Host here is another one of those many extraordinary pictures. We are seeing it on television as well. Men, women, and children from syria in afghanistan clinging to a dinghy sunday. And afghanistan clinging to a dinghy sunday. They are off the coast of greece. Im going to talk to david martin now from charlottesville, virginia. He is an International Law professor and a former judge deputy the former deputy counsel at the department of Homeland Security. The president has asked that 10,000 Syrian Refugees be brought to the u. S. As we start to look at that process, can you define for us first how the u. S. Looks at a refugee . What is the definition in u. S. Terms . Drawn byfinition is international treaty. A refugee is someone out his or her country of her origin and is afraid to return. The keyword is a wellfounded fear of persecution in their home country. That applies both to our overseas Resettlement Programs that we are mainly focusing on now, the people we select and bring to t
Lost before they won and they never give up. , it you tell a public really wasnt working, because if it did, you wouldnt give up. You wouldnt walk away. You would be telling your daughter, dont do drugs. And then for some reason, he you say you say it is ok. You wouldnt do that. If you do, that is not the right thing. Now we need to get you to do the right thing. Ofhave to have the certainty what we know to be successful in america to continue to fight for those things. That is why the Republican Party and establishment has gotten away from what we know works. We need to get back to that. Rick host tomorrow center Bernie Sanders speaks at liberty university, the same place where senator ted cruz announced his candidacy. He will be the convocation speaker at the traditionally conservative university in virginia. That is life to 00 a. M. Eastern at 10 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan. A signature feature of tv is our allday coverage of sayers book fairs and festivals. Were in new york for the f
Game of governing and politics. Phil, you made a point that tweeting wasnt the same. Some people dont know what the hell it is now but it has changed dramatically since 2008. I put it even further context in, when i was in the white house, a couple of oust would meet up with leon panetta every night and we would look at the three tvs, abc, cbs, whatever the other one was and, see whether our good stories had risen or whether the bad stories had gone down. You could see wolf kind of standing out in the yard there without even an umbrella sometimes. That was a good day if your good story was up. Or down. That was all we dealt with. Now the, the onslaught of information, moving information all sorts of sinister reasons has fundamentally changed governing and strategies. Just three things that kind of pop out to me. And just in phrases. Its, what i hear you guys saying is that that youre underlying fundamental belief that people are coming to washington to get something done. You have look
But i no that the chairman wants to face this headon and i no it is a challenge and the political environment. And i did want to breed of that we obviously not met the challenge with the budget as currently configured. I want to specifically ask you general austin, something that was troubling to me. It has been a determination that operation freedom signal is a new Contingency Operation. Do do you see it as a new Contingency Operation . It is a continuation of our efforts, center. So in terms of the types of things that we are doing we are continuing to train and advise and assist the Afghan Security forces but in terms of how we account for the funding that we are allocating to that that is a different issue. Well, the reason i am asking is i am told that there is an effort underway of naming a new lead Inspector General in afghanistan as opposed to the special Inspector General on afghanistan. I think if that determination is made i want to make sure everyone understands that will i
Thank you, chief fisher. Senator carper . I think the question the chairman raised really important one, really important one. To the extent, strengthen our relationship with mexico and prove our confidence in the information that they can provide, then that, they can provide us, will only help. I think one of the best force multipliers on the Canadian Border is our relationship with canada. I want to just throw in force multipliers for a while. One of you maybe a couple of you, talking about force multipliers, i mentioned that assets were able to deploy between the ports of entry. We have drones on the border of mexico. Drones, at least a couple, up on our border with canada. We have fixed wing aircraft with the border with mexico. We have fixedwing aircraft with the border in mexico. What we find out is an inspector generals report couple month ago raised serious question about efficiency, the effectiveness of drones on the southern border. We already have problems. If the wind is ab