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Because of what happened. Whats been happening in syria as i mentioned. For folks who are less familiar. Whats happened is becoming more active in the socalled sunni triangle of Northern Iraq opposed to the government in baghdad. And they took a foothold. You may recall earlier this year and last year, back in fallujah again and then ramadi, which is in the western part of the country, which is a sunni predominantly sunni area of the country, and now most recently youve seen this rather spectacu...

The American People, essentially putting him at odds with Georgia Republican senators just three days out from election day. Senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler are among only a handful of republican senators who have publicly come out and supported President Trumps demand for 2,000 stimulus checks. The pair have little room to break from the president as they look for his support to help them fend off tough competition from democrats jon ossoff and Raphael Warnock respectively and in a rar...

Secretary of state blinken, who is hoping for a friendlier reception than he got yesterday. Contentious and combative. One of our analysts predicting it will be brutal. Well talk to her in a second with blinken set to defend the administrations exit from afghanistan. I want to get to our team. So right now, were looking at several senators talking. The republican cohort of this, secretary blinken just walked in. Leanne, what are you looking ahead to . Thats right, hallie. Todays the second diffi...

Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical...

Continuing work weve got to do in afghanistan as well. Same number of of things added together. Also, there is a persistent bad from elements like al qaeda and al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that has the ability to generate a threat to the homeland. So that is very, very important. Are we going to be able to meet those with the troops that are projected to be there . Are we going to accomplish anation . Weve had so many families in this country sacrifice. Is it going to be worth it to that . ...

This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody and welcome. This morning the Committee Considers the nominations of two very distinguished officers to two of the most active and challenging combatant commands. General lloyd austin United States army nominated to be commander u. S. Central command and general David Rodriguez u. S. Army to be nominated to be commander of the u. S. Africa command. These two combatant commands centcom and africom are the centers of gravity for o...

That many of those courageous fighters who are opposing the barbaric regime that the president assad regime has become. I urge you to present your recommendation to this committee as soon as possible. I hope more can be done militarily to deprive president assad of his superiority where he has in the air and his forces on the grounds that he is using to slaughter of the citizens of his own country. Yes, sir. Thank you, mr. Chair. My time is expired. My thanks to each of you for your Extraordinar...

And there is context to consider. This began in the nations fright expand furious after the attacks of 9 11 with americans terrified over what might come next. Today what this report contains, what lawmakers just released it. Reaction from both the obama and bush administrations, and the concerns this could lead to new attacks. Lets get to it. It doesnt get much more serious than this. Thousands of u. S. Marines around the world are on high alert after Senate Democrats released a report on cia i...

Protesters. Im wolf blitzer here in washington and 9 00 p. M. In kuwait city and 2 00 a. M. In manila. Thank you very much for joining us. A brandnew report on torture reports for the cia. One question examined the Senate Intelligence committee report, did the socalled enhance interrogation techniques help find osama bin laden. In an interview with our own Candy Crowley, the president strongly deefended the cia. Were fortunate to have men and women serving on our behalf. These are patriots and w...

Our meteorologist Karen Maginnis in the cnn Weather Center with the brandnew forecast. Where is this storm headed . Well, it is still trekking rather rapidly to the northeast at about 13 miles an hour. The faster it moves, the less the impacts will be. So were still looking at a system that is chugging along, and it is now located about 30 miles to the south of wilmington. So right now up and down the coast of North Carolina, they are being battered by high winds, winds associated with Hurricane...