Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20160614 : v

CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings June 14, 2016

Thank you, my brothers, my sisters. We all family. There are differences. Some can do more. Some can do less. But we all are part of humanity. We are part of the human society. Particularly america, i would consider this nation a leading nation of free world. You can really make some serious contribution for better world. First, you yourself, your own place, you should create certain positive thing. Then more other people get more inspiration. Like that. So please, think seriously at whatever way you can do, implement into practice, into action like that. Ok. Do you agree . [laughter] dalai lama then on the black african sister, one time in south africa i visit one african family. Then i told her now south africa now already get the democratic constitution and revolution. Nelson mandela president , wonderful. Now emotionally, it take time to change. Now the black people with such confidence and work hard. One of the guests told me, we black people, brain level inferior. I shout and argue. No if you ask brain specialist any differences of brain due to different color, the specialist, the scientist will say no differences. My own experience, some hardline chinese officials make some discrimination and consider tibet backward. Only a question of opportunity. And opportunity come. We want to be equal like that. So i explain, explain. Then finally that native african sighs with understanding, and he respond to me. Now he convinced we are equal. At that moment, i felt true relief. At least i helped, i changed one persons mental attitude. Certain confidence is very essential. So please, work hard. Some people say of black people they are different or backward. You accept im backward, totally wrong. We are same human being. So therefore, with confidence, work hard. That is very important. Ok. [applause] thank you, your holiness. [applause] i want to thank everybody for coming today. Our deepest gratitude for joining us today, your holiness. We have an Audacious Mission of envisioning a World Without violent conflict. Sometimes people say this is crazy talk. You have given us hope and encouragement to continue to pursue this very bold and audacious vision. And we thank everybody here for your continuing support, engagement, and work on this pathway. I want to conclude by noting we are 100 days out from the International Day of peace on september 21. I encourage everybody to join in taking action, moving toward the International Day of peace and making it every day. Thank you, once again. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. [applause] dalai lama now International Day of peace should create a whole year, a whole century. A whole decade. Then a whole century. Yes. [laughter] [applause] with your encouragement, yes. [applause] dalai lama a lot of work to do that without pay. [laughter] thank you, everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the official party departs. Dalai lama thank you. See you again. Dalai lama thank you. [indiscernible] [laughter] dalai lama wonderful, wonderful. What an opportunity to meet such young people. I wish to meet more. I will have the opportunity to see more different faces. [laughter] and no more [indiscernible] [laughter] president ial candidates Hillary Clinton and donald trump spoke about the orlando tragedy yesterday. We have that coming up. Then the dalai lama talks about nonviolent conflict resolution. That is coming up later. At cspans washington journal live every day. Morning, three members of congress wilderness to discuss the Mass Shootings in orlando. Ranking member of the Intelligence Committee on the cia talks about the role of intelligence today and in the future. Security Homeland Committee member Representative Scott Perry. Then, a member of the Homeland Department of security and Government Affairs committee homeland threats and security. Be sure to watch beginning at 7 00 a. M. This morning. Join the discussion. Immigration and homeland officials testified today at about preventing the sale overstays and introducing a new tracking system. Starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. At madam secretary, we proudly give but 72 of our daily of our delegate votes to the next president of the United States. Applies cheers and applause] ]firework now, Hillary Clinton talks about the mass shooting in a land of florida that occurred over the weekend. She called for stronger gun laws and a greater outreach to the Muslim Community in the u. S. To prevent future violence. This was held in cleveland, ohio. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ohio United States senator, Sherrod Brown. [applause] applause]d mr. Brown thank you. What a crowd. And what a moment for cleveland, for our state, and for our country. Thank you so much for being here. This is a bit different kind of rally from when we first heard on friday what this would be about. Bear with us as we, first of all, thank everyone on team wendy for welcoming us today. Thank you. [cheers and applause] sen. Brown our hearts are heavy as we mourn 49 lives lost in the horrific act of terrorism and hate in orlando. Were grateful, as we always are, especially today, especially this weekend, to the First Responders whose bravery saved lives. [applause] sen. Brown we continue to keep the Law Enforcement still investigating and the medical personnel at orlando hospitals carrying for the injured, we keep them in our thoughts. Ohio stands united with the people of orlando. We stand united with the Lgbt Community worldwide. [cheers and applause] sen brown we stand united with our entire country. We stand together with people of all faiths. With muslims, with christians, with