History for practices related to the financial crisis, recovering 85 billion much of it returned to ordinary americans who were badly hurt. Hes worked passionately to make sure our criminal Justice System remains the best in the world. He knows that too many outdated policies, no matter how wellintentioned, perpetuate a destructive cycle in too many communities. So eric addressed unfair sentencing disparities, reworked mandatory minimums, and promoted alternatives to incarceration. And thanks to his efforts, since i took office, the overall crime rate and the overall incarceration rate have gone down by about 10 . Thats the first time that theyve declined together, at the same time, in more than 40 years. Erics proudest achievement, though, might be reinvigorating and restoring the core mission to what he calls the conscience of the building and thats the civil rights division. He has been relentless against attacks on the Voting Rights act because no citizen, including our service mem
Our state. Todays debate broadcast live across the state of oregon between governor John Kitzhaber and representative dennis richardson. Its an example of voips involvement in the process but why bes involvement more than 250 radio and television stations across the state welcome you to todays debate. Watch, listen and you decide. Most importantly, vote. Here is your moderator, matt mcdonnell. Togood morning and welcome this, the 2014 oregon gubernatorial debate. The second time these two candidates will be meeting. Or ehalf of the organization of broadcasting, im tired be your moderator today. John kitzhaber is seeking his fourth term as governor. He was elected in 1994. He was the president of the oregon summit. His republican challenger has served in the oregon house since 2002 representing district four. Hes a retired attorney, Business Owner and a vietnam war veteran. Both of these candidates have agreed to a set form for this debate. Each candidate will have two minutes for openi
Able to take care of themselves. I do not want to do what we did in iraq. When you pull out too fast, it you create a vacuum, the vacuum is going to be filled and that vacuum in iraq was filled by isil and that could happen again in afghanistan. What is amazing to me is the effectiveness of our military in the middle east. Maintain ourould presence in afghanistan until we we have made some progress on the new government that is just bill that did in afghanistan that has just been elected in afghanistan. We had to act when we acted. Terrorism occurred. I agree we need to stay a little longer. The way we approached afghanistan did create the vacuum. Click some critics have blamed president obama for the current upheaval in iraq saying he shouldve kept american soldiers on the ground in that country. Do you agree . Hindsight is 2020. Borderseft troops on with syria, we could have maintained some Training Mission and some support mission on the border with syria. Station. N has left the i
Going to school. The mobile peace price is awarded. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im david shuster. We begin with a new death toll from the ebola virus. The World Health Organization says 4,000 people have died in west africa from the current outbreak. That is more than the reported number of cases. World leaders say the spread of the virus has outpaced the worlds response with only a quarter of the 1 billion requested by the United Nations now funded. Paul brennan reports how World Leaders are trying to respond. The country is stricken by ebola says its a strategy unforeseen in modern times. Liberia, sierra leone and guinea wants international assistance, money, medical assistance and training, the imf has pledged 500 million. But the u. N. Said it could cost 1 billion to stop the outbreak. Arriving in monrovia, troops are receiving final training. These soldiers will help construct Treatment Centers and not have direct contact with ebola patients themselves. We
But we believe in the green party in basic medical care is a human right and that to deny it for any reason is basically a violation of human rights, and in some cases might be morally equivalent to murder. Other nations have done this and then a good job him and they get Better Outcomes for about half the cost because they have National Health insurance. We are addicted to an idea that capitalism like a religion must always be right and every case must always be the only solution for every problem. It is not. It does not work in case of a medical industry, and we need National Health Insurance Plan for rebuttal, mr. Pryor. Pryor again, gwen, thank you for the question of the mek three specifics on things i do support. Contrary to what congressman cotton says, i dont support any change the undeleted democratic sponsor on repealing the independent payment advice report. I believe democratic sponsor on a bill that would fix the exchange is for pastors and ministers, technical fix but non