Thank you, mike. This has been a terrific session. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] that is live at noon eastern here on cspan. Institute hosted this discussion on how religion factors into u. S. Diplomatic efforts with islamic nations. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. I would like to welcome you to the middle east Institute Panel on preventing violence in the name of god. Religion and diplomacy in the middle east. I would like to issue a special welcome to our cspan viewers this morning. Series one second diplomacy and religion. The first, we held a month ago featuring the cardinal and ayatollah taking up topics from a religious point of view. Today, we take it up from a diplomatic perspective. Things have changed regarding religion and statecraft in u. S. Diplomacy, particularly in the department of state. Madeline albright records in her memoirs the mighty and the almighty, many pract
She is coming. A little late. New mexicos first district. We will have her seat at the end. Thank you for being here today. We really appreciate it. I am lucky to be surrounded by intelligent and wonderful women, as i have always been in my life. Why dont i start with a brief introduction round. We will go in order. If you would like to start with a brief introduction about our topic today, latino leadership in congress. Hello, everybody. But are known as grace. And have been in california many years and have inn on city council and now congress. It has been a long battle. All of you must understand, it is not easy for us to be sitting here. We have earned our way. We have had saddles and have been lucky enough to have men support us but understand we have brains and can use them. Unfortunately, we still have a battle and there is still a Glass Ceiling. There is still the ability for us to not have the support we should have on issues that are really critical to us. Not only immigratio
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White house eric bush released a statement to say president obama was made of the hospitalization and a quote from the president that spokesperson, president obama and first lady sent their good wishes to the former president the entire family during the holiday season. We have been showing you selections of an years of the q a program. Be sure to join us today with a conversation with robert novak. E spoke about the memoir again, that is today at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. Coming up at 8 00, president obama and the first year the first family as they like this years christmas tree. It includes musical performance and readings of the first lady. Here is a quick look. President , mrs. Obama, malia asha, merry christmas. Hello, everybody. From five. G to start we want to say thanks to tom and rita. We hope they are ready. We hope everyone watching at home is getting in the christmas spirit. We will start counting down right now. Lets do it. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [cheers and applause] will show
But building nonpartisan Security Forces is a big goal and can be done nationwide by iraqis supported by americans. Programming, training, equipment. Time is important because we cannot have more time on the militia side. The yasidi problem, i am really sorry i didnt mention that simply because theres a humanitarian. I am sure because it was discussed yesterday in the topics they cover. That made me not focus on it. On the militia side, there are proiranian militia sides. I cant say theres a popular mobilization. I agree with you. Definitely under the popular mobilization, some of the militia and we are talking about dismantling the criminal ones, committed to crimes. They can be accepted as part of the National Guard, but my suggestion is on a personal level with dozens of people who belong to one of the regions to be integrated and find an army or National Guard filled with people who are not loyal. So we can get benefit of some of the shia who were fighting definite way. This brings