Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is michael kugelman, the senior associate for south asia with the Wilson Centers asian program. Thank you all for coming. Before forget i just want to thank our institutional cosponsors which are the middle east program and also the Wilson Centers global womens leadership initiative. I also wanted to welcome those of doing this on cspan. As you all know afghanistan is experiencing a great period of uncertainty. International combat troops have left a fragile new unity government is in place. The taliban has been ramping up its attacks of late including in kabul. And once again and there are rumors of buttons to start these talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban. In recent days the chinese reportedly hosted taliban and Afghan Government representatives for informal discussions about the possibility of talks. This all makes for very tenuous time in afghanistan but also and especially for afghan women. Even the horrific track
Market. The governors of massachusetts, montana, tennessee, utah and colorado spoke with members of the Senate Health committee about issues including allowing states to innovate and create healthcare pools. The hearing is just over three hours. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] the Senate Committee on Health Education labor and pensions will come toward her. Were holding are second to four hearings on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. That is our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here with us today. Thank you gentlemen. We know how busy you are. You have come long distances to be here. We appreciate it with the court learning from you. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement to introduce the five governors. Sounds like a singing group. Then senators will have an opportunity to ask witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left
[inaudible] Insurance Market for the year 2018. That is our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here with us today. Thank you gentlemen. We know how busy you are. You have come long distances to be here. We appreciate it with the court learning from you. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement to introduce the five governors. Sounds like a singing group. Then senators will have an opportunity to ask witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators [inaudible] our committee, we had 30 senators there similar to yesterday we had state Insurance Commissioners here. Thirtyone senators most [inaudible] the Committee Meet for an hour and then we had 22 of 23 members. For two consecutive days weve had half members of the United States status and focus on a single narrow objective. What can we do in the next couple of weeks . Thats a tall order. The next couple of weeks that the senate, the house c
General Jeff Sessions senate seat. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im emma chandra. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology, is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, President Trump defiantly defends his criticized reactions to protest in charlottesville, virginia, and calls out ceos leaving Business Councils for grandstanding. Full coverage from trump tower. Plus, a bloomberg exclusive. Nba champion and ndp staff steph curry making a big play in tech. The Golden State Warriors on r a damaging lawsuit and embarrassing settlement were just some of the challenges for uber this week, as the pr nightmare continues at the worlds most valuable startup. First to the lead pair President Trump speaking from trump tower defenses decision to wait two days to condemn white supremacist amid violence in virginia, saying he needed to gather the facts. Since the deadly attack, several ceos have
General Jeff Sessions senate seat. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im emma chandra. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology, is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, President Trump defiantly defends his criticized reactions to protest in charlottesville, virginia, and calls out ceos leaving Business Councils for grandstanding. Full coverage from trump tower. Plus, a bloomberg exclusive. Nba champion and ndp staff steph curry making a big play in tech. The Golden State Warriors on r a damaging lawsuit and embarrassing settlement were just some of the challenges for uber this week, as the pr nightmare continues at the worlds most valuable startup. First to the lead pair President Trump speaking from trump tower defenses decision to wait two days to condemn white supremacist amid violence in virginia, saying he needed to gather the facts. Since the deadly attack, several ceos have