Were you just go, holy. [laughter] as the rest of the world gets weak and more insular we have to be more engaged because these things will occur. Great question. Is is and it is going to have to be the last one. Governor, we in chicago and the council hugely appreciate your time and the opportunity to take your principles from your remarks and to have a conversation with all of us around those principles. And we are truly pleased and privileged to have the first opportunity to do so. Thank you. [applause] a reminder. If you missed the speech you can see it again later in our Program Schedule and it cspan. Org. Looking ahead to 2016, the hill writes that bush is quoting public and lawmakers republican lawmakers. He has rounded up the firm backing of five members of the florida gop congressional marco rubio is also mulling a president ial run. He only has one clear backer. And 35 minutes, we will take you live to the white house. The summit has been going on all day long. We will pick u
Just one more word on the subject. You know, im sure, you know, as a fellow political scientist, you agree with the generalizations are true until they are not, and so one of the interesting things about the reagan tax reform, of course, is that it was not the first two yearings of the first term. It was the first two years the second term, making it all the more imprezzive, and i think this is one of many respects in which our current circumstances are really driving a sense of whats possible. I mean, based on the past two administrations, one is led to the first two year conclusion, but, of course, bill clinton achieved what is arguably the biggest domestic success in the second term. So i would not i think it would be really unfortunate if we came to the conclusion, you know, that sort of like waste dna, the last six years of a president s term are wasted time; right . I hope we can govern ourselves in a higher proportion than that. You know, i agree. So large change, i think, well,
Has the white house engaged with your Advisory Panel and do you think, i shouldnt say that does it understand the major problems that exist in the Nuclear Security enterprise . And do you think the president understands it, the gravity of it . Gravity of it. That is difficult question, mr. Franks for us to answer. It is. Clearly the nation, not just this administration but over a period of years we gradually let our nuclear capability, degrade. The, i would come back to your initial remarks deterrence is in the eye of the beholder as you know. I do. When other nations come to the conclusion that our deterrent is not what we say it is then were in great danger and one of the worst things we could do of course is state we have plans that we dont provide the resources, the management capability to carry them out. If that, if we cant afford more, we need to change the plan but to have plans that dont much the resours is probably the worst of all worlds. Once again as we, weve visited in gr
Predicted it would not have been this strong. I hoped and thought we would have been in a better place in terms of having weakened the taliban. The good news is they are still fighting. They have taken those casualties and held together. They have continued to be able to recruit and take the fight to the enemy. Last point, they have been able to continue to recruit. You had not imagined five years ago that the taliban would be strong, none of us could imagine could be this strong and able to conduct core level operations. This is a reason that the Afghan People are so proud of the army. , you know all the candidates. I was honored to meet with several of them with you a couple weeks ago. Could you please help us understand the choice that is now before the afghan better on voter on the afghan saturday. And what the choice might signify in terms of who the afghans would like to see replace president karzai after his 12 years in leadership. Thank you. That is quite a big task. I suppose
Underscores why there shouldnt be any material concern about the comcasttime warner transaction because there is nothing but more different and more interesting competition that is coming in this space down the road david cohen, executive Vice President of comcast. The committee will hold a hearing on the comcasttime warner merger and the affect on consumers. A panel of academics and journalist look at the role of u. S. Tax policy and debate ways to improve the current system. The urban institute hosted this. It is about an hour and hamp. Half welcome to the urbanbrookings tax policy. We are going to be talking about tax reform which is the holy grail of tax policy. It is sought after. There are rumored sighting all of the time. There have been recent tigsights like tom camp and ron whiten promises after extending the 5,000 stupid tax extenders for the last time there will be tax reform and it will never happen again. President obama called a tax reform commission, president bush calle