A continuing series of roundtable discussions on the issue hosted by the democratic lawmaker. Cspan3 has live coverage at 2 30 eastern, you can comment on facebook and twitter. Now you can keep in touch with Current Events from the Nations Capital using any phone, anytime. Call 202, six to six, 8888 twoyear congressional coverage, Public Affairs forms, and todays washington journal. You can also hear audio of the publictwork sunday Affairs Programs beginning sunday at noon eastern. 2026268888. Long distance charges may apply. Maryland governor martin omalley, considering a president ial run in 2016, he was the keynote speaker at this Iowa Democratic convention in des moines. The state holds the first president ial caucuses. His comments were about half an hour. Please join me in welcoming the governor of the great state of maryland, martin omalley. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you, iowa. Thank you very, very much. I want to begin by thanking you for your indulgence and watchi
We havee do you think made the farthest inroads to protect ourselves, and which of the three do we need to work on . That is a good question. It resembles a question i get a lot as secretary of Homeland Security. What threat, what vulnerability do you worry about most . Where have we made the most progress . Difficult to rank them. As secretary of homeland forrity, i am responsible counterterrorism, and your question has elements of counterterrorism. Im responsible for aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, protection of our critical infrastructure, protection of our national leaders, response to hurricanes, tornadoes, natural disasters, and Cyber Security, which is what we are here to talk about. Correct thatutely the cyber threat has those different components, different characters, motivated by different designs, and routinely, we assess threats in the nature of all three. I would have to say that we need to be vigilant in both the. Gov world with and.
She and the attorney hired by gm to conduct an internal investigation testified before the House Oversight and investigations subcommittee. We will show you the hearing tomorrow at 10 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan. President obama recently awarded the medal of honor to marine Corporal William Kyle Carpenter. He was severely injured while manning a rooftop posts. He covered a grenade with his body to save the life of a fellow marine. After the ceremony, he spoke briefly to reporters. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Michelle obama, accompanied by medal of honor recipient Corporal William Kyle Carpenter. If you would, please pray with me. Oh mighty god, we pause at this historic event to ask for your presence at this place. Allow your spirit to move among all of us gathered here, as we give honor to one who demonstrated the virtues on which this nation was founded. We would be reminded again of your grace that has allowed this country its freedoms that so man
Trying to get that resolved. That is a major contributing your to the deteriorating situation. There will still be military personnel in harms way. How did the democrats sell that to the American People that we are sending American People back to iraq, a war we said were going to get out of . We have troops are protecting and the american embassy, and so the additional troops to enhance the protection was important. It is a measured response, we have to make sure that we are protecting our National Security interest. We do not want the situation to deteriorate even further because that would compromise our interest even more. Democrats and the american all understand that there is a certain amount that we have to make sure that we do particularly because we unfortunately in the Previous Administration got fully engaged in iraq and went to war in a country under false pretenses. We have, i think of a certain responsibility to address the situation there, particularly as the situation ge