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image a bit, and i released it to our work force yesterday. so many people went online to look at the new video. we crashed the system. we had to start over again. but it will be released publicly today. i hope everybody here will take a look at it. with that, david, back over to you. thank you, sir. i m going to do the ceremonial softball opening, then we ll go to brian bennett, julie davis, julie edwards, mark thompson, aaron kelley, and john stanton to start. a long line up. that should keep us going for awhile. i want to ask you how the threat has evolved during your time in office and what further changes you think are needed at dhs to deal with it. you had a fascinating conversation, i thought a fascinating conversation with the times last week. you talked about the rise of isil and the rise of terror-inspired attack where the operative may not have met another single other member. never received a direct the order. you said that makes more a for complic ....
what i have encouraged is that we get started on that work immediately and we pushed through over the next several outs and try to leave extraneous issues that may prevent us from getting a budget agreement. i know, for example, that there are many republicans who are angry about planned parenthood. i deeply disagree with them on that issue, and i think that it is mischaracterized it has mischaracterized what planned .arenthood does but you cannot have an issue like that potentially wreck the entire u.s. economy any more than i should hold the entire budget hostage to my desire to do something about nonviolence gun violence. i feel just a strongly about that, and i think i have better evidence for it, but the notion that i would threaten the republicans that unless they gun safety measures that would stop mass shootings i m going to shut down the government and not sign an increase in the debt ceiling would be irresponsible of me, and the american people rightly wou ....
whichis an environment in where we are today is not where we will wind up. we had to stop focusing on the 100% solution upfront, take it in bite-size chunks, and keep moving. wittman: i would love to see a breakdown of what you are allocating now and what it will be in the future, to make sure. time in this is critical, so getting your perspective on how you will accomplish that, strategically within the planning sense but also in allocating resources. mr. work: i will take that for the record, sir. ashford: i want to pick up on something admiral rogers and mr. work mentioned a few minutes ago about the government shutdown. i have been sitting here since february, and i admire everyone on this committee. i have learned a great deal. i have been here eight months. i am from nebraska. it is absolutely unfathomable, it is beyond belief, it is incomprehensible that this government, this congress, or anybody would even begin to talk about shutting down the government. for wh ....
the government funding deal, dealing with gun violence and the situation in syria. this is about one hour, 10 minutes. president obama: please be seated. good afternoon. arne duncan is one of my longest-serving cabinet secretaries and he has been a friend for a lot longer than that. so it is with some regret and accepted his have decision to return to our hometown of chicago. after more than six years of living in washington, arne s wonderful wife, karen, and their kids want to move back home. they want to move back home. so, i will be honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from family. so while i will miss him deeply, he has more than earned the right to return home. take a look at what he has accomplished of the last six and over the last 6.5 years. he is one of the longest-serving secretaries of education in our history and one of the more consequential. in just a few years, arne and his team hav ....
so it is with some regret and sorrow that i have accepted his decision to return to our hometown of chicago. after more than six years of living in washington, arne s wonderful wife, karen, and their excellent kids want to move back home. that has meant in the interim a lot of time apart. so, i will be honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from family. on a sustained basis. so while i will miss arne deeply, he has more than earned the right to return home. has look at what are arne has a conflict over the last 6.5 years. he is one of the longest-serving secretaries of education in our history and one of the more consequential. in just a few years, arne and his team have delivered incredible results at every stage of the educational experience. more than 30 states have raise standards for early childhood education, and nearly every state in america has raised standards for teaching and learning. expe ....