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Not close. And four years later in an environment that is more hostile, kay hagan comes pretty close to winning a senate seat despite 125 million being spent, and she did that in large part because we turned out tens of thousands of more of the most disenfranchised people in the country in a state where republicans shortened the early vote period from two weeks to one week and eliminated a lot of the easilyaccessible voting sites for africanamericans and for young people. Thats the lesson that democrats have to take. Theres no question there are a lot of disappointed democrats and my message t...

Laughter . This particular group, and we take it as a very serious threat stream, one that were concerned about and sometimes it gets lost on the public the threatbased on of isil. Is that is a threat. Probably threat is more immediate and what concerns us most about it is the working with aqap and other affiliates to put together an thats successful mainly targeted at aviation targets, i think all of that has public, but its serious and its rising up. And its interesting that where you see these operatives isnt necessarily where you might see some before. So you might see number s iraq, afric...

All for joining us. [applause] youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. At the new America Foundation. It is my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend, mike waltz who has this wonderful book out today warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan, which really outlines by quite unusual career as both been somebody who is creating a white house with Vice President cheney and also carrying out the policies in the field as a special forces there. Mike also runs a successful business. If the fel...

Dynamics between the region of government of baghdad as well as shifting relations between the groups including the syrian and iraqi satisfactions and implications. I am pleased to have with me an Extremist Group this morning. They include our own associates at the carnegie little east foundation. I cant see him from there. The Research Focused on the dynamics of the syrian conflict and the political role and Security Transformation in the arab world. We are also joined by our associate. He is formerly a researcher at the academy. His research has focused on iraq and authority in islam and mid...

Because of what happened. Whats been happening in syria as i mentioned. For folks who are less familiar. Whats happened is becoming more active in the socalled sunni triangle of Northern Iraq opposed to the government in baghdad. And they took a foothold. You may recall earlier this year and last year, back in fallujah again and then ramadi, which is in the western part of the country, which is a sunni predominantly sunni area of the country, and now most recently youve seen this rather spectacular attacks starting with mosul. Which was always a troublesome [ inaudible ] chas been charged with...