Important that is for a young person to not only have dreams and believe those dreams are possible. If i worry about anything, i spoke about this last night, Young Americans arent dreaming or arent believing the dreams are accessible to them. You mentioned mitt romney who until three weeks ago was the leader of the party. Mitt romney going to disappear or does he have a continuing role . I hope he doesnt disappear and hope he has a continuing role. First of all, very few people have done what he has done, run for president and be the nominee of the party. And get crushed. Thats not accurate. He got 47 . He won a lot of states. He didnt lose 491. He won places and has a lot of supporters. But he has been successful at life. And i told him this, too. Mitt romney is a role model as a person, a father, husband, community leader. He has a lot to offer the Republican Party and our country and i dont know what that role is going to be but im excited because he has a lot to continue to contrib
I just came out of the Clinton Global Initiative in new york which was really born out of my husbands insight when he left the white house. They were so many different players now in in the world you you who had a role that could contribute to solving primarily Development Problems that we needed a vehicle to get them together to make commitments to do so. I think the same is true on the Security Side as well. We are never going to deal with the problem of cybersecurity and lessers of partnership between governments and we are never going to be able to deal with a lot of the trendline problems compound whether its terrorism or poaching for Human Trafficking without having a Broader Network of invested players and leaders. So i dont know that its some kind of a new philosophy. Its more a recognition that is the way the world is evolving. If we want to stop elephant poaching and murdering and africa you have to use social media to inform patients that the elephant has to be killed in ord
Members of iraq veterans against the war are pushing the military to do more to help soldiers suffering from postTraumatic Stress syndrome. We will look at the department of Veterans Affairs, how it has paid more than 200 million in wrongful death payments to the families of veterans who died under v. A. Care. They would take a look at the latest u. S. Effort to topple the cuban government. This time from using social media. A new expose reveals usaid securely set up a fake twittermy program and hoped to use to trigger a cuban spring. The Obama Administration defends the program. It was not a Covert Program. It was debated in congress and reviewed by the gao. Those kinds of things dont happen the Covert Programs. It was a program about increasing the level of information the cuban people have and were able to discuss among themselves. And that is part of an effort we undertake not just in cuba, but elsewhere. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, th
In colombia, a great allies ally of ours. There seems to be a real situation in colombias largest port and the scent of its population were over half a million inhabitants, over 90 of them are black. They are mired in crime and poverty, and over 80 live below the poverty line. 30 are unemployed and virtually none have access to supplies of electricity, water or basic wrote infrastructure. This violence thats going on, i know we want to make sure we are able to address underlying social problems so if theres anything that what were doing there. And, finally, on the lines of what Ranking Member engel had asked, he talked a special about tuberculosis, but thanks in huge party was investment in Global Health, the world has cut by 50 the number of children who die before age five whether its pneumonia, malaria or tuberculosis. The leading killers of Children Worldwide. Were on the verge of some exciting breakthroughs and lifesaving potential. For example, another Usaid Youtube to prevent an
Extraordinarily important. As far as a bullet goes, more for the record, i know five cdc people arrive and this is different. This is unprecedented and we have a lot of infectious bass diseases. Doctor ben from washington dc, hes help to cure over 5000 kids in uganda and i have introduced a bill and we have asked you repeatedly look into it. We are talking about getting this involved and this is a situation of kids who are dying horrible deaths and i have seen the kids and i have met the children and i had one of the neurosurgeons testify from africa. And that is part of the vision to grow the capacity of the resurgence in africa. I just want to thank you and i want to thank you for your leadership on all of these Global Health issues. We have set a tone for American Leadership at this point tremendous results. The thank you goes to you for these results. On may 22 we will have part of this policy and we a have been designed to take the thousand days approach targeting pregnant women i