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All of you. Ladies and gentlemen, friends. Welcome to brookings. This is a much expected event and we had trouble accommodating everybody who wanted to listen to you. Im really grateful that you took the time out of the meetings to share your perspectives with you. You are well known, many books 15 books. I dont know all of them, but i note that to articulate the global medicine, two years ago and that modest proposal for resolving the euro crisis, two years ago. You were elected to the parliament in january 2015 picks i welcome you very deeply on the part of the brookings, the whole brookings community, that there is programs better hosting you today, all of us, the whole brookings family. I welcome mr. Ambassador not yet. And also personally. And i cant help saying that i also welcome Yanis Varoufakis as a neighbor of the turks. Ok, it is your floor and then we will have a discussion. Yanis varoufakis thank you, kemal. Its with the deepest gratitude that i wish to thank you for this
Shootings. All because of the second amendment. The constitution is kind of beginning to show its age. I am destin bigsaby, a voice for american youth. Over 20 Million People commit suicide every year with a gun. Once that trigger is pulled, there is no stopping the bullet. Like so many others, mike cousin committed suicide with a gun putting my family into shock and disarray. Still to this day, avoid has been left that has this that can never be filled. Do i think that a depressed kid who walks into a punch up should be able to buy a gun . Without any kind of background check whatsoever . Probably not. My friend sam got a gun. He threatened suicide. We were able to intercept him prevent the suicide emma take the gun away from him, get rid of the gun, get him in therapy but that only lasted so long. Then he got another gun. We tried to get him a lot of help and he ended up walking into a pond shop and buying a gun and he used that gun to kill himself. He evidently did not have trouble
Hes just wrapped up a visit to boston where he fronted an impassioned rally in defense of his health care, hardline, no backing down and he gave no quarter and importantly, no delay. Thats what he seems to be against and the president is most insistent and defiant against criticses of obama care. Take a listen. Nobodys losing their right to Health Care Coverage, and no Insurance Company will ever be able to deny you coverage or drop you as a customer altogether. Those days are over and thats the truth. That is the truth. All right. Well get to Fact Checking in just a minute. The president was in boston because he wanted to use romney care as an example of a slow starting, but Successful Health care reform law. Listen to this one. And by the way, all the all the parade of horribles, the worst predictions about Health Care Reform in massachusetts never came true. All right. Now cnbc had a special producer factchecking the president s speech and he looked into this claim right away and he
Ill start from sip the fact were going have to deal not only with nation states that are going to have crises and groups and individuals that are highly empowered and able to bring threat against nation of the capability most addressing the likely. The second thing, we have to bring down the alliance on Strategic Deterrent and increase the reliance on other capability and tools diplomatic and military for strategic defense. The technology and capabilities and the architecture that would allow us to have those kinds of capabilities at the strategic level to deter conflict and increase other options so that our state options dont run out prematurely or less than effective against the wide range of threat. We have to increase the tools on the state craft to prevent these thick things. Making sure its still an element of membership and nato. You commit to your defense goals. The second thing i would say is to really look at those things which could enable nato at large to take greater adva