Matthew lee joins us to discuss the palestine conflict. Well talk with ed bingle a former customs and Border Protection official but minors crossing the border. Piece piece. Every morning on cspan at 7 00 eastern. President obama on monday awarded the medal of honor to formal active duty Sergeant Ryan pits. He held off the taliban during an attack on his unit. He the ninth recipient to be award awarded for the war in iraq or afghanistan. He is of the chosen few to receive this honor today as the nation pauses to recognize him. Our hearts are touched by staff Sergeant Ryan pits. He humbly insisted that his remarkable actions were simply was his duty it will always be on his loyalty to his unit. We acknowledge that devotion came from a faithful family who prayed for and supported him. We join our hearts together as we honor him today. We honor the courage and commitment of all who serve in harms way. This we pray in your holy same, amen. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the white hou
The house and Senate Taking up a hearing on u. S. Policy in iraq. Iraq continues to be a big concern in addition to the other conflicts. I know there were some concerns over the webbing end with jordan and iraq situation with them. Beyond hearings and there are not that i have my list in front of me. Beyond hearings i think again the probably one of the markka one twz of the webbing. We will have to keep watching for reactions in russia and ukraine and the middle east. At some point i think we will see calls for the u. S. To help ukraine ukraine. As i scan this hearing list, there is at least in the senate it specks to a lack of accountability. Accountability. They are also looking at Flood Insurance issues but appropriations was supposed to be big success of the month. That there was going to be big deals done before the recess happens. We may get some sense this week whether it will move at all. I just want to get your reaction to your colleague who was a story this morning leadershi
Thank you. You have no idea what just happened. Excellent address, and raised lot of good points and sets up an interesting and complex landscape, and i want to go through a lot of them including the state of affairs and debate in britain right now about defense and the military. Relationship to the u. S. , nato, but where to start . I think defense one, we discuss the future of military power. And what comes next, where were going. And part of that big question right now is the use of power, the limits of it, and the purposes of our militaries. Thats a debate going on in this country. I know in the United Kingdom, there is a new kind of recommitment to a future with a major funding announcement, as you said. Explain to us and the viewers a little bit about the background there of the debate in britain of how much to spend, what kind of military to have, and how it should be used. I think in the u. K. , we are very conscious about nato is a very precious alliance, but it is not reasona
Youve got Defense Industries of your own, its got to be possible for those industries to be credible and to be able to sell elsewhere in the alienls. We need to have something more than a kind of twoway street, if you like, so were not all buying off the shelf from one or two suppliers and that everybody feels that there is something for the tax dollars, the tax euros, the tax pounds that we spend on defense, which also strengthens your own defense and industrial capabilities. Thats important if youre going to keep Public Opinion firmly on board and believe its a good use of public money. I like that. Move on next. Question here. Harry blaney from the center for National Policy and a former diplomat, served in nato. The question im asking is kind of a more difficult element focusing more on both nato and the ukraine and sanctions. Today, Prime Minister cameron in the house of commons discussed basically three Different Levels of possible sanctions. On the socalled third level, which is
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