Facts are. Sure. I do remember that was an issue that was of note. There was a precipitating event that made olc examine that question and issue that opinion in september 2011 that then precipitated the letter that the Deputy Attorney general sent out. We can find out exactly what that event was and share that with you. To release something on a friday before christmas, you just know theres something wrong. And i was the author of the National Commission on gambling a number of years ago, and there is a difference on the impact for destination gambling and convenience gambling. Destination gambling, youre going to go out far away, you take so much and thats it. Convenience gambling, around the corner the ultimate is to be able to go online in your bathrobe in your dorm at penn state. So, you know, id like to find out and also senator graham introduced legislation to restore the wire act. Will you provide the expertise to create that . Well look at the statute. I frankly dont know what
Journalthe washington pos morning that is in the the wall street journal this morning. The Supreme Court is working on things. If you have a public aussie issue youd like to discuss this morning, here are the numbers. Front page of the Orange County register. First call this morning comes from julia, a democrat in greensboro, north carolina. Good morning, julius. What is a Public Policy that is on your mind . I want to let the people know that the aca is working and karl rove, i dont know why he wants to come up. And say that he couldnt get 7 million people, but he did. Want to thank all the democrats and let people know that the aca is working. Billy, miami, independent. Good morning. Caller i have an issue around gay people. I my partner and i have been together until his death in 1999. We ran a business together, we own a home, we have a mortgage is like everybody else. Saying that iis was not entitled to benefits because we were not married. I ofnk is a complete rip off this countr
Skypes. Ves four that is the miracle of modern technology and it will either work or not work. It is very tricky so somebody may go down, somebody may have a time delay which is happening with one of our three guests. Analogous to the quadruple somersault ringling brothers. Please, bear with us. We will have problems from time to time but we have an Excellent Team of techies. I know because i can understand anything a say. It is my pleasure to interview introduce our interviewer, roger cohen. Thank you. [applause] good morning. We are going to rely on technology to try to bring this in balance and ignore whoever may or may not be listening. I think it is fair to say that in the immediate landscape there is a before and after Edward Snowden. Nsarevelations about global data vacuuming are backed with concrete evidence. The feeling i think that many of us have had since 9 11 that something has gotten seriously skewed in the appropriate balance between National Security and press freedom.
You biggest surveillance makes it almost impossible to be an investigative journalist because it makes it impossible for people to communicate with one another. Edward snowden has praised russia for standing against Human Rights Violations by the powerful. President putin has just invaded and then annexed crimea. The relationship between the United States and russia is increasingly hostile. There is even talk of a new cold war. How worried should we be that mr. Snowden is old herbal is vulnerable to the Russian Intelligence Services to in this increasingly tense situation . I need to back up a little bit. Be in russia . He was on his way to latin america where he was going to transit from russia. United government canceled his passport. He was in the transit area of the airport. President Putin Blakeney made fun of u. S. Intelligence services. The one place that you can operate and go get . Go get him there. It is asking a lot for Edward Snowden who is under international asylum. It is
Eventually, it is going to be corrected. Set that, relax, this is the greatest nation on earth. After 100 years we finally have a congress and a senate and a president who have finally done something for the people. Host that is all the time we have for this mornings washington journal. We hope you will join us again tomorrow. We go live to the brookings institution, holding a panel on afghanistan 2014. The president ial elections and the planned withdrawal with general john allen and ronald nuemann, former ambassador to afghanistan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Thank you for coming to discuss afghanistan. We have ael ohanlon, very distinguished group of american and afghan individuals and officials to talk with us former officials and continued scholars and experts on afghanistan to talk about the transitions underway. This upcoming saturday is afghanistans