History for practices related to the financial crisis, recovering 85 billion much of it returned to ordinary americans who were badly hurt. Hes worked passionately to make sure our criminal Justice System remains the best in the world. He knows that too many outdated policies, no matter how wellintentioned, perpetuate a destructive cycle in too many communities. So eric addressed unfair sentencing disparities, reworked mandatory minimums, and promoted alternatives to incarceration. And thanks to his efforts, since i took office, the overall crime rate and the overall incarceration rate have gone down by about 10 . Thats the first time that theyve declined together, at the same time, in more than 40 years. Erics proudest achievement, though, might be reinvigorating and restoring the core mission to what he calls the conscience of the building and thats the civil rights division. He has been relentless against attacks on the Voting Rights act because no citizen, including our service mem
Brad ashford who is 64 years old. Hes been he is married and has three children. Your host and not rateor is a political reporter from the omaha herald. Hello and welcome to this evenings race for congress. Im a senior political reporter at the omaha world herald. Thank you for joining us. We are coming to you from the university of nebraska at omahas campus. This debate is sponsored by the world herald and produced by the staff and students of u. N. L. Television. We are looking for a robust change of views between republican nominee lee terry and democratic challenger brad ashford. We are going to rotate the order and questions the candidates will get. Theyre each going to get about 50 seconds to respond. In the middle of the debate, the candidates will get to ask each other a question. Otherwise, im going to ask a question. I also will determine if a follow up is in order. This response should be no more than 30 seconds. We have a light system to keep track of time. When you see the
Able to take care of themselves. I do not want to do what we did in iraq. When you pull out too fast, it you create a vacuum, the vacuum is going to be filled and that vacuum in iraq was filled by isil and that could happen again in afghanistan. What is amazing to me is the effectiveness of our military in the middle east. Maintain ourould presence in afghanistan until we we have made some progress on the new government that is just bill that did in afghanistan that has just been elected in afghanistan. We had to act when we acted. Terrorism occurred. I agree we need to stay a little longer. The way we approached afghanistan did create the vacuum. Click some critics have blamed president obama for the current upheaval in iraq saying he shouldve kept american soldiers on the ground in that country. Do you agree . Hindsight is 2020. Borderseft troops on with syria, we could have maintained some Training Mission and some support mission on the border with syria. Station. N has left the i
Campaign talking about little else. My school, my education, my family, thank god you have not picked on my dog yet. What is really at stake here is the lives of the other 750,000 people in this district and america and how they will get their education. Mr. Romanoff, your second question . Is a bit of a vocabulary question for you. He said that you voted against every measure that produces this result and that you support Immigration Reform. You called the house bill and the dream act a nightmare. What the support mean to you . Let me take your first question, you asked three. We have made tremendous progress as a country in reducing Carbon Emissions in america. Do think that we can be a country that simply provides services, but we must get country that makes things. I think that the greatest export to the United States has been manufacturing jobs to china and we have got to strike a balance and bring them back. I think that we should continue to reduce carbon in this country, but wh
Right way. Host richard talks about medical marijuana. You may have other issues. Keep calling with those as we take a few minutes to talk about secret service. It was at the white house where the White House Press spokesperson josh earnest talked about the issue of the resignation and also talked about when the white house learned about that Armed Security guard, the Armed Security contractor who rode in an elevator with president obama. I can tell you that the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon shortly before it was reported by before it was reported by the news organization. She did not tell him about that . The agency did not tell the white house about that . He didnt know about it yesterday . Until shortly before it was reported publicly. And thats a problem, right . Well, i would i think the it would be accurate for you to assume that when incidents like that occur, that there would be a pretty open channel of communication between the United States se