and celebrating half a century of a classic, the ford mustang. it was q-and-a with russian president, vladimir putin today. in a live call-in show, he answered questions about ukraine, for the first time admitting that russian troops were in crimea, and not ruling out russian involvement in eastern ukraine. pro russian protest, tried to seize a base. 13 killed and others wounded. and ukrainian troops continue with their anti-terror campaign, trying to boot out separatists. looking for a diplomatic solution to the crisis, and ukraine and u.s. making their claims at the security council. we have president putin flatly denying that the russian troops are in the ukraine. this is nonsense, there are no special forces and no instructors. they re all local citizens, and this is proof that the people have taken off their masks. they are the owners of the land and they will not leave. well, that runs totally counter to what the u.s. and the eu and most importantly kiev says.
incompetence release them early without any kind of records. there was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. these guys are deftly coming here and coming to the united states. they re going to wreak havoc and as a result border patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and nothing happened but the point is because american immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers? they re more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor market conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. they are more concerned with where a high-skilled immigrants will take a conference call with her is at his home or whether that home is l
host: commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. if you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. guest: okay. well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to c-span for the great public service work that you do and have done for decades. issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as one-sixth of the economy itself. i think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. one of those is wireless communications. and you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and that s probably no surprise be that it s an area of real interest. but with you also have to consider some of the numbers. we now have more wireless phones in this country than we have people. one in three american adult
are available for s eerie gun for syria. when we examine new figures on what it means to be a household in the u.s. tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern. next, a for him on this. the book war from earlier this week. they will talk about potential u.s. strikes and opposition. minute.90 ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. my name is frederic hof and on behalf of fred kemp, the president of the atlantic council and michelle done, the director of the center for the middle east, i would like to welcome you all to today s program. this is a joint production of the hariri center and the atlantic council. over the past two weeks, we have witnessed a truly extraordinary chain of events that began on the 21st of august with a chemical attack in a suburb of damascus. in the fullness of time, i think we will probably know for sure what motivated the assad regime to take this step and what it was actually thinking. in terms of trying to get away with it. what is objectively clear at t
sometimes difficult to have allies in the sense of planning? they are extremely difficult sometimes. going back to world war ii, the only thing worse than fighting a war with allies is fighting one without one. it has been sobering to see how few of our allies are stepping forward to help the united states think through what is next. the british have opted out of striking. but president obama is taking the same approach that they ve it cameron did, and he is going to his legislature, going to the congress of the united states to get support. when david cameron did that, it failed. he said i would not strike as a result of that. the president will spend a lot of time over the next 10 days to get the support. he is reaching out to the american people to make sure he has the support of the american people before he does this. host: tony, democrat, good morning. taking myank you for call. the first thing i have to say is they say the meaning of insanity is when you keep doing the