Congress who previously served in the executive branch discuss the role of congress and National Security and foreign affairs. This discussion from New York University school of law is moderated by lisa monaco, a former Homeland Security advisor for the Obama Administration. Now we have to recognize the Senior Member here. It is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues ive worked with, every member of this pan in some form or another come inside and outside of government. Its a treat welcome everyone here on behalf of the recent center on law and security of the nyu school of law that i am privileged to serve as the distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is really a treat for me to be joined together with you want to get to talk the most important and timely subject, the each of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time. I will do some
Short of military conflict and we need to remember what we are trying to get iran to do. If you are older, you remember things called fallout shelters. We did that training where we trained for the advent of the nuclear war with the soviet union at the time. We dont want to live like that. I ran having a Nuclear Weapon is unacceptable. We are trying to show them the way. Host do sanctions work . As it proven to change their action in the past . Caller it changes it a little bit. I think that is what brought them to the table initially. We have not been able to get them to reverse course completely. I think that is what brought them to the table. We should have increased pressure at that time and let them know how tough it can be. Often times in these autocratic regimes, there are a few people at the top probably a couple hundred to a couple thousand running the operation, so to speak. Sanctions on them in particular make a huge difference. Aborted went from an military strike and the p
Not just casualties, they were dead as a result of the civil war. And then sunday morning at 10 00 on road to the white house rewind, the 1988 campaign of democratic candidate gary hart. We begin with a former colorado senator announcing his candidacy in denver and then facing questions about an alleged marital affair what w a woman. And then his plan to reduce from the white house. And the life of civil rights activi activist huerta. And they would beg the union to send anyone but her to negotiate contracts. However she was at the forefront of that effort for a reason and her name above which is interesting, because among in of the participants of the Farm Workers Movement, when you interview them and hear about them, they talk about her. And at 8 00 on the presidency. He just kind of tensed up and said those doson of a those partners, did they ever invite me to play golf at their fancy country clubs or did any of them invite me to their clubs and he goes on and on. And his lip was qu
Productive engagement in the work force. And, therefore, for realizing the full productivity potential of our economy, and when Food Insecurity affects children. As youll see in the hamilton projects facts that we handed out as you came in is happening far too frequently in this country. Were reducing the prospects of our economy for decades ahead as well as i said earlier being involved with a morally outrageous situation for this the richest country in the world. Todays discussion is about the startling number of people who are still experiencing Food Insecurity in america today. Supplemental nutrition assistance programs, s. N. A. P. Which is designed as you well known to address this issue and recommended policy changes to make that program more effective. Let me recognize the director of the hammentilton project. The managering director of the hamilton project and the policy director of the hamilton project for the work they have done in creating the intellectual construct for thi
To those kurdish units . And other units fighting isis . We need a strategy not to contain isis, but to destroy isis so those young men and women now watching on the internet, suddenly get the message that its not their destiny to go join isis and expand the cal fate. That that is a losing cause. But that change, that takes a change of calculus. On the part of the administration. Are you more optimistic about the iraqi now that the military has taken back ra maddy . I am somewhat because in the past when theyve used the shia militia, the human rights abuses to put it mildly, that theyve inflicted upon village populations have created a huge blowback. So, some of that is moving in the right direction, but we could accelerate this if we listened to those in the field who want the authorization. Id say 75, 80 from what weve heard from the commanders, the flights that go out come back without getting authorization out of wags in terms of dropping their ordnance. Theyve got to get approval