Welcome everybody here to the heritage foundation. Im delighted to introduce dr. Sebastian gauker is with the nonresident scholar. He recently served as Deputy Assistant and as Vice President for National Security support under regular warfare. Please welcome him mow. I would like to thank john who is key to this speech happening today. Most importantly of all for giving me my official heritage tie. Sorry. Is it simon . Raspberry. I will talk for about 25, 30 minutes. Well have a q and a. Ill try to set the stage for what has changed. Lets go back two years. Lets go back to the Obama Administration and look at the reality of the terrorist threat dploebl globally and to the United States. Two years ago isis, the Islamic State of iraq had grown out of being a small sob group to being the first Jihadi Movement it is an Islamic State in the middle east. According to the Financial Times this group was able to raise at least 2 million per day as its budget from racketeering, local taxation.
Vote on moving forward with his nomination today. Final confirmation vote is also possible today. When the senate comes in in just a moment, live coverage on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, the fountain of wisdom, thank you for hearing and answering our prayers. Lord, you have given us so much, blessing us in immeasurable ways, you have exceeded our own expectations. For that, god, we are grateful. We thank you for this great country, for our leadership, and for the women and men who serve in this body. Help them to remember, god, that this is your country and they are your stewards, but for a moment in time. We pray that you will help us move forward with faith in tomorrow, knowing you will transform our thoughts, words, and actions according to your divine will. We pray in your heavenly name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of all
Train 25 01 a. M. In new york. Wednesday, february 21st. Good morning and Cheryl Casone. Ashley lowcarb 1 00 p. M. Could have Ashley Webster in for lauren simonetti. I had a shirt and jeans on when i came in this morning. It is like early spring, early summer. Beautiful. Crazy. Cheryl we had the open of the markets yesterday and of course we went down. And down. A nice little selloff yesterday afternoon. Another day of volatile trading. The dow jones more than 260 points and snapped a six session winning streak for the dow and s p 500. It is just the appetizer or main course of falling stocks. Cofounder flynns Capital Management is here. Jason garcia met, cofounder of hail investing. Good morning. Good morning. Train to another rough day for the markets. The name of the game right now is inflation and what the Federal Reserve will do. We look at the market of clarity do you think . I think elegant clarity as he talked about on this program at the beginning of the year. Inflation and In
Working on this war without trying to negotiate an end. I had come back from paris, we were trying to do the exact thing. But you couldnt mention it. Couldnt mention it. Whose decision was it to make these talks secret . So was it so you could advance more who had the courage to do it. We felt you cannot make progress, propaganda, with the whole world watching. Youve got to do it secretly. I think the North Vietnamese werent that interested in negotiations, except as a tactic to wear us out or to see whether we could make the kind of deal they could live with. They didnt want to accused by the vietcong and others of being overly soft. What do you think, joe . I think here winston and i may differ slightly. I think its important to have secret negotiations. They accompany almost any negotiation about a serious issue. But i think henry had a somewhat expansive view of that, which is keeping it secret. Thats a different issue. I meant the public. I understand. My point is, for him secret
At can also send us a tweet cspan wj or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. Good morning. We will get to your thoughts are just a minute. First, let me show you the National Journal headlines. House republicans really think that they can amend obamacare this fall. The health care legislative package is tentatively expected to move in the coming months. The inside of the story dylan scott reports that while congressional leaders continue to debate whether to pursue near full repeal of the act and gop president ial candidates layout replacement proposals, republicans are looking at smaller changes. It to theey can make president s desk. The ways and means subcommittee chairman said that his panel could mark up Health Care Tax legislation later this year. The bills related to overthecounter drugs, Health Savings accounts, and perhaps most ambitiously, a repeal of cadillac taxopular on highend insurance plans. It goes on to say the Health Care Agenda will be determined in part by