Give us your analysis of that. Theres no question that he is not only mysteries but a president and an autocrat at the same time. Clearly, this is a very, very difficult situation. How do you remove a president who has functionally no term of office and the power of the state behind him, the power of the military behind him . That is a conundrum that we have not yet managed to figure a way out of. I would like to see a system where the International Community could in fact joined together to bring about a change in the regime such as assad. We are not there yet. We dont have a United Nations or any multinational contract in any fashion that has been able to successfully do that. That is really a major hole in the International System today. Is he being propped up by some of the most imperial president s currently in office, namely mr. Putin and the iranians . Certainly the iranians have helped out. We have a new regime in iran that is trying some kind of agreement with the west, or dem
Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog
Coat designed by oleg cassini. I think it is a wonderful example of her simple elegance. That a became very, very popular. The only thing that she wore to adorn the ensemble was a beautiful ruby brooch by tiffany that j. F. K. Gave her to celebrate the birth of john junior, right after the swearing in. And of course most famously finishing the ensemble was the hillbox hat. She wore that on the back of her head so her face could be seen. That actually set a fashion trend. Whereas the hat would normally be worn on the top of the head, she had a pushed back to sort of frame her face. Displayed here at its storage box is perhaps one of mrs. Kennedys bestknown dresses, the dress that she wore during her televised tour of the white house in february 1962. Visitors to the museum when we have this dress on exhibit are quite surprised to realize it is red, because of course the program was filmed in blackandwhite and broadcast in black and white. But i like to surmise that she chose red for tha
To find your own means of being successful and understand there are many different ways to be successful, i will frame it in his language. Find your individual superpower and leverage that. Be successful in your own way. If you manage by deep caring about your people while not worrying about what they think about you, you will be a successful as successful as you can possibly be. Always remember when you are thinking about communicating clearly with people, you may think people are fooled if youre telling them what they want to hear they are looking at you all the time. If you try to lead in some way that is not true to who you are, they can see it. They will see through it. You will lose the trust of the team. It is those simple pieces of advice of how to lead. Have a great life. [applause] more from the Techcrunch Disrupt in San Francisco with engineers and executives from Silicon Valley discussing the latest in jewelry and robotics. This is 25 minutes. We are going to talk about rob
Washington journal continues. Host joining us now to talk about political stories to watch in 2014, Shane Goldmacher of National Journal. He is their congressional correspondent. Good morning help new year. When it comes to the agenda when Congress Gets back in session, whats on the list . Guest they are coming back. They are coming back after three years of the at least productive legislative work in congressional history. Theres a lot on their agenda. Unfinished business. The first thing the senate will be taking up, is the effort to reextend Unemployment Insurance which expired at the end of this last year. 1. 3 americans lost their long term Unemployment Insurance. Democrats trying to push to reextend. They will be taking up confirmation of janet yellen as the next chairwoman of the federal reserve. She will be the first woman to hold that post. Because he rewrote the filibuster rule, shes almost guaranteed to be confirmed. They took the key procedural vote. In the house, its not c