general, ban ki-moon, with the objective of raising even more donor funds. thank you very much. now i ll take your questions. please identify yourself and your organization. the woman in the back there. microphone. thank you. the im, i have a question, infrastructure investment bank. what is your comment on the model compared to the existing institution such as the world bank and the a.d.p., and do you think they can cooperate effective with the world bank, but without to avoid, also avoid fragmentation? well, my understanding is the a.i.b., the business model is still being discussed. there are many different issues that are still to be worked out. i ve made it very clear from the very beginning of discussions that we think that we can be a very, very strong partner for a.i.b. for example, we have 70 years of experience doing project preparation, helping with implementation, supervision, and also we think that the safeguards that we bring to the table in any project wi
sent us and email, journal@c-span.org. an article from a couple days ago. of americans said they were following the 2014 midterm elections very closely. than half the number that said they were tracking the ebola virus, 36%, or u.s. .irstrikes against isis less than the 21% of the people paying attention to the secret service. most people do not care about midterm elections. like, at all. the cillizza in washington post. hard for any story to be the of fracturedrld media consumption. they will be lots of media coverage in the final months. is likely to increase. for most people, the midterms are a nonevent. here s the hill. an underfunded independent has tern decelerate upside down turned the senate rate upside down. he told the hill that if elected, he d be a friend of obama in the senate. surging in the race. that s a little bit from the south dakota senate race. we want your point of view on election 2014. ed in frederick, maryland. are you paying attention? caller
so, unfortunately, the time of death has proved to be a time when the virus tends to spread very widely. and in order to get control over the virus, people are having to change the ways in which they handle illness and handle death and to move away from traditions that are centuries old. this has been a major difficulty for many of the societies that are affected. and it s really only in the last few weeks, thanks to the courage of the leaders of the countries concerned, that there s been a much greater emphasis on people coming to terms with and owning the disease and changing their behaviors so that they re less likely to spread the disease. another phenomenon that s occurring is that when people get the disease, they get scared. and they tend to run to people who they think can help them traditional healers, centers of faith, or even friends and relatives. and that, in turn, leads to the movement of sickness and the disease into new communities, new chains of transmissio
senators john mccain and lindsey graham on the senate floor talk about the filibuster. senator rand paul, who led the filibuster, questioned the ability of drone strikes on u.s. citizens on u.s. soil. this is 40 minutes. thank you, mr. president. i d like to quote from this morning s editorial in the wall street journal , entitled rand paul s drone rant. i d like read, for the edification of my colleagues, the editorial in the wall street journal this morning. a credible media outlet. the warm read, quote: give rand paul credit for theatrical timing, as the snowstorm descended on washington, the republican s kentucky old-fashioned filibuster wednesday, filled the attention void on twitter and cable tv, if only his reasoning matched the showmanship. shortly before noon, senator paul began talking filibuster against john brennan s nomination to lead the cia. a fact tick rarely used in the senate and was last seen in 2010. but senator paul said, quote, alarm, had to be