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This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. One of the heros in the war in afghanistan today received the nations highest military honor. President obama awarding captain floerant grow berg, flo groberg, the medal of honor. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintyre is live at the pentagon. Tell us more jamie. Reporter you know, del, how these things go, the ceremony just completed about an hour ago at the white house. At these ceremonies where you receive the medal of honor, you dont spea...

Turkey is prepping again for elections on november 1st. The Wilson Center is the host of this event this afternoon, and thatll be live at three here on cspan2. Also coming up shortly on our companion network, cspan, democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders will be speaking at liberty university, and that will be in lynchburg, virginia, the same place republican senator ted cruz announced his president ial candidacy. Senator sanders will be speaking at the con convocation, thatll...

Incident, how would the preventive controls rule that we have just passed have made a potential significant difference in the risk of that disease . So thats an unusual case in many respects. In part because of the vast scale of the damage that it did and the thousands of products that had to be recalled because this firm was selling not only Peanut Butter in bulk but peanut ingredients that went out into thousands of processed foods. It was a catastrophic event for the food system. It also invo...

Absolutely not. I just hope that you will stay on this because, as you know, better than any of us, if you dont have good intelligence, youre not only going into the battle blind, if its cooked intelligence, youre going into the battle with one hand tied behind your back. So i just am extremely concerned about this issue. This is a question for the record. You use the term progress in your statement a number of times, progress here and progress there. Not now but for the record i would like a ve...

National press club. Thank you so much for attending today. We are adjourned. [ applause ] on the next washington journal, Grover Norquist on the various tax plans put forth by the republican president ial candidates. And then associate director of no kid hungry discusses u. S. Households that currently have problems getting access to adequate food due to a welcome of money or resources. After that politico reporter looks at the Hillary Clinton email probe and what it means for her president ial...

And Genetic Information than any other human ever. That was not an official position, but this is what one of the researchers, their comment on this study. Theres probably 10 to 12 different experiments or at least universities doing experiments from the university of frankfort, stanford, purdue. Itll be interesting to see what the data shows on the genetic and molecular effects from this Long Duration space flight. My brother mentioned therell be a cliff. I think that needs a little bit further...

Families with Student Loans but also things like Early Childhood education, head start programs, pell grants, all those things can end up being adversely affected. And this is just one thing i would ask everybody to consider. When you hear budget debates i know your eyes kind of glaze over. But the federal budget, thats really where we express our values and a lot of times people say, well, we should cut Government Spending because theres all this waste. But, in fact, the vast majority of Govern...

Caller all over all of t people are migrating. They have no way to make an income. This is about Food Insecurity and Food Assistance programs. What questions do you have for that . Caller if they werent in prison they would be able toe feed their children. Host move on to patricia, minneapolis, minnesota, republican line, hi. Caller good morning. Im concerned about the anecdotal evidence she provided that one child telling the teacher that he hadnt eaten all weekend. Well, that would be an issue...

Those teams have some great capabilities. It gives you a great starting point. And i think that our first thought in 2010 was lets set up with the initial structure, set it up in terms of offense and defense and teams that could do offensive actions to defend the country. Anyone have anything to add to that . Yes, sir . Dr. Singer . Just two things. The first is the idea of assuming that our response would have to be limited just to cyber means. If someone carries out an act of war against us us...

Off by three dozen air strikes conducted primarily by u. S. Attack planes but also by American Drones and a b1 bomber. The u. S. Also has special operations commandos on the ground on sinjar mountain, which overlooks the isilheld city below. U. S. And british troops are helping to direct the air attacks, which u. S. Military sources claim killed more than 60 isil fighters in the Opening Hours of the kurdishled ground offensive. The objectives . To free sinjar from more than a year of isil rule a...