Matthew lee joins us to discuss the palestine conflict. Well talk with ed bingle a former customs and Border Protection official but minors crossing the border. Piece piece. Every morning on cspan at 7 00 eastern. President obama on monday awarded the medal of honor to formal active duty Sergeant Ryan pits. He held off the taliban during an attack on his unit. He the ninth recipient to be award awarded for the war in iraq or afghanistan. He is of the chosen few to receive this honor today as the nation pauses to recognize him. Our hearts are touched by staff Sergeant Ryan pits. He humbly insisted that his remarkable actions were simply was his duty it will always be on his loyalty to his unit. We acknowledge that devotion came from a faithful family who prayed for and supported him. We join our hearts together as we honor him today. We honor the courage and commitment of all who serve in harms way. This we pray in your holy same, amen. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the white hou
The house and Senate Taking up a hearing on u. S. Policy in iraq. Iraq continues to be a big concern in addition to the other conflicts. I know there were some concerns over the webbing end with jordan and iraq situation with them. Beyond hearings and there are not that i have my list in front of me. Beyond hearings i think again the probably one of the markka one twz of the webbing. We will have to keep watching for reactions in russia and ukraine and the middle east. At some point i think we will see calls for the u. S. To help ukraine ukraine. As i scan this hearing list, there is at least in the senate it specks to a lack of accountability. Accountability. They are also looking at Flood Insurance issues but appropriations was supposed to be big success of the month. That there was going to be big deals done before the recess happens. We may get some sense this week whether it will move at all. I just want to get your reaction to your colleague who was a story this morning leadershi
About set of data that doesnt even begin each pasta as the great syntax want any children the eye. The twenty four seven life from all the walking stick. He said easton retrace begin that some may shortly be ukraines president finney in the fall line says he has a tight side the signing of the places ties which brussels meanwhile pro european demonstrations in kiev that means that if a man with hundreds of people besieged in the pond and pillaging day and night ratio ships be easy there will be staying at least until the end of friday protests are continuing day and night despite its getting very very cold. In the ikea five right now probably about ten or Twelve Thousand aka the independence way in kiev the idea is that they are still hopeful that the Euro Association deal will be signed in vilnius despite some very serious insurance is coming from the chretien government. The deal will not be signed on right now its very peaceful day to do so for the last two days but this may well be
System and gps technology. Moving from air to cars. L General Motors has of course re recalled 25. 7 million cars in the u. S. This year and the Auto Industry has recalled a record 40 million vehicles. On should drivers feel safe and are regulators doing enough . Well, look on the latter question, i have to say that e they have done an incredible amount of work over the last several years. Ten i think over the last ten years there have been about 1200 plus recalls effecting 95 million vehicles. Thats not counting some of the more recent recalls. s prett thats pretty significant. Our tool box is actually improved over that time in the wake of the toyota situation a few years ago we developed alont with ibm some analytics that allow us to be more predictive i in identifying issues before they emerge. We continue to look to build a better mousetrap so i think that when its all said and done they have done an incredible job over the entire trend line. In in terms of the autos and you wheth
Organization. This is really not meant to be a technical debate. Its a policy debate of where we a year after the snowden revelations and what weve learned and what has and hasnt kind of gone forward from there. Im just going to ask each one of our panelists to really well written and well spoken on this topic to just give a couple of key points of their point of view and then we will get into a dialogue among of the us panelists and we will open it up so be thinking about questions. So im going to start with stuart baker whose a partner at step tow and johnson. Were you the first policy assistant secretary. I want to make sure i get that title right at dhs which is something weve seen grow in its responsibilities. This is something you really hadnt fathomed at the time. Its probably to know what you know and be where you are now. I will open with stuart and just a little shout out for those who are looking for a summer book read. Hes got a great book. You might want to look that up. S