Extremism. I think when we look at this, we cannot indict an entire religion. The innocents are the refugees in this case. They are the people we protect and work with to go after this evil and i will note the f geithner director has says has said the narrative that the is part ofiislamic their rhetoric and the ramifications of such rhetoric can be harmful and are rather than making our country safer. I dont say this naively. I just want to keep our citizens safe. Ive used this as the number one goal of our government. That includes safe from terrorists. To commentstion is about this antimuslim rhetoric we are seeing. We are seeing an increase in hate crimes and how you differentiate between going after terrorists and extremists and inviting an entire religion. Is. Johnson i think counterproductive to our Homeland Security efforts to suspicion over an entire religion. I think that is what the Islamic State would like us to do because it would be for the of to call their efforts islam against christians or islam against americans. They would like to see it in those terms. Theres a distinction to be drawn between terrorism, violent extremist, and the islamic faith, which as you know is a religion of. Those who follow that faith believe in peace. Or fourththird largest religion in the world and is a diverse religion, as diverse as christianity. Theres always a temptation to paint a religion, race or ethnicity with a rod brush and i think it is counter to our efforts at National Security and Homeland Security to do so. Imperative that we continue our efforts to build Community Partnerships with grants, with outreach, partnering with philanthropy and the tech sector and im glad there seems to be support in this congress for doing so. I think it is in parroted that we continue these efforts. Klobuchar we continue to go after these people and indict them at the same time recognizing that we have some really amazing people from the Muslim Community who live in our state and trying to see those differences and balances as art of what we do every will they. I appreciate your closing words there. Grassley thank you for your patience, mostly, thank you for answering our questions. Couldnt answer our questions, you said you would get us answers in writing and we thank you for your cooperation. Our meeting is adjourned. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on newsmakers the director of the National Institute of allergy and in texas Infectious Diseases talk with zika virus and the impact of congress possibility to Reach Agreement on ending for zika research. Thats today at 6 00 eastern on cspan. As i mentioned, i never felt the urge to make money. What turned me on in the 60s as a admirer of the kennedys was policy. Tonight, a twopart interview green, author of right infinite future, and a more on the progressive rise in which he talks about his life and career in public office. You have to have a drive that may be undesirable in a spouse or a friend, you have to wake up and go to sleep and think i want this so much. If you do everything, you win. On q a. One airs tonight part two airs tonight on the span to. Week, the house is expected to take up the debate on gun and terrorism legislation. We talked with a capitol Hill Reporter about the agenda and last weeks capitol hill sit in. The u. S. House will return to work after its july 4 rake. You write that speaker ryan plans a health vote on gun provisions after the sit in by democrats. The maintly are details of that bill . The Speakers Office just released the details and it is wrapped the in counterterrorism and not gun control in the wake of orlando. That is the spin they are putting on it. It includes a provision to prevent terrorists from buying guns, much like a bill in the senate from senator cornyn. Democrats in the house have read check and that idea as insufficient for top that is close to what john cornyn had offered and the senate locked it. Think that is the appropriate measure here . Were a House Democrats on the call this afternoon, you were saying it was because you are letting the National Rifle association right the legislation for you. Whether that is true or not, who knows, but House Republicans are feeling pressure to do something with the word guns in it but perhaps not use so much that it might upset the nra. You talked about what the democrats may be planning. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi released a statement saying democrats will continue to push House Republicans to give American People the vote on violence and protector communities from terrorism with expanded, strengthened background checks buy legislation. What are the plans for House Democrats in the coming week on and off the war . We are talking about the same things democrats were asking for last week. They want background checks on this has been step up on the heels of the orlando shooting after 49 people were killed. Organizers tells me that they hope to have a meeting early next week. Other dilatory tact x may be considered. Going tortain they are do another sit in. March, actually marching to the lincoln memorial, i dont know. Thats what they are talking about. They hope to have more on this meeting with his speaker and if anything happens to get their stuff into that republican into that republican bill. House Speaker Paul Ryan called the sit in a publicity stunt and they are talking to the parliamentarian, the sergeant at arms, what sort of rules are they talking about and what kinds of rules were broken by the democrats during the sit in . Rules to the session and what you can and cannot do. Other rules are a little meeker. ,ou cant take photos or videos all of that stuff that happens in the sit in did not until they occur quickly jammed some votes in. Hespeaker has said looking into what can be done other than forcing them off floor, arresting them