[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] health and Human Services kateri Sylvia Burwell on capitol hill tomorrow morning to brief lawmakers on the president s 2017 budget requests. Well take it to the Senate Finance committee herein live at 10 00 a. M. Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. The reality is the best president s, the greatest president s have been willing to recognize they were not the smartest person in the room and to surround themselves with people who they thought were smarter than themselves. Sunday night on q a, former secretary of defense and former director of the cia robert gate discusses a book, passion for leadership. Lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. Surrogates has served under several president s, most recently george w. Bush and barack obama. At the end of the cold war when i was director of Central Intelligence i came to believe very strongly that the American People had given cia up pass on a
Discussion. Theres going theres going to be pressure from the bottom up. People cannot live under those conditions. The chinese know this, the chinese know and there are real worries about the chinese and about what that instability will lead to in terms of them. So that that leads me to my third point, that is, when we talk about china, its not getting china involved, china is very involved with the consequences. It may have its own agenda about what it wants to do this. The question is, besides pressure on china, and we have heard a lot what are the ways of partnership with china lacks what do you see as opportunities at this moment to be dealing with . Thank you very much. Very insightful thoughts and questions. If there is no other Opening Statements im going to move to the panel first of all introducing three great experts on this issue. First is the Senior Adviser and the chair of the center for study jack and International Studies. Its good to see you again. A the Senior Researc
Alternatives that are there. Senator crapo. The private sector markets are contracting. Im concerned that this reduces student bar options. Could you describe the current state of the private student loan market and how that compares to the market and made a claim why we are seeing this dynamic . Thank you very much for the question. We have gone from a 24 billion industry to about an 8 billion industry. And yet performance rating for many of her banks have exited Student Lending business. There are few others thinking about it. We have a 3 default rate. We flip the equation. We dont want to look at a refinancing option. We dont need to because we do all the work at the front end. We make sure we have an ability to repay. Theres nothing worse than telling a student at the very beginning of the crew were not sure you can afford the loan we are about to give you. We do have selfsegregation 90 some of our loans are certified by the institution. When there is a time to repay the loan, we w
If it comes to that and my opponent is not doing that and that is one of the important issues of this race. Paul davis is ahead of brownback of 42 why is this so close . A very different dynamic with the senate race on National Issues but the reason is built around competency or execution. And is of very aggressive program. And the effect is to blow a sizable hole in the states budget without the boost he suggested. For that reason is because people are worried about education or transportation they have gotten a lot of traction out here. But the governor is also a fixture of kansas politics just like roberts known each other for a quarter century it would be a very republican state with a bill to the advantage but search of the unrest with some voters in kansas that you can see the types of campaigns we looked at that has a very dramatic effect on the futures. For the Kansas City Star from kansas city we appreciate you being with us give it great to be here this minute conversation on
No closer to denuclearizeish and today than was several years ago. They continue to develop nuclear and Cyber Capabilities at an alarming rate. Most troubling is the continued development of the medium and long range missile capability. It may be unreliable today but they could oppose a threat to guam, alaska, or even the west coast of the United States and some believe they have aspirations to build submarines that could carry these missiles even closer to the United States. They appear to be working toward a miniature warhead that can be mounted on missiles. The commander of us forces in north korea at this moment they may possess the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead. It is it is clear there aspirations do not stop with convention conventional Nuclear Weapons. They are quietly developing a defensive cyber capability. I was was deeply disturbed by the cyber attack on sony that took place. Agents agents working for the north korean regime than the lies and coworkers to company