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So it is with some regret and sorrow that i have accepted his decision to return to our hometown of chicago. After more than six years of living in washington, arnes wonderful wife, karen, and their excellent kids want to move back home. That has meant in the interim a lot of time apart. So, i will be honest, i pushed for arne duncan to stay, but i also know from personal experience how hard it is to be away from family. On a sustained basis. So while i will miss arne deeply, he has more than ea...

Have the forward air observers that would make it more efficient than what youve got today. Can you share with us a little bit about what youre doing to try to improve that situation and how you would like to see that handled . General austin sir, we routinely use all of our Intelligence Surveillance and reconnaissance assets, u. A. V. s and manned aircraft, to make sure that we are understand whats going on on the ground before we employ weapons. And we are diligent in our efforts there, not ov...

More recently to retake tikrit as well as other successful engagements. On the political front, prime Prime Minister abadi continues to demonstrate the resolve necessary to confront isil and hes striving to manage what is a very difficult Political Landscape in baghdad. In syria, weve seen some opportunities emerge that we didnt envision a year ago, particularly in the northern part of the country where syrian kurds working with syrian arabs has successfully pressured isil along the turkish bord...

We have a minute or two before we go to the pentagon for a briefing. Go ahead, kelly in oregon. Caller the trouble with Public Policy makers is that they are out of touch with the vast majority of the regular people. There are a few good persons out there. Barry sanders, our beloved peter defazio. But policy which makes sense to , they are out of touch. Do not know with the needs and the concerns of the regular individual are. Host this is marjorie in washington dc. Caller hello. I apologize, im...

The government funding deal, dealing with gun violence and the situation in syria. This is about one hour, 10 minutes. President obama please be seated. Good afternoon. Arne duncan is one of my longestserving cabinet secretaries and he has been a friend for a lot longer than that. So it is with some regret and accepted his have decision to return to our hometown of chicago. After more than six years of living in washington, arnes wonderful wife, karen, and their kids want to move back home. They...

These longterm trends are good news, particularly for every american waking up and heading off to a new job. But, we would be doing even better if we didnt have to keep on dealing with unnecessary crises in Congress Every few months. This is especially important right now. Although the American Economy has been chugging along at a steady pace, much of the global ed. Nomy is soft and soften weve seen a decrease in our exports, which was a major driver in our recovery. Our growth could slow if con...

We went to get your thoughts on this deal that has been reached to fund the government, to push up the debt limit. Involved, butost how they are achieved. You can give us a call in three lines this morning. If you want to post on our social media pages, cspanwj on twitter. On facebook facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email at journal cspan. Org. This deal taking place tentatively yesterday. In the New York Times, Congress Strikes a deal with the president. Would alert default. Is here. Bolton cou...

Whichis an environment in where we are today is not where we will wind up. We had to stop focusing on the 100 solution upfront, take it in bitesize chunks, and keep moving. Wittman i would love to see a breakdown of what you are allocating now and what it will be in the future, to make sure. Time in this is critical, so getting your perspective on how you will accomplish that, strategically within the planning sense but also in allocating resources. Mr. Work i will take that for the record, sir....

Mural. A man got into an argument with ramos, we dont know over what and all of a sudden people heard gunshots ring out. Ramos fatal a struck. Just an amazing spirit. He was just out here because he loved painting and he loved being out in the community. The Nonprofit Group is called attitude healing and art. Ramos worked with them on several other murals. The group fund raised the money for the supplies and worked on the mural and a group of students from west Oakland Middle School designed the...

We start this morning with breaking news a worker for caltrans hit and killed and now there is a possibility that the driver was drunk. We are live with the latest. Reporter yeah. We are here at the scene of that deadly accident which is 580 westbound near lake shore or lake shore boulevard. We are joined right now you may have seen one of the chp officers who has been monitoring, george smith. If you can walk us through it. Yeah. The vehicle was traveling on westbound 580. Eastlake shore. Vehic...