perhaps, of arrestingn civil rights icon john lewis front of millions of americans is something they dont want to have ingrained going into the elections and im sure paul ryan does not want that forever imprinted on a 2020 campaign effort. Republicans had their own Conference Call yesterday, please, whatever we do, lets not handcuff. The Congressional Correspondent for Bloomberg News , you can read his reporting at bloomberg. Com. Thank you for being with us. This month, watched cspans coverage of the 2016 republican and chronic national conventions. And every saturday night at 8 00 and, we will look back at past conventions and the candidates who went on to win their partys nomination. We are focused on incumbent president s who ran for reelection dwight eisenhower, the 1964 democratic in Atlantic City with lyndon johnson. Richard nixon that the 1972 Republican Convention in miami beach. Democratic mentioned with jimmy carter, george h. W. Bush at the 1992 Republican Convention in houston. The convention in new york city with george w. Bush. Past republican and Democratic National conventions, saturday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Now, academics and a german format to the u. S. Take part in a discussion on the refugee crisis in europe. They talked about the challenges of assimilating migrants from places like syria and afghanistan and what steps could be taken to ease the process. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. The first speaker is the author of citizen abroad in the middle east and north africa, official stories and narratives and egypt and algeria. And most recently, the author of calling the masses, the democratic origins of race immigration policies in america and lastly, an intervention as thety consort general at federal republic of germany in los angeles for top each speaker will talk for 15 minutes. Marks try to confine your for 15 minutes. Then we will have 45 minutes for q a. Good afternoon. I have an assigned the task of speaking about the domestic implications of the refugee crisis in turkey, jordan and lebanon and have been given 15 minutes to do that. I promised him i would speak that. Let me begin with a few general remarks. The first is none of this should be viewed outside the context of what we started calling the arab spring but turned into something far worse, arab uprisings in general. We have dramatic elements in lebanon and reducing refugee outflows not of the same magnitude. Refugees are largely living in urban areas or rural areas, most refugees are not living in what we would think of as refugee camps even know when we think ,bout jordan, we see the camps this is much more of an urban phenomenon. A third point is the syrian refugee is from across middle income countries, before going on to europe. The capacity of those countries have to be raised on the fact that these are middle income countries. That, let me turn to my forced march through this. I will turn to turkey. Itsy, lebanon and jordan, dependent on who is giving the statistics. Sticks givennt to by turkish officials are 2. 7 million syrians. Concentratedon is in the southeast of the country where the government does operate refugee camps. People get access to health care and services in the camps have waiting list, however because of syrians outside the camps do not have the same access to assistance of health care. They are struggling for the basic necessities like shelter and food, let alone a job to provide for their families. One can assume in all of these cases, even where the syrian conflict to end tomorrow, these evil are not going home any time soon. These countries, it is important to understand what is happening on the dumbest front. Syrian turkish relations which have long been quite strained had begun to improve markedly. This was part of the policy outreach toas new the arab world. President assad refused to yield to the protesters and the relations between the two countries deteriorated quickly. Turkey became one of a saweds most real and opponents and turkey became involved in supporting the insurgency in syria with the backing of the United States. Then conditions continued to deteriorate. Then we have a fullblown civil war and turkey was deeply implicated in that. The assad regime has proven to be quite resilient. There were reports that he would fall into months or more months, obviously none of that came to pass. Turkey has continued to have an policy,porous border ammunition to aid rebel groups and reports that even some sarin gas attacks in turkey and syria and not i the government. Context ofrom the the arab uprising where initially, the turkish government decided with parties associated with the muslim brotherhood. Those parties and that the defeated, particularly in egypt with the opposition being supported by the king of saudi arabia. Turkey found itself increasingly isolated. Graduals been a rapprochement to counter what they see as a growing iranian influence. The civil war in syria has taken a this toll inside turkey at self. Primarily, but certainly not exclusively, because it served as one reason why there has been a revival in kurdish domestic politics. This has taken on increasingly bloody dimensions and the turkish government rejects any suggestion of the establishment of kurdish polity and most of those outside fighting against isis, the kurds are one of the best involved in the fight, so thats discouraging there. Parliamentary elections are like to take place in the fall and the president is hoping he will obtain addition seats to a change the constitution and turn it into a truly president ial one. That is contributing to the authoritarian turn in turkey. And it is inextricable of what has been happening in turkey. Thething reef prior to uprising an outbreak of civil war, integration with iraq and syria was one of the major successes they could. 