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The takata recall widens internationally, sending takata shares sharply lower. And a very warm welcome to the show. We are awaiting a speech by Vladimir Putin in moscow. Youre looking at live pictures of the kremlin palace where hes due to start speaking. The nation addresses to the duma any minute now. We will bring you pictures of that and the headlines of the speech if and when it comes. The speech comes as relations between the u. S. And russia remain strained. The u. S. President barack obama has laid the blame firmly at the door of the kremlin. Im less optimistic about russia. I have a very direct and blunt businesslike relationship with putin. We had a very productive relationship when medicine very was approximat medev was president. Partly because he was been integrating himself into a nationalist backwardlooking approach to russian politics. Its scaring the heck out of his neighbors and badly damaging his economy. Sanctions are having a big bite on their economy. Chris is joi
We have to have is also not only important for this body, but its important for this country. In a weird way, they love us and hate us. The poll numbers show they dont love us too much,13 . [laughter] but on the flip side, they look to us. They look to us for certainty and guidance and where we might take them. The pundits, different. But the people do. I see it when i go to stores and im out and about. People may be angry with us, but they want to know what were going to do to solve these incredible problems. And it will be incumbent upon the next congress to sit down and Work Together. Its going to be tough, because the politics of today are about the moment in time. Its not about the long term. This is an incredible challenge. But it has to be dealt with in some way. You know, ive spent a lot of time trying to, like i said, do what i can, didnt matter who it was, and i was listening to senator coburn speak. I remember one day we were looking on an issue, essential air service. Some
To show them the best web site, how to show them the best information from their friends is constantly trying to assess what makes the best Information Service for you. At the same time, universities for the last 20 years as weve moved more and more social Exchange Online have been moving to think about this as a social environment. This is the public square. So there are plenty of universities, plenty of researchers like myself who have come up with, you know, over the years come up with Research Projects that have to do with studying peoples experiences online. And in both those cases theres as much interest in figuring out what it is that people do as there is in people figuring out how to navigate those spaces. So theres both wanting to know what people do and people wanting to figure out the best way to find information. Theres two different threads of research that go on. Host how sophisticated is it getting . Guest um, what part . Host the research part. Guest you know, we have,
Limited thing that we should back off of the specific numbers and recognize there is a strong commitment to readiness as the department of defense says there should be especially wary face as many facts that come up with a warning as they do in healthcare. I can tell you from personal experience that discussions are made about benefits and what we are going to do to the Health Care System and military readiness is something that always gets raised and it should be and will continue to be. I want to invite wanted to invite you to add anything that you would wish. Given the responsibilities you have and how much youve contributed and realizing that you are now out of service in the department of defense i think im hearing you today say the military Health Care System is in reasonably good shape but it needs a lot of work into the compensation system is reasonably fair but there are significant changes we can and should consider and we dont need an overhaul but we do need a lot of work in