Our mission to train, advice assist and help build the capacity of iraqi forces. Our Global Coalition is also helping shape the burden of the campaign with nearly all of our Coalition Partners funding their own contributions. With the president s special envoy for our counter isil coalition, john allen, general allen is in the lead as we coordinating the coordination strategy across all lines of effort with our partners. As a coalition and as a nation, we must prepare for a long and difficult struggle. There will be setbacks, but we are seeing steady and sustainable progress. Mr. Chairman, thats an important part of answering the questions we have. The questions we have about our own strategy we ask ourselves, the questions you have about our strategy can we sustain it . Can it be sustained after at some point we leave . That is a critical component of our strategy. Asking that question and answering that question. Were seeing steady and sustainable progress along dods two main lines o
[applause] it is great to be back. I have seen a lot of good friends. Unfortunately, they are not giving me time to grab a beer down at the pumphouse this trip. Although i understand the mayor said he brought a bud light for me. [laughter] the mayor brought a bud light he is trying to sneak it around the secret service. But obviously, it is wonderful coming back to iowa, even during winter. In fact, especially in the cold. These folks in washington cant handle the cold. We know how to handle cold in the midwest. Here in iowa, on a cold january caucus night about 7 years ago we talked about change and said that it was time for us to move this country in a new direction. Obviously a lot has changed. I am much grayer, for example. [laughter] as a country, we fought through the worst financial crisis and recession in our lifetimes. The American People showed a lot of resilience and resolve and there is no doubt about it. Thanks to the steps that we took early to rescue the economy, to rebu
Government sales program. And saturday on cspan3, on lectures in history john turner on the early mormons and their attempts to create a new zion in the american west. Sunday afternoon at 4 00, nine from little rock. About the forced desegregation of the allwhite high school. Find our complete schedule on cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Email us. Send us a tweet at cspan comments. President obama was in here falls, iowa to outline his plan to increase access to affordable broadband service. He chose cedar falls because it is the first city in iowa where fast Gigabit Service is available. It is a preview of what he will announce in his state of the Union Address next tuesday. Hello cedar falls. Thank you. It is good to be back. Give mark a big round of applause for the introduction and the great work he is doing. [applause] i also want to thank mayor john cruz and the whole team here at cedar falls utilities for hosting us here today. A big
Stuart im going to call snapchat a millennial company because it is 20 somethings who created it. They run it. They use it. Its worth 10 billion. Look at this. Coach, ralph lauren, smuckers, best buy, garmin are too worth 10 billion but you heard of all of them. Jolene kent is here to justify 10 billion on snapchat which hasnt yet i believe made a single dime. Justify. Im here to tell why you this may have happened, stuart. Whats interesting is you have cleiner perkins investing up to 20 million back in may. There may be another investor. A lot of serious interest in the potential monetization. Stuart serious interest. Potential monetization. Thats what we need to remember. Snapchat, i send a message to you on snapchat. You receive it and it disappears in 10 seconds. Its really fun. Im not an active snapchater, there are people who are older than millennial generation who are enjoying it. A good way to share. Stuart you think i in my geriatric years are going enjoy it. You have the pot
Conference. We are live in San Francisco. Hi josh. Reporter well, tyler, marissa is about to speak here to the 1,000 developers, critical, of course, she is impresses the audience. We expect her to talk on two broad issues. One, to introduce new services new tools for developers so they can better understand their users, better monetize their apps, and also its expected that shes going to make news about the mobile ad technology. Remember yahoo controls 4 now of the mobile ad market according to emarketing. Compare that to rivals, 35 for google and 17 for yahoo. Look at the stock. Still in the green over the past 12 months but down sharply from that recent high in november. Im going to head inside right now, and listen to mayer and brain you headlines as they cross. Back to you. Thank you, josh. Another huge story today, and that would be . Walmart, they address everything today from the port problems out west to the minimum wage, all on earnings day, a day in which they Beat Estimates