Coming home four times and i think that story was not lost in the film and thats not the story that is selling ticket, right but what we were able to do, what jason was able to do is weave those two together and really spark a dialogue that has caught fire in this country about what it means to go to war but what it means to come home. I thought it raised for the American Public what military veterans go through. The obvious injuries and wounds are seen by everything but it is those conspicuous wounds that often e the ones we deal with in the va and i thought it was great to be able to raise that to the American Public. Rose nick burns and the film american sniper when we return. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. Additional funding provided by. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we begin with president obama and
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The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 24 the nays are are 242 the nays are 184, with one voting present. The bill is passed. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The house will be in order. All members please take your conversations off the floor. The house will be in order. Please clear the well of the house. The house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition . Madam speaker i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentleman is recognized. Thank you. If i could have everyones attention please. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman will suspend. Please take your conversations off the floor of the house. The gentleman from washington is recognized. Thank you, madam speaker. I just wanted everybody to hear this because this is a very important week. This is National Police week. Mr. Re
But nevertheless theres huge opportunities there. I will be another example where engagement by the United States and the region has been a spectacular success. And that is colombia, i dont know what they call in english actually, company plan i guess. [laughter] i think thats a. [laughter] sometimes my mind switches and i apologize. This was the plan to deal with the dramatic social turmoil in columbia with the drug cartel and the violence was significant and the Previous Administration they made a significant effort to provide Technical Support military support economic support, the president made a real commitment to open up the economy to allow people to liberate the economy so that it would be more Economic Opportunity. And it was a huge victory. We should apply that same type of approach right now. The president has not proposed a. I havent seen the details of it, for the northern tribal states and Central America which have a very similar situation perhaps even more grave. And t
Learned a really ugly lesson in over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Cooper. Hes not here. Ms. Graham. First, thank you very much for being here this morning. Detached a bit on other terrorist groups in the region. Could you please provide an update on hezbollah . Thank you. You guys can talk. I mean hezbollah is an iranian backed group. They are, i believe were still designating them as a terrorist organization, our state department. Hezbollah is deeply involved in syria. They are fighting in syria members of hezbollah are fighting and they are actually leading and doing some of these sort of what i would call sort of special operations Type Training of some of the syrian forces. Hezbollah is involved in yemen. Hezbollah certainly involved in lebanon and some of the disruption of things in that particular country. And hezbollah is involved in iraq as well. So members of hezbollah are in fact inside iraq fighting with what