First up this weekend on booktv geoff dyer talks about his experiences while living aboard the uss george h. W. Bush. [inaudible conversations] hi, everybody. My names clay smith. I am the Program Director of this festival so thank you for being here. Con fronting the confronting the drizzle or the mist or the rain or whatever we want to call it. Youre not here to hear from me, youre obviously here to listen to geoff dyer. Let me tell you a little bit about geoff and he and i will be in conversation for a while and then well open it up to questions from you all. Geoff dyer is the author of four novels two collections of essays and seven genredefying titles and they are but beautiful, the missing of the thome, out of sheer rage, yoga for people who cant be bothered to do it [laughter] the ongoing moment and xona, a book about the film stalker. He is the coeditor of what was true the photographs and notebooks of william getny. Hes a fellow with the Royal Society of literature and an hono
Reporter the work itself was estimated to take just 2 hours but getting crews and equipment in and out and the tracks cleaned up pushed the total time right up against the afternoon commute. Reporter they got it done before the afternoon commute began and that means people will be about to get with the need to go they will of course the residual delays because of that specific area where there was a bomb china is going to have to go a little bit slow or 27 mi. Our instead of 70 mi. Our our not really where there is about where they put in that replacement rail permit a real will be done tonight at the Train Service shut down for the evening. Reporter kron 4 vieweres have been sharing with us their photographs of the crowded conditions at various bart stations this afternoon. The platforms are packed. Reporter kron 4s Maureen Kelly talked to commuters who say, it has been a long and sometimes confusing day. As they navigate the system. Reporter decide use the reserve for those traveling
Yeah. Absolutely. Its far from it. And we all collectively laid out some details to support that. Do you see any way to defeat isil in syria without a substantial arab army involved . I dont know how you get there. I mean obviously, if we deployed tens of thousands of troops ourselves we could defeat isis in syria. I dont think anybody here would recommend such an event. I think the people who have vested interest there should be involved and i think they would get involved. I mean, you know that they said as much, but we have to do something to change the momentum of the assad regime. Dr. Kagan . Is it fair to say that no arab army is going into syria unless part of the one of the objectives is to take assad down . Absolutely senator, thats going to be a precondition for because theyre not going to just fight isil and leave assad in power therefore giving the place to syria, is that correct . On the contrary i mean to iran. On the contrary. What were seeing is increasing levels of sup
Effective in our goals. I also have concerns about the current effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation to undermine the flow of money to terrorists. I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on these issues. Continuing the Task Force Effort to Counter Terrorist financing. Thank you, and i yield back. Chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the full committee, ms. Waters, for one minute. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I applaud the bipartisan efforts surrounding this task force and believe it will serve us well as we work to guard against key threats to our National Security. Today the task force will explore dangerous new trend the growing convergence of terrorism and crime while terrorist organizations motivated by ideology and criminal enterprise is driven generally by greed have been thought to operate independent from one another. The testimony from the Witnesses Today makes it clear that this is no longer the norm. Furthermore, in an age of globalization, the growing
Connell so i moment of at the New York Stock Exchange. [drums] [taps playing] [silence] connell the traditional wreath laying ceremony on this veterans day 2013. Before that was only moment of silence at the New York Stock Exchange in new york city. Dagen to our veterans we say thank you but words can never be enough. But we want to move on to the news of the day, and days passed and days ahead. We talk about the troubled healthcare. Gov website warning users over the weekend and today of delays being able to submit applications. Connell we will talk about that with rich edson. Rich well, dagen and connell, this is the weeks of the administration releasing how many people have been able to enroll in health care through healthcare. Gov. There were investigators using administrative documents saying only six people enrolled in the first day, a few hundred people in the first two or three days. The Administration Says those numbers are not reliable and refused to give numbers of their own