Your thoughts on the president s Foreign Policy. What is your confidence level . Democrats 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001, an independents, 202 7488002. Join the conversation on twitter cspanwj, or go to facebook. Com cspan. The phone lines are open. We will get your thoughts in a minute, but many foreignpolicy headlines in the papers with running from iran to iraq, afghanistan. We begin with the fight against isis and iraq. Here is the headline in the Washington Times this morning. Take a look at what defense secretary Ashton Carter had to say up on capitol hill when he testified before the senate. [video clip] sec. Carter we have an obligation to support those fighters, and we will have to decide under what conditions in what way we will make that tactical decision when we introduce them, but i think the main thing is that we increase that number from what is now a very small number, and im not surprised that it is running on television, into a much larger number. I think we ca
And let me tell you what dishonors our soldiers. Let me tell you what is a dishonor to their memory and their service. It is to fly that flag i want everybody to remember this, im talking to all of my colleagues who think we must keep it up there because of heritage. Oh how i wish how i wish robert e. Lee general lees portrait is in the senate, i wish he was here right now at this podium he would tell you all, it is an abomination for his flag to fly as a matter of fact his very flag was furled it was furled when they surrendered at appomattox and it has never been unfurled and to do so dishonors those who fought and died and it violates the terms of surrender. General lee, when it came time, and the cause was lost, he called everybody to come back work, be good citizens and build a country together. Many times he was called to start start a gorilla war. The flag is furled. Maintain your soldierly honor, go back and serve your country. Never, never, never let the flags fly again. And y
Privilege of welcoming a friend of mind peter who has done Ground Breaking work in fighting challenge in the u. K. He has been directing for how long peter . Seven years. Seven years. Hes been one of the goto guys on all Things National security, terrorism, he has done phenomenal research. Last but not least delighted to welcome fernando who is from spain, hes done tons of policy related in terms not only foreign fighter phenomena in spain but also more generally speaking counterterrorism. Bottom line youre not going to get better scholar pra thank you very much, frank. Its a pleasure. Thank you. This is a wonderful turnout. We have reluctant to have an event on a friday morning. Almost august. Peter was more optimistic about the turnout. The star power from fernando helped us to have a wonderful turnout. Thank you very much for coming. The first that the program has had the pleasure to direct here and the center of Homeland Security here. On such an important topic wonderful colleague
European foreign fighters, than number of American Foreign fighters. The size of problem is completely different. European setting france, estimated 1200 individuals. Germany, the u. K. , in the six, 700s. Even smaller countries like belgium with staggering 400 individuals. Eastern European Countries, kosovo, very tiny country, 3, 400 individuals. These are completely different numbers from the u. S. Where the latest numbers given by the government, the fbi, talking about 200 individuals traveled or attempted to travel to syria. So, were talking about a much, much smaller number. A lot of people have actually been intercepted. People that went and fought there, that 200 number should be further reduced. I think numbers are deceiving from another perspective, here in the u. S. , there are legal tools, more general a certain attitude from Law Enforcement which is significantly moring a agressive than in most European Countries. A lot of very effective tactics that the fbi use, sting oper
The political stories that made the headlines this week in politics europe. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The former Prime Minister, sirjohn major, has weighed into the debate over theresa mays future, calling those conservatives whore seeking to undermine the Prime Minister self absorbed and disloyal. Mrs may has admitted her difficult speech at the Party Conference last week had been uncomfortable for her but says shes resilient and determined to carry on in the job. Heres our political correspondent, susana mendonca. And there is some flash photography in her report. If i win, i shall continue as Prime Minister. Fending off the plotters was a full time job for sirjohn major. When he was Prime Minister, he faced a leadership election and won. More than two decades on, hes now coming to the defence of theresa may against those plotting to take her down. Writing in a sunday newspaper, sirjohn said, the country has had enough of the self absorbed and frankly disloyal behaviour