Education and Community Outreach programs. I cannot wait to get back and tell everyone about this most special one in this season of open and promise, reflection and celebration it is my honor to present to you the president of the United States. Barack obama. [ cheers and applause ]. Merry christmas, everybody [ cheers and applause ] thank you, betty, far introduction, for your Extraordinary Service as one of our park rangers and for all of your and your great grandmothers contributions to this country. Please give betty a big round of applause. [ cheers and applause ] i want tips from betty on how i can look that good at 94. I also want to thank bettys boss Jonathan Jarvis and for everybody from the National Park service and the National Park foundation for everything that they do to protect and care for americas great outdoors. And for helping us find our park this year and every year and thank you, reese witherspoon. [ cheers and applause ] and each of tonights outstanding performe
You can hear more about the economy from Federal Reserve chair janet yellen in testimonye week on tol hill this cspan. Org. And now joining us on the washington journal is a guest weve had on relatively frequently. This is Linda Robinson on the wy rand corporation. Shes also an author. I linda sirobinson, where were yo last . I think were going to this about isil today, so i have been out in the region this year. Ive been to iraq, jordan, and d kuwait. In iraq, ith visited all the various units that were doing k. The advisory and training work y out ou wthere. Now are you working with the pentagon in your current role . So rand is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. It works for bulk anyone, but d say probably the bulk of its work is for the u. S. Governmente and of that the biggest part is u get dod research. So when youre out in the field, do you get a sense of whos fighting who . Whos winning . Its so complex, so i think thats very important to establish. It is in my view