Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
It could go quite a bad direction. Theould be a shame if resulting exposure of the u. S. Abusing its allowing other states to start abusing newfound powers of the internet. I think that is the opposite direction we want, but it isnt a given yet. A large degree of what happens next depends on the u. S. Response. I think we are out of time. Lets give a hand to our panelists. [applause] they will be signing books in the next room over here, and thanks, everybody, for coming. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up tonight, remembering former first Lady Rosalynn carter. It begins at nine eastern. We focus on the issues you expect in the tech industry. We want to make sure that innovation is a National Strategy. E dominate in so many areas it is a Global Global phenomenon. The u. S. Is the world leader, and we want to keep it that way which requires great immigration policies. It requires additional spectrum.
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Released a statement saying House Minority leader nancy pelosi had the following to say in a statement president obama also released a statement that reads later today, Terry Mcauliffe will be sworn in as virginias next governor. We will have live coverage of the inauguration ceremony beginning at 12 05 eastern on c span. The house ended the week by passing a bill that would require the federal government to report Security Breaches on its healthcare. Gov website. Members will be turning their attention to a shortterm spending measure this week that will keep the government funded past january 15, which is when expiresding authority for the federal government. The senate will continue to work on the bill extending Unemployment Benefits that expired in december for more than a million people. For more on those items and what to expect next week, we talked to a reporter covering capitol hill. As Congress Wraps up its first full week and gets set for another full week of legislative actio