We continue to be focused on Aviation Security the new phenomena but i worry about are the foreign fighters and the threat of violent extremism here at home. I am ted hissen, a report with fusion. My question is, is the president still committed to taking executive action on immigration, and what sort of action is he considering at this time . Yes. The president is very committed to taking executive action to fix our broken immigration system. In the absence of action by congress and so am i. And were developing a set of reforms that i would characterize as comprehensive in nature, but within our existing legal authorities. There are a number of things we can do, and we should do, to fix our immigration system, which i anticipate will be announced somewhere between the midterm elections and the end of the year. I think thats what the president said. Okay. Yes, sir, right here. Thank you, sir. I im matt, with abc news. Louder. Im matt lauer with abc news, question. On the question of fo
Welcome to all of you. For those who havent been here, hope you like and it feel welcome at this new venue. Today were privileged and honored to have the secretary of Homeland Security, jeh johnson, with us, to deliver remarks on Border Security in the 21st 21st century. Its an honor and privilege to not only have secretary johnson here but to have him speaking on such a critical issue at a critical time for the nations security as well as the department. Ive got ton know the secretary over the last year, and i will tell you, he is one of the most serious, sober, and substantive Public Servants ive met, and its really an honor and privilege to have him here at csis. You know the secretarys background so i wont recite this bio, but certainly you know he has a distinguished legal and public career. He has served in the Public Sector numerous times, before his stint as the fourth secretary of Homeland Security, served as the general counsel at the department of defense, he may have been r
Arrives in china for a key visit with his biggest trading partner. Rival groups of soldiers in burundi are vying for control of the capitol. Pierre nkurunziza has condemned what he calls the coup plotters. But he says that he will forgive soldiers who surrender. There has been fighting around the state media compound heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard across the city, and independent media out lets have been closed. There is confusion, however. Al jazeeras malcolm webb is in the capitol. Reporter just a short while ago we heard very heavy fighting coming from over here from the area where the compound of the National Radio and national tv are. Understand that yesterday when the soldiers supporting the leader of the coup took key locations, they didnt force their way in they tried to negotiate their way in. But they failed to do that. So there has lately been heavy fighting there. There were forces loyal to the president who were heavily armed fighting back inside. The radio h
Discussed your kids. A man heard me talk about my threatened her. We stopped talking about the kids on the air. Lot had that debate with a of public figures and as a result i often said to young who are in our business your children forward because there are crazy people who will try to get to you through them. Are they now . The youngest is 22. College, not paying for anymore. The others are 25 and 28. My daughter doesnt care much for politicings. Do, but only one listens and he loves talk radio, business. E whole were going to talk a lot about what happened in your on , the first question is work itself. Why do you spend this much time on the radio . Ith all of the radio, your harvard background, your michigan background. I think radio is the longest media thats of left. What were doing is an hourlong onversations, unprecedented, only cspan does long form conversation anymore. Ou read books the way i read books in order to talk to the arthur seriously. Nd its tremendously revealing w
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c