The president of the National Iranian council, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, advocating dialogue. His latest text i called losing an enemy. Its good to have you back on this program. With the president in asia, so much to talk about tonight. Well get to all of that tonight. After we talk about what the president himself cannot avoid. This is horrific news out of texas. s fascinating you happen to be our guest tonight, in part because every time we have a conversation, its about the muslim ban, terrorism, international terrorism. And here again, another conversation we have to have tonight about domestic terrorism. What do you make of what happened in texas . Im heart broken as everyone else here. I grew up in europe, i have to tell you, i have a hard time understanding why it is we believe the right to bare arms is above the right for children to live . And yet this conversation about this Second Amendment is as difficult, impossible a conversation to have as is the conversation abou
Hes held appointments at the corridors of fun visiting dutch fund. O at the cardozo berkeley,ght at uc princeton, dartmouth and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the in 2007, heer was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. Please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [applause] sherwin thank you. Is it working . Yeah . Good. Thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that in introduction. I hope you liked it. [laughter] prof. Sherwin it was more wholesome because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Here toly glad to be speak about this topic. Subjectit is a kind of that needs to be reviewed again and again and again. Because, unfortunately, the Nuclear Issue is still with us and it looks like it will be with us for a very long time. Ive had a chance to chat with a few of you. That those ive c
And thats what they are doing. Not as though they are hiding the intent. They combine that with the rhetoric death to america, death to israel. Let me let you respond. Mr. Countryman i dont believe iran ever hit its intent to continue developing Ballistic Missile, nor has it slowed down doing so. We have a situation now where the Security Council what can we point to where we can say the Security Council now is taking action against irans Missile Program . None, that i can see. Mr. Countryman i dont focus on the rhetoric, i focus on the active effort to deny the export of technology from advance countries to iran. I understand that irans interpretation is different from ours. Rep. Royce weve now given russia, or weve given beijing the ability to interpret this differently. We have forever now a less effective constraints on irans Missile Program than we had before. And, on top of that, we now see in thesertiveness International Community and we dont see the pushback from the United Sta
From nonaligned movement. You may have to stand alone to adequately defend u. S. Security interests. I hope you will explain how you plan to defend these and your ability to successfully represent the u. S. While we have the opportunity, i would like for you to discuss our governments efforts to counter smuggle something how you may use if confirmed to further ensure the security of Nuclear Material globally. I appreciate your attendance before the committee today and look forward to growing our relationship should you be confirmed. Let me also welcome laura holgate. Thank you for your longstanding public service. A as was pointed out by the previous witness, this is a family commitment. We thank you for your willingness to serve our country in this critically important position. You bring a host of kwaufrgzs to this nomination. Senior position at the department of energy and department of defense, career that prevents states and terrorists from requiring and using weapons of mass dest
Everybody into compliance that then allows the trend to come back down. Is the trend going down . I dont have figures in front of me. Theres yearonyear change but we can get that to lets say over the last 15 years, is the trend, is it increase organize decreasing . We can go back as far as the error rate has been measured but we can get that to you. I yield back my time. We all have members who have spoken for. I want to wrap up oh, mr. Bilirakis. Im sorry. I would ask unanimous consent to enter statement from the National Community pharmacy statement. Without objection. To mr. Mckinleys question real quick, and i understand that maybe maryland, d. C. , virginia, you can check that but there are some real difficulties. If you count the Common Wealth of virginia, if you work it out really well, you could hit five states in a single dwat. I think we should be looking in some way doctors can check because you get down there in that Little Corner and youre touching west virginia, kentucky,