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Osama bin laden was killed in 2011, a decade ago. al qaedas capabilities were degraded significantly, including its ability to plan and conduct external operations. after 20 years, 2,641 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, trillion dollars spent, it was time to end americas longest war. when president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement that his predecessor had reached with the taliban to remove all remaining forces from afghanistan by may 1st of this year. as part of that ...

A decade _ osama bin laden was killed in 2011, a decade ago. al-qaeda is capabilities were degraded significantly including its ability to plan— significantly including its ability to plan and conduct external operations. after 20 years 2641 american — operations. after 20 years 2641 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, _ american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, $2 trillion spent it was time _ injuries, $2 trillion spent it was time to— injuries, $2 trillion spent it was time to end americas...

Military exercises with the united states in august, its something that happens every year and north korea does not like his military exercises happening on the border, so it could be this is a response to that but it certainly will highlight to the biden administration and to officials here that pyongyang does have new and emerging capabilities and we heard last month from satellite images that its main nuclear plant is once again operational. so pyongyang may have been quiet but it has certain...

Waiting to see what the advisory committee to the fda comes down with. you know, this is a body whose role is to be independent of government, so free of politics. their role is to look at the evidence and come up with a recommendation whether these vaccines should be approved for a booster dose. then that information, assuming they do approve it, goes to an independent advisory committee to the cdc to recommend who should get those booster shots. as a pediatrician and public health person, i re...

Who was one time the secretary of defense, prior to that the cia director and also chief of staff of the president of the united states. talking about leon panetta. listen to what he said yesterday about the reconstitution of al qaeda and potential taliban support for a reconstituted al qaeda in afghanistan. >> its clear to me that they are going to continue to support al qaeda and allow al qaeda to basically continue to develop and expand and i think they will plan additional attacks on our cou...

For that. that does not mean we will rely on it. we will remain vigil impaired will maintain robust counterterrorism capabilities. neutralize those threats if necessary. we do that in places around the world where we do not have military force on the ground. fourth, we continue our intensive diplomacy with allies and partners. we initiated a statement joined by more than half the worlds countries, over 100 countries, as well as the united nations security council resolution setting out the inter...

Presidency, so far. it could have been a lot more significant. what it was was a long range cruise missile. it means that the -- it is according to north korea state-run media new strategic weaponry. they said theyve been developing it for two years. it is significant because it means theyre pushing forward in the military capabilities but it wasnt ballistic missile technology. so technically they werent violating any u.n. security council resolutions. so that is why youre not seeing many of the...

What other terrorists are doing. secondly we need to have the capability to use counter terrorism operations against those targets. the president himself has said weve got to use counter terrorism. its called over-the-horizon, but regardless of what you call it, we need to have special forces capabilities that can move if we identify terrorists targets that are threatening the united states of america. that is important in order to protect our security. >> secretary, you heard the big difference...

Out as a nation when we had intelligence and what we knew. we knew we saw this coming. we have some of the best intelligence capabilities in the world. we have satellite imagery that you can see everything thats happening on the ground and they just stood by and watched the taliban take over afghanistan and actually didnt want to sound the alarm and get people out because they knew it would alert that afghanistan was falling. so they intentionally did things that stranded our american citizens b...

Toal and richard garriott and jim breyer and animal capital and a few of these _ breyer and animal capital and a few of these great finds, that had that lon- of these great finds, that had that long term — of these great finds, that had that long term viewpoint. they really wanted — long term viewpoint. they really wanted to — long term viewpoint. they really wanted to invest in the science, in the challenging engineering aspects, who went _ the challenging engineering aspects, who went lo...