This week on cspan and prime time three nights of tech featuring the executives and innovators. 40,000 a year it should be a bentley arsomething. But instead its just a taxi. And for that privilege of leasing that car for 40 grand a year he gets to be impoverished. Hear from insiders at facebook paypal, and more all part of a special presentation. Israel probably the top hightech country in the world, went Digital First for g. D. P. Growth job creation includeion of minorities, health care, education to every location, movement of their cities south. Three nights of tech starting tuesday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. On tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee Held a hearing assessing the u. S. National Security Strategy in response to global challenges. Witnesses included two former defense undersecretaries for policy. At the start of the hearing the Committee Approved president obamas defense secretary nominee Ashton Carter who takes over this tuse. This since a quorum is now present, i
It will be a complicated audit. I would not be surprised, having gone through something similar myself with ambassador ida, that it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree, the question that were going to talk about today, president karzais legacy, will be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless, i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leading afghanistan in one way or the other for the last 13 years since december 2001. We thought here it was an appropriate moment while the election is being worked out to take stock of what has been accomplished in that time. By that i mean not only the state of the country that he will leave for the next president but also certain habits of govern he weing that adopted and has become the model for an entire generation of young people who have grown up during that time. One of the questions i imagine we will look at is was this the only way of govern iing . Another is the
Peak, he thinks he will reach the top in a few days. But it takes weeks to approach. They reached what we believe is a Lower Mountain on the flanks of pikes peak called mount rosa. At that point pike wrote, given the conditions, given the equipment that they had at the time, no one could have summited the peak. Pikes peak inspired america the beautiful written by katherine bates. And the view down to the plains from the top of the mountain inspired the poetry and inspired the images that are captured in the poetry of the United States. Watch all of our events from Colorado Springs saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s book tv and sunday on cspan3. Former u. S. Afghanistan war commander general john allen talks about the legacy of former afghan President Hamid karzai. The u. S. Institute of peace hosted this event. I think we can get started. My name is scott smith. Im the director for afghanistan and central asia programs here. Thank you all for coming. Now that you are here, i should sa
Questions, british Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the murder of a journalist and told members that the u. K. Would never give in to terrorism. On monday, he announced new the passportsize of citizens accused of terrorism. He answered questions on the scotland independence vote scheduled for september 18. Prime ministers questions tonight on cspan. Vice President Joe Biden gave the weekly address in place of president obama who return from the nato summit. He outlined the efforts in reviving the economy and for raising the minimumwage. U. S. Senate candidate Dennis Dan Sullivan theyve the republican address and talked about smaller federal government and energy policy. Ladies and gentlemen, this is joe biden, im filling in for president obama, while he addresses the nato summit in wales. When the president and i took office in january of 2009, this nation was in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the great depression. Our economy had plummeted at a rate of 8 in a si
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