Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in
To the president has announced tough new measures in an effort to stop 3 weeks of antigovernment protests descending into more rioting and looting president Sebastian Pinera is proposing laws to congress to toughen penalties for looting and acts of violence especially by people hiding their faces with hoods and mosques but a protest is attacked upscale areas of the capital santiago on wednesday a series of concession measures have failed to pacify the protesters who are angry at economic inequality with latin america at its newman is live from the capital santiago you see how significant these new measures. Hello charlie well they are and theyre clearly a response to growing pressure on the president not so much from the people who are out in the streets protesting clearly but rather from his own support base right behind me is the headquarters of a Political Party that is part of the Ruling Coalition and it was attacked by a group of people according to its leaders to the leaders of t
Science. Welcome to our kickoff event. I am the chief operating officer he is then a professor of environmental policy. He gave the acceptance speech on behalf of the conferences on science and world affairs. He was president obamas science advisor. Is the longest serving science advisor. Has economic competitiveness, im change, education, Space Program as well as the coordination. Is a member of the National Academy of sciences. Is a president. Please join me in welcoming him. Is a great pleasure to be back in this room. They were more restrained than todays remarks will be. I want to stress at beginning that we bear the responsibility remarks. Ontent of my i am a free person. I start with something that should not have to be explained but one of the purposes of the science march tomorrow is to make sure that the higher the wider public and our policymakers understand why science and Technology Matter. The essence of the matter is that science and Technology Matter to virtually every
View did nasa need to be transformed . Thanks chris. Its a great to be here with you too. I have been at nasa in the 1990s working under the nasa administrator at the time dan golden who was actively and successfully in many ways working to transform nasa. I had previous to that worked for a grassroots organization. That was really interested in returning human space flight to more than just a handful of astronauts and nasa had sort of lost. Its way i think after the shuttle accidents when they didnt. Have the ability to get more people into space for lower costs more reliably. That was the goal of the shuttle. So coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the Obama Administration. I thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transformation process and president elect obama happened to agree. So it says my quest because its a memoir, but its a lot of peoples quest for decades and thats why i wrote the book. Well, lets open that up for a minute. You say that nasa
Comcast supports cspan2 as a public service. Larry garver, its a pleasure to be here with you. Werer excited for your new boo, escaping gravity. As you say in the subtitle, its your quest to transform nasa. I wonder if you can start with why in your view did nasa need to be transformed . Thanks, chris. Its great to be here with you too. I have been at nasa in the 1990s working on the nasa administrator at the time, ben goldman and was actively and successfully working to transform nasa. In i had previous to that worked for a Grass Roots Organization who was really interested in returning human space flight to more than just a handful of as gnats. As astronauts and nasa lost its way to get humans into space. Coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the Obama Administration, i thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transformation process and president elect obama agreed. Its a lot of peoples quest for decades and thats why i wrote the book. Open that up, you