the long pipeline, so to speak, for these, which was the empire state due for replacement at new york suny maritime. as we head into next time we're excited to see that delivery date cemented and then we'll go through massachusetts, maine, texas, and with your support, california, and it'll be a great day when we can celebrate the completion of the five ships. >> thank you. we appreciate your partnership on that. with that, congressman rutherford, you are up. >> thank you very much. i want to follow-up on the shipping avenue here. i am very appreciative, mr. secretary, of the support that i hear come out of the administration for the jones act and making sure that this country is ready for our maritime -- to meet our maritime needs. and i will tell you, this kind of goes to the l&g issue. in jacksonville, for example, we have two of our container operators who both operate l&g powered vessels that run between jacksonville and costa recan -- i'm sorry, puerto rico. that is a 30 to 40% carbon savings that is going on right now. so i think that's very important to recognize that maritime is r

and also yanna krupnikov was a professor of clinical signs at suny stony brook and a leading voice on how information influences choices and decisions within democracy. she helped design the survey, helped lead the statistical analysis. were going to talk a bit about what was surprising or not about what we learned regarding his large voting bloc. fernand, >> like to start with you. what's the biggest thing that jumps out to you about who the nonvoter is or isn't based on the cervix? >> sam, the amazing thing about a project like this is so many folks, myself included, i think all of us have these preconceived notions about who nonvoters are. there's all this conventional wisdom that suggest they tend to be of this group and overwhelming of this. what we found in the study with the data reveals is they are like everyone in america. in the sense you run the full breadth of what the american body politic looks like. yes, there are some deviations from voters and voting behavior in terms of leaning perhaps a little more minority,, little more under educated but nonetheless these are grou

suni poly tech in this case institute is developing neuro morphic circuits whi could be used for deep learning, such as pattern recognition. but are also useful for ai or machine learning. in addition, the institute has established an ongoing research program on restive devices. rpi is pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence in a few different areas. in the health care front, rpi is focusing on improving people's lives and patient outcomes by collaborating with albany medical center to improve the performance of their emergency department by using ai and analytics to reduce the recurrence of costly er visits by patients. rpi researchers are also collaborating with ibm to use the watson compung platform to help people with prediabetes avoid developing the disease. in our fight to combat climate change and protect our environment, researchers at rpi and earth and eironmental science are working with computer science and machine learning researchers to apply cutting-edge ai to climate issues. in the education space, rpi is exploring new ways to use ai to improve teaching, as we

if you're familiar with the suny system, this was a suny hospital. we did all the contracting and insurance kinds of efforts. so that's what i did for 13 years and then decided i was going to run for congress. i spent 13 years being an advocate at the hospital and went into congress. and despite all you hear about members of congress and the functionality of congress, most in congress want to try to do the right thing. they are advocates for the people and the constituents who live in their districts. that's what i did for one term and in 2013 i was not reelected. president obama through mitch mcconnell's office called me up and said do you want to be a commissioner at the product safety commission? and i said, i'm not right sure what that is. i assumed and took on the role and that's where i first met bob adler who sent me a kind e-mail welcoming me to the agency. i have been there for the last five years. with the election, my colleagues chose me to be the vice chair. the way it works there, so the vice chair becomes the acting chair. when the admi

it is a suny hospital. that's what i did for 13 years. and decided to run for congress . 13 years as an advocate for the hospital than an advocate in congress. and what you hear about members of congress most in congress want to do the right thing. they are advocates for the did -- constituents in the district. in 2013 i was not reelected. and president obama called me and said do you want to be the commissioner at the consumer federation of america ? i went ahead and took on the role. and that's where i met bob adler. he sent me a kind welcome email. i have been there for the last five years. the vice chair becomes the acting chair. i am the acting chair currently . the status of the agency is a bit odd. if you've watched any of our hearings or briefings will those we only have one republican and the republican organization. and that's odd to be the chairman and the minority. and that's why i appreciate bob so very much. i am waiting to be confirmed by the senate. there is another person waiting to be can firmed. and she will replace com

