It is almost like the ginsu knife. That is a joke. [laughter] they did more. We understand our job is to defend this country. It is a noble mission. I look at the folks that do this every day and say, these are great americans. What they have done is they can see what the terrorists are trying to do coming into the country and what we were blamed for as an Intelligence Community was not connecting the dots. The fbi had one set of data, the cia, nsa, and other intelligence agencies, another. And we were blamed for not connecting the dots. So we said, we need the ability to connect the dots. We came up with a couple of programs. Business record fisa is the key to connect the dots. That is the one we need to focus on here today. What is that all about . How do we connect the dots with this . What is it . It has been sensationalized, that we are listening to americans phone calls and reading emails. That is flat wrong. Under fisa, we would have to have an individualized warrant to do that.
We have a regular system for actually making decisions about what we will export and to whom we will export them. This system takes many things into account. But it is fundamentally based on upholding the United States national interest. It is not controlled by exporters, unlike in europe where exporter interests actually dominate their policies. This arms trade treaty will do nothing to change that, but it will give exporterdominated nations a shield to hide behind. Now, every nation state can control the arms trade if its truly willing to do so. And the United States is ready to help. But few have meaningful laws about the arms trade and even fewer make any attempt to enforce them. The United States has two major programs to help serious countries. The first, the export control and related Border Security assistance, and it goes by the rm ecbs, is run by the state department. The second is h. M. A. , which includes stockpile conventional munitions assistance, intended to assist in th
Since kron 4 broke this story earlier this week pam we are hearing from the Antioch School district. Bob sanchez is the director of Student Support services we do train our teachers and staff. When certain situations occur we are in the process of involving people to come try us to deal with certain situations and behavior systems. It is a collaborative effort. To understand some of the problems that we can be able to deal with where we involve everyone. We are here to educate students. Pam he says, despite the fight video. Dallas ranch middle school is one of the best schools in the Antioch Unified School district, with the highest daily attendance and highest academic acheivement. Pam grant . Grant were following breaking news in southern california. Where firefighters are facing walls of fire. And theyre scrambling to save homes tonight. Grant so far sturctures have not burned. But the flames are close. Grant check out the proximity to this house near the city of cornoa. Steep, bone
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Projecting that sanders will win, and with a significant lead. Sanders and most of his fellow candidates are looking ahead now to the next primary. Thats in South Carolina next weekend. And then suber tuesday, just a few days after that. One unexpected moment at the Bernie Sanders rally in austin, the unannounced appearance of marianne williamson, whose own candidacy for the democratic president ial nomination ended last month. Now williamson had supported andrew yang in the iowa caucuses, but since he dropped out, she has now made her new choice official. Bernie sanders has taken a stand, and Bernie Sanders has been taking a stand for a very long time. He has been convicted. He has been committed. And now its time. Im here and youre here because its time for us to take a stand with bernie. Now another member of the democratic field who is banking hard on a strong showing in South Carolina is former Vice President joe biden. He fell short in iowa and new hampshire, of course, as well a