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Welcome, everyone, to brookings. Im bill, the managing director here. And were delighted that were joined today by senator murkowski. One of my favorite johnny cash songs growing up was called springtime in alaska and if you remember the chore us, he says, when its springtime in alaska its 40 below and by that standard its downright balmy here tpwheasheds. Were delighted that senator murkowski is here today. We wanted to make her feel at home so we deviled up some summer weather for her and im sure shes wondering what the big deal is all about. The senator is the Top Republican on the Senate E...

Lets just leave it at that. More than saudi arabia, oil, coal, we have it all. But we dont have the ability to move it. We have been trying for 40 years to advance our natural gas coming off of the north slope and we are still working at it. Our oil resources, we were successful in the mid70s, getting the transalaska pipeline. But it really has been our only infrastructure corridor or, the 800 mile pipe from north to south. Think about our coal reserves. That is because we lack that infrastructure. You may have the infrastructure, it is aging infrastructure. It is insufficient to meet the dema...

Every episode that has occurred that has caused commotion in the city has been ived a m ive admitted to my mistakes and said it would not happen p again and it has not happened again at the air canada centre. Of all things that we could start the show with. Good morning. Were in washington. It is thursday, november 14th. And with us onset, we have senior Political Editor sam stein. I cant stop laughing. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner. White house correspondent for the Associated Press julia pace. And al hunt, met your producer last night at politico. Ni...

Leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to pull the country together and guide the iraqi people through this crisis. The Current Situation today in iraq remains extremely, extremely serious. Isl remains in control of mosul and it is targeting all iraqis, sunni, shia, kurds, who disagree with its twisted version of a caliphate. It joined in an unholy alliance with the baath party and some former insurgent groups like the islamic army of iraq. Going forward, the iraqis with our support must seek to split the latter groups from isl and isolate isl from the hard core ...

Senator johnson . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Lets quickly go back to the kurds. Ive been made aware of the facts that the baghdad government is basically in arrears on the kurds budget by 6 billion. Is that pretty accurate . There are a lot of ways to do the accounting and the math. Baghdad claims the kurds owe them money. The kurds claim that baghdad owes them money. And in that in that space is where a deal lies. And i think thats going to be part of the conversation informing a new government. If it is true that baghdad owes them as much as 6 billion, would the u. S. Support the kurds ability...