jews, with hindus, with people of all faiths. [applause] sen. Brown our president said yesterday, an attack on any american is an attack on all of us. [applause] sen. Brown our country, all of us individually, our country together must not let this, or any other heinous act of terror, divide us ever. [applause] sen. Brown we know america is strongest when were united. Now is the time to unite behind smart, effective strategies to go after terrorism, wherever it exists, and to keep america safe at home and abroad. All, all while upholding the values that made the United States of america the greatest country on earth. [cheers and applause] sen. Brown now is the time, beginning sunday, yesterday. Now is the time, now it is past time to finally muster the political courage to say, enough is enough. [applause] Sherrod Brown now is past time to pass commonsense laws to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists and out of the hands of violent criminals. [cheers and applause] sen. Brown sundays violence was fueled by hatred. Hatred which has no place in our country. As we watched the news in horror yesterday, my wife connie and i could not help but remember how very different we felt almost exactly a year ago. We stood on the steps of clevelands city hall, celebrating the historic Marriage Equality decision. [cheers and applause] Sherrod Brown that day, we joined a community of lgbt americans and our straight allies in one joyful celebration. Today we want our lgbt friends and neighbors to know that america stands with you in your grief and your outrage just as we stood with you in celebration a year ago. [applause] sen. Brown understand, you are not alone, straight or gay, you are not alone. We are with you and we will not tolerate hate in our country, period. [cheers and applause] sen. Brown while we grieve standing here at team wendy, im reminded of the resilience of our american spirit. Marjorie and dan moore experienced the worst tragedy any parents can imagine with the loss of their daughter, wendy. But they took their grief and they turned it into action to protect other daughters and sons with the equipment that you all in this plant make here in cleveland, ohio. In doing so, in doing so, they and everyone at team wendy create good manufacturing jobs, contribute to our local community, and save lives. And what is better than that . [applause] Sherrod Brown this is the american spirit. These are our values, values that we see every single day in Hillary Clinton. [cheers and applause] Sherrod Brown these are values that i saw from a distance and then beginning in 2007, when i came to the senate, and had the pure good luck of having my office right across the hall from senator clinton from new york, right across the hall for those couple of years in 2007 and 2008, these were the values that i see in hillary, these are the values i know in hillary, and these are the values that i trust in Hillary Clinton. [cheers and applause] sen. Brown Hillary Clinton has the wisdom, Hillary Clinton has the resolve to keep our country safe and the conviction and the strength to refuse to let america be intimidated by terror. She has the courage to fight for commonsense laws to protect americans from gun violence, she has the compassion to stand with lgbt americans and all americans who are the target of hate and violence, and she has the strength to unite americans to fight back against hate and violence with tolerance and love. [applause] Sherrod Brown now more than ever, america need as commander in chief with the strength, with the experience, with the wisdom to unite us, to unite us by appealing to our shared values, not appealing to our fears. [applause] sen. Brown i believe Hillary Clinton is that leader. I trust Hillary Clinton to be that leader of our great country. With that, its my honor to introduce the former first lady, the senator, the secretary of state and the most qualified person to run for president of the United States in my lifetime, Hillary Rodham clinton [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton thank you thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Im absolutely delighted to be back in cleveland and be here at the industrial innovation center. I have had a chance to learn about the great work you do here. I especially want to applaud team wendy for everything you do to protect our troops, First Responders. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton and others from traumatic brain injury. It is so important that we continue to support those who protect us. [crowd chanting we want hillary] ms. Clinton thank you. Thank you all. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton it is good to be back in cleveland. I can tell you that. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton i want to thank your extraordinary senator, Sherrod Brown for [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton for his leadership, for that very kind and generous introduction. You are very fortunate to have him representing you. I want to thank your congresswoman, marcia fudge. