Coming up president obama speaks about the murder of journalist james foley by member of the terrorist group isis. And later a discussion on the effect of russias intervention in ukraine on the global community. On the next washington journal elizabeth nebong of the Brookings Institution discusses the new report on poverty and how it relates to Current Events. Later, we continue our look at president johnsons vision for a Great Society with a discussion on the air quality act of 1967. Our guests are jeff homestead, a former e. P. A. Assistant administrator for air. And robin juni an environmental law professor at George Washington university. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. Texas governor rick perry is in washington, d. C. , thursday, for a discussion on the new politics of immigration. Well be live at this event. Hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the national journal. Starting at 11 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan. Im Greta Brawner and this week on the washington journal well be focused on president Lyndon Johnsons vision for a Great Society. And its impact today. Tune in at 7 00 a. M. Eastern team and also join the conversation by calling us or sending us an email, and you can also send us a tweet and join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Tomorrow night on cspan, we examine opposing views on the issue of Climate Change. Well hear from greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore who challenges the idea that humans are the cause of Global Warming. Eres a preview. Even the ipcc does not subscribe to the belief that extreme weather events are tied to Global Warming, whether its human caused or not. They say there is no evidence of an increase in extreme weather events related to the warming that has occurred. And yet, bill mcgibbon and al gore and the whole bunch of them perpetuate the idea in a every extreme weather event is because of us. This is why we will never be able to predict the future of the climate other than about three days out as john coleman whos coming up soon will probably tell you he knows. Its because of clouds. Water, most important greenhouse gas, is the only one that occurs in both liquid and gaseous phases in the atmosphere. And the liquid phase of water and the gaseous phase of water which we call water vapor behaves in completely different way with regard to solar energy. Clouds can reflect the sun back. They can hold the heat in. Depending on where they are and how thick they are and what computer model can predict the pattern of clouds . In the world . Its impossible. That is why we will never be able to predict the future of climate and clouds are the wild card and many people believe that as the earth warms, and more water evaporates off the sea, it will be cloudier and wetter and that will reflect more sunlight back and in other words there will be a negative feedback against the effect of co2 and that is just as plausible a hypothesis as the fry in hell hypothesis that we keep getting from the alarmists. From heartland institute, a look at both sides of the Climate Change debate. Followed by the testimony of former e. P. A. Administrators before a Senate Environment subcommittee. Thats thursday night at 8 00 astern here on cspan. President obama spoke thursday about the beheading of journalist james foley. By members of the terrorist group isis. Mr. Foley was taken hostage two years ago while covering the civil war in syria. Heres a look. Good afternoon, everybody. Today the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of jim foley by the terrorist group isil. Jim was a journalist. A son, a brother, and a friend. He reported from difficult and dangerous places. Bearing witness to the lives of people a world away. He was taken hostage nearly two years ago in syria, and he was courageously reporting at the time on the conflict there. Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocked the conscience of the entire world. He was 40 years old. One of five siblings. The son of a mom and dad who worked tirelessly for his release. Earlier today, i spoke to the foleys and told them that we are all heartbroken at their loss. And join them in honoring jim and all that he did. Jim foleys life stands in stark contrast to his killers. Lets be clear about isil. They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They murdered muslims. Both sunni and shia. By the thousands. They target christians and religious minorities. Driving them from their homes. Murdering them when they can. For no other reason than they practice a different religion. They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So isil speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly muslim. And no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. Isil has no ideology of any value to human beings. Ideology is bankrupt. They may claim out of expedia yency that they are at war with the United States or the west, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision. And the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior. And people like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future is won by those who build and not destroy, and the world is shaped by people like jim foley and the overwhelming majority of humanity who are appalled by those who killed them. The United States of america will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm americans anywhere, we do whats necessary to see that justice is done. And we act against isil, standing