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Ask the question, how do we strengthen not only the quantity of time with people but even more importantly the quality of time . Watch book this weekend on cspan2. Good evening, everyone. And candace, one of the event managers here at town offered on behalf of townhall seattle im welcoming you to tonights lifestream with investigative journalist david wrote an conversation with podcast and radio host [inaudible]. As we get underway at like to acknowledge there are institution stands on the unsui...

Maintenance, aviation intelligence. And i think that you will see nato come on board as we continue to build on the capability of those forces. We are willing to stay a little longer if need be. I think that we are waiting to see where the u. S. Is going to go. Every day we are assessing that. Another my Senior Leadership at the end of the fighting these individuals, we will make some decisions in 2016 and beyond. Thank you very much. Our question about the Afghan Government. I would like to ask...

Beginning go up with highs in the lower 90s. All right. Thanks, dave. Here 2 new lane blockage crashes starting off palm harbor u. S. 19 in area of county road 39. We do have crash appears to be southbound direction. Were seeing some delays. Moderate in nature. Particularly heading that way south. So plan a few extra minutes there. To pasco county state road 54. Heres your lane blockage crash trinity boulevard in eastbound direction. Minor in nature. Just the right turn lane will be blocked. All...

Sunshine for st. Pete looking east of the bay and looks good. Temperatures look warm, obviously. Were at 74 in brooksville and near 80 in tampa and its 80 in st. Pete. Factor in all the steep moisture and it feels like the mid80s in spots. A little low cloud cover in eastern pasco, eastern citrus, but follow has much improved this morning. Got a couple of showers paralleling our coast and moving away from the region. A sign that moisture is building to our west and to our east, but whats overhea...

Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david enso...

Because someone, somewhere, does not want to see these individuals. And the president is asked to interview every single person, in person. From the position of deputy governors to District Police chiefs even further down. He wants to interview every person, in person. When you have this kind of governance style and you have hundreds of people waiting to be appointed the last year or more, obviously, you will face a crisis and there wasto blame one side or the other. One side has done its job, t...

And some of it have to do with real and substantive issues that have created a sense of a disunited government and not a unity government. It was supposed to be a political marriage, of sorts in the modern sense. One side is playing a very traditional role in this marriage. Traditional in the afghaneastern context. Trying to dominate, trying to push, trying to impose. The other side again in the eastern sense accommodate, the flexible, to that extent possible, given its own political limitations...

Now convinces us that the dynamics in the National Unity government significantly improve. The taliban are probably not going to comment to the negotiating table. The Afghan Security forces will not be the miracle we had hoped and to some degree convinced ourselves it would be. And elections will probably not happen in 2016. That leaves us with no real way out of what was supposed to be the beginning of an emergence of a slightly abnormal constitutional situation that we are in now. That is why ...

Former intelligence officials from the clinton, bush and obama demonstrations spoke monday about the Government Security clearance process and recommendations for moving the system. From the Wilson Center, this is an hour and a half. Good morning welcome bright and early on monday to the Wilson Center. I and jane harman, president ceo recovering politician for many many years, too many for some of my detractors. I spent time in the house of representatives working on security and intelligence is...

Representatives working on security and intelligence issues and numbers of people sitting here are my friends on a bipartisan basis. Im very excited that we are doing something truly useful this morning, which is to host a Panel Discussion on security clearance, and nextgen overhaul. If you dont understand what nextgen means you probably should leave the room. Todays problems are digital. Too many of our policies and politicians are analyzed. Anyone who has held a secret or top secret clearance ...