Professor here at the school and director of partnerships for international strategies. This is the program here but partners directly with universities and researchers and state suits across asia. And since 1994, weve had extensive work with universities and research. And in Government Agencies and ngos in vietnam. Would love to be able to also bring the voices of the region here. To washington. This week is devoted to waging peace in vietnam. It is especially acknowledge the partnership with the institute of policy studies. And their associates fellow ron carver. [applause]. We will hear from him in a moment. Today at many locations around the nation news capital, the service of veterans to our country is recognized with gratitude. We also remember that november 11th, 1st marked the day the gun fell silent you wrote. And what is known then as the great war and was supposed to be a war end all wars. And it jet succeeding generations, men and women have been enrolled in military servic
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King salmon right there in those images, but as the world watches, the president takes his first steps into diplomacy on a grand world stage. The storm cloud over the white house is growing. With two new explosive reports. Current and former government sources tell cnn that during the 2016 campaign, russian officials bragged about their relationship with former nsa advisor Michael Flynn and believed that they could use flynn to influence donald trump. And the New York Times reporting that during the president s meeting with russian officials early this month, right there in the white house, the president trash talked fbi director james comey and said firing the firing rather was done of what President Trump described as comey as a nut job and that the firing eased, quote, great pressure of the investigation. Russias foreign minister now denying that topic was even discussed in that room. And amid these new details, it begs the question, does this foreign tour come at the exact right mo
Summer months. But one of the things to understand about that is that in 2016 2017, last year, the first year of the Trump Administration, there was a really unusual low point of border crossings that has then rebounded to levels that are higher than they have been in the last year. But probably closer to what they have been in the historical several months. And in fact, President Trump and his tweet this morning acknowledged that the border crossings are at a 46year low, almost five decades worth of border crossings and now were seeing very low levels of that. And he thanked mexico in this tweet for breaking up this caravan that hes been talking about for the last several days that has been bringing immigrants from Central America through mexico to the United States. But on the National Guard, the administration is saying that they have authorized this to happen, but at the same time, the states along the border have to be the ones to say how many troops, when theyre going to be going
So is the president delivering on his promises or is it all about the former president barack obama lets get right to it. Jim 9sdz 9sdz 9sdz r7b8g9sdz dz jim, what do we know about 9sdz reince prescribes interview. Dz we know it took place today. Took place interviewed by members of his team at Robert Muellers offices here in washington. Priebuss attorney tells cnn it was voluntary. He was happy to take part but clearly a central figure to this investigation. Remember, not only was he the president s chief of staff, he 9sdz was during 2016, during the election, the chairman of the Republican National committee and of course it was during the election when Russian Election meddling took place. That meeting at trump tower in june 2016. So he able to answer on a number of the topics that we know that the special counsel is looking into, including the firing of james comey, the fbi director, is the firing of the National Security adviser, michael flynn. But also this famous meeting on air