[applause] im delighted to bring back lands when it was still santa clara in the audience for those that remember his days. Now his main focus is education and he will talk about corruption in the classroom and part of the remarks will be very nerveracking and make us angry that somebody has to fight that so we are glad that hes here to do that for us. He has an incredible background. There are people who have experienced in the military or think tanks were education and he has a little of all of them. Some things are unknowable he was a chief speechwriter for agent a man in california and also a writer for it ed meese in the reagan administration. He is the head policy person at the Pacific Research institute on the education track and we are delighted to welcome him back. [applause] thank you very much for that kind introduction and all of you for welcoming back here to the Silicon Valley. The Biggest Group therapy session in the area. I started my career after law school and i may r
Im not quite sure how realistit is but to do anything but to try to move on with the show, and flawed as it is, and try to take some corrective measures. But i agree with robert 100 in his assessment of that. I think were really at an impasse here, and i dont see those calling for a Transitional Government or mixed commission, i dont see them getting very far. Theres not a cohesive Institutional Force that really supports them in this, and as one paper wrote the other day, its been much more of an emotional response than realistic response. So okay. Thank you. Were going to be open for your questions, comments. Why dont you start us. Thank you. Were going to take two or three questions, and then stepping away from the specifics of the electoral [inaudible] im sorry. Im john varba, the director of Haiti College fund. Stepping away from the specifics of the electoral process, im wondering what is the effect of this chaotic process on the functioning of the government . Everything from th
Political parties . We will see what becomes of the vow to participate following the first round. Hopefully serious actors will continue to engage. But will haitis populous known as voters engage . No one is trumpeting a Voter Participation of 18 according to the cep as a step towards democracy. That would certainly be an exercise in lipstick. There are variety of reasons of course, why haitians are not engaging in political process. One of them they are frustratedy with the outcome of participation, by coups and nonresponsive officials and other factors and theyve probably become somewhat jaund ised in democratic politics. A number of prominent haitian observers and have been calling for a different solution, calling for a Transitional Government or some kind of mixed commission that would place management of the political process in more diverse objective and inclusive hands. Listening to these folks and engaging them seriously is not such a bad idea. After more than four years of hi
He visits this week. We begin with the political debate over social media. Examining twitter, google and facebook. Should there be more regulation . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. And if you are independent, 202 7488002. Join us on twitter or facebook. Good sunday morning to you. Thank you for being with us. We begin with the issue of regulation and whether there should be more of it on social media sites like facebook and google. Article what is the honest ads act and can it stop on socialical ads media . Requiring digital platforms with more than 50 million monthly viewers to create a public database of political ads purchased by a person or group who spends more than 500. Also, it would require the date and time to the ad ran, the price and Contact Information for the purchaser. The house and senate focused on social media and here is senator al franken with this line of questioning. Political ads paid for with foreign money in the future, with rubles or the north k
Already in iraq, but also ideologically. Delegitimize that message of jihad. It is a positive message. Host some have referred to it as a welcome all started mole strategy. Guest you go after individual, highvalue targets. What we saw the arrival of a new commander in chief is terrorism. People dont want to become jihadists. Killing terrorists is great. If you kill a terrorist and 20 People Volunteer to replace him, it is just an endless cycle. We have to delegitimize that message. The same way we did with communism. Host is this the president s policy as well, do you think . Guest if you read the speeches from congress, i think youll see some echoes. So . how guest he talks about the evil that is the enemy. We did not look at economic answers and social answers. It is an ideological enemy that is committed to our destruction. The two most important speeches are the speech he gave in riyadh in front of the leaders, and the speech he gave in warsaw that talked about the evil ideology of