[applause] this of this going to make it easier for these wide man gaps semiconductors to go from the drawing board, the factory floor, the store shelves without necessarily the stores shelves. What i just saw, for example, or these really big piece of equipment, test Utility Companies or windmills translate the power that they are generating demand actually committed transmitted to where theyre going to be finally used it will bring together shift designers, manufacturers with Companies Like exxon and delphi the stand to benefit from these technologies. And this will help the companies but it will also help Small Companies because they will be able to use equipment that otherwise would not be able to afford and test a prototype new products and, of course, American Workers will be able to come right here to North Carolina to learn the skills that companies a looking for. In the next generation a manufacturing will be an american revolution. So in the coming weeks to be launching to mo
Who have ties to al qaeda, or are affiliated in some way, i think some of those players were involved in what happened in benghazi. It may depend onit may depend oe ties are. I would tend to agree with senator feinsteins reaction. I think it oversimplifies matters to say we had no involvement and it oversimplifies things to suggest the core al qaeda planned this because i dont think that is the case. Host does it matter . Guest it does matter in the sense that we want to know exactly who was responsible and we want to know whether there was any al qaeda instruction so from that point of view it does matter. From the point of view of if they are not affiliated with al qaeda do we not need to worry about them so much . I dont think thats the case. One of the things we we are all in agreement on is the role of onstar alsharia Organization Part of which we were counting on for some security. Its almost worse if people that we were counting on to help us turn around and attacked us. From th
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