And to minimize those. How do you fix that . One way and one way only. Competent leadership. You dont permit that to happen. These are the things we said we are going to do. How are we doing that . How could you come to the conclusion isis is losing . It enjoys freedom of maneuver and can attack at will in a place of its choosing. If of force has that capability to do that and gets a manifestation of that, that force is winning. The leaders should say, what are you talking about . None of that makes any sense. This is what they are capable of. We have got this wrong, and how are we going to fix it . That is about competent leadership. I am jealous of my colleagues 13 minutes. You said something i wrote down that we should not just the spectators. Not just be spectators. You are going through the atrocities. We are spectators. Congress has been a spectator. Since august 8, we have been a spectator. Absent one vote we took to arm syrian moderates, there is no Evidence Congress is concern
And i think thats probably a good principle. But the issue is, that should not trump whats necessary to do given the fact that isis represents a new organization with new leadership, a new vision in terms of its global and regional strategy and that it is a barbaric organization committing genocide, assassination, enlavement and raping of women, as we all know and that it is fully intent on conducting a religious war based on their ideology. And we cannot let the Rearview Mirror of iraq and afghanistan so disincentivize us to deal with the reality of what this is. And im convinced that the American People, when we inform them and we educate them and we take them through this, i mean i dealt with the bush administration, they never truly explained what radical islam is and why its so dangerous. We never took apart the ideology. We never truly fashioned a strategy to deal with it in a comprehensive way and here we sit with the same problem today. I think thats a great point and something
Case or this one. The mere appreciation are not corruption. Word for word out of the Supreme Court decision and Citizens United. The District Court refused to give a standard goodwill instruction. A gift or payment given with the general ayatollah for some unspecified nature benefit is not a prize. Here one of our principal arguments was the governor believed Johnny Williams is giving goodwill gets in the expectation he would get the access and credibility that come with it good faith was your defense. That is what you said. Our defense is good faith. We did, your honor. If the governor acted in good faith, he didnt have criminal intent and there could be no crime. There would be no crime. Because the jury doesnt understand the true scope of official acts and the jury doesnt understand the difference between a permissible goodwill gift in a prohibited bribe. If he acted in good faith it doesnt make any difference. It doesnt make any difference. If he acted in good faith then it couldnt
University and president Obama Meeting with local Law Enforcement and Community Leaders in camden, new jersey. Well cover top nonfiction authors and books. Next weekend were live at book expo america in new york city. And beginning of june were live for the chicago tribune, a threehour live in Depth Program with lawrence and watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival from the library. In the middle of july were live with the africanamerican literary event with Panel Discussions and at the beginning of were live from the Nations Capital from the National Book festival celebrating the 15th year. And thats a few events from this summer on cspans book tv. A three judge panel at the Fourth Circuit court of appeals in richmond, virginia heard oral argument on whether the corruption conviction of Bob Mcdonnell should be overturned. They are considering two points. The first, whether the definition of official acts was overly broad and second if perspective jurors were properly questioned
That at the currently the distraction of the ukraine prevents the cooperation. And so once that crisis is solved, then we can go back into cooperative mode. And so that conflict or that competition overshadows a lot of those areas where we can cooperate. Look at the meeting two weeks ago between secretary kerry and putin. Nothing we walked away saying it was good that we talked. But there were no agreements substantive agreements that came out of that meeting. Because of this competitive environment that were in, weve got to solve this one major competitive issue before i think well start to see fruits and other areas of cooperation. If i may address the u. S. Side of that, the systems sort of an emerging view within the context of the war game was on the u. S. Side that the russia system was fundamentally different from the u. S. System. Russians as weve already mentioned, we per seevd it to have a much greater freedom of action. But theres a degree of cronyism and corruption that was