So as the old saying goes, if you cant bea them, jn them. Were seeing new apps for taxi ps. You press button and a cap you can see wre it is, how long it will take to get to you, an best of all the phone takes care of the payment, just like uber. Steve humphreyseads the fort. He is now the ceo and executive taylor. Wheel joined by colleen yo app really is exactly like uber. As a user, and im not accusing you of anything im saying yea, and the interfac is familiar. Familiar experience. Ve a you paybout half the pri and you g o of a large number of taxies already out in the city. We fured lets use those insteaofutting new cars on the street and creating whole new experience. Were getting theonsumer p exrience side. People have largely abandoned taxis. Ubers popular because they have been burnd so many times by a cap that doesnt show up. How much markeng do you have to do to get people to try out cabs ain. Cabs are still the mass market, and thats one thing that we looked at and decided t
Think is very interesting study, john f. Kennedy and the missile gap also in 2004. And finally we have Michael Cohen who is a fellow at the century foundation. He has been a columnist at the guardian. A blogger for the new york daily news. Hes the author of life on the campaign trail which is about notable 20th Century Campaign speeches of consequence and he is also published widely in wall street journal, new york times, l. A. Times, politico, et cetera. So john, over to you, sir. Good. Im supposed to speak here. You can all hear me. I thought the subject of this panel and of this conference had something to do with realism so im going to playoff that theme and ill get around to pl ticks at the very end. Theres a narrow version of realism. Im not talking about the academic theory of realism or the diplomatic theory that resinate with Public Opinion. Thats the idea that america should only deal with threats that directly concern us but in places like syria, the middle east and ukraine
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Operating under those circumstances. Miss wertheimer has the opportunity today to inform us how she will handle these exceptional challenges. I look forward to hearing from each of ou nominees on these important issues and more. Thank you, senator. There is an 11 00 vote scheduled for them. Its the law of sufficient time to allow questions. We have agreed to limit Opening Statements to the chair and Ranking Member. All senators will welcomed to submit an Opening Statement for the record. Senator curnan will now introduce mayor castro. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member crapo. Its my pleasure to be with you here today to introduce a fellow san antonioian and texan mr. Castro. He has told me that hes glad to be here and looked forward to your question buzz he especially looks forward to being back in san antonio to help celebrate the victory of the San Antonio Spurs which that celebration is still going on and will for a long time. I know he will take the opportunity to introduce
Forsight and hfo foresight and his advocacy on this issue clearly helped people step up and move forward. Thank you very much. Mr. Trimble . I would just add that previously ga has done work on this area. We looked at u. S. Forces and how they were handling this issue in france and got some innovative ideas. We havent done the crossreferencing per se but we have looked at how other countries have tackled these issues. I guess it would be understandable that if other states, other nations, rather, have these devices that have radioactive materials in them, whether theyre mobile or stationary, and if other countries do not secure them well, and those materials were obtained, they could be used for bad purposes in those countries or maybe anywhere. What do we have to reduce the likelihood that if another country did not have did not secure their radioactive materials well, what assurances do we have with the way we protect our own borders and our ports of entry that well be able to detect