Vote and have ones vote counted, these are really national issues. And at some point i would like to see the United States Congress Take action to establish a baseline of uniform rules for registration, identification , and early voting so that the many people who moved across state lines in the United States know what the rules will be for voting when they moved. As it stands now, if you live across state lines he may face entirely different rules regarding registration , identification , when you can vote and so on. We have, in my opinion, a lot to learn from the rest of the world when it comes to the way weve run elections, including the protection. Adding to that ought to be the way that people interact with voting, the machine or type of voting. Some are more accurate than others. Also, a huge issue in the United States is absentee voting, and a lot of litigation now comes up about absentee voting, and that, too, is different for each jurisdiction. But now we can turn to what happ
The back end of this as we head into the next few hours or so. The high clouds will start to thicken as we head into that afternoon so are talking about a pretty muddy and warmer afternoon with temperatures manley and the 80s. Foggy conditions are early tomorrow morning am looking at a comfortable weather into the weekend. All talk about more coming up and about 50 minutes. george good traffic is backed up solidly into the macarthur maze even they 80 approach here is normally the easy way to the bay bridge is also backed up beyond the east from lanes of the toll plaza. The drive times are 24 minutes from interstate 580 and near that from the e short freeway. Youre ride through the south bay is earlier occurring accident one no one northbound that started this backup but otherwise overall drive times are not that bad at 32 minutes from the capitol expressway to the money via expressway. Even the guadalupe parkway is normal or perhaps little lighter than normal. james and it happened aga
And its the only appropriate mark of respect that i have gotten from my colleagues and i think the general, thank you for your outstanding service. We have had the opportunity over the past 12 and 13, 14 years, and i appreciate your service elmont. I am really reluctant to get back into this. But people keep trying to say that 2008 we said that wed have everyone out, that we really wanted this day in iraq and the fact is that the president of the United States, there was never any Public Statement that said he would want to use day in iraq. The fact is that the senator and i were there and we know full well that if we really wanted to we could have kept the residual force to build her we were on the ground there in these places and we agreed. So in the word of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, we have cascaded down to 3500 troops, which was absolutely ridiculous. So we will be fighting this for years to come. But facts are stubborn things and we couldve left a residual force i
That is the plan senator. So november for example of 2015. We will have become the drawdown by november of 2015. At that point how many of our Coalition Allies how Many Coalition allied troops will be with us . We will have 4000 plus or minus that will be with us in 2015. As we collapse back to kabul centric approach in 2016 i would expect we would have the least half of that number in 2016. So we will have about 5000 troops . Presents that they would have half in 2016 and 5500 is out there but the president s guidance has been about half. Your testimony before the committee today, and your best judgment to the congress is that the numbers that we protect 42015 will be adequate to provide security during that calendar year. Is that correct. Senator that is correct. The numbers in 2015 are consistent with the recommendation made to the president. Okay ndu reserve the right as i understand it to look at conditions on the ground and change that recommendation as it goes forward beyond cal
But it is not about that. Host max schuster did not publish the autobiography. Guest no he did not. I remember telling him what a great historical document took this book to those elections in what that said was it is a masterpiece but i do not want my name on the same book as albert. It is wrong but we will not publish a new book is not easy for a publisher to say that i am not saying random house i dont want to publish a separate probe. Host indiana please go ahead with your question or comment. Caller yes mr. Korda i have a question about the wars. With your work as a writer and they have presented but it appears 9 11 was the inside job. Guest i will not comment on that. It does not look like that. I think it was an act of terror. Host arlington virginia. Lhe groundwork for the modern, hightech world we live in by investing a tremendous amount in science and technology. The creation of the first satellite and the Defense Advanced Research products agency, darpa, and other endeavors