Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
Hart this path through the challenges ahead in 2018, the president setting the agenda some tweets. With this was the tweet just after 7 00 this morning talking about iran. The people of iran are acting iranian regime. All the money president obama oolishly gave them went into terrorism and their pockets. Eople have little food, big inflation. The u. S. Is watching. A lot to unpack there. Iranian protest, do you agree with the president s read there of why the protests are happening . Guest i think we need to be ery careful, a lot of the protests do seem to be a reaction to economics, it is not lacking food or is a opportunities, it failure to do reform, to provide jobs and income people need and want. It is the fact inflation, as president pointed out deprived savings, their opportunities, it is a very oung country, where young people have stated unemployment of population that may be higher. These are critical factors. Are certainly many liberal that want more socie society, that are
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Violence in iraq. We still have the problem of at least three towns under isis occupation. We have no idea whether they will be staybehinds. We have the problem of syria and we also have a country where there are many other islamist elements, divisions between sunni and shiite, kurd and arab, there is something where its an important tactical victory but it doesnt bring stability to iraq. It doesnt eliminate the threat. Isis only was responsible for about 11 of the acts of terrorism in this region in 2016. And thats all of its affiliates. And that sort of puts isis into perspective. Rose we conclude with author and New York Times obituary require Richard Sandomir, he talked to jeff glor about his new book, the pride of the yankees, lou gehrig, gary cooper and the making of a classic. I think i became fascinated about a dozen years ago with the gehrig speech and then i started wondering, why cant i see the whole thing. And then i started getting a little more obsessed with the movie and
Violence in iraq. We still have the problem of at least three towns under isis occupation. We have no idea whether they will be staybehinds. We have the problem of syria and we also have a country where there are many other islamist elements, divisions between sunni and shiite, kurd and arab, there is something where its an important tactical victory but it doesnt bring stability to iraq. It doesnt eliminate the threat. Isis only was responsible for about 11 of the acts of terrorism in this region in 2016. And thats all of its affiliates. And that sort of puts isis into perspective. Rose we conclude with author and New York Times obituary require Richard Sandomir, he talked to jeff glor about his new book, the pride of the yankees, lou gehrig, gary cooper and the making of a classic. I think i became fascinated about a dozen years ago with the gehrig speech and then i started wondering, why cant i see the whole thing. And then i started getting a little more obsessed with the movie and