Journal cspan. Org. Front page of the Los Angeles Times this morning, obama weighs direct action on iraq militants is the headline. Heres the president from yesterday. But what weve seen over the last couple of days indicates the degree to which iraq is going to need more help is going to need more help from us and going to need more help from the international community. My team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. I dont rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either iraq or syria for that matter. Host and the New York Times says u. S. Scramble to help iraq fight off militants. You can see this picture on the front page here, some shiite muslim iraqis volunteering for military service. , obama weighs air strikes. The white house confronted by an unexpected crisis on a battlefield it thought it had left behind, scrambled thursday to reassure ira
Hillary speechwriter. I will be live on cspan two at 6 00 p. M. That will reair all weekend. Be with usrra will sunday, thanks for being with us, enjoy your day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] good morning, everyone, welcome to csis. To beat pleasure introducing our speaker today and our discussant along with them. First is the honorable Gil Kerlikowske who is here as the commissioner of u. S. Customs and Border Protection, sworn in in march. Historyn extensive within the Law Enforcement community. Now he runs the largest Law Enforcement, federal Law Enforcement agency in the country. We are very much looking forward to his remarks this morning. Customs and Border Protection has been very much in the news havey and he is going to some good questions put forth to him by eric discussant, adam at theho is a manager Chertoff Group an
United states. The secretary vowed to act on any allegations proven by the Inspector Generals report. Its the very first time the secretary has spoken in public after calls for his resignation amid the va scandal in phoenix. Joining me now, capitol hill correspondent Kelly Odonnell live in phoenix. Thanks for joining me. I want to start off with the announcement we got from the white house last night. President obama announcing that deputy chief of staff rob neighbors is going to launch a review of the va. Given that theres already an ig investigation going on. Whats the goal here . I think really the secretary of Veterans Affairs needed some white house backup and support because of the scope. This is the Largest Health Care Organization in the country. The allegations have spread not only from phoenix and the hospital behind me but to a number of centers around the country where allegations have come up of this issue of manipulating the data related to patient appointments to make it
Hello, l. A. Its where richest leftist meet to discuss the toxic origins of the country that created their opportunity for wealth. And in just minutes, karl rove goes on the record but right now only right here, on the record, House Budget Committee chair paul ryan unveils his new plan. Mr. Chairman, nice to see you. Good to be back with you you. You have a plan to start a debate about poverty. What is it . First of all, i think hard working taxpayers deserve a a government that responds to them that works for them. And they are not getting it. What were taking a look at is, we spent 800 billion a year on 92 different programs for the federal government to fight poverty yet we have the highest poverty rate in a generation. People are slipping through the cracks. So what we want to do is change this conversation can. Lets talk about reform that actually works. And instead of measuring success by how many new programs are created in washington or how much money we spent on programs, why
Happened here is the u. S. Government is calling chinas bluff according to officials here. What they say is the chinese whenever they have been accused in the past of specific cases of economic espionage say show us the proof. So what the government has done today is they will say here it is. On this date, such and such happened. Its quite a bill of particulars against specific people in china. So the logical question is, would the chinese ever send these people here to face charges, what the government today is shaying with a very straight face is, wells we certainly expect them to. Thats what they said they would do, so now were calling their bluff. Whether that will really happen or not is certainly debatable, but it is an escalation in what the Obama Administration is doing to counter chinese espionage. And what im told is that the investigators got so deeply in to this will cah case that they identified specific key strokes with specific members of the Chinese Military, that at on