difficult budget environment, you have fought for an increase in assistance. [applause]. and, in addition, you understand the small democracies like that small democracies like israel are particularly vulnerable. that is why we appreciate that you proposed and israel received more than $200 million to fund israel s iron dome, rocket defense system. [applause]. this new technology is protecting the people of israel from rocket fire, from the iran-backed terrorist group, hamas. and, mr. president, you have elevated the issue of iran, here in the united states, and, in the international community. we appreciate your determination to ensure that preventing iran from developing a nuclear weapon
funding for the jewish state, even in this extremely difficult budget environment, you have fought for an increase in assistance. in addition, you understand that small democracies like israel are particularly vulnerable. that is why we appreciate that you proposed and israel received more than $200 million to fund israel s iron dome rocket defense system. this new technology is protecting the people of israel from rocket fire from the iran-backed terrorist group hamas. and mr. president, you have elevated the issue of iran. here in the united states and in the international community. we appreciate your determination to ensure that preventing iran
ironic story about egypt s plummeting economy. and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obama s speech from here in tahrir square. the president s speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely behind the democratic wave everywhere. though he didn t specifically mention one country. saudi arabia. the place where america s interests and values most obviously clash. i don t blame him. street protests in saudi arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession. that s a tough one. obama outlined specific policies to help the arab revolutions get consolidated. all good stuff. and he also talked about the need for a resolution of the israeli
provide live pictures all at cruising altitude of 30,000 feet. rick brooks is program director for northrop grumman space systems and he is our guest now. what makes this different than the other drones we re using in the u.s. military right now? well, clearly the major difference is the manned and unmanned capability. that s really a big discriminator. it lets you fly missions very easily in the manned mode. you can fly in national airspace very easily and make that switch very quickly to fly long endurance or persistent missions when you need multiple sensors on a particular activity for long periods of time. jenna: how much does this machine cost? well it s very cost effective in terms of where it s ultimately going to save the government money. we re very concerned about coming up with more capability, that is more effective going into a very tight budget environment going forward. by replacing, multiple
launch powerful new space telescopes to do the observations. the problem is the telescopes are difficult to build, they cost several billion and the current budget environment we cannot afford that but they are planning on developing the temperature to develop such a telescope so ten or 20 or 30 years from now we will see if the planet has life as we suspect. shepard: based on the distance to the star what is the thinking, or is there a way to calculate the surface temperature? guest: the distance of the planet from the star, and we can calculate if it was a wrong, it should be the temperature 60 degrees fahrenheit which is too cold for liquid water. but if the rock has atmosphere on it, and it has a greenhouse operating on it, that could warm the planet up to a level where on part of the planet there could be liquid water and part could be frozen, and part could be liquid, and it is close