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Afghanistan is in its youth. While you are not quite youth, you are still a representation of the new generation that comes from a different background but has lived through a lot of the tragedy of afghanistan. If you could make a minute to talk about your background. In brief, i would say that as child no one believed that would be in this position. The people of my country gave me the honor of serving in the most important diplomatic position. That is a showing of where afghanistan is. We have had over 30 years of a difficult period but the afghanistan people are hard working and they have turned the table around. Today afghanistan is a functioning democracy, it has, as president mentioned, opportunities for our youth, for our population, and the opportunities that we didnt have, we have pulled out selves out of the rubble and built our country. A democracy we continue to build on. You and your family went through a lot in the process getting here. The vast majority of afghans suffer ....
Good morning. It is a wednesday here in new york city. Youre watching Market Makers. Now, we willom hear from president obama. Before then, breaking news on housing markets. New home sales are officially out. Michael mckee has the new headlines front and center in the newsroom. We have a whole account housing. We have been disappointed but new home sales rose 18 in the last month as people went back and started buying. We also see a big decline in the number of houses available. , we have seen disappointing housing starts. That is starting to come home to roost. We have only a 4. 8 month supply down from 5. 5. 5004000 range. This is the biggest since before the economic crisis. All of a sudden, americans decided they did not just one existing homes. They won 18 increase in new home sales for the month of august. All right, michael. We are waiting for president obama to address the u. N. Is in d. C. We see the brazilian president sp ....
I also want to say a big thanks to americas new secretary of veterans affairs, Bob Mcdonnell who is here. Stand up, bob. [applause] as some of you may know, bob head of one of the biggest, most Successful Companies in the world. But he also was a west point grad, also a ranger who served valiantly on behalf of his country. And this is a labor of love for him, and he is hit the ground running. Hes heading out to the hospitals and clinics around the country, starting with phoenix tomorrow. So thank you, bob, for accepting this charge and this challenge, making sure that were doing right by our veterans. I know youre going to do a great job. Really proud of him. [applause] i want to thank all the members of congress who are here today, and i specia especially o thank those who led the fight to get bob and the va more of the resources and flexibility that they need to make s ....
The United States has the best air Transportation System in the world. Its kind of interesting, one thing that you emphasized, in all the work we do, and we all sit on a mutual Advisory Boards and technical committees and working groups and everything else, i think especially when you look at a board like i think folks kind of come in from a much more kind of performance based and outcome based objective as opposed to a lot of other groups where its something that is something that prompts them to kind of stake a position and kind of draw a little bit of a line in the sand. But i think that the one thing we can all agree on is that we have to do something, regardless if we just refine the system that we have or take a much more transformative approach. With that in mind, mel is right in the epicenter of where all ....
The distributing threat information should not be punished but encouraged which is why we need to create legal safe harbors for companies to be able to exchange threat information without fear of being sued. Moreover better information sharing improves industrys ability to safeguard the personal data by allowing entities to keep the prying eyes of hackers outside our Health Records and bank accounts. I am pleased to announce we are aiming to resolve this dilemma and strengthen our Cyber Security foundations further. This week i am releasing the draft of a new bill that will further enhance the role as the primary federal civilian interface for the sharing of cyber threat information to enable timely , actionable, and operational efforts between the federal government and the private sector. This draft bill gives protections for exchange of cyber threat information including g ....