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton who is both indomitable and indefatigable. Shes such a tenacious advocate for the people she represents. I want to acknowledge the mayor, mayor jackson, who is here. County executive. And i particularly want to recognize the passing of george voinovich. He devoted his life to serving the people of ohio, as mayor of cleveland, as governor and senator, and we send our prayers and sympathy to his family. I also want to thank dan moore, the owner and founder of this company and team wendy, for his belief in cleveland, for his commitment to create jobs. I cant wait to work with him to do more of what he has accomplished here. [applause] ms. Clinton you know, originally i had intended to come to cleveland under very different circumstances. We are heading into a general election that could be the most consequential of our lifetime. But today is not a day for politics. On sunday, americans will go up to a nightmare that has become mindnumbingly familiar. Another act of terrorism in a place no one expected. A madman filled with hate, with guns in his hands, and just a horrible sense of vengeance and vindictiveness in his heart. Apparently, consumed by rage against lgbt americans and by extension, the openness and diversity that defines our american way of life. We will learn more about the killer in the days to come. We know that he pledged allegiance to isis, that they are now taking credit and that part of their strategy is to radicalize individuals and encourage attacks against the United States, even if they are not coordinated with isis leadership. But theres a lot we still dont know. Including what other mix of motives drove him to kill. The more we learn about what happened, the better well be able to protect our people going forward. In the days ahead, we will also learn more about the many lives he viciously cut short. Many of them young people just starting out in their lives. They were travel agents and pharmacy techs, College Students and Amusement Park workers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and they had one thing in common. They all had a lot more to give. We should take a moment today amid our busy lives to think about them, to pray for everyone who was killed, for the wounded, those who are fighting to regain their lives and futures, for our First Responders who walked into danger one more time. As a mother, i cant imagine what those families are going through. But lets also remember the other scenes we saw on sunday. We saw the faces of some of those First Responders who rushed into danger and tried to save as many people as they could. We saw survivors like chris hanson who risked their lives to help others. People gathering outside hospitals to comfort anxious family members waiting for news of their loved ones, and waiting too to learn more about what they could do to make sure this never happened again. Religious leaders condemning hate and appealing for peace. People lining up to donate blood. Americans refusing to be intimidated or divided. Yesterday i called the mayor of orlando and offered my support and my appreciation for the leadership that he and the other officials have shown. This is a moment when all americans need to stand together. No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades. The murder of innocent people breaks our hearts. Tears at our sense of security. And makes us furious. Now we have to steel our resolve to respond. And thats what i want to talk to you about. How we respond. The orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. And we must attack it with clear eyes, steady hands, unwavering determination and pride in our country and our values. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton i have no doubt, i have no doubt we can meet this challenge if we meet it together. Whatever we learn about this killer, his motives in the days ahead, we know already the barbarity we face from radical jihadists is profound. In the middle east isis is attempting a genocide of religious and ethnic minorities. They are slaughtering muslims who refuse to accept their medieval ways. They are beheading civilians, including executing lgbt people. They are murdering americans and europeans, enslaving, torturing and raping women and girls. In speeches like this one, after paris, brussels and San Bernardino, i have laid out a plan to defeat isis and the other radical jihadist groups in the region and beyond. The attack in orlando makes it even more clear, we cannot contain this threat, we must defeat it. And the good news is that the Coalition Effort in syria and iraq has made recent gains in the last month. So we should keep the pressure on ramping up the air campaign, accelerating support for our friends fighting to take and hold ground, and pushing our partners in the region to do even more. We also need continued american leadership, to help resolve the political conflicts that fuel isis recruitment efforts. But as isis loses actual ground in iraq and syria, it will seek to stage more attacks and gain stronger foot holds wherever it can, from afghanistan to libya to europe. The threat is metastasizing. We saw this in paris and we saw it in brussels. We face a twisted ideology and poisoned psychology that inspires the socalled lone wolves, radicalized individuals who may or may not have contact and direction from any formal organization. So, yes, efforts to defeat isis on the battlefield must succeed. But it will take more than that. [applause] ms. Clinton we have to be just as adaptable and versatile as our enemies. As president , i will make identifying and stopping lone wolves a top priority. I will put a Team Together from across our government, the entire government, as well as the private sector, and communities, to get on top of this urgent challenge. And i will make sure our Law Enforcement and intelligence professionals have all the resources they need to get the job done. As we do this, there are three areas that demand attention. First, we and our allies must work hand in hand to dismantle the networks that move money and propaganda and arms and fighters around the world. [applause] clinton we have to stem the flow. Is only way we can do this our partners,h strengthening our alliances, not weakening them, or walking away from them. Second, here at home we must harden our own defenses. We have to do more to support our First Responders, Law Enforcement and Inte

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