Vice President Biden it is genuinely an honor to be a before such a distinguished audience. Ambassador, thank you. She is a senior Vice President. I am just a Vice President. [laughter] vice President Biden these days, i dont like the word Senior Associated with my name. [laughter] vice President Biden i like to say to the ambassador, it is an honor to have you here today. Military officers men and women and brian how are you doing brian . Good to see you. Next week, the Prime Minister will make his first visit to washington dc. This provides us with an opportunity to take stock of where things stand right now. That is going to be the focus of my remarks today. Critics have made a number of claims regarding our policy in iraq and the state of affairs in iraq today. They say iraqs fight against i sil that i American International coalition has been stalemated. Isil remains in a commanding position inside a rat, that ran isil is dominating iraq and iraq itself is likely to be a thing of
Congressman is sometimes more difficult in the than being a seal. As a seal, you can watch things get done. You can engage and have a Terrific Team around you. Normally, you have the resources to win and you can watch the progress made. On the hill, under the current polarization, there is progress the inmate and it is fixable. But progress is not as rapid as what you would like. You have got to make sure you exercise patience. And some is just political rhetoric. Some people do not want the facts could they do not care about the facts. What they care about is an agenda. I never looked at life through a red or a blue lens. It has always been red, white, and blue. As a former navy seal commander, i never asked the political affiliation of the folks around me. What i cared about was how good they were. Were they skilled, were they committed . Did they have the right training . And did they have the right gut to do what was necessary . On friday, cspans congressional freshmen profile conc
Caused a light of the span to go out for a couple of hours. We will talk about that more in a couple of minutes. First we will look at some rain in the bay area. Let us check out our forecast with erica. Good morning anny. You may encounter what roadways. Palo alto receiving light rain the green on your screen over in sunnyvale, cupertino as a zoom in on the east bay. Lightly browned haywood union city stretching to north. Norge. You may need to use your windshield wipers for portions of highway 4. Taking Storm Tracker to the south bay interstate 280 and interstate 101 contending with like worcester. The showers are stalling out in passing through an moving relatively quickly. You will see light rain on surface streets in the downtown san jose area. Drive with extra caution. It looks like it will be short lived. The rain fell overnight and we saw a 10th of an inch or most of us. Satellite and radar issuing the Bigger Picture showers continue to push their way south. We have a lot of in
Good evening, we begin with breaking news, a fire at the bay bridge is causing a traffic nightmare. Take a live look from m d. O. T transportation cameras. All westbound lanes of the bay bridge are closed as well as one eastbound lane. We dont know exactly where the fire is. Officials say there is light smoke in the area. Stay with us for updates on when the bay bridge lanes will reopen. Time is running out to pass a spending bill and avoid a partial government shut down on tuesday. Today, house and Senate Lawmakers were in the in session. Instead, many het the sunday talk show circuit and blamed each other. Tara merge pener has more. Reporter House Republicans are calling on the senate to pass a spending bill. We are just asking them in good faith come back and do what is required of democracy and thats to negotiate and work with us. Reporter the latest ties funding for federal agencies with a oneyear delay in parts of the Affordable Care act. President obama and Senate Democrats say
You to consider whether these feed need to be considered under the current rules as opposed to deferred. One might argue the original entitlement should be brought forth to current rules as well. Thats probably a legal determination. Thank you. Sue hester. You have my letter from a week ago about this project, again about these fees. Its unusual. I dont think i have ever said i agree with robert her, the shorenstein group at the the same hearing. [laughter] i have history going back with Robert Shorenstein a long time. So, the noticing process really needs adjustment. If its not broken already. If people that really are developers and paying attention dont get any notice, i dont understand that. Its one thing for me not to get a notice. When people like that dont get a notice, i think you pay attention. I can just eat dirt. But apart from that what peter said is absolutely correct. You have the ability to not approve the projects. These are discretionary actions that youre being asked