White house eric bush released a statement to say president obama was made of the hospitalization and a quote from the president that spokesperson, president obama and first lady sent their good wishes to the former president the entire family during the holiday season. We have been showing you selections of an years of the q a program. Be sure to join us today with a conversation with robert novak. E spoke about the memoir again, that is today at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. Coming up at 8 00, president obama and the first year the first family as they like this years christmas tree. It includes musical performance and readings of the first lady. Here is a quick look. President , mrs. Obama, malia asha, merry christmas. Hello, everybody. From five. G to start we want to say thanks to tom and rita. We hope they are ready. We hope everyone watching at home is getting in the christmas spirit. We will start counting down right now. Lets do it. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [cheers and applause] will show
Successful fighting in iraq since isis came. The Iraqi Military with ghosts and all of that, they have not done anything to speak of. They achieved an army. The external volunteer fighters as they are called, they are the ones who achieved on the outskirts of baghdad, they held other places. All of that. Are they the favorable way to go . No, for sure. You would rather see the state and military do its job. The military has not functioned, and iraq was left to those groups to defend it. It is hard to speak of them. Yes, they have american blood on their hands from the old days. But so did the others being trained by the United States right now. Who are the recruits from the sunni militia being formed by the United States, equipped, and funded . They are the ones that shot at the americans into lodz and elsewhere into lodz a in fallujah and elsewhere. The american approach, rather than doing something for the Iraqi Military, they are approaching it in a madisonian way. If you have a pro
Stakeholders. This is ultimately a matter for Security Council to decide. That being said, i would certainly welcome the Councils Engagement and guidance to advance the middle east peace process. I have been personally meeting and engaging with the leaders of palestine and israel and leaders in the region and Global Leadership as a member of the quartet and as the secretarygeneral of the United Nations. We are strongly urging again that the israelis and palestinians, the leadership, they should sit down together and resolve all this. The Security Council can take their actions, but it is ultimately up to two parties, two leaders, so that they can discuss all the pending issues. I believe that they have identified all the issues. They know what are the fundamental issues to resolve. I have been urging, and im as urging again, that those two leaders should discuss this matter so they can realise a twostate solution, twostate vision where israeli and Palestinian People can live side by si
Earning money. If the economy is growing their wages are going up. So it was important not just the issue but to put it in context as a bigger picture. Without dynamic scoring, putting things in that bigger context just doesnt happen. Thats what was divent about this debate and will be different going forward. Speaking of going forward, if i understood the quote correctly, your successor paul ryan has said that your legislation will not be the blueprint but it will be a marker. Yes. Youve chosen to leave. Yes. And your chairmanship was up for term limits. But how does that make you feel . Do you expect your plan to be the blueprint for the new congressman . First of all, paul ryan is on the ways and Means Committee. He is the incoming chairman so hell be succeeding me. He was part of putting that plan together. He knows it very well. And, look. A new committee, new congress, theyre going to look at things in a different way. We did learn things through that process that you might adjus
Venture into the art of good writing. 12 30, the secret history of wonder woman. , authors talk about their reading habits. Then, the fall of the berlin wall with cspan footage of president george bush, and speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. Then, fashion choices of first ladies and how they represented the style at the time. Then, tom brokaw on his 50 years of reporting on world events. That is Christmas Day. For a complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Sunday, Washington Post fact checker columnist Wayne Kessler on his biggest pinocchios of 2014. Upset. Crats get more i think they have bought into the myth of the little media. They think the media is on their side. Republicans believe in the myth of the liberal media. Bey expect they are going to they are not going to be fair to me. That over the last four years i have done enough backandforth, treated both , thats with equal fervor people have now come to ok, you areay someone we can do business with. The Senate Majority pac