Thank you, mike. This has been a terrific session. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] that is live at noon eastern here on cspan. Institute hosted this discussion on how religion factors into u. S. Diplomatic efforts with islamic nations. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. I would like to welcome you to the middle east Institute Panel on preventing violence in the name of god. Religion and diplomacy in the middle east. I would like to issue a special welcome to our cspan viewers this morning. Series one second diplomacy and religion. The first, we held a month ago featuring the cardinal and ayatollah taking up topics from a religious point of view. Today, we take it up from a diplomatic perspective. Things have changed regarding religion and statecraft in u. S. Diplomacy, particularly in the department of state. Madeline albright records in her memoirs the mighty and the almighty, many pract
Led to the deaths of Christopher Steven and shaun smith and the remaining personnel escaped a ietzsche facility known as the annex. The it culminated in an attack that killed tyrone davis and glenn dougherty. What i read is the now official position of the u. S. Government filed in u. S. District court by the department of justice and a motion to detain the one defendant who has been captured and will stand trial. 20 or more men, the weapons of war arsons and sustained attacks, precision mortars terrorist groups. It is interesting note the word terrorist so rarely used after benghazi by people in position of powers used in the very word charging the very defendant accused of killing our four fellow americans. Conspiracy to provide material to terrorist resulting in death. Thats the charge. Thats the official charge, the official position of the United States government. But in the days after the attack in benghazi, the word terrorist was edited out and changed. Now the administration u
Screeria nigeria. Hearing. Manhattan institute hosted a discussion about education and the future of the africanamerican community. Today the Brookings Institution hosted a discussion about driverless vehicles. Engineers, legal analysts and state Department Officials participated. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. The u. S. Department of state and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the discussion on bringing Driverless Cars from markets and introduce you to the the Deputy Assistant secretary of state for science, space and health, doctor Jonathan Margolis. As a member of the service, dr. Margolis oversees policy programs in the areas of International Science technology, International Health and body of defense and space and advanced technology and also conducted courses at the university of maryland, American University and the Foreign Service institute on these dr. Margolis began his career as antiamerican association of incident of science policy fellow and
Also district maps a foldout map of capitol hill, and a look at congressional committees, the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. Order your copy today, its 13. 95, plus shipping and handling through the cspan online store at cspan. Org. Tonight on the communicators, at this years Consumer Electronics show we met up with you a Thor Peter Nowak who says were in a new phase of Human Development and through robots and other technology were likely to enhance the human condition. Robots i think is an especially interesting one because 2014 i think was the year of robot angst. I dont know if i could a day went by i didnt see some kind of story about how robots are stealing jobs from humans and were all going to end up out of work. On a daily basis you hear stories about here is a robot thats a better bartender than humidities a better waitress or waiter than humans and so on and so on. The thing that i find the point i think thats missed a lot is that every prior revol
Va must atone for its gross mismanagement. It should find cost savings in this program and other programs in any way it can. Ultimately congress does have an obligation to ensure va has the resources it needs to complete this project and additionally, further delay and funding uncertainty will only lead to higher costs overrides. Gl. There is no easy answer and i believe the that the facilities are necessary and must be completed. Where that money comes from is another question, but i think it was said its about veterans and veterans need to be cared for and Congress Needs to find the money somewhere to continue. Should never happen again. I think va should get out of the business of building hospitals. We would agree in regard to the construction and just more broadly, in and all cost overruns of va provide high risk of no provides the highest quality care to veterans. Whether for construction or anything else. Iva supports the secretarys budget request. We also support his request fo