any state-run hospitals, if you're familiar with the suny system, this is was a suny hospital. the new york attorney general's office let's them. we did the contracting and insurance kinds of efforts. and so that's what i did for 13 years and then decided i was going to run for congress. so i spent 13 years being an advocate at the hospital, and then went into congress. and despite all you hear about members of congress and the functionality of congress, most in congress want to try to do the right thing. they are advocates for the people and the constituents who live in their districts. and that's what i did for one term, and then in 2013, i was not re-elected. and president obama, through mitch mcconnell's office, called me up and said, do you want to be a commissioner at the consumer products safety commission? and i said, i'm not quite sure what that is. but i assumed and took on the role and that's where i first met bob adler. he sent me a very kind e-mail, welcoming me to the agency. and then i've been there for the last five years. in -- with the election, my colleagues

. >> okay, well, i think that if you're talking about suni majority countries, there's -- so i think that's part of it. but iran policies at least from a suny arab perspective have been destabilizing in a number of different contexts. whether it's iran's support of l h hezbollah or lebanon. so i think this would be one area where you see some overlap of politics and trump's position. there's also one area where there's some overlap, and again that's one of the things that really stood out to me in reading the report. the highest support for building a border wall with mexico, trump's wall is actually among jordanians. 44% support a border wall. >> and you have an explanation for this? >> well, we can speckilate. i mean, i guess the one speculation would be that jordan has had a mas chb influx of refugees over the past 15 years, not just recently. so you've had palestinian refugees, iraqi ref jays, and now syrian refugees and it's really altered the demographic make-up of the country. so that would be my guess. >> so i was really interested that 63% of turkey opposed the border wall.

there were a lot of good suni generals that were not allowed to continue who were replaced by bad shia generals. these are political and military affairs. in the political and military affairs, chiang kai shek chose people that were loyal to him politically, not particularly people that were good on the ground. that soldier i showed you that got the bad oer, his name was dorn and he kept a book on the chinese generals. some >> this is hurley with mao and he is attempting to bring the communists and the nationalists together. up there is chiang kai shek and mao. this is the plane that went to get them. if the mission fails, and basically hurley said i have had enough of this stuff. i'm going back to oklahoma, i am out of here. goes what am i going to do now, marshall goes. general marshall is known as the finest diplomat who ever served in uniform. there is a question out there of why did he go to china and try , to do this impossible task of bringing the nationalists and the communists together to form what might be called the the 1st united front. someone should have asked him. before

you know, there is there's a suny sunni brand, a shia brand, you ought not to read anything other into my use of the word violent extremism other than really trying to articulate exactly the point i'm making now and you're giving me a chance to, that it involves al-qaeda and hezbollah. it involves isis and other groups that present a trans regional threat. so, you know, again, if you talked about a specific group, i'd give you a more accurate distributor. i was using the term violent ek tre treem to refer to all of those groups, who take up arms to advance directives. that's what i was ewing the term to imply. thanks. >> as we conclude here and speaking of nicknames and such, we've want to thank you everyone for avoiding inside white house drama question, but i'm going to try one, which is we know that president trump likes the nickname mad dog mattis. maybe even more than the secretary himself does. has the president learned your nickname is fighting joe and does he like to use that? >> the only one -- will use that expression is my wife. >> please thank me, please join me in thanking

the biggest problem in the region, and obviously not just towards israel but towards the rest of the suny arab world as well. you also maintained, i think over the years, a relationship with vladimir putin and yet today if you look at the russian position towards iran, really no one else is doing as much to abet iranian power, certainly in syria, and i would say that for the region, given your long-standing relationship with putin, do you see any potential to separate putin from the iranians and if so, how would you go about doing that? >> well, look, we have many issues with the russians and we have many, many disagreements, we have conference with china and have many disagreements with china. i don't think it's right approach to disregard russia or china. at the end of the day we're small country, we have the same priorities, relations, and of course, putin is still not a z. inist guy, he thinks about russia with russian interests, but we have to have a clear dialogue, we have some coordination, including syria, i think it's very, very helpful. both can be dialogue between united states

