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And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges...

Increased focus on exercises that we have seen over the recent weeks and months as an effort to try to boost the effect of deterrent along with the diplomatic overtures that secretary of state tillerson has undertaken. Afghanistan, the same goal but different strategies under president s bush, obama and trump. As the current strategy working from your standpoint . Guest we have 4000 plus troops and i think we will see if that many surge many more were added in the obama administration. We will see that many surge has the desired effect. There is an effort to double the Afghan Special Operation...

Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special ...

Spee5 the hearing of the Readiness Forces subcommittee of house and Armed Services committee come to order to honor the 17 sailors lost in the uss fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, hernandez, martin, rigby, and the ten uss mccain sailors, bushnell, drake, echoes, thinly, hoagland, ingram, lopez, smith, palmer and each one is so special and i know every person here. Over the course of the past six months the subcommittee has met to understand the factors that led to the gruesome and tragic incidents with the surface ship resulting in the death of 17 sailors. We remain confident in the is the most powerfu...

Three weeks it was bought by a sensor from republican cassy opposed big budget deficit. The i think ceremony for the Winter Olympics in pyongyang is now underway showpiece event comes on the back of a togetherness between north and south korea the sister of north koreas leader has become the first member of her family to step foot in south korea since the two countries went to war in one nine hundred fifty jong is part of the north korean delegation thats arrived for the games. Egyptian army has launched what its called a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the Si...