Session. The session which is part of the series sponsored by lewis who is sitting in front. We have been able to have a fine reduction a fine reduction of presentations over the years. Again, thank you for making this possible. [applause] our three ambassadors are well known. Ryan crocker to my left. He was the ambassador in afghanistan. And more recently than are other two participants. It is well known for his service in afghanistan and elsewhere. I was delighted that he could be with us. He is the dean at the texas a m university. Presently. Zalmay khalilzad is at the center for strategic and International Studies and served as our special envoy to afghanistan from 2001 to 2003. He was at the United Nations and so many other places. Ron neumann, well known for his presence at many events. Ron was the ambassador in afghanistan from 2005 2007 and is presently the president of the American Academy of the diploma diplomaists. When the middle east institute was created afghanistan was i
I do not want to get out of my jurisdictional lane, other than i know that it has been marked up in the senate. I anticipate the house will markup a similar type bill that will have other portals and in there. We think dhs is the primary portal, the lead portal because of the civilian interface, the fact you cannot be prosecuted, it is not a spy agency. We think it is really the place for the sake harbor. Safe harbor. However, if a Member Company wants to go to nsa as a portal we will allow for that as well. So i think house intel will deal with some of these other portals, nsa being one, the other being treasury. I know the Financial Sector members like to go to treasury. There is no reason why we would want to stop that. We want to preserve current relationships of information sharing that exists, and not shut those down and say there is only one portal you can use. I think it is important that there are multiple, several portals, and we want to enhance that information sharing throu
That is not going to happen as long as our trade laws dont allow us to prevent cheating. Right now our trade laws encourage companies to cheat encourage other countries to cheat, because by the time we succeed, the damage has been done. Host larry is up next republican line. Caller good morning, pedro, mr. Gerard. Guest good morning. Caller can you inform the public about the historic 1992 ross perot, the giant sucking sound of jobs involving nafta versus bill clinton . What brought that about . Guest well, look, lets back up a bit. The initial negotiation of nafta was done with george bush senior. Bill clinton became president on the promise that he would fix nafta and in particular fix the labor chapter, which he did not do. Good afternoon. I am marilynn serafini with the alliance for health reform. On behalf of our honorary cochairman, senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the second of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thank our partner
Canceled a planned event for the restoration of freedom of religion act. When it comes to boycott in indiana over the religious freedom law we want to get your thoughts in this hour on what you think of them. If you support them, oppose them, or think otherwise about them. Here is how you can weigh in. The numbers are on the screen. You can also waiting on twitter, facebook, and send us email to. There is language, or reports about language, this revision that governor mike pence called for earlier this week for the restoration of freedom of religion act. It is to be announced thursday morning, today. Here in washington, d. C. , the senate for America Center for American Progress comes up with a number because of the religious freedom restoration act of 256 million and counting that could be lost from indiana economy. According to one organization that keeps track of these things, robert king joining us on the phone. Thank you for joining us. Give us a snapshot of the last 44 hours las
Host my thanks to all of you. It has been a fascinating debate. And a big thank you to our audience here for all of the questions and to you at home for watching and of course those who joined us online. Stay here for analysis and news at 10 00. There will also be a debate night on agenda. Thanks for watching and good night. [applause] [applause] unity that a bit of a at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Coming up, peace corps director Terry Hessler on increased Safety Measures to get a discussion about the potential Emergency Response to the biohazardous threat. Later president obama is speaking about the deal over Irans Nuclear program. On the next washington journal david smith and his former deputy shoots of the Asset Forfeiture office talks about new rules regarding the governments use of civil Asset Forfeiture lost. The executive director of the month for religious liberty and reverend gary lynn, executive director of americans united for separation of church and state discusses how t