And freddie mac is in the conservatorship of veneers september 2008 and paulson describe the conservatorship as a timeout. Today fannie and freddie continued to dominate the market approximately 70 percent of the mortgages are back for the federal government while fannie and freddie with the Housing Market experiences a downturn the status quo is not a viable option. The Housing Finance system with two Government Enterprises in conservatorship as not a sustainable solution. Taxpayers today have to much risk with to a bigger role in the Mortgage Market. Those that have released proposals including the i see the day in several coauthors and many others. About what the future system should look like. In the meantime continuing to serve as a conspirator in regulator and as the Federal Home Loan Bank fhfa has undertaken a number of initiatives including those that began prior to the directors 10 year. One significant undertaking is the securitization platform that was originally intended to
[inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and once again we are live at the Atlantic Council here in washington d. C. Moroccos Foreign Affairs or is the guest speaker this morning talking about strategies to combat violent extremism. There will also be a Panel Discussion all in his remarks. While we have a moment quickly some of our programming coming up later on the cspan network. He says social networking creates false communities. You can see his comments at 7 00. My name is peter pham director here at the Atlantic Council. On behalf of the Atlantic Council chairman aeschylus mcauley, ambassador frank richer donate, director of the Atlantic Council Rafik Hariri Center for middle east, it is my honor to invite you. I essentially want to acknowledge the presence of the ambassador his majesty, king of morocco to the United States, a good friend and like its predecessor member of the Atlantic Council. I also want to welcome all of the distinguished g
40,000 feet it looks clear if youre in the weeds its a little murkier. You mentioned the family jewels. Imagine the irancontra situation. You look at the cold war the human debris is massive. Where does he stand on these issues are how to see reflect . Is this just Collateral Damage because this is about right and wrong . Does he have thoughts about these things . If so what is his take . In that sense he is kind of a political strategist. If need be he was prepared to be ruthless. He signs off. You know he supports vietnam. A lot of things. So it is kind of the priority of the us soviet rivalry but there is also awareness of kind of the limits of american power. He is very cautious and you have to be very careful about where the United States intervenes and when it ask. He is inclined to be a little more he would act on occasion or did agree with certain acts, obviously the iraqi example. But he is kind of modest. Modest. That is where he differs from the neo conservatives are some of
We are safer today than when barack Obama Took Office . No. Unfortunately, i dont either. Sadly, the obvious answer is no. In fact, the lack of American Leadership under this president has made the world more dangerous. And you just have to take look around the world. In the middle east, isis has seized territory in iraq and syria. To establish an islamic cal fate. Nothing is too brutal or barbaric for this terrorist group. Weve seen how they have tormented, tortured, raped, killed, christians for what they believe in. Were also seeing the resurgence offal quooid and affiliated groups in yemen libya and other areas around the world. You might recall that last fall, just this past fall, the president cited yemen as an example of success in terms of the administrations counterterrorism strategy. Can you imagine . Yemen a success model. Id hate to see what failure looks like. I introduced an amendment in the Defense Authorization to make sure we would not transfer any of the dangerous ter
An initiative with the concern to bring together all those pieces come to free the global image of the puzzle. This was done under the leadership of his majesty, who happens to be the commander of the faithful. By the way, that is not only include moslems because morocco has jewish citizens. We are having a christian presence and dealing with this in an open way. We are trying to be as inclusive as we can, because the wisdom of rigidity is not the specificity of one religion. This approach of recognition is crucial to respect. The commander of the faithful ensures the coherence between all those links of the chain the pieces of the puzzle. So we have choices. Those choices are three choices, major ones. The choice of the ritual, the junction between text and context. The junction between text and reason. Spirituality, was makes which makes it junction between texas spirituality. Those choices were successful at the time. They influenced the reason in africa and the middle east regions.