Brookings has a longstanding relationship. We have been changing thoughts and opinions for several years. We have been hosting officers under our federal executive Fellowship Program here. The National Counterterrorism center is a relatively new part of the United States National Security bureaucracy. It is only about 10 years old. It has many responsibilities, but the most important is to prepare the National Terror threat assessment. Ac it decides how serious to both terrorist threat is, how serious the terrorist environment is. When president obama meets with his Homeland Security principles, it is matt who opens the meeting by saying here is the threat and how serious it is. It is a heavy responsibility. Not the secretary of state or the secretary of defense. He does not decide what targets we bomb, whether we cozy up to assad or not. He is extremely wellqualified qualified for the position he is holding. Those in the audience have already seen his bio. He is a graduate of universi
Will be seen because of a strong content for righteousness. Kansas city, missouri. Independent caller. Hi, jordan. Caller yes. I just feel that in the we going about utious this. Excuse of what i thought they were doing but, again, need to stay out of some of these dangerous areas. You this will take us down the drain economically. Shouldntying we confront them, but we should be cautious about it because our nation also do need a lot of and when our own problems in our country are not get solved we read,that point, as secretary of state john kerry and events secretary defense secretary chuck hagel plan to travel to europe and meet with counterparts at the nato summit to push for a broader coalition. Before that, secretary of state john kerry here in washington, d. C. , moments from now people was the ceremony to appoint a special representative to the muslim community. Live coverage here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the nat
No said we would not be able to use the pound. Things are about as far away from each other as possible. For the scottish elect to read, the polls did not shift towards no. Even among those who want independence, 77 would like to keep the pound. Dividesin an issue that the voters. What currency do you think scotland would use if it became independent . Like thehey would pound. Think they would get to use the pound. You think they would like it and cannot get it would more likely to vote no but a are not. Moving on this issue very much. The core reason is they simply do not believe either side. The majority of people think that George Osburn and the no side want the negotiations are her words they also do not believe alex hammond. People are not acting on things that they think are completely uncertain. That is why this has not moved people when the interventions were made. Weapons, the other big issue that would have to be negotiated with the United Kingdom it is the Nuclear Weapons ar
On the Health Committee are from even have laws that are discriminatory on the books. I was doing just a quick search, you see male pronouns en were talking about assailants and females when you see survivors. It needs to be eradicated and the senate is the place to start. You have to start from the top and i appreciate the work youve done on this topic. And its one we have to keep talking about and have to keep legislating. Thank you. I would reiterate that point about language. Something as simple, its called the violence against women act or often violence against women and paints a very clear picture of who violence happens to and who perpetuates violence and really leaves those people out. Something to be mindful of as well is we are requiring colleges to consider doing climate surveys and you can probably speak better to this than i but those are to be made sure to have language thats inclusive that measures incidents across groups and doesnt presume opposite sex partners or oppo
The department of education investigates violations of cleary act entitled and title ix violations. What are the best practices that universities can take to proactively prevent Sexual Assault . Among the actresses we hope to see is the conduct of a Climate Survey with i and a fine whetherents feel and the message has been received about where to go, what is tolerated and not tolerated, who took complained to and whether there is a feeling of safety on the campus so we think a Climate Survey is an important first step and it is critically important to communicate about hostile environments so the School Community is clear about what is and what is not acceptable. It is important to let students ix courtthe title nader is. It is extremely important to have a transparent and fully functional investigative process where students need to complain so interim relief is available when they need it so students can be clear that effective and appropriate steps are taken to address Sexual Violen