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Over the past 20 years he has interviewed 4,000, 5,000 veterans as part of americas wars from world war i afghanistan specializing in Untold Stories that read like novels. Please welcome patrick odonnell. [applause] it is really a pleasure and honor to be here. The beginning of my book tour, just came out this week. As jim said i have interviewed 5,000 world war ii veteran, spent an entire lifetime studying world war ii and the stories i will tell you tonight or today is an untold story. Most in...

Get the turks and the turks wont do it unless we go after assad. So are we getting sucked deeper and deeper, and back to the original question, what should we do, jim . Well, i mean, i think theres no doubt that isis eventually will be driven out of the Population Centers in iraq or at least lose control of them. I mean, they may go underground but they will lose control because theyre a minority of the sunni population which is a minority of the iraqi population, and so the kurds and the shia b...

But theres another narrative that says that no, negotiations have to be tried because their common interest to the world is changing. The main threat in the region as defined by ran itself is not the United States but it is actually isis. Add that if there is a real negotiation and if there is a given day, if i ran into a strategic utility to the United States, a to relationship can emerge. If these negotiations collapse it will be the indication of the wrong narrative and that will put back int...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in pu...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the ent...

Many people blame for emasculating the committee on some intelligence failures to led directly to 9 11. The advantage of a select committee over one of the other permanent committees, as all of you know, there have been several committees trying to investigate benghazi terrorist attack is with a select committee, the staff that you put in place devotes 100 of its time to that issue. That is not the case with the other committees of congress which have many other responsibilities both in the over...

This morning. Well the president made it pretty clear on friday, were leaving afghanistan and perhaps sooner than some expected, and every report you hear from behind the scenes is were going to keep very very few people there. What do you make of this, whats your take on all this . Its a one of a series of decisions the president has made basically irrelevanting his military advisors so whether it be in iraq which is now unraveling very significantly or whether it be the decisions about a surge...

North korea says it has an ability to miniaturize Nuclear Weapons able to fit onto missiles. But washington is skeptical. Well get the latest from marie harf. Kim jongun parades once starving citizens who tried to flee showing them off exclusively before cnns cameras in an effort to soften the image of his ruthless regime. Is this the latest propaganda tied to kim flexing his countrys nuclear muscle . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news the tense confro...

Photoshop. None of what you see is real. I am here with joanne nosuchunsky and he wrote for cheers the show he recreates nightly with his personalities. He is one of the founders of the great website ricochet. Com. He currently serves alongside a kennedy. Camille foster, host of the independent make sure you get that joke. You cant spell lou dobs, without the sob. Sitting next to me, lou doobs. He is also co author of the book border war. A block. The lede. Thats the first story. Can their trick...

Photoshop. None of what you see is real. I am here with joanne nosuchunsky and he wrote for cheers the show he recreates nightly with his personalities. He is one of the founders of the great website ricochet. Com. He currently serves alongside a kennedy. Camille foster, host of the independent make sure you get that joke. You cant spell lou dobs, without the sob. Sitting next to me, lou doobs. He is also co author of the book border war. A block. The lede. Thats the first story. Can their trick...