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Three years of the war between the president s government and opposition forces. The mass exodus has caused tensions in neighboring jordan, turkey, and iraq. Millions more are displaced within syria. The two sides are unable to make progress towards peace during a recent conference in geneva. Thank you very much for joining us for todays discussion. My name is megan bradley, im a fellow here with the Foreign Policy program at brookings. In particular, i work with the brookings l. S. C. Project or internal displacement which works to promote the hueman rights and wellbeing of refugees and inter...

Something that i think is an issue for journalists and citizens for the next 20 years, which is theres been a distinction in law and more generally between metadata and content, so some people have a thought that if government has access to your phone calls, thats really troubling. If they have access to metadata, meaning what numbers are calling what numbers, thats a completely different problem. We in the review group are uneasy with that distinction. That if the government has access to knowledge about whom you are calling and when and where, meaning the numbers, and it can figure out who t...

Create a bridge between israel. And this is an organization that brings people to summper camps. What is the sling shot award . Thank you for the opportunity to be with you here this morning. Over the last decade, theres been an explosion of new jewish entrepreneurial activities, people particularly in the Younger Generation building a Jewish Community. And sling shot is an attempt to honor the best of the best of those. And its a message to people looking to invest in the cutting age of the Jewish Community and these are 50 organizations that are worth your time and that represents the future...

Coming defense review or Budget Planning team. Barry, welcome to the team. Thank you, vag go. Congratulations for your slot on the defense news top 100 most influential people. That was the biggest thrill of the year. So lets start off with the report. Each report begins with assumptions about threats to the United States to be facing and whats going to be needed to meet them what. Are those threats and whats the right strategy to address those threats as cost efficiently as possible . The group was more optimistic than many people in looking at the world. They see russia as a country that doe...

The controversial move will end the grid lock over the president s executive and judicial picks. Libby casey joins us now from capitol hill with more on is significance of this move. Great to see you, the president certainly didnt waste much time reacting to the vote, did he . Thats right. He was supportive of it. Now pack in 2005, when mr. Obama was senator obama ma, he was actually opposed to changing the rules regarding the filibuster. Using the so call nuclear option, but the white house says times have changed because the republicans in their words have become more obstructionist. Its har...