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
Fatal floods are causing evacuations size rain is coming down out west. We will hear from the governors of both states in about an hour. On this friday the 13th, this is the daily rundown. Back to my first reads of the morning. Five years ago sunday, Lehman Brothers sent shock waves to the economy and setting off the chain of events that sent the nation into the Great Depression and caused a global collapse. Whats been called the worst financial crisis in modern times certainly the largest financial disaster in decades in this country. The 6th biggest point drop in history. This is one of the ugh lowest days i have seen in my career. With 613 billion in debt on the books, lehman is by far the largest bankruptcy ever in the country. For eight years, we had policies that shredded consumer protections. They loosened oversight and regulation. Our economy i think still the fundamentals are strong, but these are very, very difficult times. The federal government rescues insurance giant aig t
Gardaí are asking for the public’s assistance in relation to the death of Oran Gethins (23) who was killed in a road traffic accident on Saturday April 22 on the outskirts of Sligo town.
Tributes have been paid to Dromahair’s Oran Gethins after the former All-Ireland boxing champion passed away tragically in a road traffic accident in Slig.