it's not problem problem to solve and this is a fight between suni and shite. the branches of islam and the rightful air to the profit mohammad. but we'll never solve that problem now that the u.s. military has to maintain a presence in the middle east specifically with concerns about isis. >> a agree and let's talk talk about the battle for mosul. who is going to govern them after we defeat this coalition defeats isis. i don't want to believe that we have to engage in nation building but there has to be a way of solving the vacuum that is going to be created as a resu result. >> there's enough challenges that are going to cause problems in and of themselves and secondly the vacuum of isis being defeated doesn't solve the fact that isis is still a presence in the region and in effect we have to have a much more multipronged approach to defeating isis. my op ed is not just about isis but also many of the steps that we can take better to protect the homeland. >> first call for you comes from christina. she is in valley city ohio. go ahead. >> there's a reason we

anyone who knows anything about the brotherhood, it's exclusively a suny movement. though don't care about facts and their crowd doesn't care about facts. this is a big problem. the other problem is the media. many of the people are so lazy or so bigoted they share these opinions that they repeat these accusations. example, fox news is the right one but it's not the only one. if any of you have fios or verizon tv, now i get four right wing stations they all compete and who's more right wing from blaze to one american network to news max and i know many people on the right complained that the media is a left wing conspiracy but there's more on the right than there is on the left. so the message continues through these channels. thank you. >> thank you. we're going to have a little discussion amongst ourselves before i open it up to the audience. i want to talk about the issue of normalization. i know growing up, we always thought that there are certain things you don't say. certain things you don't discuss in public. has ha changed now with this political rhetoric no

anyone who knows anything about the brotherhood, it's exclusively a suny movement. though don't care about facts and their crowd doesn't care about facts. this is a big problem. the other problem is the media. many of the people are so lazy or so bigoted they share these opinions that they repeat these accusations. example, fox news is the right one but it's not the only one. if any of you have files or verizon tv, now i get four right wing stations they all compete and who's more right wing from blaze to one american network to news max and i know many people on the right complained that the media is a left wing conspiracy but there's more on the right than there is on the left. so the message continues through these channels. thank you. >> thank you. we're going to have a little discussion amongst ourselves before i open it up to the audience. i want to talk about the issue of normalization. i know growing up, we always thought that there are certain things you don't say. certain things you don't discuss in public. has ha changed now with this political rhetoric n

suni terrorist groups and the iranian regime and proxy and now putin's russia. just consider, over the past 8 years, this administration has overseen the collapse of region mall order in the middle east into a state of chaos where every country is either a battlefield for regional conflict, a party to that conflict or both. and makes al qaeda appear modest by comparison but both terrorist networks expanded theirs from west africa to south asia and everything in between. and this is shackling iran tps ian power and ambition. both is billions of dollars in sanctions relief has transformed into advanced military capability and support for terror i feel and then there is putin's russia which has reclaimed a position to influence a middle east that's not enjoyed in four decades. the best that can be said about this devastating legacy is over the past year in part thanks to our witnesses today president obama has at least begun to unleash americans fighting men and women against isil. they're fighting with skill and courage despite enormous risks as reports of isil's

they should be local police, suny in many cases, but it's actually a mixed ethnicity city and the governor of nina wa province is the one that they are working with and we're working with. that's a daily exercise for general townsend, general botell and for us is to keep everybody aligned and focused on job at hand which is defeating sisal. with respect to stabilization and reconstruction, we don't november what the collapse of sisal's control over mosul will look like. we've had a different experience in different cities. and obviously, no one wants to see street to street fighting in mosul but you don't know. there could be a large number of refugees and we're preparing for that. not usaid, you mentioned u.s. government funding, that's essential but also the u.n. and other international aid agencies. that's one of the things i ask our coalition partners. if you don't want to make a military contribution or you don't have a strong military contribution to make or it's problematic for some reason for you to make a contribution, a check is good. to the local people to help them reconstruct.

