Difficulties we have today in getting things done. I am a great believer that nothing gets done unless president s lead. [applause] i had the great privilege to work for a president that 10 times a day reminded the chief of staff that things had to get done. To set the stage for this discussion, let me remind you that in 19891990, the country was having financial problems. It was drifting into recession. It had huge deficits. The Financial Community knew that the United States needed a multiyear budget agreement and it was pretty clear that this was going to be a strong, tough, hard battle between the executive and legislative branch. George bush knew this and his message was, go get a budget. There is one person who is not here today, passed away, that i have to tell you, george w. Bush had the benefit of somebody who understood budget and process as well as anyone. Having said that, i am thrilled that those gentlemen who are sitting here with me today were part of that process. It ma
Kenyas president said that in part of the mall three stories had collapsed during the military operations and he warned that bodies are still trapped under the rubble. Still, he addressed the nation tonight saying kenya had stared down evil and triumphed. We have ashamed and defeated our attackers. That part of our task has been completed i by our multiagency security team. He said he could not confirm intelligence reports that suggested two or three americans may have been among the attackers. According to the red cross, at least 65 people are still unaccounted for. City morgues are preparing for the worst. We found volunteers had been working around the clock since saturdays massacre. And the bodies were stacking up. Actually, they were building up a pyramid and we had to do something. This engineer told us the hardest part is when he had to end to the body of a nineyearold boy who died in his mothers arms. I watched the boy, i cleaned him up. I wrapped anymore a cloth. Rose we conti
Down evil and triumphed. We have ashamed and defeated our attackers. That part of our task has been completed i by our multiagency security team. He said he could not confirm intelligence reports that suggested two or three americans may have been among the attackers. According to the red cross, at least 65 people are still unaccounted for. City morgues are preparing for the worst. We found volunteers had been working around the clock since saturdays massacre. And the bodies were stacking up. Actually, they were building up a pyramid and we had to do something. This engineer told us the hardest part is when he had to end to the body of a nineyearold boy who died in his mothers arms. I watched the boy, i cleaned him up. I wrapped anymore a cloth. Rose we continue with the president of somalia who is visiting the United Nations General Assembly. He is Hassan Sheikh mohamud. Alshabaab has been weakened but their threat is still imminent and is still in existence. And the war that we face
Was to the response of the Kenyan Military presence in smol im pleased to have the president here at this table for the first time. Welcome. We thank you. Rose we have reports from kenya that Government Troops have taken control of the Shopping Mall and that there are i think what was five or six terrorists killed and some 12 in custody according to the New York Times report that i read. Can you tell me more about what happened and what we know . Well, what happened is that alshabaab has always been a threat to somalia, to the region and the world at large. So this is part of a campaign that they took recently in somalia where they have killed a lot of innocent people in their courthouse in mogadishu, in a calf fear where journalists use to take their Morning Coffee before they go to the office. And this is another horrific incident that took place so alshabaab is an ideology. The ideologys have no citizenship. They come across the world and the problem somalia faces todayd is because
Down evil and triumphed. We have ashamed and defeated our attackers. That part of our task has been completed i by our multiagency security team. He said he could not confirm intelligence reports that suggested two or three americans may have been among the attackers. According to the red cross, at least 65 people are still unaccounted for. City morgues are preparing for the worst. We found volunteers had been working around the clock since saturdays massacre. And the bodies were stacking up. Actually, they were building up a pyramid and we had to do something. This engineer told us the hardest part is when he had to end to the body of a nineyearold boy who died in his mothers arms. I watched the boy, i cleaned him up. I wrapped anymore a cloth. Rose we continue with the president of somalia who is visiting the United Nations General Assembly. He is Hassan Sheikh mohamud. Alshabaab has been weakened but their threat is still imminent and is still in existence. And the war that we face