alongside others. The people of iraq who with our support are taking the fight to isil must continue coming together to expel these terrorists from their communities. The people of syria, whose story jim foley told. Do not deserve to live under the shadow of a tyrant or terrorists. They have our support and their pursuit of the future rooted in dignity. From governments and peoples across the middle east, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. It has to be a clear rejection of these kind of nihilistic ideologies. One thing we can all agree on is that a group like isil has o place in the 21st century. Friends and allies around the world we share a Common Security and a common set of values that are rooted in the opposite of what we saw yesterday. And we will continue to confront this hateful terrorism and replace it with a sense of hope and civility. Thats what jim foley stood for. A man who lived his work works courageously told the stories of his fellow human beings, and was liked and loved by friends and family. Today, the American People will all say a prayer for those who loved jim. All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us mourn his loss. We keep in prayers those other americans who are separated from their families. We will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for. May god bless and keep jims memory and may god bless the United States of america. Attorney general eric holder traveled to ferguson, missouri, wednesday, at the request of the president. Hes expected to oversee the federal investigation into the shooting of unarmed teenager miguel brown by a local police officer. Michael brown by a local police officer. He was greeted by diners and met with missouri Highway Police captain ron johnson. Mr. Holder was also expected to meet with the family of michael rown later in the day. Thanks for having us. We appreciate it. Youre the money lady . [laughter] i got to is there a discount there for me . Absolutely. Indistinct conversation] all right. How are you doing, sir . Excellent. I love that. All right. Mayor. How are you . Good. Nice to see you. We appreciate it. How are you doing . Pretty good. Were doing pretty good. And a lot of municipalities around, a lot of economic development. Thats going on. With t of we met mayor knowles yesterday. Would be 17 mayors ousing and in support of i think were going to have to come together and a lot of communities, and this is a regional. We dont want the world to know for whats going on here. We want to rectify and have justice for everyone involved in this. But this area is a good area. We got a lot of Development Going and scripps is bringing their headquarters here and a lot of good things that are going on in this community. So we need to stick together. And come out better and stronger. We can do that. Now some chicken wings. All right. Meatloaf is good, too. Everybody set . A couple of words about the federal investigation that we have under way. We have brought to this area very experienced prosecutors. We have very experienced agents who are handling this matter. And doing so i think in a fine way. Im going to get briefed on more of the details about the investigation. Ive been kept up to date. But theres nothing that can replace actually coming to the office thats handling the matter. And being able to look in the face of the people who are i think at this point very ably handling this investigation. Now, our investigation is different from that which the state is doing. Were looking for violations of federal criminal civil rights statutes which is different from what the local investigation is. But we have brought a substantial number of people here, a up in of agents here who have done a great job in the canvassing that they did over the past weekend. They continue to follow leads so that we can do a thorough and a fair job of making a determination about what happened on august 9. And im confident that through the ability of these people, we will make be able to make a determination about whether or not any federal statutes have in fact been violated. The hope also is that through the trip that im making out here today and by stressing the importance of and the way in which in investigation is going, that that hopefully will have a calming influence on the area. And people know that a federal, thorough investigation is being done. Being manned by these very capable people. My hope is that that will have give people a degree of confidence that the appropriate things are being done by their federal government. Again, we are doing something different. And that which the state is doing. State and county prosecutors are doing. But nevertheless, i think that what were doing hopefully will have a positive impact. Thank you. On the next washington the l elizabeth knee of Brookings Institution talks about the new report on poverty and how it relates to Current Events and we continue our look at president johnsons vision for a Great Society with a discussion on the air quality act of 1967. Our guests are jeff homestead, a former e. P. A. Assistant administrator for air and robin juni, an environmental law professor at George Washington university. