administration somehow seems to lack a sense of coherency and strategy and central purpose. brzezinski was on my program and said i agree with everything the administration was doing. i just wished they were more energetic and purposeful about it. there is that sense that there is an almost reluctance to take the leadership role here that naturally falls to the united states. and it s unfortunate because i said in terms if you were to tick off the policies, there isn t much more you could do they weren t doing. lindsey graham when he was asked famously said well, they re not calling putin a thug. if that s the best alternate policy you have, a rhetorical flourish, there s not much there. the question i suppose now, is this event now enough to be the cat at that time lis not only for europe to move but more force in action coming from washington.
juliet halprin? the united states has been slow to provide significant weapons and training directly to the syrian opposition. has the expansion of the syria war into iraq changed your mind about the type of weapons and training you now are willing to give the opposition there? is that what prompted secretary kerry to stay in syria we re augmenting our assistance and can you elaborate on what you are doing now that you weren t doing before. you know, that assessment about the dangers of what was happening in syria existed since the very beginning of the syrian civil war. the question has never been whether we thought this was a serious problem. the question has always been, is there the capacity of moderate opposition on the ground to absorb and counteract extremists that might have been pouring in as well as an assad regime
know, you read it because we were assigned it in school. i read it on my own at a young age because it was so impactful. she did speak for particularly young black girls that have an invisibility problem in society. she spoke for us. i think for women throughout her career she was this trail blazer. she was this independent person who was doing things that let alone black women or women, period, weren t doing. and she was just brilliant. very much missed. . valerie? a true renaissance woman, yes. in a way, because i was assigned the book too, one of the first and only books i actually didn t just read because it was an assignment but because i took off in it. and her voice continues that every time, valerie, you hear now a recording of her voice, you stop. and you give it weight. and you become mindful which doesn t happen in this day and
weren t doing nearly that well. but these monthly numbers jump around a lot, alex. the pace of faye roll growth have been 130,000. if yo go back to six months, it was closer to 200. part of that may be weather. that said, as you mentioned, good news and less good news in this report. we talked about all of these notices of weather, 119 separate times, that was in the feds release of the beige book this week. that is a snapshot of the economy. that s backing it up. do we expect april will turning things around because of weather? there should be some bounce back from that. it was interesting, there were cities throughout the country saying there s less economic activity than usual in january, partly in february because of the unusually cold weather. so we do expect somewhat of a
wanted to know about all of our practices and alleged things that we simply weren t doing, which makes it very hard to it defend because you can t really defend the negative. he was asserting things that were simply fantasy. much has been made about the president s comments in an interview with bill o reilly about not a smidgen of corruption here. how do you respond to that? it s a sad statement from our commander and chief. what do you want the american people it to hear? what do you want them to do? i want them to remember who we are. the government works for us. it is of the people. and we should not be silenced. congressman, before this woman became part of the tea party. she had never been audited. she has had 15 audits, four federal agencies, on or about sharks fbi has been out to her six times. irs audit. bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and she has even gotten a a letter from a democratic congressman about this. coincidence? oh, boy, it s hard to