Senator, im not familiar with that issue. Id be glad to take a question for the record be, if youd like. Okay, thank you. Thats it, madam chair. Thank you very much. [inaudible] verify one thing on the nsa situation. Its my understanding that this judge, judge leon, made his restraining order which has been or his injunction which has been stayed, and that was announced last month, a District Court judge in southern california, jeffrey miller, announced his opinion in a case which involves a bacilli malawi who was convicted on three counts of support for terrorism, specifically financial and monetary, specifically involving alshabaab. He was tried, he was convicted, and then a case was brought exactly on this point. And the judges opinion last month said that the program essentially was constitutional, that no one had a Fourth Amendment right on metadata. Just my view of the situation is that i welcome a Supreme Court review. Its been more than 30 years. We didnt have terrorism when sm
How much work they are doing. And these charities are doing sort of, you know, they are really the unsung hero of the humanitarian crisis in syria. Over and over again the kuwaitis are the only theyre the ones that are first donor in every case for humanitarian work. I think theres an aspect of this, too, that is sort of i think i mentioned one example that where do you exactly draw the line on this . So, you know, if youre supporting a hospital that is run by a particular brigade is it humanitarian aid . Does it have sort of a lethal component . Its a very sort of spectrum. Its not sort of black and white. And, you know, i think that you raise one of the questions that makes this so complicated is that, yeah a lot of money probably goes to things that are very much needed on the ground, you know, these rebel brigade understand if theyre controlling an area, it also means that, you know, the bakery. That also means the hospital. And it means providing for people. And no one else is doi
Evidence of it. On the last trip i found evidence, a number of videos that i do believe it is going on, and i believe it could be a significant amount of money. Basically, the Shia Community in kuwait is very small and i do not want to say it is particularly insular, but it is an extremely strong community. I believe the way the fundraising is happening is much more private, gatherings in homes, personal connections. One businessman will call his friend and say, we need to do this to support our brothers in syria. Much more quieter. It is notable that a number of the most prominent businessmen in kuwait who are shia also have very significant Foreign Investment in syria. They have both a personal stake and a business date and the maintenance of the status quo. This goes a long way to explaining at least some of the cash flows that i believe are moving. This funding, at least what i have so far sort of tapped into, like the sunni side, and i want to stress this, is equally sectarian in
If they are putting something comprehensive, what do you think the must dos art deco are . We want to broaden the base, get rid of as many deductions as we can and get the rates as low as we can. The tricky part is Corporate Tax reform and individual tax reform. The ambitious list that chairman baucus and chairman camp set out is to do both simultaneously. That is difficult, even in the house where they have the votes and the political support. In the senate it was an uphill battle. With chairman baucus leading the charge. Now that we are shifting to a new chairman, the of the climb got a lot steeper. Host if you want to talk to Brandon Arnold and eric toder about tax reform efforts, our phone lines are open. While folks are dialing in, it eric toder of the urban brookings tax policy center. Talk about when the last time such a big list was taken by congress. In the corporate and the individual efforts of taxing . Guest 1986 with the tax reform bill. We had a very different circumstanc
Tacloban is enough is enough. Reporter determined to recover, we look at how the philippines is trying to rebuild after a devastating typhoon. Welcome to the show, we begin in lebanon where there have been two massive explosions in the capitol. At least 23 people have been killed including an iranian diplomate. It happened near the embassy in southern beirut and unclear what caused explosions but thought at least one of them was a car bomb and it happened in a neighborhood a few hundred meters away from the Iranian Embassy and rob reynolds has the latest details. Reporter the explosions were so powerful they turned cars into twisted piles of metal, tour the facade off buildings and gouged craters outside the iran embassy and smoke rose from burning vehicles. Firefighters rushed to the scene trying to help the wounded. There are conflicting reports about the source of the blast and some saying they were caused by rockets and others by car bombs. Al jazeeras zana reported from the scene.