Drops disproportionately, for have le so, it is republicans address their brand challenges will obviously make a difference on top of whoever the republican nominee is going to be. The other hand, though, what kind of shape as the democratic brand . That is where i would love to is president obamas job with Approval Ratings in the summer and fall of 2016. The Affordable Care to you know, is a culture even up closer to even up rather than upside down. And third, what is the economy looking like . Not just that, but how do the people feel the economy is doing . Speaking, technically one example for a lot of people, as far as theyre concerned, their personal far as theyre concerned, their personal economy has now turned around. So all of these things are sort of establishing what shape the democratic brand is in. So, it is a great point and it is one that we will enjoy chewing over, but it is, obviously, an important question. Yes come over here. I think it is easy to pivot to 2016, but w
Its gates. What would the Central African republic look like today if no african or European Union peacekeepers no u. N. Peacekeepers, had come to civilianstacks all by of civilians, being massacred with abandon. The violence and suffering would likely have been much worse. The one in question does not let anybody off the hook. Not peacekeepers, not that countries that fund and support theekeeping and authorize admissions. Nobody gets off the hook. It does remind us of why this effort was so worthwhile and why American Leadership is so critical. It is because places like sierra leone and south sudan and the Central African republic are better off than they would have been without peacekeeping does not mean that the institution is where it needs to be. Nor does it mean that we are satisfied with peacekeepers filling parts but not all of their mandates, or peacekeepers standing up to protect civilians some of the time rather than all of the time. We are not. When the stakes are as high a
President obama held his first Cabinet Meeting since tuesdays elections. He held a meeting a couple of hours before a scheduled gathering of congressional leaders at the white house. The president discussed the new economic numbers which include the addition of more than 200,000 private sector jobs and the Unemployment Rate dropping to 5. 8 . Well, this morning we learned that in october, businesses added 209,000 new jobs. The Unemployment Rate fell again. The private sector has added 10. 6 million new jobs over the last 56 months. This is the strongest job growth that we have seen since the 1990s. All this is a testament to the hard work and resilience of the American People. They have been steady and strong digging themselves out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and what we need now to do is make sure we build on this momentum because we recognize that despite the solid growth, despite the drop in unemployment, there are still a lot of folks out there who are a
The real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. And the air force mission is very unique. Within 72 hours the Air National Guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. This is my good friend here from the interNational Guard. We have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the United States there are pilots and jets. And that mission of the air force is unique. It takes more get up and going. The air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. On the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. Most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. The wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didnt see on the news, after four states rolled in with National Guard and th
Objectivity. Welcome the like to cspan and public radio audiences. Follow the action on twitter npclunch. Introduce our to head table. I would ask each to stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, kevin, a Committee Member for the vietnam war commemoration. Marcus, a documentary film maker. Washingtonppe, a correspondent for ganett. Secretary of the the air force and a member of the National Press club. Thomas burr, senior washington correspondent for the Salt Lake City tribune and the chairman of board of the National Press club. Jim michaels, military reporter for usa today. Bill ingram, director of the Army National guard. The podium. R donna, a reporter for usa today. The organizer of todays lunch on the Speakers Committee and the 2009 president of the National Press club. Skipping over the speaker momentarily, rachel oswald, a at National Journal news wire. Brigadier general james whitham. Mary french of army magazine. Chief Master Sergeant mitch enlisted advisor t