Questions. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. Director general amano, thank you very much for your presentation. I have a few questions to pose to you. Im sure our audience has many that it would like to pose to you. I know iran is going to be a big focus of attention, so therefore isle start off talking about the agency and its role. I particularly want to raise the concern that i and many others have about the growing politicization surround iing th board of governors and its discussions about the agencys role. I remember when i yutzed to attend board of governors meetings, general conferences, usually there was a consensus among Board Members on any particular topic. It was very rare there was voting and a divided membership. Now its almost the norm on lots of issues for there to be voting and differences. You mention the the state level concept or state level approach. I think this is a very innova innovative approach to safeguarding. I think it would enhance the agencys role yet y
Other threats facing this country. I dont share my opponents view that isis or other terrorists are going to cause the collapse of this country. America is strong, we have a strong smelter in the world and we are going to take on this thread, we have a strategy to do that, building an international coalition. The airstrikes have taken hundreds of fighters and we are working with over 60 nations to address this threat. But we dont need is our leaders raising concerns about our ability to take this on. We can take on anything that american sets his mind to do and that is what im counting on. Do think it was rise of president obama to rollout the use of Ground Troops . We have heard from the other generals that we dont need round troops at this time. If the president wants to send in Ground Troops, he needs to come to congress and ask for authorization for use of military force. When american interests are threatened, we reserve the right to take any action and i think that that is true i
Think, for members of the house not to take this up, in my view. And it was right for it to be taken up in the senate. And i commend all of the members of the house and the senate who took this this whole episode with a sense of sobriety that was intended, including, by the way, if i may say, senator romney, who stepped up. And i tip my hat to him. I wanted to get to the audience. We have a question on this issue, this question comes from Christina Damian whos a senior here at st. As, undecided. Hello, governor. Is it christina . Good to see you back. Good to be back. Our country is more divided than ever. Its more paramount than ever to come together as a nation. Should you get the nomination how would you plan to unify our country in the coming months and as president . Thank you for the question. Its on my mind and heart too as i suspect it is on everybody elses. You know, i think the fact that we are divided is one thing. The fact that its so easy to divide us is another. Deeply co
Place. Several years ago, the secretary of defense made it known before he announced that he was going to lead the administration that he was going back to the state of washington. He was someone i follow closely. He was nominated to be the cia director in 1991, and as an obama supporter, i was shocked to find out that he was going to be kept on as the secretary of defense. What he told people, i found, and it was a major reasoning for why i wanted to write this book, what he said is that we are moving towards a smaller military. One that will do fewer things than be able to go fewer places, which he thought was a terrible thing and he added that he didnt want to be a part of that kind of a system that is going to retrench. My feeling has always been that we need a smaller military that will do fewer things and go to fewer places. So that is the kind of book that i wanted to write. I thought that i should do it even though others have mined a lot of this. Im sure a lot of you are famil
Youre watching book tv on cspan. Now, tom allen, former sixterm democratic congressmann front mississippi, recounsels his inability to understand his republican colleagues and vice versa and contends congress will remain lock logjammed until the try to understand each oomph this is just over an hour. [applause] thank you very much for those kind words, and thank you all for being here tonight. This is a wonderful crowd, and im very pleased to see so many of you here. I have to say its a special pleasure for me to be at the Jimmy Carter Library because my late father was one of those very early in the carter president ial campaign who went to hear this governor, former governor from georgia, was very impressed, wrote some sort of check, and became a big fan of jimmy carter throughout his career. And i wish my father could see me now because i know he would be excited. But it is so i thank you for that. I also want to say that this is an opportunity to discuss the things we have been thr