Last 20 years in afghanistan and iraq and other nations. He is a washington ancestor. A descendent. You are not that old. He is the fifth great grandnephew of George Washington through his brother. He began his writing at uc berkeley covering the rugby team. Then conflict reporting on parma and cambodia. He has interviewed many important leaders. Also to publications for you know, the Atlantic Monthly and the new york times. He is the author of two other books. My brother my enemy. Al qaedas greatest escape. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his articles. Most importantly among all of this he has been one of the Research Fellows at the mount vernon Research Fellows. He is somebody who puts us off to go cover a war. That is unusual but we are very accommodating. We welcome him in suggesting presenting his newest book read writing with riding with george. Lets give a warm welcome to him. [applause] phillip thank you very much. It is obvious a incredible honor to speak
Afghanistan, and other nations. He is a washington ancestor. A descendent. You are not that old. He is the fifth great grandnephew of George Washington through his brother. He began his writing at uc berkeley, covering the rugby conflict reporting on burma and cambodia. He has interviewed many important leaders. Includingpublications the Atlantic Monthly and the new york times. He is the author of two other books. My brother my enemy. Al qaedas greatest escape. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his articles. Most importantly among all of this he has been one of the Research Fellows at the mount vernon Research Fellows. He is somebody who puts us off to go cover a war. That is unusual but we are very accommodating. We welcome him in suggesting presenting his newest book read writing with riding with george sportsmanship and chivalry in the making of. Ericas first president lets give a warm welcome to him. [applause] phillip thank you very much. It is obvious a incredi
The show. Thanks for watching at home. Thanks for coming to my work. Very kind, i appreciate it. Remember like remember like four days ago when we were all worried about north korea . What happened to that . [ laughter ] those were simpler times. Im glad youre here. Im glad im here. Theres so much trumpiness going on right now. Its hard to keep up. But tonight President Trump gave his first tv interview since he fired the director of the fbi on tuesday. You know, one of the reasons theyre giving for that firing is that trump said james comey lost the trust of rank and file fbi agents. And today the acting head of the fbi, andrew mccabe, flatly contradicted that. He said the vast majority of agents hold a deep positive connection to director comey. So hes fired too then, right . [ laughter ] everybodys fired. I think the strategist thing about how all this went down is that trump fired james comey by letter. He had a letter delivered to his office at the fbi. He didnt even say youre fir
The show. Thanks for watching at home. Thanks for coming to my work. Very kind, i appreciate it. Remember like remember like four days ago when we were all worried about north korea . What happened to that . [ laughter ] those were simpler times. Im glad youre here. Im glad im here. Theres so much trumpiness going on right now. Its hard to keep up. But tonight President Trump gave his first tv interview since he fired the director of the fbi on tuesday. You know, one of the reasons theyre giving for that firing is that trump said james comey lost the trust of rank and file fbi agents. And today the acting head of the fbi, andrew mccabe, flatly contradicted that. He said the vast majority of agents hold a deep positive connection to director comey. So hes fired too then, right . [ laughter ] everybodys fired. I think the strategist thing about how all this went down is that trump fired james comey b he had a letter delivered to his office at the fbi. He didnt even say youre fired, which
Significant damage as well. The state police are goungs to have a news kmpb. T the ntsb and faa will keep us posted. A dramatic story here. Tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Well get more information as the News Conference begins. Investigators say the weather conditions at the time of the crash were a big factor. Lets go to chief meteorologist Glenn Schwartz with more on how weather played that important role. It was the intention to fly into bad weather so theres no surprise that there was bad weather at the time. Now just how bad was it . Theres not much on the radar. Just a few sprinkles missed. The clouds are pretty low to the ground. Reported about 500 feet above the ground. So you had that much room to play with. Visibility was two and a half miles in that period between 10 and 1 001 00 in the morning. Tvs even lower earlier in the morning. The reported visibilities at 11 00 a. M. The airport at 4 miles. Philadelphia had 8 mile visibility. So these are conditions that helicopters have m