The United Nations i called on the world to unite against the fighting of violent extremism and challenges the assemblies to gather a year later to discuss. I want to thank World Leaders for answering the call. We are joined from leaders from over a hundred nations, some 120 Civil Society groups from around the world and partners from the private sector. I believe we have here today is the emergence of a group united for destroying isil. We have crippled have alqaeda core in afghanistan and pakistans tribal regions. We are harvesting military intelligence, economic development, and the strength of our communities. Now, i have repeatedly said that our approach will take time. This is not an easy task. We have isil taking root in areas that already are suffering from failed governance in some cases. In some cases, civil war or secretarian strife. And as a consequence, the vacuum that exist in many of these areas, isil has been able to dig in. They have shown themselves to be resilient. A
Our lives. We need to turn that upside down it is for janelle wants to allow our federal waters off the coast to be able to develop that because they believed that will help them grow their economy than there should be some difference of recognition that virginians know whats going on. They dont want to destroy their beaches in their Natural Environment. If alaska wants to do the same thing then there should be some deference rather than imposing the will from washington d. C. When im elected president of political hacks and academics are going to take the backseat. The people that will be making these decisions who might have practical experience in the real world and i apologize but i think thats the best thing to do. [applause] so heres my aspiration. I believe we can create a million 21st century manufacturing jobs with the lowest most abundant source of energy in the world. I believe we can continue to give the middle class of this country the greatest they have had in last six ye
Everybody wants to work in Silicon Valley. At a time when banking is so banking, even when the market is up, will they use will they lose young talent . A stigmais definitely against the big banks in san francisco. I cant deny that. Do the any city really to what we heard from goldman investors earlier this week where they want guaranteed returns and goldman is resisting saying we cant give you those kind of guarantees. But our bank 32 . To . Ut our banks ready is there a true shift happening . Earlier today, rob kaplan said that banks will make a ton of money. They can pay the giant fines. But will they attract top talent, innovative people . Do they want to be in a business that has lost its sexy, its popularity, its pride . Where i live, people are looking at start up saying that they look pretty good as opposed to the big banks. Talking about another story happening today, bitcoin, we have been talking about it all through the holidays. We did the 12 days of bitcoin. These anonymou
Political analyst for cbs 5 in San Francisco and your moderator for tonights program. You can find is on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org, program and Schedule Information and powered cast of past programs. Now is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker and columnist and writer, Jonathan Alter. Editor, writer and contributing to the bloomberg few, author of the new book we are talking about the center holds the center holds obama and his enemies. Jonathan alter is an economist, you see him on nbc news and ms nbc, a former Senior Editor and columnist for what newsreader where he worked for 30 years writing 50 cover stories, also written for the New York Times, washington post, washington monthly, the atlantic, the new republic, among other publications and also author of other books including but promise president obama, the defining moment, fdrs 100 days and several New York Times bestsellers and between the lines a collection of his newsweek columns. Cheese in my judgm
Good morning. Im jose diaz balart. New details about the insider attack that killed a twostar general. Senior afghan official said Major General harrold green was shot in the back four times by an afghan soldier. He was the highest ranking active duty soldier to be killed in a combat zone since vietnam. Eight other americans were wounded. Theyll be flown to germany later this afternoon. Were joined by retired army colonel jack cay jjacobs and re army colonel and vietnam and cold war veteran. The obvious question, how could it have happened again . Because, jose, unfortunately, the most dangerous enemy we have anywhere is the insider. And no matter how much we prepare people, theres someone who is going to pop up out of nowhere like major hassan and many other examples of people. Prabtly, theres no defense against the insider. Colonel jacobs, since 2008142 coalition deaths have come from insider attacks. Does the latest attack raise any concerns about our withdrawal strategy from afghan