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Id like to call the hearing to order. Id like to welcome our witness today, ms. Courtney elwood, President Trumps nominee to be the next general counsel of the Central Intelligence agency. Courtney, congratulations on your nomination. And id like to recognize your husband john john, waive your hand there. Thank you whos in attendance today, and i thank you for the support you give to courtney. Courtney, youve served the country with distinction in your Previous Post at the white house and the department of justice and we appreciate your continued willingness to serve. Our goal in conducting th...

In 2016 alone, 11,500 civilians were killed or injured. The country remains dependent on economic aid. Since 2001, more than 500 bbillion u. S. Dollars have been poured into the country. Another key problem is education. Only around 30 of the Adult Population can read and write. Thats one of the lowest literacy rates worldwide. Women are particularly disadvantaged. Many are married off as young girls and never have the opportunity to go to school or work. Tradition and islam govern everyday life. But there are small opportunities to escape. Correspondent its the final of afghanistans popular t...

Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know, its a pleasure to be i was invited by chris and jim to speak about the midway, i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. Said thats okay. We have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set table, and thats what im going to do this morning. Et the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few andmark things in terms of japans relations in the world in the 50 years prior to midway, and then were also going to about based on my book the admiral some of the American Leadership that appears at finally were going to do kind of a quick o...

State of depression. They moved through the stages of grief with regards to the death of the recall referendum from mourning to anger to bargaining and now i think were in a situation of pretty much depression where there does pt feel like there doesnt feel like there is a sense of possibility or hope about political change. Hockenberry we conclude with William Cohans conversation with journalist vicky ward. Her new piece is called the blow it all up billionaires. Whats really different about the mercers is not only did they lobby very hard the to have their preferred candidate and their and p...

Hockenberry welcome to the program. Im John Hockenberry filling in for charlie rose. We begin with german chancellor Angela Merkels visit to the white house. We talked with mark landler of the new york times. Angela merkel is someone whos used to dealing with mercurial sort of testosterone style men, if you l. Vladimir putin in russia, berlusconi in italy, xi jinping in china, erdogan in turkey and now shes dealing with donald trump in the united merkel has to figure out how to work with the new american president. I think thats what she saw. Hockenberry we continue with the Political Landscap...