Is debra our speaker lee james. She will talk about ongoing efforts in the middle east, as she recently returned from a trip. She will talk about drones, though she may not use that word when she refers to these vehicles. I want to first introduced the distinguished head table. It includes members and guests of our speaker. Tony, defense reporter for bloomberg news. Carl, senior military assistant to the secretary. Patrick, correspondent for defense daily. Eric, special assistant to the secretary. Chief, pastu president for the National Press club, and chairman for the speakers committee. Jean, the Speaker Committee member who organized todays luncheon. Of anselmo, editor in chief aviation magazine. John hurley, past commander and an air force veteran. [applause] i also want to thank our cspan audiences and the audiences listening on public radio. You can also follow the action on twitter. E the npclive. Debra lee james was sworn in as secretary of the air force nearly two years ago, a
Narrator following the attacks of september 11, china drew at least temporarily closer to the u. S. The reason beijing fears separatist forces in their islamic western provinces. China has a delicate relationship with its ethnic and religious minorities. To understand the interactions between two asian cultures, we travel to the frontiers of han and muslim china in the city of lanzhou. But lanzhous location and its future on this frontier have much to do with the regions physical geography and Natural Resources. blowing heavily narrator for centuries in this part of china, rafts like this were an important means of transportation. Made of sheepskin, inflated and tied together, these rafts, called yangpi fazi, navigated the huang he, or yellow river. By looking only at the huang he, you might think lanzhou is a wet place. In fact it only receives about 12 inches of rain a year. Geographer chai yangwei, in the green, follows these farmers to see how they cope with such low rainfall. Pecu
America, the taliban and the war throughout and i feared nigel hamilton, the mental of command. Fbi award in 1940 to 1942. Walter isakson, the innovators. How group of inventors, hackers and eakes created the digital revolution. I wanted to look at how we people invented the computer and the internet and how innovation really happened in the digital age. In was something that came out of steve jobs and before that lj to say who made that type of person, how did they have not been successful . The book is not about singular people, but about the team. About collaboration. One of the things i discovered in doing this book is real innovation comes from great teams, not just great leaders. In the 2014 long list for nonfiction also include john mark, tennessee williams, not pilgrimage of the flash, age of ambition, chasing fortune commensurate than faith in the new china and matthew stewart, nation scott, the radical origins of the american republic. By the lame card sat on the table here.
A oneday blip or an omen of things to come . As we say in palm blip. John boehner had his challenges. People on twitter have said they would like to see him go. This was not his problem. He has other problems, but this is meaningless. I agree. It is a problem that is not going to define his speakership or ruin him. It is as much of a problem as it was before, except now he had to rely on democratic votes. Now that republicans have all of congress all that matters is the next two years. The next two years, when boehner needs help, paul ryan, Jeb Hensarling, other conservatives will back him up. The whole thing is not on the president , but boehner and mcconnell taking risks. The two dozen who voted against him today will not matter. The responsibility will be more his watch than it was before. He is speaker and he recognizes that. He is not an angry guy. He is not a guy who was going to be rattled by this thing to read you could imagine somebody who was speaker had two dozen people in h
Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. Amid ongoing tensions in ferguson, missouri, faith leaders continued to pray for peace and call for justice. Local clergy have tried to maintain calm after the Fatal Shooting of an unarmed africanamerican teenager, michael brown. The shooting sparked two weeks of protests and sometimes violent confrontations with police. Interfaith groups have sponsored peaceful marches and prayer vigils in ferguson urging an expedited grand jury hearing as well as longterm changes in police procedures. Several churches hosted town Hall Meetings for Community Members to air their frustrations. Across the nation, many faith groups are holding special services to show their solidarity with ferguson. Well have more on some of the broader moral issues highlighted by the events there in a few minutes. Meanwhile, religious leaders in new york continued to raise concerns about the case of eric garner, a black man, who died last month after having been p