Cost. When federal money is involved state governments do not spend their money as efficiently. Host we are out of time. Chris edwards with the cato institute. Robert with the brookings institute. Thank you. That does it for todays washington journal. We will be that you tomorrow morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] president gets briefed by german chancellor Angela Merkel about a scheduled summit wednesday to try to revive a peace plan for easter ukraine. Germany, france, russia and ukraine will take part. They will talk with reporters. Among the issues, Army Fighters opposing russian backed separatists. Live coverage starts at 11 40. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine . We are taking your comments. Here are a couple of the more than 300 comments. Sue says putin is taking advantage of a weak adminis
And helmand. As far as advocacy for the corps there. Before they had the advisers to do this. Because we were going liftoff we wanted to make sure they had some kind of advocacy. We built a cell of four or five Coalition Members and some function that we thought they needed to continue to mature in our absence and put them up in kabul in september and they were foc in october before we left. Two interpreters were up there and all these individuals had served as advisers with the corps and the police. The leadership knew them. They knew the interpreters. So they would have a means of communication via cell phone, tactical means that was in proximity of headquarters and they were the advocate. Make sure the process was working. We knew at the tactical level they could fight bp we just need to make sure they could sustain themselves and resource themselves from kabul. So we built the cell and it those where the theater was. Where it went to right now. I think the one and four you see righ
Choosing people which is one of the most important jobs of president has. It is an open question. I am not saying she would do a bad job but in the past, she sometimes has chosen people for their loyalty rather than for their talent. Not always but sometimes. This has been a real problem with the Obama Administration is that there has not been a real reaching out to the best and the brightest. He pretty much has the same people who he had on the hill who got him elected. I think through four people basically run that white house. I think hillary who has been a victim of that closed shop as secretary of state, i cannot imagine that she would repeat that formula for governing keeping that small group and power. The white house these days is pretty insular. There are people who have been tried in true, they feel they can trust. Not every president needs people around them the contrast trust. You make a lot of appointments and the batting average in those appointments we do not know. She c
Adviser for reconciliation to iraqi forces in baghdad in 2008. Before we start, just a quick reminder, please put your mobile phones on vibrate. We are live on cspan today, apparently. So well start with mike knights. Thank you very much for coming today. Its great to see such a full room. And my colleagues on the panel with me, its a real honor to be alongside them. So im going to talk today about some of the themes coming out of our new study. The long haul rebooting u. S. Security corporation with iraq. And i want to go through the study in detail. What im going to do maybe is to try and pick out some of the i think the key issues and quandaries that come out of our Security Cooperation with iraqi state, with the kurdish peshmerga, and our coexistence at the moment alongside the Popular Mobilization units that play such a significant role in the war so far in iraq. Now, just to run through a couple of graphics quickly, which are in the study, which is available in pdf form online fo
Festival. The United Nations security double is to hold an emergency meeting later on sunday. Houthi rebels call to arms. The state Department Says that the deteriorateing security situation has forced a withdraw of the remaining military security couple. People in taiz gather to protest the arrival of pro houthi forces in their city. They want to drag us into war and we refuse. A helicopter was a sign that pro houthi forces might be closer. President hadi has been trying to hang on to power since he was forced to leave the capital. There are those who are opposed to the houthies but theyre not military. Theyre not armed they will not fight the houthies. As people grapple with the mass bombings that killed 137 on friday, president hadi appeared on television. He said the bombings were an attempt to push the county into sectarian war. My job as president is to do that, and to invite all of the political powers and components, including those who count out who carried out the coup detat