When i tune into it on the weekends, its usually about new releases. Watching nonfiction authors on book tv as the best television for sears readers. On cspan, they can have a longer conversation. Book tv weekends. They bring you author after author after author. Fascinating. I love book tv and i may cspan fan. Next, a form on genocide about isis against christians and other religious minorities. State departments recent declaration of genocide and what the u. S. Government response should be. The event was hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the clare booth luce policy institution in washington, d. C. Welcome. On behalf of my colleagues here i want tohost, welcome you to our monthly conservative Womens Network lunch. We are very pleased and honored to have a very distinguished speaker with us. Especially so in this particular week, it has been a very important week in terms of the United States taken a strong moral stand in the fight against isis. On monday, the United States helped
You must be having a lot of boring times, because you are so charged up this morning. [laughter] but thank you. Let me go to you. I am the only one who wants to take lots of questions from the folks, and nows your chance to say whatever you want. I have done a lot of town hall meetings, and they have all been pretty good. So lets not blow this one. [laughter] you have spoken several times about the lord and religious things. Personally, how religious are you . Do you attend weekly . Gov. Kasich first of all, i try not to wear this stuff on my sleeve. But i do believe, that there is a creator. You know what, somebody asked me, what are you talk about god more, you could get more votes . And i said, using god to get a vote . I want to have a view of a golf course when i get up there, and i dont want to cheap in god. The most important thing about faith to me is, the foundation. Terrible things come. They are inevitable in life. Michael novak, the great catholic theologian said, and i thi
Shannon bream is in d. C. With the latest. What is the latest . Reporter busy day in washington. Thousands of extra visitors in town for things like events like school trips and easter egg roll, celebrity guests at the white house and Cherry Blossoms blooming all around the tidal basin. Congress is not in session. City at one of its most crowded times of year today. The Capitol Visitors Center where all this happened. The suspect was apparently in the security entry screening area. Were told he attempted to go through the magnetometer. It did alert. At that time he reportedly drew his weapon and pointed it at officers. Right now unclear how many returned fire but at least one did because the suspect was hit. He is now in surgery. His condition is unknown. Female bystander completely unrelated to this incident did suffer minor injuries. She is getting medical treatment as well. A weapon was recovered on the scene. No officers were injured in the whole shootout. Torts made it clear he wa
Secretarys began the enhancements last month we have seen a real stepingup, that frankly together with the events in europe including paris of actually leading to much greater willingness on the part of European Countries in particular to extend their willing tons share willingness to share information. To the extent that you can in an unclassified seting can you existing databases is gathered by allys and partners . It would be appropriate in another seting as to how the information is disseminated. Okay, i will academy accept that. In rough figures how many people are on the terrorwatch list . Just checking to see what the on the terrorist terroristconsolidateed watch list we are talking just under a million. Under a million. Okay. What countries, and this could be for anyone, constitute the greatest threat and attempts to enter the United States i legally that would be, you know, perhaps flaged by being on these lists in. I cant of those million records there are the subsets of the
So one of the things that is under way since the tragedy in San Bernardino is a careful examination of what else could we look at can you be specific about that . All right. For example and theres a review process, so people are talking about the. So for example, would it make sense to interview someone after arrival in the United States, after marrying the fiance as promised, and they get to the point where theyre going to change status, should they be interviewed again at that point, or should we be looking at is there some other database we could be looking at, maybe social media, i dont know. So thats an example of what were looking at you go outside your agencies and tell me how you are using that same evaluation process with all of your international partners. Do they get to weigh in . Do we take their ideas credibly too . Again, this is after the fact, and while i dont want to dispute that idea, i appreciate the notion that someones here, lets continue to the degree that we can