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On the next washington journal, governor gary herbert will be here to discuss his meeting with the president and state priorities for this weeks nga annual meeting. Then congressman donald norcross, democrat of new jersey, talks about his priorities for the 114th congress and what can be accomplished under a republican majority. Later, our spotlight on magazines features James Fallows on the atlantic with his cover story of the armed forces. Well also take your calls on the sentencing of former Virginia Governor robert mcdonnell. Washington journal is live at 7 45 a. M. On cspan. Heres some of...

Partners to combat the greatest risk to Border Security National Security and public safety. And ygn ultimately the articles answer those big three questions. Why we changed how we changed and how to answer whether were winning or not. With that ill turn itb j n back over to stephanie. Thank you. Thank you both. Im going to exercise the moderators prerogative and ask each of our guests one question first before opening it up to the floor. The first question i have is for chief fisher, and that is regarding your hopes for this trilogy of articles. As i mentioned earlier ive been impressed with ...

Or down, we were winning. We had no other way to explain it. This isnt to suggest we werent seceding intermission. Border patrol had to have consistent and reliable data. Not simply data on what we were catching, we also had to report data on what we were not catching and the unknown. Today the Border Patrol does not describe the borders as controlled or uncontrolled. Instead it uses a variety of indicators, capability assessments, commander judgment to assign areas of risk category of high, medium and low. The Border Patrol also evaluates these risks to ensure they are based on current risk. ...

We developed a preliminary set of risk indicators to analyze elements of risk along our border and evaluate the progress we were making amin relation to our goals. Before 2012 if you asked a Border Patrol agent if we were winning, he would say absolutely, and he would point to the number of arrests and seizures to show you that. Regardless of whether they went up or down, we were winning. We had no other way to explain it. This isnt to suggest we werent seceding in our mission, we just had no way to tell if we were succeeding along our border. So the Border Patrol had to build a foundation of ...

2. 6 of gdp, the lowest level since 2007. That is down slightly from the fiscal 2014 deficit of 483 billion. Cbo also now projecting Economic Growth of 2. 8 for 2015. The big picture here for investors for now is that deficits are way down since the financial crisis and stable as a percentage of gdp but only for a few more years according to the cbo. Then without any big changes to taxes or spending especially in entitlements deficits start to grow again as a percentage of gdp, hitting 1. 1 trillion in 2025, a decade from now and 4 of projected gdp that year. Debt will pile on debt, creating q...