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Veterans issues and how lawmakers are working to improve Veterans Affairs programs. The event was hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I amng toi skip a set of am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. Let me begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recently a district that runs recently elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange Coun
Institute hosts the hour and 40 minute event. Lets get started. Good morning welcome to aei and welcome to our program today the value of the conversation with mike levin. Im gary schmitt a senior scholar here at aei and director of the program on american citizenship. I will skip the link the set of introductions and there are link the bio go to the website. And to also look at their biographies. s we have a click one a quick overview of theov proceedings. Of the recently elected congressman from the 29th district in california from the northern san diego to southern orange county. Frankly i have a niece that lives out there not sure why he decided to move to dc. And with the house of Veterans Affairs committee. Following his remarks and of the Second District we are pleased what the congressman and the willingness to come our way. So to be joined in a discussion after the brief remarks by the two congressman by the questionandanswer session. So after that discussion with the Henry Ja
Trooper she is. And thats all coming up in your next hour. So coming up in your next hour. So welcome to the show. Its always a pleasure to have your company. Well, we are waiting a long time for this list of extremist organisations. Rishi sunak the other friday gave that emergency address. He talked about the menace of the far right of fascism , of neo nazis and fascism, of neo nazis and britain. And many of us said, well, who are these groups . What size do they represent . Whats their threat and who are they a threat to . Well that list came out today. Michael gove gave us a taster of five groups. More are expected to come in a few weeks time when the full list is published. Two of those groups were far right groups, one of them was disbanded in 1968. Imagine my surprise. The British National socialist movement hasnt existed for my entire life. What does that tell us about the state of the threat on our streets . Get in touch all the usual ways. Email me gb the usual ways. Email me
You are still figuring out what needs to be done and you are needing an assistant. Men have to be lead parents or fully equal coparents. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. We have more on the u. S. Chamber of commerces summit on Job Opportunities for veterans. Up next, former first lady laura bush. She specifically focuses on Military Spouses and the challenges they face. Attendees also hear from congressional medal of honor recipient dakota meyer, labor secretary tom perez and joint chiefs of staff vice chair admiral james winfield. This is just under two hours. Good morning, im the executive director of the institute for military families and i would like to welcome my friend mark here from deloitte and ill i guess ill say first its humbling and honestly intimidating to follow president bush but is to spend just ten minutes talking about the collective and collaborative action. A recap of where weve been relative to vets em ploimt and also what may lie ahead. Challenge chal