2. The overall volume trade was diminishing the marginalization of the areas ordering those two countries. Security conditions in the Southern Tier deteriorated. Blockede, baghdad has trade from turkey to protest some of the positions ankara has taken. Importantery contributor to the gdp in turkey as aaken a terrible hit result and the increasing spillover of violence from syria. In terms of government spending, the first five years, the turkish government spent hunting like 9 billion. But the mount it has been spending has been increasing to about 500 lena month. In terms of the refugee crisis, syrians to the south has strained schools and hospitals but there are differences among analyst. To have it does appear been a positive impact on domestic consumption, so a certain degree to which the refugees may have committed to growth, most economists feel that has reached its limit. At the same time, one would expect an impact on inflation, so while the figures differ, it higher inflation reaches inflation is higher there than the national average. This is due to a greater demand of consumer goods and housing as for the Unemployment Rate because theres an issue to what extent are refugees creating jobs or displacing people from jobs, the statistics are not always clear. 300,000suggest at least syrians entered the turkish labor market, so there is a suggestion this has added to the Unemployment Rate in turkey but a lot of these jobs are new job and there is an increased demand as a result of increased refugees. They have been displaced from some jobs, some of them upwards. Lost their jobs and did save picture of the economy in terms of unemployment. On the front lines of this , atarian conference statistics differ. Palestinian refugees have been in lebanon since 1948. Lebanon has the highest per capita of refugee population concentration in the world. It is important to keep in mind all countries experience with refugees will be shaped by earlier experiences and thats the case when it comes to lebanon and jordan. A disproportionate number of these people are living below the poverty line. Lebanesey, the thatnment had a policy 2013 to be modified in when they were a price to stop and the resident renewal residency was put in place. That left syrians open to possible detention or staying without the right paperwork. Context was alluded to in one of the context. Is that it is say in gridlock. Lebanon has not held president ial elections 2008. Basically, lebanon is being governed by the council of ministers cabinet where different parties are controlled by different sectarian groups government isse , so that has not changed in this particular situation. This absentee state is not going to be compelled to ease the burden. We end up with syrians in lebanon. People are crammed into rental many engage in various forms of agricultural labor. The situation in lebanon is quite serious. Theres a serious challenge from isis in the northern part of the country and there are concerns about the infiltration of into the camps and a promise by saudi arabia to provide 4 billion to assist lebanon, further reinforcing it military and it was annulled. With love and ons reaction to the storming of the Saudi Embassy in tehran. The saudis felt the lebanese were not efficiently supportive. Its all part of this larger regional conflict in the world with hezbollah as a Political Party in lebanon and a bash and an ally of iran and emesis to saudi arabia. Its not really about what the lebanese had to say. Economic impact, it adds to further perception of the instability. The economy was allowed to experience zero gdp growth. There have in increasing. Rotests on the part of citizen its just one of numerous examples of function and civil rights abuses. As for the refugees themselves, they find themselves in an extremely marginal position. Many do not have the right to be in lebanon, so they end up putting pressure on wages was somewhere between 50 and 70 of refugee children are working and him lawyers are eager to hire syrians and palace means because they are vulnerable and they have to pay them less. More refugees are engaged in force labor or sexual exploitation. How much time do i have left . The Palestinian Refugee presence in lebanon is important and they have faced cuts and assist us and rising poverty rate. The agency that deals with refugees around the world, there is a separate agency that deals exclusively with Palestinian Refugees. They have separate funding and these cuts that have taken place have significantly affect did humanitarian conditions for the palestinians. Have been restricted in sectors of the economy in which they are allowed to legally work, so they generally find them elves in poorly renumeration sectors which further increases poverty levels. The palestinians have been disproportionately affect did because of the relations that a number of palestinian factions had with the government of damascus and because of what has happened in the degree to which siege, they have found themselves increasingly ,nder siege and are a protector to the extent you can think of the Assad Government as a protector of any sort. Syriaan no longer look to as a major ally. Let me turn to jordan. The statistics again are depending on whether you are talking about official statistics or the government, the government has a tendency to exaggerate the numbers that are there. Clearlyase, there are there has been a Significant Impact on the presence of the refugees, the majority of them are not running in camps, but living in urban areas. One needs to see the refugee crisis against the background of previous refugee influx is. People who have been living in , after the u. S. Invasion of iraq and so on, are veryer crises different from the current crisis. Jordanber of syrians in have exceeded the number of iraqis who came in the previous wave. The kingd