Are not watching video or emailing, if you are not doing is more it effective and costefficient. We are talking about the old Voice Network. How do we move from the cost benefits of the Service Benefits by thinking about how things have to change . Another thing going on that we have not talked about. We talked about the supply side and how people provide it. In the wayhanges users arent using the network. Not the services but what people want. Place inte is taking europe. They have a set of universal Service Obligations that still includes phonebooks. A lot of us today say we cannot remember the last time we looked at a phone book. That information is obsolete. Online is more efficient. Another thing that is part of their universal Service Obligation as payphones. In the world of ubiquitous cell phones you cannot find a pay phone on most streetcorners anymore. They are not useful because of the way people are using the network. One of the pivotal questions is we used to think about vo
We are just hours away from president obamas address to the bashan will he will reveal his strategy to dismantle the Islamic State group. He said he has the authority to take action against the is. 61 of americans say acting against the Islamic State group is in the national interest. The president plans to ask law make tours approvlawmakers to approve 500 million in lethal aid to Syrian Rebels. Reporter lets talk about how president obama is spending his day preparing for that speech, and laying the groundwork with members of congress and leaders overseas. He met with his National Security team in the oval offi office. The white house allowing a photo op through the window of the oval office. And talking if the president , as we believe will authorize expanded air campaign into syria against the Islamic State group. We expect the president to announce hell expand those airstrikes in his primetime address from the state floor of the white house just behind me. He will emphasize the nee
Prophecy. Welcome to thursday, it is meet the press daily, and im chuck todd. Happy new year. Because today feels like the start of a new year. I think 2020 finally got put to rest yesterday. President biden on his first full day in office is scheduled to speak an hour from now at the white house as he signs a series of executive orders and as his administration rolls out its plan to defeat the pandemic. After a day of pomp and celebration President Biden is turning his immediate attention towards the crisis that has now killed more americans than world war ii. It is projected to kill another 100,000 in the next 30 days. Yesterday set a new record with more than 4,100 reported deaths. Our average is over 3,000 a day these days. The Administration Today announced a multipronged strategy to accelerate Vaccine Distribution and surge federal resources, including a number of executive actions but theyve also pinned 2 trillion worth of hopes on emergency funding to come out of Congress Altho
[applause] [inaudible conversations] Timothy Geithner talks about dealing with the 2007 2008 financial crisis as president of the Federal Reserve bank of new york and later as president obamas treasury secretary. This is about an hour. [applause] i had a Pretty Simple question to start. Why did he write a book . Andrew sullivan said in the book as much as you hate to explain you very much want to be understood. Is that true . Why did i write the book . Good question. I never thought i would. I have a hard time sitting still and it takes a fair amount of patience to do it. I wanted to give people a sense of what it was like to have a chance to look at these choices we faced through our eyes. They were pretty bad choices. I think its still hard for people to understand why this was necessary, why it was sensible. And i thought that was worth a shot and i wanted to give our successors because you know we are going to face financial crises in the future, very devastating. I wanted to give
Collectively, we are determined to do something about it. I think people need to understand that there is a variety of terror groups in syria. A monolith, but some have expressed the desire to train fighters in syria to attract attack the west. Whether that will happen or not, it is a threat of people being radicalized here and moving to syria to conduct terror acts s. Is that correct . We need to do our best to pay close attention to an evolving situation. Are talking about radicalization, you are very careful in the way you talked about it. We have excerpts experts in the audience love studied radicalization carefully. One of the think that some of us try to do in congress was to create a Multidisciplinary Commission to advise congress on what the hallmarks are of someone who has radical views which are protected by our constitution turning into someone who is prepared to engage in violent action. We have to find a nexus. We were not able to pass legislation. At the last minute it be