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corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. stewart: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president-elect donald trump continues to work toward filling key positions in his incoming administration. at the trump national golf club in new jersey, one of 17 he owns, mister trump and vice president-elect mike pence, met one of trump s fiercest critics during the campaign: mitt romney, the 2012 republican presidential nominee. romney is now said to be a candidate for secretary of state. very thorough and in-depth discussion in the time we had and i appreciate the chance to speak with the president-elect and look forward ....
this week on q&a, a discussion with high school students attending the 54th annual united state senate youth progr program. the students talked about their participation in the program and their plans for the future. c-span: give me your name and where you are from. brooke hanes from indiana. c-span: what are we doing here? today we will talk about our experiences we had over the week, visiting many places in the nation s capitol and listening to our leaders. your name, sir? i am alex young and also from indiana. what are you been doing this week? we have been talking to quest speakers from different departments in the burr and supreme court. but the most important part was interacting with the delegates from washington, d.c., japan and south korea. whether it was talking about politics or what we had for breakfast was probably the best part of the weekend. c-span: any disagreements? for sure. but whether it is our favorite fruit, you know? i like pineap ....
[inaudible conversations] let me start with a few preliminaries about today s newsmaker. i am david anderson. a long-time member of the club and member of the club s newsmaker committee. i m an attorney, years ago i was was correspondent for the cincinnati herald. the there may be a lot of folks who are not journalists in here so do re speak the members of the media, who may be here, and asking questions. and many of those may be working journalists and so please understand that they re here to do a job. now, after our guest makes his opening remarks you ll have chance to ask questions. when you do please identify yourself, name and affiliation. before we get started, i d like to mention some upcoming event test club. on march 21st, a panel on the south china sea dispute. and that will include various security, economic, and legal issues. on the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenials, and on march 24th, the club will host john kot ky nin, commission ....
i agree with your comments about the challenges, the situation being unacceptable, saying if we aren t talking about the problems, we aren t addressing them. aggressively working in the great plains area. members of the senate a couple weeks ago who weren t on the committee such as senator thune were here because of the concern that we have with regard to the conditions of the indian health service in the great plains areas specifically. in fiscal year 2016 i know you ve only been on the job for a short period ever time congress appropriated $2 million specifically to help address some of these emergent issues. despite the dire conditions in the great plains area, it took the administration several months to even figure out what to do with the $2 million in appropriated funds. i know you weren t there at the time. meanwhile, the facilities in the area have lost their medicare provider status, on the verge of losing it. patients at the facilities are ultimately payin ....
people have reported weapons, fighters. libya has a history of exporting fighters to syria through turkey. it was flush with weapons. nato flooded libya with weapons. uae, qatar, they flooded libya with weapons. the arms caches were liberated. they went turkey into syria. we were more encouraging of it than stopping it. why? s a said needed to gop he s an evil man. but we called the book one of the things that mubarak, kwa dar fi i need to give him credit for that. i was talking to him about libya and talking about libya and keeping the radical jihadists down. kind of like keeping the lid on the garbage can. mubarak, gadhafi, assad, they were imperfect, but they kept the lid on the garbage can. they were concerned and fighting radical jihadists. we created an environment for radical jihadists to grow, embracing the muslim brotherhood. it s not just over there. we re completing a report and we re going to be putting a book out often this as well in the near future. we ....