Good morning, everyone. My name is melissa and i direct the project here at the center for strategic and International Studies and im divided to welcome you to todays event. The u. S. Approach to security jurisdiction in afghanistan. Before we begin today, i want to share our building safety precautions overall we feel secure that as a convener we have the duty to prepare for an emergency. I will serve as your Safety Officer at this event. Please follow my instructions. Finally take a moment to familiarize yourself with the emergency exit pathways to the room or directly behind you down the stairs if theres an incident behind you we will go out these doors, you follow me and i will take you to a safe location. Today we are delighted to be hosting two distinguished individuals from the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the director himself was sworn in as the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in july, 2012. He has more than 30 years of expe
And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
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Had been so concerned about just a short time ago, with the s p trading up nearly 1 . And nasdaq is over a percent. Former trump advisor rick gates will appear before a judge any minute now. He is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy and making a false statement in the ongoing russia probe. I want to be very clear here, there is still no mention of collusion. We have more coming up later in the hour. First to blake burman at white house where were about to hear from the president in just a short couple minutes. Hey, blake. Reporter momentarily what we were told. President trump, the australian Prime Minister as well here for a joint press conference. The president saying earlier today that the issues of trade of course, security would come up, this is one of those instances where they are going to get questions from both sides. You know the issues of guns and School Safety will be most likely asked upon the president today. Earlier today he made several comments both in the speech at