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern. On cspan. The American Bar Association held its annual Homeland SecurityLaw Institute thursday in washington, d. C. You can see the discussion on Cyber Security challenges live starting at 2 55 p. M. Eastern ere on cspan. Im sara. And im shelly. Were on the cspan bus. The cspan bus is a multimedia education center. And along with your television provider, we bring cspans public fairs coverage to you and your community. We also visit schools and book festivals, political and historical events throughout the country. To learn more about the bus, and see our tour schedule go to cspan. Org aboutcommunity. For questions and comments cspan. Org. Cate we want to see you in your community. A panel looks at how russias intervention in ukraine has affected u. S. Foreign policy and the global community. This discussion was hosted by the Brookings Institution. Its 90 minutes. Im a fellow at the Brookings Institution and i would like to welcome you all here today. For an event on russia and the future of the International Order put on by the brookings Foreign Policy program. Thank you for joining us here at carnegie as our auditorium at brookings is being renovated over the course of the summer. Were being gathered here at a very important point not just in u. S. Russia relations but also in russias relations with the International Order. The idea of a partnership and cooperation with russia which really happened as defining future of western policy toward russia in the 1990s and in the 2000s has been replaced with talk of isolation of sanctions and of confrontation. That occurred at a time when its not just bilateral relationship. The entire world is interconnected. In an International Order through the Global Economy, through transnational problems and common interests like tackling Climate Change and counterterrorism and so what we really want to do today is to try to look at the larger picture to see what russias place will be toward the International Order and what the order and the western response will be toward russia over the next knife to 10 years. Looking to other parts ofe world as well, we want to ask, what is the role of the we want to ask what the role of the brics in this new era. We saw where putin was imbrased by the leaders of the other brics. Is there something of a divide opening up in the International Community . Were joined by a terrific fal here today to discuss this. Strobe talbot needs no introduction to anyone here. Hes the president of the Brookings Institution, the author of several books on russia and the author of an article today on putin in a political magazine which i recommend to everyone. Which was edited by one of our other panelists, susan glasser, whos editor of a political magazine and also the author of kremlin rising and coauthor with peter baker of kremlin rising and a former Washington Post bureau chief in moscow. And clifford gaddy, a colleague of mine at brookings, a senior fellow at the center for u. S. Europe, and author, most coauthor of mr. Putin, operative in the kremlin. And i believe that that is coming out early next year in a new edition with new added chapters so its reason for you all to go to amazon a second time. Theres i believe quite a lot of new material added. Over the last few months for a second edition which will be available soon. So were going to open up with a conversation with the panel and after an hour questions from the audience. We do have a hashtag on twitter if you want to use your phones to tweet about the event and the hashtag is russiaukraine. So please tweet away. Ukraine. , with russiayou breaking bad over the last few months, what does that mean for the International Order and International Cooperation . Busince there are three a three of us, let me reiterate my appreciation for my counterpart and the terrific work that brookings has done over the years. It has a particular contribution to make as a result of the carnegie moscow center. A lot of us rely on what comes out of that building in this building. I will make a couple of points at the beginning with what i suspect will play into the conversation. I would say that the single most important and obvious issue here with regard to what the effect and be on globalization whetherovernance is boudin prevails are not boudin prevails are not. It should be the goal of the United States government and other likeminded governance governments around the world that victory for Vladimir Putin in ukraines is just not an option. We can talk about that in terms of whats happening today and what will be happening this weekend. One reason i stressed that is, i would hope something that could be a matter of consensus among with if he does get away violating what has been an ironclad principle of International Law for quite some , a very important guiding principle of the postsoviet russian government when it was under borussia to and under if he werein to get away with that, it would establish a precedent that could wreak havoc in many parts of the world. Putin, since boudin et away he did give scott free, that might have given other leaders elsewhere in the world the notion that they could be more aggressive in pressing unilaterally and with force, territorial and Maritime Claims against other countries. The peoples republic of china. It was a significant that, last 2013, the Chinese Government was thinking about putting this movable oil rig in waters claimed by vietnam, but decided not to. They did move into vietnamese waters. Calls russias breaking bad could be contagious if it is not punished im using that contained and deterred. Another point goes to what russia can do if and when it starts breaking good again. We the International Community really need russia as the Worlds Largest territorial state. A country that is made up of an extraordinarily talente