Post. He recently traveled to Northern Syria and iraq with the command of the u. S. Central command, i am pleased to have him on the program. Welcome. David thank you. Charlie tell me about the trip and what you saw. This, as you suggested, the first time a centcom commander has done this in six years. David this is a very unusual opportunity for me and three other reporters to travel with the general, the commander of centcom, in that role as overall supervision of the war in syria and iraq against isis. This is the First Time Since i think 2010, roughly, that a centcom commander has taken press with him. Under general austin, a predecessor, that was out. They did not want the press tagging along. He decided the American Public needs to know more about the wars, if people are going to understand and support them, so he decided to take us a long, not just to baghdad or kurdistan, but into syria. We were not allowed to disclose where we were going. We were not allowed to file anything u
Syria and iraq with the command of the u. S. Central command, i am pleased to have him on the program. Welcome. David thank you. Charlie tell me about the trip and what you saw. This, as you suggested, the first time a centcom commander has done this in six years. This is a very unusual opportunity for me and other reporters to travel with the general, the commander of centcom, in that role as overall of the war in syria and iraq against isis. This is the First Time Since i think 2010, roughly, that a centcom commander has taken press with him. Under general austin, a predecessor, that was out. They did not want the press tagging along. He decided the American Public needs to know more about the wars, if people are going to understand and support them, so he decided to take a salon, not just take us along, not just to baghdad or kurdistan, but into syria. We were not allowed to disclose going. E were we were not allowed to file anything until we had gotten out of the country, and we we
Press. I just did two delegation breakfast this morning before i came here. Over the last few days does a lot of work but there do with senator sanders team throughout the day just to coordinate and make sure that our floor programs are working together, we were coordinated on how to move forward on things. I think the next few days it will pivot a little more to focusing on planning for the next few days and that sort of thing. What has surprised you the most . Event interesting few days. What has surprised you the most about what has gone down . Whats been really great to watch is how these delegation teams have worked together collaboratively. That since i had this morning in the delegations i was in, people are charged up and ready to go. I think people were really inspired last but in particular i the story we told about all of the things that secretary clinton is done. I think president clinton did a brilliant job of putting the altogether but we heard last night from victims of
My 25 is frwife is from india. I still love india. Be careful yeah. But and india has enormous potential and capability. But i have to, again, simply say india has a great capacity also for disappointing. It lumbers forward like an elephant and it also operates on its own strategic agenda. People from the Indian Strategic elite and ive spoken to a few of them by accident. They all seem to be related to my inlaws in one way or another, country of 1. You know, 2 billion and Everybody Knows everybody else it seems. They are not ready to play this kind of role. They are enormously focused upon pakistan and upon internal issues and thats and the strategic agenda. So, i dont think theyre going to what we are seeing, though, at least in the maritime issues partly because china is pushing into the region and chinas support for pakistan, they are interested in countering that and in certain areas we are seeing increased cooperation. I think theres a lot of room for it, for example, u. S. And it
But we are very proud of tim and we think theyve made the right selection. Lets talk about you or you were the first republican governor since reconstruction in the commonwealth of virginia. Why did it take so long . Well, we fell into is a machine situation. Ne party, one faction dominated political activity in virginia for at least three generations. When i came back from serving in world war ii, bill had just been elected governor of virginia by reason of the primary victory with 8 of the voting population in virginia. My reaction was im going to break this up and i did. I had a great deal to do in reaking it up and creating a twoparty competitive situation in virginia which exists there today. How did you do it . Linwood constant work in the machinery of the Republican Party. It didnt exist much. It wasnt very strong. I started going to mass meetings in 1950, and participated at every level of developing a party and encouraging real activity, as opposed to sitting there, waiting fo