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Crossed. Washington journal continues. Host at our table we are joined y James Thurber who is professor of government at American University and also ounder and former director of their center for congressional and president ial studies and from brookings institution. Thank you both for being here. Rate this current session of congress. We are coming to the close, the year of the irst 115th congress. How would you rate them . Has it been a success . Rate to the good to compared it other congresses. Lets take the first year of the administration. In the first actually two years, few ills passed...

Two more questions. In iraq, you recall off the top of your head granted the focus is about afghanistan the number of beds and desks built versus occupied . Do you have that number or is that something you can provide this committee . I think that is something we can provide. I hope its not a difficult ask. And i hope we can get it sooner than later. The last question on cyber security. Are you aware of any Network Disruptions or intrusions at the state department that have affected obo . Intrusions at the state we have had network intrusions. They have not affected any of our data bases. And ...

Ago they called in senator mitchell and ken dubestein to investigate where they had gone wrong with the ioc and make recommendations. External respected, nonpartisan investigation. This committee to help u. S. Soccer set up a similar independent committee to find out what on earth has gone so badly wrong and it being covered up. Also u. S. Soccer could do what your government does, which is put everything online. The forms are inadequate. And then renew, reorganize and reinvigorated soccer could say to the world this is how it does. We are not in america pushing around but we can do it. It is ...

Of a plevo site is created at that point. I realize im posing something to you that is hypothetical. In light of the officials in the Russian Federation, i think its something to be concerned about. Brezinski spoke to this Committee Earlier this year and said we need to create a trip wire in the baltics and that this trip wire should communicate clearly to russia that nato will not tolerate violation of the territorial integrity of our allies. What do you think of this idea and can you, the steps the dod needs to take under your leadership to send a credible message that this sort of pretext b...

Ondemand radio, think about a jukebox. Put that on the internet. You can specify which song up to the hear. You can specify to shuffle on the Internet Radio stream. So you go to spotify. You want to hear a mix of songs that you like, and you know, but you also say mix it up a little bit, some of it is on demand some of it is prepackaged, but you can also take it from your collection. Think about on an ondemand jukebox or some mix of that, and thats the on demand radio. Your next traditional model that has essentially morphed to the internet morphed toance and digital, is buying music. Some of ...