On the foreign intelligence matters. You recently wrote that the Church Committee experienced of your Church Committee experience is its important we recognize the extraordinary power the United States has in the international respect for our constitutional principles. But it often seems in times of crisis we forget that power. Why is that . I think the phrase in times of crisis. We cede we being the other branches of government particularly the congress cede to the executive branch great powers. If we are under assault or perceive ourselves to be under assault. The problem is that then encourages administrations to, i wouldnt say generate crisis, but to elevate a crisis to acquire power. This is where congress is most under pressure to do its job and to ask questions. Not to undermine executive authority but to defend the constitution. And protect the American People. Again, as i said there and ive said many times in other places those of us who have had a chance to travel the world k
Tly hearing on science, space and Technology Committee with gina mccarthy. And faithbased organizations and delivering care to countries with hiv aids. This first group looked at a report on Global Health conducted by the lancet. This is an hour. Good morning. Sorry for the few minutes delay getting started. Im the Deputy Director of the Global Health policy here at csi s. It is my pleasure to welcome you for what promises to be a new series on faithbased health care. Before we get started, thanks to anita smith. I want to say thank you to katie on my team, instrumental in pulling everything together this morning. Faith is a powerful force in the lives of individuals is and communities throughout the world. Faithbased organizations are an important provider of health care globalry and resource for Health Services and support, particularly at the Community Level and hard to reach populations in some of the poorest places in the world. As rick Warren Church noted there may not be a churc
But i think that our work, the work ahead continues to be the building of trust, the building of understanding, the building of what we call faith literacy and development, this literacy across the two communities. And i would like to just point out that the materials, all the materials for the conference, are available on the website of the joint learning initiative at www. Jliflc. Com. I commebled those to you commend those to you. Anita great. Thank you. Now well open the floor to questions. There will be people coming by with microphones and so please wait to get the microphone before you ask your question. Id like to you identify yourself and your organization before you ask a question. Well take three at a time and then well pose them to the panel. Weve got several hands up here. Questioner good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for your presentation. My organization is hope for tomorrow. A u. S. Based organization although were also based in ken yafment thank you
Change. You mentioned the engagement a number of times today. With the outreach to iran and the outreach to cuba, are we looking at a burgeoning doctrine engagement drama or doctrine of engagement with other leaders and other regimes for the last year and a half of his presidency . Well, the president i think has drawn a pretty clear line between the relationship between the u. S. And cuba and the relationship between the United States and iran. United states continues to have significant concerns with iranian behavior including irans support of terrorism irans continued menacing of israel irans support for proxies that engage in destablizing activity throughout the middle east. So the approach the president has taken to iran is very different than the president s approach to our relations with cuba. I do think as the president mentioned in his address to the nation on tuesday, that the one common principle that i think might be here is that the United States, he quoted president kenne
Distinguished news man. He was kind of embarrassed by this. He was moderating but he disappears for sometimes five or more minutes at a time. Today, you would not have a moderator jumping in every 30 seconds. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari met with president obama to talk about the boko haram and violence in nigeria. Later, president buhari spoke in an event hosted by the u. S. Chamber of commerce. [applause] Muhammadu Buhari please sit down, ladies and gentlemen. When we read our speeches in the other room, the audience was so small. In fact, i wondered why some of the governors turned down our invitation only for me to find in here. I, too will reread my speech. [laughter and applause] the governors here. The governor of river state, b orno state, the central ground of boko haram. The governor of ibo state. The governors of other states, and the rest of my team. Ambassador adefuye. And corporate sponsors and captains of ind