Thank you very much. Those were four very well crafted presentations. And mine wont be. Because my job is to listen and tell you what i heard and comment on what i heard. So what i heard from both ambassador aricot and dr. Zogby is they are not very confident that the political process can be revived by this administration or even possibly by the next one. Thats of course disappointing. I recall work written by william quantity many years ago where he talked about the possibilities for making progress in the first year, second year, third year, et cetera, of any administration and basically concluded that the eighth year was basically the best chance for making progress because you had less difficulty overcoming domestic pressure. But at least in the view of these two panelists, that opportunity will not be seized by this administration. And i understand why. Both of them, all of them have spoken about the netanyahu government and netanyahu himself, who i agree is not committed to the
Iraqi refugees working with iraq and along the lines i was talking about in the , day inional community and day out there isnt a single and respected advocate for religious freedom, the u. S. Commission for research on International Religious widely respected in the field. He hit the ground running when he came on and he will be working sidebyside with me and with our International Counterparts and with every arm of our government that it is doing programs dealing with defense and training and working with countries in the area and the intelligence communities, all of the human rights work we are doing here to help strengthen the work on behalf of these minorities. I could talk for hours about what is being done. Beingogrammatic work done, the relief and humanitarian work, etc. They are in the middle of a horrific war situation. Every day their lives could be imperiled. There is the magic button that can fix this. It is going to be long and steady progress here until we can reach a kin
Just for the record, dr. Collins, you may have mentioned it but i dont know if i heard it the 4 target areas in hivaids, when did you announce that . That was a recent announcement . Recent evaluation of where you are headed and recent announcement . Dr. Collins it was in august. I can quickly say those 4 priorities reducing the incidents of hivaids and Research Toward a cure who are under lifelong treatment. Next generation of therapies with fewer side effects and these hivassociated comorbidities with thousands of people infected who are having some of those comorbidities and we need to understand them better. Sen. Blunt thank you. Senator capito. Sen. Capito i thank all of you on the panel. I would like to thank dr. Lorsch for spending time in West Virginia at West Virginia university, talking about a program i learned so much about, the idea program just which is a smart and successful program. I thank you for that. There is research with stroke and brain and a collaborative effort
Whatsoever from the United States. Has the u. S. Ceded the upper hand . Joining me are mark leibovich, amy holmes of the blaze, ruth marcus of the Washington Post and rich lowry of the National Review. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning. This week roseburg, oregon, joined the roll call of american towns that have suffered a mass shooting. Nine victims from 18 to 67 gunned down on a Community College campus. Jason johnson. Serena daun moore, lucero alcaraz, rebecca carnes, quinn cooper, trevin taylor, Lawrence Levine and kim dietz. Familiar questions about how this could have happened and what it means for the battle over the issue of guns in america. Well get to all of the politics in just a moment but for the latest i want to go to nbcs Miguel Almaguer who is in roseburg. Migu miguel, i want you to address we heard from the shooters father who decided to weigh in on the gun debate. Tell me more about it. Absolutely. Chuck. The gunmans father, 26yearold chris ha
13 guns . How can that happen . They talk about gun laws, they talk about gun control. Every time Something Like this happens they talk about it and nothing is done. Im not trying to say that thats to blame for what happened but if chris had not been able to get ahold of 13 guns, it wouldnt have happened. Chuck, this is sparking a National Debate but interestingly enough, shortly after that interview with cnn we spoke to a victim survivor here at the hospital and she said she believes more people should be carrying guns inside campuses like this one. So its an interesting debate even after all of the bloodshed and massacre here. Its igniting the country. Miguel almaguer, this is a debate whether is it about gun control or gunfree zones . Well get to that. Let me go to data. According to mass shooter tracker data which defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people are shot there have been 294 Mass Shootings alone, nearly a thousand since the database was created in th