Challenges we face as a nation and as a people. Of course, businesses does not they dont do it alone. And yes, businesses need the government to protect our security. And to maintain an economic platform of our country. But what Business Needs most of all from all of these Government Agencies is wise, competent and courageous leadership that knows when to get involved and when not to interfere. A government that is judicious and responsible in the exercise of its extraordinary powers to tax, spend and regulate. Today were hearing a lot of talk about socalled economic populism. Its advocates claim they are standing up for the average citizen. But what theyre really standing up for is the unbridaled growth of the Central Government and the development of a state run economy. We have economic populism in this country. And ill tell you what it is. Its 28 million businesses of every conceivable size and endeavor that have sprung to life in every town, city and community in our country. Its
Im going to give you another question to avoid. Lets start to where the crisis hit the fan. Bear stearns has been saved. Lehman brothers was the next one up. We can talk about whether they could or couldnt but in your mind, was that the right decision as when liam fell and well leave the discussion to go for a briefing with the spokesman, rear admiral john kirby. [captioning performed by National Captioning Institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org as you may recall and i talked about this before, a couple of weeks ago, secretary hagel led a task force to accelerate resupply efforts and the Central Government of iraq and baghdad. Secretary hagel will announce today that seven additional ations have committed to helping provide Kurdish Forces urgently needed arms and question. Operations have already begun. The secretary is grateful to each of these allies for working alongside the United States mi
Here are the big stories were watching China Central bank cutting the bench mark interest point. The move giving stocks a boost in asia today. And then this one is deep. A big deal. Check this out. Nxp, andrew is buying free scale. Check out the nxp price. Its in cash and stock about 12 billion is what they said. No premium initially because it closed at 36. 11 free scale did. And theyre paying 36. 14 in cash and stock. Look what happened to the acquiring company nxp is up 14 or 15 . So the tieup between the two companies are getting more valuable by the second. But its more than 40 billion. Both make a lot of things for cars. You know, some mobile stuff but i think free scale was mostly microcontrollers and nxp has recently gotten into stuff for payments, too. Which is getting both have been in private equity hands and come out. Freescale used to be motorolas semiconductor and nxp was part of philips. You know this . I did. Did you really . Youre acting like everything im telling you
I dont know how i got on that tangent, tangent, but it needed to be said. As much as anybody else. See. In our own area we have aman who feeds the state department and is just one of them who is endorsed [inaudible] and who is voted for by all our friends and neighbors. Nobody says anything. We all say its barack husain obama. No its Chris Van Hollen too and the people who vote for him. Its our friends and. [inaudible] the people that vote straight obama van hollen, and you cannot talk to them. And the reason they get away with that is because we still treat em like friends and neighbors. We think thats a legitimate point of view. That is not a legitimate point of view [inaudible] andik we dont [inaudible] did you have a question . Any more questions . Yeah, i have a question. Number three at in the records about attacking computers are attacking the Us State Department i know that isis but can you speak to wear those come from . Great questions but with isis the cyberjihad these are g
16. Im happy to. Nkats, now just three years old, was the first new center at nih again, quite a long time and was focused in trying to identify the bottle necks from going from basic science discoveries to benefits. In collaboration with our partners in the private sector. I think initially there were some concerns that nih is becoming a drug company, that really was never the plan and is not happening now. Instead, we are identifying areas of Technology Development that no Single Company could undertake, but working with them, we can give you just one example. The effort to try to figure out when youre developing a new drug, whether its going to be safe in humans or not. Has been a real difficult one. We use animal studies, small animals, large animals. Its not that accurate. Its slow, its expensive. We probably lose drugs along the way because some mouse got a slight liver issue and it probably would have had no relevance to humans but we sort of lose the drug at that point. Wouldnt