People in rome that sued the u. S. Government for what was wiretapping and countersuit actually rejected by the Supreme Court on the grounds the we couldnt prove standing, two months before the ed snowden disclosures which makes me wonder if we could have proved standing two months later, choosing the phrase the disclosure problem makes it seem less serious than i think it really is and it is not just on its human rights levelland the right to privacy but on a commercial and political level. It fundamentally has to do with trust. I understand it is corporate as well as domestic, but i would like to hear you respond to that because i do think it discounts the seriousness of what is happening. The second is with respect to education and the number of brazilian students coming to the United States which is enormous how has it gone from the u. S. To brazil. I have a sense it is much less but i dont know the numbers and what you see as the future and that side . I will address the last one
At a time in which theres been no cataclysmic event that forces us into reforming or renewing these institutions, but a clear recognition that the institutions are becoming increasingly less relevant and increasinglyless capable of addressing some of the very large problems and concerns that the world faces. And be so our ability to kind of reestablish momentum in the u. S. brazil relationship and to insure that it gets back on the kind of meaningful tack that i think both of our governments and our societies want is going to have a big impact on our ability to conduct this kind of long diplomacy. Because ultimately, many, many years from now as historians look back on this time, much of what we consider to be important will not be seen as important. In fact, much of what occupies our every day will fall away and become the chaff and dust of history. But i think what will be remembered and what will be judged by historians is our ability to accommodate these rising powers to transform
A community away to grow back into the economy and succeed. The transition has to look at the transition of the people and the Community Getting back to some kind of help so you dont just pull the plug on them and say, you are on your own. Dodd. Is town or community another twitter question. Should unions get an obamacare exception . Whenever they have built the first automobile, it wasnt a perfect automobile. When we started playing baseball , it wasnt the perfect again. It has evolved. Obamacare is a good start. Good things in it, unintended consequences that do need to be looked at and change. We need to build on it. Some classic mistakes. First, we exempted the pharmaceutical industry and said that medicare couldnt use its buying power to drive down prices. That needs to change. We jettison the public options so there wasnt the competition. E needed to keep prices down we made mistakes with the exchanges. We made mistakes with the system. A lot of mistakes. Quite sure it was. It is
Snowden recently asked brazil for political asylum. Ambassador to. Brazil talks about u. S. Relations with the country. From the Wilson Center, this is two hours. Good morning. Good morning to our good friends in the audience. I am jane harman. I am delighted to welcome you to this before the christmas holiday. The Wilson Center knows a lot about brazil. So does tom shannon. Our Brazil Institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u. S. Brazil policy. We were first to honor the president of brazil. We sponsor the brazil economic conference. We host brazilian governors and legislators. We air the good, the bad, and the ugly in our relationship. Tom shannon represents the good. I hope he is relieved to hear that. Ther close to four years as foreign ambassador to brazil, he is back in washington as Senior Advisor to secretary kerry. There are lots of rumors about his future. Brazil is the b in bricks. President rousseff was an alleged target of u. S. Surveillance. These wil
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