White house eric bush released a statement to say president obama was made of the hospitalization and a quote from the president that spokesperson, president obama and first lady sent their good wishes to the former president the entire family during the holiday season. We have been showing you selections of an years of the q a program. Be sure to join us today with a conversation with robert novak. E spoke about the memoir again, that is today at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. Coming up at 8 00, president obama and the first year the first family as they like this years christmas tree. It includes musical performance and readings of the first lady. Here is a quick look. President , mrs. Obama, malia asha, merry christmas. Hello, everybody. From five. G to start we want to say thanks to tom and rita. We hope they are ready. We hope everyone watching at home is getting in the christmas spirit. We will start counting down right now. Lets do it. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [cheers and applause] will show
That grew up here and americans we should welcome that if we start broadening that which is exactly what he did in his 2014 executive order that essentially i would be ignoring the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally, so thats not an option. And that is why the courts struck down or stayed implementation of the 2014 executive order. Thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. Next a discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the United States to europe to asia. Its part of a conference hosted by the Rand Corporation called set politics aside. Speakers include author Francis Fukuyama and former banking regulators sheila bair. This is an hour. Hello and welcome back. I am michael rich president and ceo of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session of course was the middle east Foreign Policy more generally bear also the middle east of courses or region several hundred Million People. Hardly any democracies in that region. In fact, a
Islamic state of iraq in the levant, and on page 15 it says we reject the lie that america and its allies are at war with islam. I would disagree with the first statement, i dont think were leading, but i would agree with the second statement, that we are not at war with all of islam. We are at war with radical islam and islamic extremism. Yet nowhere in the strategy does that term appear. In fact, the only two times the word islam appears are in the two instances i just mentioned. Yet Climate Change appears 19 times. I would ask do you think the National Security strategy has enough specificity to adequately inform the documents of the National Defense strategy and the National Military strategy to actually have a positive impact on executing a strategy for degrading and ultimately defeating isil . And secondly dr. Lynch, i would ask in your statement about the momentum of isil being halted. Just within the last 24 hours, theyre knocking on the door of the al Assad Air Base where we h
Country in the world with Digital First for g. D. P. Growth job unconclusion, health care, education to every location, movement of their cities south, by the way, cisco the partner all the way through it. Three nights of tech starting tuesday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Now a discussion on governance and leadership in the world from the u. S. To europe to asia, thats part of a conference hosted by the Rand Corporation called set politics aside. Speakers include former fdic banking regulator sheila bear. This is about an hour. Well, hello and welcome back. Im michael rich. Im president and c. E. O. Of the Rand Corporation. The focus of the last session, of course, was the middle east Foreign Policy more generally there also. The middle east, of course, is a region several hundred million people, hardly any democracies in that region. In fact, authoritarian states, teetering states, vanishing states, an increasing amount of ungoverned territories, in this hour well shift our focus t
Problem. Sometimes it is part of the solution to international crises. Forlso have to recognize the un to have any credibility anywhere it needs to have the support of big states starting with the u. S. And in russia, china, the uk and france. They need to throw that diplomatic weight behind the un. Takese cases the u. S. The lead. Is iner cases, france the lead. Onetheless, you need overall go throughu have to the Security Council for all its faults. Thank you very much for your time. We will have to leave it there. Think you for watching on this monday morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] we want to update you on a story coming out of washington, dc. Shots have been fired at the Washington Navy yard. At least one person was injured in a shooting monday morning. Authorities search for an active shooting. Said therefficial was no are at least several injuries. Three shots we