An investigation when it comes to holding a retaliater against a whistleblower accountable. Because guess what the numbers support what im saying. You can give whatever explanation you want. But im telling you right now, the level of disrespect that you are showing to the veterans who by the way if and we know allegations are true in terms of treatment, mistreatment of patients, the lists, the laundry lists of stuff that is going on. Everyone knows that its there. Youre telling me youre spending all this time to try to hold someone accountable. Forget about whats happening about actually fixing the problem where veterans are not getting the services that they need. That is another disturbing thing to me. Thats almost an afterthought to you. So i cant hear an explanation that includes some kind of, with el, and believe me im a lawyer so i get the whole theres an Ongoing Investigation so i cant answer. Its a very convenient way of getting out of answering a question that you dont want to
So far very good results. And an amazing thing. It would be interesting to know why he thinks we can do that. So lets bring joe kiani out. [ applause ] u zk our last panelist is Jeffrey Selberg, who heads the Peterson Center for health care which has just gotten kicked off. And this is really important because Michael Peterson who is here and his dad Pete Peterson are great friends of mine. And they have worked for years to get americans to focus on the longterm consequences of unsustainable debt. And how we can bring debt, especially the debt we run up every year consuming, down so we can invest in our future and secure it. And after years of beating their heads against the wall, they looked at the numbers for the federal budget at least and decided that actually all the real structural problems are in health care. Combined with aging population. And they decided that they would try to be a part of the solution instead just sitting on the sidelines, complaining about it. So they are d
Great. We have an impact announcement and id like to ask you lets give the panelists a hand, and ill have the announcement. Join us tuesday when were live with a hearing on immigration issues with the head of immigration and customs enforcement. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan3. The Senate Committee relations chairments congress to review any Iranian Nuclear deal and introduced a bill to make it reality. Working on it with fellow Committee Members tomorrow live at 2 15 p. M. Eastern. More Foreign Policy on wednesday when the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations samantha power, testifies on the 2016 stateforeign operations budgets wednesday, 2 00 eastern and well have that here on cspan3. This weekend the cspan cities tour partnered with comcast to learn of the history and literary life of st. Augustine, florida. They may or may not have been searching for the fountain of eternal youth. People said he was out for additional
Next, a look at just given by previous president s. Including president clinton. He begins by referencing travels to africa and chile. [applause] president clinton thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Powell. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, i have been traveling to other lands quite a lot lately. I just want to say what a pleasure it is for hillary and me to be in your country. [laughter] since i live tear arrived here i have been struck by the beauty of your landscape. In the spirit of your people. The color of your native garb. The crowd to greet me here are not quite as adoring as in other nations. But they seem occasionally friendly, none the less. I have even sampled some of your indigenous cuisine. Your hamburgers. Quite tasty, sort of a meat sandwich. It appears that democracy is arriving here. There are regular elections contested with vigor. Honored by some. [laughter] [applause] president clinton any legislature in the legislature, persist
Maude barlow is the worlds preeminent water rights activist. If you google the phrase water rights activist she is the only person named in the result. She chairs the board for the member of the council of canadians food and water watch and the world future council. She holds 12 honorary doctorates and has received numerous awards for her work on water rights, most recently, the earth care award. She is highly published and her latest is blue future. Protecting water for people on the planet forever. Please help me welcome her. [applause] maude thank you. Thank you very much. I am absolutely delighted to be here and thank you for your beautiful words. I am quite embarrassed that is true. A shout out to edward, the founder. It is a true pleasure speaking at a university where your stated goals have to do with peace and justice and that is actually upfront who you are. It is not that common so it is really a treat to be here. I will talk to you a little bit about the global water crisis