Hes to work in washington for the world bank. He was the finance minister and moved back after the fall of the taliban. They are all familiar with the west. Even visitors like myself have had the chance to get to know all three of them. That part is promising. American forces to stay. They know they need help. They are less caught up in some of the backandforth that president karzai has had with the obama white house. Theyre going to have their challenges. A promisingit is top three. Cnn is reporting a very heavy security presence. Despite the threat by the taliban, that did not deter people from voting. The fingers were dipped in purple ink. We did see some of the violence with the death of the photographer that was killed on friday. Guest there have been some highprofile assassinations in the weeks. They figured out that al qaeda did not get support when they bombed schools. Of the taliban has gone after high profile legal targets. That is who they have wanted to strike at. They hope
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Here is how you can weigh in this morning. Republicans,for democrats,0 offor independents. Or you can reach out to us on facebook, off of twitter, and at journal cspan. Org. It was a fourpage document that was put out by the administration, showing some of the cases they are making as far as what they have found in syria. This is what was unclassified, not everything was put out there. You can also find this document at our website, cspan. Org. A little bit from it also it says there is more to the document and the information that was given by the administration yesterday. Kerry givingstate the case, we will show some of those clips as well during the course of our first 45 minutes together. For the information that was given on syria yesterday, we want to get your thoughts and if you were convinced by it. If you want to give us a call, the phone lines go ahead and make those calls. Theill get an update from white house perspective of possible u. S. Intervention. The White House Corre
Of visits to capitol hill as he wrapped up meetings with all four party caucuses. For the first time in four years, Senate Democrats have come up with a budget outline. Some of the stories we will talk about on this friday morning, march 15. Our phone lines are open. You can also join us on our Facebook Page. You have been weighing in already. You can contact us on facebook or send us a tweet. A story from the hill newspaper focusing on the senate and its budget panel approved in the first Senate Blueprint in four years. The store is Available Online. Here are the details. Theres this editorial from the wall street journal, replacing max baucus, a look at some of the key moderate Senate Democrats on the budget issue. Senate democrats have released their first budget in four years. That editorial this morning from the wall street journal. From the new york daily news, crossfire on another issue that we focused on yesterday, the debate over guns and gun violence. This is the exchange tha