And killed four people in alabama when a tree fell on mobile home and also alabama strong winds ripped through subray vawnt in town of jackson, alabama zoo keepers scambleing to move animals to gulf shore states to safer ground and to clear debris and several possible tornadoes were reported in mississippi, georgia and louisiana. And a man killed in florida found nearby submerged car flooding remains a big issue. Warnings are posted through this evening. Back home developing over nights in the disinstruct a person in Police Custody after crashing into several vehicles including two police cars happened in northeast d. C. 1 00 this morning in 1700 block north street and the scene is clear now and roads on and but it is believed that Prince George Country Police cruiser was in the area and investigating Something Else when the suspect thought they were after him. Police say that suspect then drove to a d. C. Police car and drove to Prince George country cruise foot. Police later caught t
My time is expired but i appreciate your efforts in that regard and i would like to stay current on them. We will keep you updated. To you and all those under your command thank you for what you do in protecting our nation. I cannot thank you and those who serve in afghanistan enough. You mentioned in your testimony you see a change in russian behavior for the worse. Is that correct . Yes. What do you think their goals are in afghanistan . Their goal is to undermine the United States and nato and afghanistan. I agree with you. What about iran . Iran also but it is more complex. There are mutual interests iran and afghanistan share, water rights, commerce, we welcome the economic treaty between iran, afghanistan and india, we think this offers afghanistan economic alternative to going through pakistan. They have backyard issues but they also have strategic goal of stocking democracy. I do think their actions are undermining the Afghan Government similar to what the russians are doing. I
He is a vietnam veteran and a life long aficionado of books, maps, chicago sports, and music. This afternoon, he will be speaking on his latest book, the tragedy of u. S. Foreignpolicy, how americas civil religion betrayed the national interest. [applause] thank you very much. It was a wonderfully brief introduction, except you left out my doctoral dissertation. [laughter] mr. Mcdougall i thank you all. The turnout is fantastic. I will try not to let you down. , this is a homecoming, or would be, if the Woodrow Wilson center had not changed so dramatically over the years. I was a wilson fellow in the early 1980s and rose most of my pulitzer prizewinning at the wilson center. Was in those days, it the Smithsonian Castle building, presided over by jim billington, his assistant, and sam wells. Is sam wells still affiliated . Yes, he is. Mr. Mcdougall god bless him. Back in those days in the Smithsonian Castle, there was virtually no security in the building. Those were the days, right . T
The founders. Professor thomas with his National University . It is an idea of the number of leading founders of franklin in jefferson and the idea was the new Constitutional Order of which we take for granted in our day was in the process to be built and they turn to education as the central way to foster the political culture and education is necessary. What would that look like . Like . What is unique at the time is if we go back to centuries what does that look like in the day . That is not what they look like by and large parochial sectarian institutions with the basis of the curriculum to have a mismatch between the educational institutions and prior to the Constitutional Convention said that they are remnants of a theocratic political order and it was one idea that was floated to alter education. Host dell we have several National Universities . We do. Is a large form i started to count the number of times that people said dont we already have a National University . And then th
In women and girls. Seizing these opportunities will help prevent crisis in the future but we must still respond to the crisises of today. We cannot turn away from the more than 60 Million People who have been forced to flee their homes, the highest number since world war ii. Many are fleeing the very same terrorists that we are fighting. Now is the time to do more by welcoming more refugees to america. Without discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity. And providing more support to refugee hosting countries. And we cannot defeat violent extremism when millions of people see a future of continued injustice and lack of opportunity. Development programs can help address underlying issues that make communities more vulnerable to violent extremism, getting directly to the causes of this problem not only addressing the symptoms. And we cannot ignore how so many challenges are exacerbated by the plague of corruption. Its not just the panama papers. The scale of corruption as much