political shift, decision on the part of the iraqi government to end its campaign of marginalizing the suni politicians. this will only work, ultimately, if there is some effort at reinclusion of giving resources, some greater self-governance capacities to the sunis. if that happens, they won't be inviting isis back in. if it doesn't happen, this will be clearing a tremendous cost and the political conditions will once again be fertile for groups like isis to come back in if they don't address this problem. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> next to the stage, please welcome susan lan dow professor at wossy institute. matthew and susan spaulding, undersecretary for the national protection and programs director at the department of homeland security. here to lead the conversation is atlantics washington editor at large, steve clemens. >> hello, everybody. how many of you watched the commander in chief ceremony last night? this is that matt olsen hillary clinton referred to. i wanted to make this clear last night. we were at dinner and his iphone began buzzing like crazy and it was becau

extremely well with suny, took those suny policies, proposed them. they passed almost unanimously in both houses. and that went way beyond the requirements of vowa explaining confidentiality and affirmative consent definition that is a model definition. amnesty when bystanders or victims come and report and a number of really important training things because as we said, we encourage you, double down on prevention. everybody up here, you've heard about it. we don't, suny doesn't want to be the leader in responding to bullying, hazing and violence. we want to have fewer incidents to respond to. i know all my colleagues up here share that. we really liked what the congress did with vawa and hope that you continue down that path. > thank you very much. appreciate it. >> senator baldwin. >> thank you very much, senator murray, for convening this roundtable and this is very, very helpful to all of us. and i appreciate the presence of all of our witnesses here. i wanted to start with you, mrs. clementi, and start by also sharing my gratitude to you and you

there is an how our suni clients look at. i'm spre proud of them for that. slight shift on your question but i think it gets to the same concept. when suni's chancellor put together a working group in 2014, to look at issues of sexual and interpersonal violence i was one of the cocoordinators and working with the committee that was brighting our affirmative consent definition. we had a bunch of outside experts in our committee. we had one expert, one of the co-founders of equal justice new york libby post and she said in your definition, you should say affirmatively as it were, that their applies regardless of sexual orientation, gender or identity orrics pregs because a lot of students don't think it applies to them. i said what should the sentence say? >> this definition applies regardless of sexual identity gender expression. informs in there. passed all the way through the policies, passed all the way into the legislation, went into the legislation. there were a lot of the changes to a lot of points in the legislation. both parties let that go. when gove

one of them was syria that had a majority of sunis and shia which in syria are the minority of sunnis and majority of shia. so in each case the american president said let's get rid of that guy and we will have stabili stability. but getting rid of the top guy produces a conflict among the various minority groups who are fighting for preimnance so we have to learn that when we get into nation building it's such a war we have to engage in. so i think we did not understand the complexity of nation building. >> right. >> that's how i would assess the war in iraq. we got into something deeper than we assessed at the beginning. >> he has graciously consented to take a few questions from the audience and i will ask him another question as you wish to ask questions, queue up behind the microphones on either of the aisle. i ask please that you ensure that your question is in fact that a question and not a statement and that you be as grief as possible in asking that question. >> let me -- it's impossible to ignore the election as it plays out. you said in a 2014 interview with scott simon of

though we corrected it towards the end of the period surge, as there by the by reaching out to the sunis, by iraqi forces, by establishing a unity government, killing zakawai , and bringing wayt security, violence was down. but unfortunately, violence we have isis now. announcer: tonight at 8 eastern "q&a.span's ". >> next, a panel of scholars discusses influential thinkers century, including russell .s. eliot, kirk. it was in grand rapids michigan, and it's about an hour. host: we'll move forward in time now to the mid-20th century with a look at some of that era's influential conservative hinkers as illuminated by the scholarship of ben latford, bradley berbinger and lisa zefil. i use the word influential on purpose. he trajectory of post-war

