Commitments on Financial Assistance should not be caught up in bureaucratic hurdles here. A timelye to flow in way. As my chairman talks about, the market plan was not only about funding, it was also about active Technical Assistance. When we met with the government there, they welcomed largescale infusion of Human Resources in the country on all the major reform issues. They looked to the United States for expertise. They looked to the Diaspora Community for its expertise. They looked at the europeans, particularly poland, for its expertise. Poland is engage in constitutional reform issues as well. Service reform, after all of these issues, having Technical Assistance on a large scale embedded in ministries, and governments, offices, and civil Civil Society this is all welcome. We believe that International Engagement is critical at this time. Onto anothere topic, and that is russia. I had an executive in my office this morning i will not name the name or the company because i do not
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Richard cohen is here. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for the washington post. You sparked a controversy in 2006 when he opened his column with this sentence the greatest mistake that congress would could make at the moment is to forget that israel is a state. His book is called israel sit good for the jews. Im proud to have Richard Cohen here. Hes a friend of mine and im proud of that. Tell me about that 2006 column and what happened after. I wrote it in the course israel was once again with war, this time with hezbollah in the north and you could see this pattern going back and forth, back and forth. Incessant war and incessant terrorism. I used the word mistake but i couldnt come up with another word to describe the plight of israel as being a nation of six million jews surrounded by, i dont know, 100 million arabs, whatever the figure may be and there continuing incessant warfare. The reaction was incredible. It was
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Richard cohen is here. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for the washington post. You sparked a controversy in 2006 when he opened his column with this sentence the greatest mistake that congress could make at the moment is to forget that israel is a state. His book is called israel is it good for the jews . Im proud to have Richard Cohen here. Hes a friend of mine and im proud of that. Tell me about that 2006 column and what happened after. I wrote it in the course israel was once again at war, this time with hezbollah in the north and you could see this pattern going back and forth, back and forth. Incessant war and incessant terrorism. I used the word mistake, but i couldnt come up with another word to describe the plight of israel as being a nation of six million jews surrounded by, i dont know, 100 million arabs, whatever the figure may be, and their continuing incessant warfare. The reaction was incredible. It was vit
Wideranging sanctions. Thats coming as the g7 summit in brussels for which russia was excluded for the first time in six years and was taking place. And on capitol hill, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looked at the political situation in ukraine following last months elections. Thats coming up next on cspan2. Also today a bipartisan agreement was reached in the senate on a bill that aims to address some of the problems that the va medical facilities. And president obamas pick to head the department of health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell was approved by the senate 78 to 1724 republicans voting for the nominee. She will take over as the Health Secretary pleasing kathleen sebelius. Russia as the United States is a nation which believes in its mission. In our missions are pretty similar. We believe in freedom, we believe in this living our values which suddenly disappear. But it was still there and so the biggest idea for russia all those years was the victory day. That is a r
Reasons. Laces we cannot deport people to, like cuba, for example. And our job is not to house these people, to house people strictly for criminal violations. That is our role. So if they have completed their senses through the u. S. Their sentences through the u. S. Criminal justice system, there is not much we can do. They focused on people who committed recent crimes. Unfortunately we are tight on time. We have been speaking with alan gomez from usa today. That is all the time we have today on washington journal. Join us tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern now we will head to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee taking a look at the recent elections in ukraine and its current impact on Foreign Relations in the country. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. I want to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time, for sharing their perspective on developments in the ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in