every american heart is thankful to you, were asking god to watch over you and to watch over your families, this is as we open up the discussion, i know some of the men and women under your command are able to join us and perhaps ask some of the questions so we are going to be speaking with these wonderful people of the media and asking them to please enjoy yourselves, have a great christmas and we will do some very personal questions for these great people and myself. We want to thank you very much for being here. I dont see you during the day with a Great Holiday and a great christmas, thank you very much. History unfolds daily. 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service bike Cable Television and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Scholars discuss using the Electoral College first the popular dont the Claremont Institute organized the discussion as part of the american Political ScienceAssociations Annual meeting in san francisco. It is an hour and a half. Thomas good morning, everyone. I think it is about time to start now. My name is thomas tacoma, i am a doctoral student. I am the chair of this mornings panel, the Electoral College, time to reevaluate . Thank you for coming out at 8 00 a. M. On saturday. Thank you also to the claremont