what i was about to say was we can disagree about the reasons. those reasons, not the only reason, one of those reasons is the fact that police in many high crime communities have abused their authority and their power. you can deny that takes place, but it is an element. and i believe that very strongly. having tod we are wrap up. i apologize to those standing at the microphones. please give a nice round of applause for these panelists. [applause] [indistinct chatter] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] newsmakers, democratic chair raymond buckley discuss the 2016 campaign so far. new hampshire s first in the nation primary, the issues that matter to hampshire voters, and the state s role in vetting the presidential candidates. today at 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. two things are very different today. first of all, we
little skeptical wondering whether or not the tone of the country back in 65 to 70 was different than five years from today. can you reassure me that the data or can you sort of elaborate on what you think the tone will be in five years or what makes you believe that the data will win out? well, the good news is in five years i will be retired. no, look, i can t tell you what it s going to be like in five years in our country. what i can say is don t forget in 1965 why we had to pass voting rights and all that stuff. remember the part of the country that opposed all this stuff. that s precisely the part of the country that delayed implementation of medicaid. let me tell you about my high school. i grew up in rural arkansas. brown vs. board of education was 1954. we finally got total integration in 1970- 71, my senior year. how long is that? so that part of the country totally opposed all of that stuff. and yet in five years, every southern state had had created a medica
festival of books in the barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. visit booktv.org for this weekend s television schedule. now on booktv, ilan berman predicts the collapse of russia due to internal social and demographic decline and external challenges from china. it is about an hour. [applause] thank you. i love that john is making his way off the stage so when you throw things at me you have an unimpeded view. thank you as always for your interest and thank you to the heritage foundation for hosting me. always nice to come out and talk about issues i work a lot on in the privacy of my office and share it with a broader audience. let me start sort of where john ended which is to talk about the external first and then focus on the internal. the question of russia and where russia is heading not only ideologically but geopolitically and demographically, i spent a lot of time looking at both professionally and personally. my personal history is i am the child of sovi
from the center for strategic and international studies. it s just under an hour. i really appreciate the working relationship i have with dr. hamre and with csis. dr. hamre mentioned my desire to learn more about issues. nobody has been more helpful on that than john. they ve been very generous with their time working with me and my staff as we puzzle through difficult and challenging national security issues. and what i want to talk about this morning is sort of how we continue to proceed with our fight against al-qaeda and their ideology. certainly during my time in congress, nothing has changed our policy both domestically and globally more than 9/11. we ve within reacting to that we ve been reacting to that, in ways, ever since. invaded afghanistan and iraq, you know, and as we ve gone we ve tried to figure out how do we fight this war effectively. it s unlike any other battle we ve ever fought in a variety of different ways. and what i want to try to do this morni
do they believe the united states would help them if the russian military got out of control or this yiewn phobia got out of control and would impact troops? two excellent questions. two probably rather uninformative answers. we got a choice. it s a tricky one. i don t know what the answer is. do we continue to support the pro-democracy people who, to put it mildly, have not been successful so far, but or, do we try to engage with the people who have murdered some of them and locked many of the other ones up in order to save independence? in five years time, there may not be a bell ruse. the people are trying discreet. it was interesting, no softy when it comes to russia, and no softer with democracy. he s received the russian ambassador at the foreign ministry many a very formal way to say poe land land is ready to talk. now, those talks become substantial, but something has to happen. we re not demanding immediate dispatch on the coast or even a full independence inqu