her central argument which she learned in afghanistan and all over the world, whats that you can t, you know, get security now and then thereafter take care of the govern fans issues and the corruption problems, corruption turns out to be a really bad, bad virus. easy to get and it s hard to kill. but if you are a country, once you got it, once you ve got a bad case of corruption, not only saps a country of its ability to 39, it accelerates some of the post-dangerous things on earth, radicalism, conflict. unbridgeable division. she literally wrote the book on it, theirs of state. but she s here tonight, because she s just written something else. three days after president trump was inaugurated the ethics watchdog crew filed a lawsuit against the president alleging he is violating the constitution, by allowing his business to accept payment from foreign governments while he still owns an benefits from those businesses. this week, sarah chase submitted
some generals said they needed more. we have basically we re still running in place in afghanistan. here we are in 2017. the president and all of his advisors are meeting at camp david this weekend to try to figure out what are we going to do in afghanistan in 2017? what s the answer? joe, we ve talked about this now for ten plus years. the options in 2009 were not very good. i don t think the options in 2017 are all that much better. the fact is there are still segments of afghanistan in the east and south along the pakistan border where the afghanistan government does not have control. there s corruption problems. there s not a bond of trust between the central government and the outlying provinces. we were saying the same thing back eight years ago. there are now young men and
away. oh, keep that one. i have real problems. so get your ballots in. we re trying to have some good supervision out there. we have a lot of people watching you people that collect the ballots. so you re smiling, rebecca. he said a lot of things there that didn t make sense. first of all, you have mail-in votes in colorado, so you don t have election observers, you don t have people watching you put your ballot in the mail. i don t know what he s talking about there. and then he s talking about essentially he s alleging voter fraud, which he might think is a got strategy if he s losing. but on the other hand, how would that encourage any of your supporters to go to the polls? mail-in voting is the only way people vote in some states in this country. washington, oregon. the idea that mail-in voting is somehow corrupt is factually inaccurate and, in fact, has had no corruption problems that i m aware of. he s offered no evidence of
to extradite drug kingpin el chapo to the u.s. he had been captured friday after being on the run for six months after breaking out of after maximum security prison. mark potter joins me, and how did this come to pass that el chapo was eventually captured and now apprehended for the third time? well, they have been sear searching for chapo ever since he escaped, and this is in a big way, and this is a major e embarrassment for the mexican government. it really hurt them in the eyes of the world and point out the corruption problems in that country. two escapes by the biggest drug trafficker in the world by are reputation, and from two maximum security prisons, and that is a big hit. they were after him in a large way with the help of the american authorities including the dea, and the marshals and ice and all kinds of agencies working on this. they almost got him in october, and they came very, very close, a and they just missed him.
given this discourse about rahm emanuel as the great political animal and the idea this is a long-held problem, i got to say, i lived in chicago for a lot of years. it is not like having a mayor who has some corruption problems. like that s completely new to the city of chicago. so what is it about this case that is the last straw. i think it is a combination. let s face it, rahm emanuel wasn t elected by chicagoans because they liked the guy. they thought he was competent. they thought he was kind of going to be the adult in the room, the guy who pledged to make hard decisions. now you look at what s going on in the city over these last couple of months, you ve got increase in property taxes. a huge increase in property taxes. you have the city looking to go to illinois state government, which is six months without a state budget. the city needs $900 million in help with the schools, with transit, with other things.