Its a magnificent experience. You have to see the country, but the people we get to see day in and out are wonderful people and we learn about their stories and it was very touching, so if you get a chance to run for president , do it, its a great thing. The third time is the charm. [cheers and applause] i made a couple of good decisions in my life, one is who i married and who was my running mate. Thank you. [applause] if youre going to take a shot at me, you wouldnt be a bad president yourself. So we have an interesting yeah. [applause] but we have some questions about a book that you have written this year, paul. And i would note that i read it and i hope some of you have as well, so your questions can reflect that, so i know paul pretty well. He actually wrote it. But paul wrote this book, i can tell because its his voice, it is written like he speaks and that makes it even more touching and personal, but i want to begin by just asking paul the american idea, the subtitle or main t
Due to changes and sentencing guidelines, up to 46,000 of them could be released under this initiative. Supporters say this will help with overcrowding of prisons. For the next 45 minutes, we want to get your thoughts under his program and the larger issues of sentencing guidelines and drug offenses. Heres how you can call us you can post on our Facebook Page or send us email as well. This program that was announced previously in the last couple of weeks. Here are the highlights of it. It would affect nichedly 6,000 nonviolent inmates to be released between october 30 to november 2. An initial 8500 would be eligible starting this november into next november. Overall in the next five years under this program, 40,000 plus prisoners could be eligible for Early Release. There are certain guidelines that have been attached from the justice department. Sarah horowitz picked this story up saying the commissions action, the sentencing commissions action for these 6,000 is separate from an effo
Most important, i want to recognize my wife, jana, and our children, liza, charlie, and sam. I also want to thank Speaker Boehner for almost five years he led this house, for nearly 25 years he served it. Not many people can match his accomplishments. The offices he held, the laws he passed, but what really sets john apart is hes a man of character, a true class act. He is without a question the gentleman from ohio. So please join me in saying one last time, thank you Speaker Boehner. Now i know how he felt. Its not until you hold this gavel, stand in this spot, look out and see all 435 members of this house as if all americas sitting right in front of you. Its not till then that you feel it. The weight of responsibility. The grambity of the moment. You graphity of the moment. As i stand here i cant help but think of something harry truman once said. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. When
Cspan welcomes to newsmakers this week, congressman kevin brady. Hes a chairman of the key subcommittee and the vice chair of the joint economic committee, and with the new speaker elections this thursday, the day we are taping, he has announced his interest in succeeding paul ryan as the head of the ways and Means Committee. Thank you for being with us. Let me start with the new speaker of the house who that heaul ryan wanted a fresh start to the house of representatives. How long do you think his honeymoon is likely to be . Rep. Brady it may be longer than people believe. Once in ais a generation leader. He will bring new ideas and new energy to the caucus. It is a fresh start. You have someone who has led to committees who understand you can let legislators be legislators and empower people to bring their ideas forward. Some of them may be partisan and some of the maybe bipartisan, but he will put in place a can move our we legislation and that is something that is very exciting. Su
We are not making any assumptions about irans future policies because we base our process approach on observable facts. What we we see is that iran continues to engage in play and the secretary and division in the region and it continues to detain several american citizens, and our estimation without justification, and to ransom policies are one reason why we are working so closely and supportively with our partners in the region, including the gulf states and israel. In fact, we have established an unprecedented level of cooperation with israel on military issues, we are correlating in forcing sanctions and in trying to stop the Tears Organization such as has months and has below from getting financing and weapons that they seek. We also support israels right to defend itself and its citizens, we do that in many ways. We also support all of the gcc countries in the work we did in camp david and we will continue to do, and i even reaffirmed when i was out in the region a couple of days