Good morning. You can applaud. [applause] i know you are applauding because you are here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. That is why we live here and why it is such a wonderful destination. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair. We have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year and hope you will continue through tomorrow evening when the 7 days closes. This fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, collaboration, passion and volunteerism of many, many people in the community. Namely the students, faculty, staff of miamidade college. [applause] and really hundreds of high School Students, middle School Students and others in the community. We truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair. I also want to thank the ci
[applause] i know that youre applauding because youre here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. Thats why we live here, and thats why such a wonderful destination for our visitors. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair, and we have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year. I hope that you will continue with us through tomorrow evening when the sevenday fair closes. You know, this fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, the collaboration, the passion, and the volunteerism of many people in our community. Namely, the students, faculty, staff of Miamidade College. [applause] and really hundreds of high school students, middle School Stunts and others in the community. So we truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair.
[applause] joining us now is senator and that are larry pressler, the request for disarmament in a nuclear sub. What is the Pressler Amendment that you discuss in your book. The Pressler Amendment prohibited aid with pakistan if it developed a Nuclear Weapon or using our money for a Nuclear Weapon and it was enhorsed by president george h. W. Bush, and then bill clinton admin statively lifted it. John glenn and i worked on this as partners. I believe there would not be Nuclear Weapons in the indian s subcontinent today. It was clear that pakistan was being given Nuclear Weapons by our pentagon and so, the United States has been a main proliferator of not only Nuclear Weapons, but of conventional weapons and then pakistan in turn, sold them to north korea with our octopus approval and so we had been a major proliferator of Nuclear Weapons, but so thats part of the passion that i have, and wakes people up to that fact. Okay. Before we get into what this octopus is what you refer to, wher
Question is the word we. How is this counter messaging going to be organized . To what extent is it going to be spontaneous . Does it represent the youth of the region . My friends from the arab world keep insisting to me that as powerful and intimidating as is i. S. Messaging is, what is dominant in arabic is what i call the freedom spirit, the square statement i am connected and i am not going to take it anymore, and i wont take it from an authoritarian leader and i am going to live in my own world. Somehow that message that spirit of connectiveness, i think, of free citizens, which is still there and we get too depressed about the arab winter sometimes, and its still there and that has to become more of the dominant narrative. It probably needs help from governments, but i worry in the post snowden age about swallowing the poison pill. I worry about steps that seem sensible in terms of messaging that end up limiting the message, or undercutting it. I think this is an area where its
Contamination. Weve finally gotten studies to shed light on this tragedy. As someone i know who served at camp lajeune, i hope you will make this a priority, and will you work with congress to work with this . I feel confident because were working with atr and some other areas that overcome any of these hurdles that may halt or delay the pursuit of answers for affected marines and their families. Absolutely, senator. And well do all we can to be transparent with marine families, and frankly, at the end of the day to do the nice thing. I think its a powerful program that allows our Service Members to pursue education in their off time, and i think it enhances the professionalism and certainly helps prepare them for the civilian work force when they transfer out. Congress has sent a very clear message about the importance of this benefit and by restoring it in fiscal year 13 and reprogramming that in fiscal 14, and in the marine corps 15 budget, the original proposal wanted to cut this b