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Now . We have some brandnew facts and brandnew figures for you this hour and they are important. In just two hours also the afghan and u. S. President s are going to face reporters after some pretty talk tough some pretty tough talking at the white house. Issue, life after war. And also miss d. C. , stunning, and hoping to win miss america tomorrow night in vegas. Either way, her life is at a major turning point. Shes giving up a piece of her anatomy in hopes that the she will beat Breast Cancer...

Access to sensitive facilities and we have an obligation to ensure that were looking at people between investigations and taking appropriate corrective action as needed. Thank you. I would say its unfortunate that the tragedies we saw at the navy yard focuses attention on this process but we have seen the dedicated leadership from these executive Branch Agencies in the past and when they make their minto and when they make their mind up to take on a problem in father, they do it. And now is the ...

Thank you very much, and thank you very much for everyone showing up this afternoon. Those were very generous comments and i am honored to be here today. At the stimson center, an institution named for and inspired by a man who helps guide the nation through some of the most difficult challenges that we have ever faced. And an organization that i remember calling upon for guidance and assistance on many occasions particularly when i was working for sam nun who i had the pleasure to work with for...

In the next hour you will see a journalist edward lucas, author of the new cold war, politics professor, columnist and government and Foreign Service professor. And it is certainly true that russia is not at every stage. We talk seriously with the russians about north korea and we sometimes talk about a run and the middle east. It is true. Russia is engaged. But there are two reasons. I dont need to remind him how disgusting some of this stuff is. You can find it on the russian media. If you hav...

The gentleman up there and sort of yeah. Thank you. My name is mohamed [inaudible] for voice of america afghanistan service. I have one question but in three parts. How much the focus on Investigative Journalism in afghanistan, and the second part is what are the main challenges if the media conduct such journalism, and the third part and last is that is there any market for that in terms of the audiences test . Thank you. Who would like to go ahead. After, you know, in last 12year experience no...

That there are one time savings where you really have two choices. You can either use that money to reduce the deficit which is a la laudable objective so we dont discredit that as an objective or use it for one time expenses. What you cant do is lower rates as if the one time savings is genuine forever because you would in the next period of time be losing revenue. Thats why the president proposed pairing Business Tax Reform with an infrastructure initiative. I think there is the basis there wh...

I mark begich and i approve this message. Host liz ruskin is joining us on the phone. She is a d. C. Correspondent there. How did Lisa Murkowski feel about being mentioned in a mark begich add . Caller i believe that was the second ad he used that picture, theres a picture that ran without showing the two senators smiling at each other, smiling in her office. Senator murkowski issued a ceaseanddesist letter to try to get the campaign not to use her image, and she said that they were implying tha...

Up next on booktv after words with guest host Gregory Jaczko the former chair of the u. S. Nuclear regulatory commission. This week lets are prizewinning journalists Susan Stranahan and her latest book fukushima the story of a nuclear disaster. In it the environmental newswriter helps members of the union of concerned scientist to present the first definitive account of of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant meltdown after the march, 2011 tsunami. This program is about an hour. Host welcome susan....

Host this is a great opportunity for me. Normally, im the person having the questions asked of me, and now i get the opportunity to ask a former journalist questions about the book you wrote. So i look forward to guest ill do my best. It is an unas cos tommed role for me to answer questions. Its good to be here. Host im glad. I wanted to start to just ask you a few issues that are general in nature about the book. The first question is what drove you to this topic . What made you interested in w...

Told the Armed Services committee that the basic the most important fact in this strategy of defeating isis is to give some moderate sunni tribes to join the coalition against isis. On october 53 new plants in iraq in syria pledged allegiance to isis, which tells us that the tribes so far do not seem to be betting on the United States or its allies. Then, so many reports and criticism against the Syrian Opposition, the tribes, we call them cops. Theyre not up to the fight. So the question is, ho...