President ial transitions. And sunday, at noon on in depth we are live with tom hartman who has authored several books including the crash of 2016, rebooting the american dream, and threshold. Join the three hour conversation. On American History tv on cspan3, steve ony explores the murder of mary sagin and the arrest and lynching of leo frank. And the federal Energy Administration documentary looks at fossil fuel in the United States. Next, a forum on National Security. We will hear from free Program Members of congress freshman. Bill kristol is the moderator and posted by the Foreign Policy initiative hosted good morning, i am the executive director at the Foreign Policy initiative on behalf of all of us at the team here it is a pleasure to welcome you to our sixth annual forum, the strength to lead. The Foreign Policy initiative was established in 2009 as a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to educating policymakers about the importance of American Leadership and engagement in the wo
I think that in and of itself is problematic. I think in 20122013 the position of our country, our administration, and our defense department, as well as our allies was to remove assad and i think it is still our position to remove assad. I think it is clear the position of the russians is to keep him in power. My concern is creating a voice in the region and i dont know what the answer is today. But we will look at it over the next weeks and months. Prior to president peutins airstrikes he went to congress and requested an aumf and got hundred percent approval for airstrikes with no ground troops. Here is what i can is pore an important point and maybe i should not say a hundred percent but the president came before us months ago with an amuf, i always said the president shouldnt be using old aumfs to continue what is happening in the middle east and he did. And congress to this day is not acting on it. It has been sitting in our committees for the past three months. We need to make a
trying to discourage risk. that would be a terrible mistake. the question is not people creating risk for themselves, but people creating risks and then off loading it onto unsuspecting other people. that is what they are trying to get at, i think. in the subprime mortgage area, risks were being created and they just handed it off to people that did not understand it. . also this afternoon, more from this conference with judge to each ginsberg, u.s. court of appeals, speaking about executive power. that is live at 5:15 eastern. and president obama is considering his trip to asia, first as u.s. president. he will stay in japan tomorrow and give a speech in tokyo before the meeting the emperor and empress of that country. then he will depart for singapore. this weekend, on booktv, how policy led to economic crisis. peter schweitzer is it interviewed bachman, and rich benjamin gives a talk. go to the website for the entire schedule, including live coverage of the miami book fe