When and in our politics a lot of these legal questions that may be best directed at somebody else but i feel like you have a perspective when does a well see office of legislative Legal Counsel Legal Counsel scuse me guidance override the laws passed by congress. The office of Legal Counsel does not override laws passed by congress what it does is it passes legal opinion for those of us who are in the executive branch and the office of Legal Counsel legal opinion is binding to everyone within the executive branch. Good copy and i have 2 final questions im asking together to give you the time to answer them both. What is your assessment of how intelligence operations in general are going to be impacted by this latest episode and when i say episode im referring to the media circus the political circus the technical issues that are related to this whistle blower revelation you alluded to it in some of your previous questions but i would i would like your your assessment of how this can i
Is with the middle class laid bare, with a more precarious position than we realized in the early 2000s. Theye lost a lot of what had. Middleclass Home Ownership was down after the recension recession. Business ownership was down. Middleclass incomes fell not just in the recession, but in the recovery. It only stabilized in the last couple of years since then. They maybe going up again, finally. Be going up again, finally. When we think about the frustrations they are feeling now, it is not just because the recovery and recession were bad. Things were pretty bad before that. A pretty terrible economic decade for most americans and we did not realize that as much because they were spending money they did not have and now they have to pay it back and stop borrowing until we see a situation where it debt frustrations are boiling over. Host were talking about american middle class, the numbers are on the bottom of the screen. You can also participate on social media. Mike is in chicago. We
Protecting the military and protecting them. We need to encourage good relations between jordan and egypt. And jordan and saudi arabia. We need to let them know that we are dependable. What i said before it is very true. People rely on the United States. Aople have to know we are dependable ally. It is good policy for us to be a dependable ally. It is also good policy for us in terms of what we need. Al qaeda was planning. And putting. We were not going after them. When the soviet Union Russians were thrown at afghanistan, we sort of pact that the one home. We allow that country to fester instead of making sure that the taliban did not rear its ugly head. We cannot afford to do that anymore. Feel thatt people they are tired. They are all tied. We have responsibilities as the leading power and as a responsibility to ourselves. It is one of those moments in our life in everybodys life. We have to be vigilant. We need to work to make sure that the people who would do us harm prevented fro
Took out every single word and took that little short bill and expanded that by thousands of ages, my copy was around 2,500 to do and it had nothing with military or veteran home buyers, had nothing to do with that. They inserted health care that we have found out since is costing more and if you like your doctor, youre going to lose your doctor, if you like your insurance policy, good chance you may lose it, fortunately, not everybody is losing their doctor, but the promises have been badly broken. It turns out those people, including the head of this administration, were just flat wrong when they said, you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, if you like your insurance, you can keep your doctor. For example, theres a story here from Kaiser Health news applebee gorman, julie date october 21. Wont read the whole three pages. But it points out that health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consume
We did not do enough for we did too much. We pulled out after the soviets fell, now we are back in and we have got to set more realistic expectations. Work with local partners and International Allies and try to fix the problem. This will be a long, tough battle. We are not going to be universally loved while we are trying to protect our country from al qaeda. If we make some of those changes, we can prosecute that war more effectively ended in a way that will build greater build a greater chance of winning the ideological war, which is the most important piece. Thank you very much, that was a Tour De Force across many of the most relevant issues today and National Security policy. We will be challenged to stay inside our time. Let me pull a few of the elements you raised together. Early in your talk, you spoke on the use of Unmanned Systems. In the news, it is the aerial systems in particular. It is safe to say that there is a general consensus that these systems will become ubiquitou