To do in the operational needs of the i. T. This is one where the requirements are in b. Has just a couple moments left in this program. We will go live now to hear from congressman Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight committee in this morning to accept the legislative agenda for 2016. The utah republican is at the Brookings Institution this morning. Later you should know this morning they will also share a hearing on oversight of the executive ranch life today on our companion network cease injury starting not 10 00 eastern. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings until you met for joining us today. Im honored youre to have congressman Jason Chaffetz from the state of utah with us today to discuss government oversight. Hes the chairman of the house accountability Oversight Committee and he will talk today about various things in the committee discusses, covers, analyzes and tries to keep government accountable to the tax payer in citizen doing its job as well as possible
But he sense message to tha to e ladist militant jihadist militants he does not take it seriously. Someone made a mistake, they should have said, the president will go out make a come, lets get the tee time tomorrow or in 4 or 5 hours, rather than 8 lynn 8 minutes later. Later. Lou not just the president s display of awkward las of grace lack of sensitivity and lack of grace in dealing with the beheading of james foley. But the white house failure to act, some upset that they chose to try to rescue foley and other american hostages and failed, an admission some say is helpful to our enemies, and it may embolten them. In a pentagon news confront, chuck hai hagel stood by his bo decision. There is always risk, there continues to be risk in every action or inaction we take. Also, the administration had informed the families of the hostages. Of this effort. Lou the administration was stumbleing over itself to escape responsible of any accountability of any kind in face of that criticism, t
But he sense message to tha to e ladist militant jihadist militants he does not take it seriously. Someone made a mistake, they should have said, the president will go out make a come, lets get the tee time tomorrow or in 4 or 5 hours, rather than 8 lynn 8 minutes later. Later. Lou not just the president s display of awkward las of grace lack of sensitivity and lack of grace in dealing with the beheading of james foley. But the white house failure to act, some upset that they chose to try to rescue foley and other american hostages and failed, an admission some say is helpful to our enemies, and it may embolten them. In a pentagon news confront, chuck hai hagel stood by his bo decision. There is always risk, there continues to be risk in every action or inaction we take. Also, the administration had informed the families of the hostages. Of this effort. Lou the administration was stumbleing over itself to escape responsible of any accountability of any kind in face of that criticism, t
Migrants to make the dangerous journey to europe. They came in and tied our hands behind our bookack looking back on the hostage crisis with iran. We speak to one of them and Recep Tayyip Erdogan goes after pope francis for his comments about the genocide of armenians 100 years ago. Good evening. We begin with the war in iran. Today the white house pledged to support the Iraqi Government in a battle with i. S. I. L. President obama met with Abdrabbu Mansour hadi in the oval office are saying the u. S. Would provide 200 million in humanitarian aid for the country, falling short of what the country hoped for asking for weapons and fighter jets. The president says the funding will help those displaced in the battle against i. S. I. L. For a partner like iraq, it is very important for us to coordinate our activities so the impression is not that the United States can move back into iraq but rather the United States is doing what is ultimately best for the iraqi people, even as we join in f
What result is and, clearly, what were looking at is something that is the an tistithesis of what you can see would truly exist within a competitive environment. I think its time, thank you. And this is a complicated issue. I think its time to open it up to the audience. Yes, sir . Right here. Theres a microphone . Yes, there is a microphone. The thing i learned about running an Organization Even though it was a notforprofit i was the ceo oval,f, we needed revenue. The revenue seems to be the heart of the problem. We talk about businesses. I dont know of any business that restricts its price increases to how through some other criteria other than what the market would bare. The market would bare these lower prices, they lower the prices. If the market could bare higher prices, they raised the price. I think the biggest problem, one of the big problems was the new Regulatory Regime in the post office. And congress has limit to an external inflation as the limit on how much that you can