this being as secretive. it is very hard for us to give good advice to refugees or asylum seekers about the best way to manage this travel. that s why and then i ll stop, we focused on the need for states to introduce structures. transparent, predictable structures that address the needs of asylum seekers and to give them legal alternatives through creative and flexible visa arrangements settlement programs, humanitarian admission programs in order to be able or safe points of departure in order to be able to address their protection needs. megan, external reconciliation? thank you for a really interesting question. you know it is certainly true that historically reconciliation process, transitional processes are nationally bound, so haven t taken into account the regional cross border dynamics of refugee flows and the ways in which refugees can be as we say in political science spoilers in the context of peace processes, which is to say if their needs are not met they ca
visa arrangements settlement programs, humanitarian admission programs in order to be able or safe points of departure in order to be able to address their protection needs. megan, external reconciliation? thank you for a really interesting question. you know it is certainly true that historically reconciliation process, transitional processes are nationally bound, so haven t taken into account the regional cross border dynamics of refugee flows and the ways in which refugees can be as we say in political science spoilers in the context of peace processes, which is to say if their needs are not met they can potentially undercut those processes and jeopardize their success. that said there have been interesting developments on this front. one of the report co-authors has done extensive research on reconciliation and dialogue processes in the arab spring countries which in some cases have had an international dimension to them. in libya in that case particularly there have
celebrates it s independence, we give thanks for what we have overcome and how far we have come. we also give thanks to the american people, to their representatives in congress, and presidents from harry truman to barack obama, for all of the help you have given us along the way. [applause] ambassador dermer: we give thanks for all america has done to make israel stronger, safer and more prosperous. for support that has enabled israel both to defend itself by itself against any threat and to forge historic peace agreements with egypt and jordan. as we celebrate israel s independence in the capital of this great nation, imf confident as ever that despite all of the challenges i am as confident as ever that despite all of the challenges, israel s best day is still ahead. [applause] vice president biden: i asked, am i up? i think so. hello, mr. ambassador. my name is joe biden. [applause] vice president biden: everybody knows i love israel. i was thinking as ron was saying th
i googled the word embargo yesterday and it came back no news. [laughter] if it was big news, they would not get anything on embargo. certainly not to a wide audience that they are e-mailing it to. that s not generally secret stuff. there was a story yesterday about the growing use of fact sheets by the white house. i saw a summary of the story, so i m not entirely sure if the whole story the suggestion seemed to be that they are using fact sheets for executive action. our rule of thumb is that the longer the fact sheet, the less they are actually doing. the cuba fact sheet, a couple of paragraphs. progress report on fuel efficiency in the automobile sector might be 14 pages. usually a section called building on progress we have already done. it s a long summary of things we have already done and you are supposed to get excited about it. we have time for one more question. i think most of you have expressed support of the increasing diversity of voices in the ne
were charged with neglect. they are considering suing the states. we want to know, how much freedom should begin far kids? are they put in unnecessary danger. here is how we are splitting up the phone minds this morning. if you support free range parenting, you can call us at (202) 748-8000. if you oppose this idea, you can call us at (202) 748-8001. as always, you can weigh in with your thoughts on social media. find us on twitter, @cspanwj. on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. or send as an e-mail journal@c-span.org. here is the washington post story from earlier this month that gives the details of the case involving the maryland children. the story says that the children were taken into custody by county police and turnover to child protection services. the child s mother says that they were released to the couple at 10:30 p.m. on sunday. the parent said the children had been described as for your brain s children and were expected at home at 6:00 on sunday. when they hadn t