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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today 20150421

We are safer today than when barack Obama Took Office . No. Unfortunately, i dont either. Sadly, the obvious answer is no. In fact, the lack of American Leadership under this president has made the world more dangerous. And you just have to take look around the world. In the middle east, isis has seized territory in iraq and syria. To establish an islamic cal fate. Nothing is too brutal or barbaric for this terrorist group. Weve seen how they have tormented, tortured, raped, killed, christians for what they believe in. Were also seeing the resurgence offal quooid and affiliated groups in yemen libya and other areas around the world. You might recall that last fall, just this past fall, the president cited yemen as an example of success in terms of the administrations counterterrorism strategy. Can you imagine . Yemen a success model. Id hate to see what failure looks like. I introduced an amendment in the Defense Authorization to make sure we would not transfer any of the dangerous ter

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150422

We will talk about it on the phone. We go to arizona flagstaff, and believe me sometimes it gets pretty heated but we talk about the elections all over, even in kentucky. Got you. Thank you. I think there are a lot of political reforms that could potentially encourage more people to think about running for office. As far as term limits are concerned, we have elections every two years. If we could get more people to run for office, the elections could serve as term limits. But whats important and the argument we are trying to make in the book is that young people who are not that well versed about politics who dont necessarily know the specifics about different policies are still not at all interested in running for office thats because of a broader sense that it is not a way to get things done or to solve problems and not noble. So thats the challenge i think. It is not about specific changes to the system, which certainly couldnt hurt but it is about casting a wider net, letting young

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150422

Then we close out may at book expo america in new york city where the Publishing Industry show cases upcoming books. First week of june, live for the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Thats this spring on cspan2s book tv. Jennifer lawless is the coauthor of the book running from office, why Young Americans are turned off to politics. On washington journal we talked to her about involvement of young people in politics. This is 45 minutes. Our guest, coauthor of a book running from office why Young Americans are turned off to politics. Jennifer lawless joins us. Good morning. Good morning. Why is the turnoff happening . There are several reasons, but ultimately because politics are ugly, theres hyper partisanship stalemate young people want to go save communities think about every option rather than running for office. Is that because theyre not exposed to politics or theres not interest from them to get into politics . It is interesting. For a long time there was a sense Young Amer

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