F. C. C. Chair tom wheeler will be before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee this morning talking about the budget request and joining us is ajit pai. Well have live coverage in about half an hour here. Also live at 11 25 on cspan3, president obama will take part in a roundtable discussion on ways to address poverty in the u. S. Its part of a threeday catholic evangelical summit at georgetown university. Again, thats 11 25 a. M. Eastern. And also at 2 30 on cspan3, the Veterans Affairs committee will talk to deputy Veterans Affairs secretary sloan gibson. It will include representatives from several veterans interest groups. Thats on cspan3 at 2 30 eastern. This weekend the cspan cities tour partnered with comcast to learn about the history and literary life of Fort Lauderdale, florida. So this was really cultural tourism and so when they set up their villages along the way, along the trail sometimes only leaned to the buses would stop because heres the tourist attraction. The semi
Sponsors terrorism all over the world, a country that is developing long range rockets a country that we know has been working on acquiring a Nuclear Weapon capability despite and has always had a secret component to their plan will retain the ability to process uranium. Theres a reduction in centrifuges and in term tz of what they can do, in terms of research and development and the secretary of energy has laid this out clearly. Here the problem. Number one they retain all the infrastructure they wid need to break all those caps. Second enforcing such a deal requires there to be open, full inspections. Iran is saying they will not allow access to military facilities. Thats problematic. The United States does not acknowledge that would be the reality. They said these would be the most Intrusive Inspections yet and they have a year to stop any uranium development. We should never have retreated from the position that iran does not have the right to enrich uranium. We should have insiste
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Ourselves. Its great to be here. One detail would want to correct about your biography. My career has been very diverse, but its mostly focused on literature and history. Profile, hidden so i dont have the opportunity to be engaged in current political and military things. But i have written biographies of Thomas Carlyle and of Charles Dickens and of henry james and of mark twain. Somehow i got directed more towards some history and the interconnection between literature and politics in recent years. The figure that brought me there was our wonderful 16th president , Abraham Lincoln. My most recent book prior to John Quincy Adams american visionary was lincoln, the biography of a writer. It appeared to me that lincoln was not only an extra ordinary politician and a deeply humane and beautiful man, he also was a great writer in his own way and contributed very importantly to american literature. That book focused on the development of literary genius. Lincoln brought me to John Quincy A