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Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation in our lewis fuller meant auditorium. And thank you for those who are joining us through the various networks today. If you will make sure your cell phones are turned off, we appreciate it as we begin. And if you wish to send in questions or comments, simply email us at speaker heritage. Org. Posting our discussion is a senior fellow for Public Diplomacy in our douglas and Sarah Allison center for foreign policy. She focuses on the government institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public and Foreign Countries as well as diplomac...

Wisconsin, illinois, indiana university, all the president s of those universities will be joining us here on washington journal. Up, the Brookings Institution is holding a Panel Discussion on the independence vote in scotland. I believe september 15 is when the vote will be held. All indications show that the vote is close. Two administrators from the university of edinburgh there. It is just Getting Started now. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] i want to welcome you to one of our first event in our revamped brook...

Congressional districts, thats one of the few areas the court has no control over its own docket. Heard by a special threejudge panel and then an appeal goes straight to the Supreme Court and they have to either sashays it is so clearly right were not going to hear it or have to hear it on the merits. Campaign finance is one area, and redistricting is the other, where they have to have more cases on this subject than they might like. I want to make sure we have just at least a few minutes to talk about willys and louriers cases. Willy, you were going to talk about some cases involving business...

Than once talking to, shall we say, countries not keeping to the agreed deal. But on the other hand, i think when there is american pressure, what i have seen, even with the islamic front is that sometimes our friends, when we press our friends, they will in turn squeeze. And the islamic front had been moderating its position starting in may when they issued that statement backing off of demanding an islamic state. So even that can be done, but i do think going forward, this is one where i think, unfortunately, the president , himself, is going to have to take some of his time he is a busy guy...

Will get to serious specifically. You said we need more coherence on how we are going to do this with the syrians, and i completely agree because its going to be extremely hard its not going to be easy. Three points then first. I keep seeing in the press that there really is very little left of these syrian moderate armed opposition, and im here to tell you, please check it out. Get on the social websites, get into the arabic press, and check it out. The moderate armed opposition is fighting right now, friday september 12, fighting the Islamic State up along the turkish border. It is interesti...