>> thanks, i'm ben with the rockefeller institute at suni. my question is, you've talked about all of this is a pretty heavy lift. as you said, this culture of colleges and universities, you've talked about the cla, cla plus institution level, testing, you have talked about individual assessment again with cla plus and you talk about the nape like approach which could give national results, regional results, institution type results. given how hard all of this is, where would you start? what's most important? >> i would start with number one that yes, the lifting is heavy but stakes are high. when i say we are in crisis i mean we are graduating thousands of students into a brutal job market remains even with all of the recovery and the job market remain the case of graduating students, continuing to face high unemployment numbers, and the amount of student loan debt they are carrying is unc unconscienceable. i think the system should feel incredible shame over the fact that within ten years $100,000 tuition is probably on the horizon. that's

i now propose a $15 million clean energy opportunity training program so suny and our community colleges can train the workers within solar technology and installation.

if we can come back for a second, when i look at inside of the creativeness, upwards of 30% of the suni soldiers who have soldiers trying to depose. and similarly, fighting for him, they'll be looking for him. and i thi secretary kerry will have to attach for these people. what happens and that kind of looks to the u.n., the soldier. they lay douchb their guns. otherwise, i don't see a resolution. i see trying to ne gauchuate an ever-continuing conflict. so can you talk about that a little bit? the u.n. peace keepers could play? again, the post-peace agreemen ? i understand that we're far from that. but just looking at that and anticipating a potential call for the u.n. and to assume no guarantees. otherwise, i don't think asad is ever leaving. otherwise the fact of human nature and looking at what's happening with all of these countries. they'll be dead. the revenge mode will be so high given the tragedy that's affected the families. so how could we play a con instructive role? >> there's no tour to very complex dimensions of imagining to syria. but you put your finger on, i think, one

i don't care whether you're a good suni, whether you're a shia by kurd by yourself you will not defeat isis. it has to happen with our troops imbedded as advisers because that's the only reason -- the iraqi army was 900,000 men in uniform on paper. 900,000. a couple of thousands guys took mosul, it's absurd why, because we had no imbeds. the tribes could run home to mama because we weren't there to shame them. the culture of region revolves around shame and honor. you'll run home to your tribe. so, we have to be a part of the solution, we have to sell the concept of a functioning iraq and we have to really jet sonned once and for all, it's an arab saying, but the idea of enemy is the enemy is my friend is complete, complete hogwash when it comes to iran. the idea, that, you know, iran because they're killing sunni extremists are our friends? you have to be smoking something and it's not tobacco to believe that. >> okay, we have a question over here. >> yes, i'm nate madden with the 221st wonderfulson initiative. i wondering if the panel can speak more to this ideology dr. gorka you spo

at the suni land summit in 2013, president xi proposed that we explore establishing a set of confidence-building measures between our two militaries. and we reaffirmed our interest in doing that at the strategic and economic dialogue. we're looking at two different kinds of confidence-building measures right now. one of them is a notification of major military activities effort. the other is on rules of the road, rules of behavior for air and m acharitime encounters. we're discussing both of these and we hope to have something positive to say in this regard during president obama's stay in beijing. on your second question, we established a comprehensive partnership with vietnam in 2013 when president song visited washington. that comprehensive -- we're in the process of implementing that comprehensive partnership in all areas of the relationship. and we thought it was only appropriate as part of implementing the comprehensive partnership that we look at lifting the ban on lethal weapon sales to vietnam, which we think is -- it's about time that we did that, given the growth of our relationship w

. >> the sunis have an advantage. so that being geographically close to syria where the key e ventss of a civil war going over there has been used to assist them them in the change. they thought that isis came to liberate them. they used the word to lib rate them. they banned them from actually not wearing jobs. so they iraqis banning them from their rights. so, now, they realize not that it means that they're going to go back to malicki and say we're sorry, no, they still have problems with the central government. they're the enemies of progress. believe it or not, there are elements that support going back 14 00 years ago. so the idea of goimpk back so many years is not a suni thing or a jewish thing. system. >> great, thank you so much. yes? >>. >> i think the point you make about the centrality of ek nonices 1 important. it's a little bit troubling. it seems to me that politic social security ultimately about the distribution of resources at its core. people talk about how war is politics. by other means. but anyb