We are safer today than when barack Obama Took Office . No. Unfortunately, i dont either. Sadly, the obvious answer is no. In fact, the lack of American Leadership under this president has made the world more dangerous. And you just have to take look around the world. In the middle east, isis has seized territory in iraq and syria. To establish an islamic cal fate. Nothing is too brutal or barbaric for this terrorist group. Weve seen how they have tormented, tortured, raped, killed, christians for what they believe in. Were also seeing the resurgence offal quooid and affiliated groups in yemen libya and other areas around the world. You might recall that last fall, just this past fall, the president cited yemen as an example of success in terms of the administrations counterterrorism strategy. Can you imagine . Yemen a success model. Id hate to see what failure looks like. I introduced an amendment in the Defense Authorization to make sure we would not transfer any of the dangerous ter
We will talk about it on the phone. We go to arizona flagstaff, and believe me sometimes it gets pretty heated but we talk about the elections all over, even in kentucky. Got you. Thank you. I think there are a lot of political reforms that could potentially encourage more people to think about running for office. As far as term limits are concerned, we have elections every two years. If we could get more people to run for office, the elections could serve as term limits. But whats important and the argument we are trying to make in the book is that young people who are not that well versed about politics who dont necessarily know the specifics about different policies are still not at all interested in running for office thats because of a broader sense that it is not a way to get things done or to solve problems and not noble. So thats the challenge i think. It is not about specific changes to the system, which certainly couldnt hurt but it is about casting a wider net, letting young
Then we close out may at book expo america in new york city where the Publishing Industry show cases upcoming books. First week of june, live for the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Thats this spring on cspan2s book tv. Jennifer lawless is the coauthor of the book running from office, why Young Americans are turned off to politics. On washington journal we talked to her about involvement of young people in politics. This is 45 minutes. Our guest, coauthor of a book running from office why Young Americans are turned off to politics. Jennifer lawless joins us. Good morning. Good morning. Why is the turnoff happening . There are several reasons, but ultimately because politics are ugly, theres hyper partisanship stalemate young people want to go save communities think about every option rather than running for office. Is that because theyre not exposed to politics or theres not interest from them to get into politics . It is interesting. For a long time there was a sense Young Amer
Precaution possible. The school and the mayor have been pushing to tell everybody the school is safe. Theres still a million unanswered questions. How did the kid get this disease. At what point . Did anybody else get it . She was very sick and she died. The second debt was a child who attended a middle school just a couple miles away from that elementary school. Was the child murdered . I cant say at this point in time. I cant give you any details other than there is an open investigation with the Newark Police department. And it was not an illness, then what was it . They the parents, they dont know what was going on. They bring their child to school to learn and by the way, we are shocked to hear this kind of thing. The two deaths as far as we are unreallot rude. I think im more concerned with the first grader because of this talk of bacterial meningitis. Its one thing to say its safe, its another thing to say that and then say we dont know exactly what happened. How do you know its
An amazing story of rescue, today, tuesday, october 15th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer along side Natalie Morales and al roker. Its like you drew up the show today because you love technology. Oh, man. We have things on the show, later on well talk about break through inventions that will change your life and could change the world. And then another guest. I see your break through inventions and raise you one bionic man. We have a bionic man in the studio. This is as far as science can go to replicating a human body. He can do a lot of things. Well check him out. He looks like he is asleep. You have to wake him up. Well wake him up. Hes not a morning program. For the second straight night, emergency crews at l. A. X. Are dealing with homemade dry ice bombs. Tom costello is on the story for u