thank you for taking such a challenging topic and doing it with such depth. i know we will be following your writings in your remarks for a long time. on behalf of all the members on americancouncil jewish committee, i would like to present you with the official world of fellow s counsel thank you so much. wear it proudly. the only thing i know about the jewish community in texas is from the literary productions friedman.ky [laughter] which i read when i was going to university at harvard, and which i have to say, i found completely mind blowing and extremely funny, but i m assuming is not up-to-date so i m willing to be informed. thank you, thank you. [applause] and that me remind everyone, if you are not yet registered for our program next tuesday cnn nationalrgen, security reporter and analyst, please do so. have a great afternoon. arehis week on c-span we featuring programs on the increase of drug abuse in america as the situation of the current supreme court va
outside source reporting back to us, and the elect toward about what is going on in our government. ruth bader ginsburg was the most inspirational person we have met this week. she has been one of my idols for a long time. i either want to be in the legal profession or perhaps a senator. i understand the need for bipartisanship at times but i think it is important that politicians go to washington with their eyes on a goal, and they are determined to meet that goal instead of sacrificing it in the light of money or bipartisanship. we need to get back to having a constructive discourse. we need to get back to respecting all americans know matter what their background. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span q&a. now, 1:00n hour from p.m. eastern we will be at the council on foreign relations with a discussion of the syrian president bashar al-assad and a look at his actions that began with civil unrest and lead to civil war. we will have that life. a recent event, with
a sanctuary for al qaeda or other trans national extremiste. it is now being done with a relatively number of u.s. forces. there still are casualties but way less for us. in the meantime, afghan force are very much fighting and dying for their down help achieve the mission that is so important to us and to them to not allow the force, retake their country, to taliban that did allow al qaeda to camp out on its soil and plan those attacks. thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. and general, thank you and your family for your service to this country. it is good to have you back here today. we appreciate your ideas, your advice a great deal. one of the things i want to ask you about is you emphasize a need to work with the kurds, turkey, israel and other allies to interdict extremists groups. we have had the authority to cut off the shipments. what are the challenges and what are your recommendations on this? the challenges have been there have been devious and diffi
from time to time. who knows? amy: the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern american folk music movement. now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. the surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japanese-americans during world war ii. it continued until the early 1970 s as he wrote some of the most famous anti-war songs of the 20th century. don t be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy: we will speak to peter seeger s biographer, david king dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the number of refugees that have entered europe this year has topped one million. international organization for migration says the ta
well, i assumed most of my life that if it wasn t a microphone under the bed am a they were tapping the phone from time to time and opening my mail from time to time. who knows? amy: the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern american folk music movement. now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. the surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japanese-americans during world war ii. it continued until the early 1970 s as he wrote some of the most famous anti-war songs of the 20th century. don t be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy: we will speak to peter seeger s biographer, david king dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i