Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p
Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p
Welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the presidency the executive branch has absconded with significant amounts of you know, Effective National p
Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p
It seems to me if this trend really continues unfortunately 2015 will be recorded as the bloodiest year yet since 9 11. Mike mentioned one of our recent obligations related to terrorism in north africa and the impact regionally and globally. We do have copies for those who might be interested. Let me just mention that were covering a broad area all the way from [inaudible] health security, for example, the ebola crisis, and in general i think we have to look at the record. And the record of last year 2014, for example, there is an increase of 30 in north africa over 2013. And, again if you look at 9 11 from 9 11 you look at that particular region which really underscores the nature of the threats, there is an increase of 800 , and so on. And so today were going to discuss several of the countries in the region. Again, there are many terrorist groups involved in this activity. Some are regional and some are foreign fighters and so forth. So i think were going to deal with both the domes