Our friends at cspan, are we ready . We dont want to oh, heres the mayor. I said shes going to be tied up for just a minute. She was tied up for just a second. Madame mayor, thank you so much. Good to see you. Why dont you have she is our point person on Citizens United, and i have represented the highest bill for very long period of time, all my period time in the congress of the United States, and hyattsville is a happening place. Hyattsville is, i like to say, is the georgetown of Prince Georges County. Its got all sorts of very diverse, very excited, very interesting things happening here, and mayor hollingsworth of course, is a part of that happening. So madam mayor, were very glad to be in your city. We are happy to have you here, for a very important conversation. We appreciate your engagement on, i know i appreciate your engagement on this issue and the citizens in the city of hyattsville definitely have high interest in this as well. Good. We are about to celebrate or to lamen
Executive. At nbc she covered political coverage and long time producer of meet the press with tim russert. And the manager of nbc political news programming and currently shes executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in the school of Public Affairs and she also has provided on air analysis to several Television Networks including cbs news, msnbc, nbc news and cnn and included in washingtons 50 best and most influential journalists and gqs powerful people in washington. [applause]. Thank you all, its so nice to be here in jackson, mississippi, not too far from my hometown in new orleans. I see an lsu shirt here. Go tigers. Go tigers. laughter and i feel like since were at the Supreme Court, i feel like these guys are under oath how, be ready for an interesting discussion with our great i have no recollection of that. [laughter] were here to talk about inside washington, the view from washington were obviously approaching a big po
Business z to thrive need the ability to mauve capital to move capital and talent freely without hassle and across borders. As we see the increase in the nationalism around many fronts in the world, we see that at odds in the multinational businesses that become less capable of dealing with localized politics. This is creating conflicts certainly, between the business. Within the businesses. We are seeing as well a significant increase in the amount of the Gross Domestic Product globally that is produced in medium to high Political Risk environments around the world. So thats increased over the last decade of 15 of global gdp coming from medium to high Political Risk environments to 39 in the last year. And that means were trading a lot more with higher Political Risk environments around the world. The economic output of the world is going towards those environments. And if we look at the last year, we see the Political Risks increasing in a variety of ways. We see it in a series of co
Going in a helicopter over this with the epa administrator right after it happened. Stunning. Now. The company has come in and, you know cleaned up most of what was there. We still cant fish. People along the river cant use their property their back yards. This is going to take tens of years to clean up. You can go to the other side of the state where we have in detroit mounds of whats called Petroleum Coke from tar sands that was sitting on the detroit river, now not only blowing into the river, blowing into the school neighborhoods, churches of the southwest side of detroit. Now, thanks to my colleague senator peters whos now with us and i was proud to join with him, that pet cokes not sitting there anymore, but it was pet coke from tar sands that blew into huge airreas of detroit. And now we have madam chair, a real concern in the straits of mackinaw going across our beautiful state from the upper to lower peninsula where we have a very old pipeline. And, again concerns about the fa
Ideas that light the world. Viva la france. President obama visits tennessee to preview parts of his upcoming state of the Union Address and talk about jobs and the economy. Well have live coverage beginning at 1 20 eastern. Watch our live coverage of this years state of the union on tuesday, january 20th. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to the pentagon. The topic today is european infrastructure consolidation and the action taken that derive from that. Our briefers today, we have the assistant secretary of defense, for International Security affairs, mr. Derek chollet. On his left is mr. John conger performing the duties of the assistant secretary of defense for Energy Installations and environments. Theyll make opening statements. Well have time for questions afterwards. And let me know if theres questions beyond that if we run out of time. Mr. Chollet, if youd like to begin. Good morning. This on . Yes. Okay. Good morning. European and trans Atlantic Security is more imp