Tell, the president s as well as the rest of the administration have a very busy week and agenda moving forward. Meetings, events both inside an outside of washington and with that id like to bring up secretary shauken to talk with you all about the big announcement he made this morning about a historic modernization of the vas medical records and as always, as a reminder, i would encourage you to please be respectful and keep your questions on the topic at hand and ill be happy to answer questions on other topics afterwards. Thank you, secretary. Thank you. Thank you, sarah. As sa raid said earlier today i made an announcement about the department of veteran afarrells decision on Electronic Health record and normally thats not too exciting a decision about a product but i have to tell you im very excited about this because i think it makes a big difference for veterans everywhere and its going to make a big difference for the department of Veterans Affairs. I wanted to say from the ou
Guidance that has led us down a path where we now have 5 million folks with security clearances and access to the nations most Sensitive Information and facilities. Would you like to think about it, brian . Go ahead. I do not mean to interrupt. I just wanted to clarify we are very sensitive to what you say about that number. As a 5 million number that you are referring to covers both people with security clearances as well as people eligible for access. And being sensitive to that number as you mentioned 5 million of anything is a lot. Is. Spin and because of that, recently and speak of the devil as you mentioned, on halloween, the dni signed an executive correspondence going out to all of the Government Agencies stating that they need to they are required to go through their clearance list and validate the numbers and come back to the people that are being decreased from the clearances and get back with us with that information. When will they get back to you . They were given 90 days
So thank you. So we are at 1 30, so im going to draw us to a close. I want to thank my panelists here today. Thank all of you for being here and for your contributions today and for, most importantly, for the work that provides the basis for you to comment today. I want to thank don graves for being with us and setting the stage so nicely. Thank the annie e. Casey foundation for their support for this event. I want to note a couple things. One is that the papers and not just the microenterprise ones, but there is a web site, big ideas for jobs. Org, and you can find all of the papers there. We are the second event here at aspen focusing on a couple other papers for the series. Theyre not focused specifically on the opportunities and policies that could support the work that social enterprises do, that anchor institutions like hospitals and educational institutions and others can do to create jobs, again, specifically focused on individuals and communities that have the largest challeng
Only way to halt an iran that is months away from getting the bomb. Joining us matt kranig a former dod advisor. Welcome to the program. Matt, let me start with you. Is it a good deal . For years Irans Nuclear program has been advancing getting closer to the Nuclear Weapons breakout capability. This freezes their program in place. Thats a good thing. Critics point out it leaves far too much of Irans Nuclear program in place for comfort and thats true. So over the next six months is what we are going to do is negotiate a more comprehensive deal with iran that would have the effect of rolling that progress back. In short, now comes the hard part. There is concern that some of them as soon as they put new sanctions in place could torpedo it. Others are talking about imposing sanctions that could pick out afterwards. There is a lot of talk about passing sanctions now, as you point out. At the end of the day i dont think lawmakers will go through it. I think they understand if they do it wo
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