, all of growth that does set a slower, more sustainable trajectory is in the u. S. Interest, and i say that for several reasons. One is i do agree with the fundamental assessment that the current strategy has played itself out. The implications for social and political stability, and stability in the domestic context is certainly in our interest. I think also they are projecting that the vision includes a more integrated china with the world economy. I think certainly that is an americas longterm interest. So i think bottom line is we have a national interesting, ber interests, the leadershipses is assessment that they need to change that ever economic model. Now, chris had reverended some new considerations with respect to xi zhengping and the current leadership. I think one very significant change, structurally in the decisionmaking process is been the reemerge ends, not that it was ever dormant, but the party under xi, as he projects it will play a much larger role than it has in t
Families. Cspan2 will have live coverage of his comments. After tonights remarks, the president leaves for a weeklong asian trip stopping in japan, the philippines, malaysia, and south korea. Those visits were originally planned for last october, but canceled due to the government shutdown. Back in washington, governor Chris Christie speaks at the new Jersey Chamber of commerce congressional dinner tonight. Our live coverage starts at 7 15 p. M. And at 8 00 p. M. , three prominent whistle blowers, daniel heburg, who broke the pentagon paper story, thomas drake, a former National Security Agency Senior executive who was prosecuted as a spy, and a former Justice Department ethics whistleblower all talk about challenges they face exposing wrongdoing. Heres a brief portion of tonights program. Snoweden snowden, i believe, looked at these examples, looked at chelsea manning, look at aage and realized he had to be out of the country if he was going to put out this amount of information and b
Cost is always going to be an issue. It is pretty straightforward and pretty simple. Dollars how many of you all in journalism say follow the money. It is about the money, and people are going to make choices and make decisions about whether or not to do things the cousin of how it affects their bottom line. E need to understand that we need to also understand that sometimes it is going to cost them money if they do not make these changes, and sometimes they can make changes that improve safety and improved efficiency. It is all about having a dialogue and making sure people understand that. It does not have to be an eitheror, that people will be driven by money. Our own government is driven by costbenefit analysis. There are a lot of recommendations we have issued that have not gone anywhere because the costand if it does benefit doesost not support them. It does come down to money. With respect to the relationship, we have to have a balance of people who understand the industry, who
You have it wrong. These 54 decisions where she is on one side thats because the press focuses on the 25 of the heady cages, the constitutional cases. Most of what we are doing is trying to interpret dense statutes congress passed, very difficult to parse. On those cases, there isnt the usual lineup the press expects to see in the mostwatched cases. So we agree on many procedure cases. Not always. You got one wrong last year. [laughter] and also, i have to Say Something else. We both care about the way opinions are crafted. Its not easy to write an opinion. I think you care very much about how it is said and said why. The way we say it is quite different. One reason we became such good friends on the d c circuit was we were both former academics. Harry edwards was another academic on the court. But in academia, when you wrote a law review article, you would circulate it to your colleagues and i would make comments, helpful comments, not just this is wrong. But theres an additional poin
Government, during the arab spring of 2011. The spark came in the Southern City of daraa, where Security Forces beat a group of teenage boys. Their crime scrawling anti assad slogans on their school wall. From there, the protests spread, the regime cracked down violently, and fighting erupted. Its since grown into a full blown civil war, with the rebels seizing large chunks of territory. In all, more than 70,000 syrians have died. Russia its warships seen today docking in beirut before moving on to syria continues to supply arms to the syrian military. Other nations have called on assad to step down, but been reluctant to intercede. Today in brussels the European Union rejected a push to lift its embargo on arms to the rebels, over the objections of france and britain. Assad is still in place, he is still being strongly supplied and strengthened by others and we need to put pressure on to bring about the transition that is necessary for the syrian people, necessary for the stability of