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 on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
Uks City Of Culture. And matt has the weather. Good morning. The extended weekend will be a little bit on the cool side, with the clouds they are, and some rain here as well. There will bea some rain here as well. There will be a decent amount of dry and sunny weather to go with it. I will have your full easter forecast in around about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story the us military have dropped the biggest Non Nuclear Weapon ever used in combat, in afghanistan. President trump described the mission, to destroy a series of Underground Caves thought to have been used by so called Islamic State, as a very Successful Mission. 0ur North America editor john sopel has more. This is the gbu as, also known as a moab, a massive 0rdnance air blast, or as it is more commonly known, the mother of all bombs. The largest Non Nuclear Weapon ever deployed. The target so called Islamic State in afghanistan. We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used to move around
Down. Sanctuary under the sea. New zealand unveils a massive Marine Reserve thats twice of countrys size. Hello. We begin in afghanistan where Security Forces are struggling to retake the Northern City of kundas from taliban fighters. They took control of the city on monday and broke hundreds of prisoners out of jail, many of them their own fighters. Lets go live on the front lines with afghan Security Forces. East just south of kundus. Whats the latest on this operation to retake kundus . Reporter hundreds of afghan Security Forces with hundreds of are going towards kunduz. R theres ied ez, roadblocks, so for three times they tried to break all these ambushes. You can see them. The cameraman can pan. They are waiting here to see what will be next. Afghan commanders in the field here telling me theyre missing a lack of communication and a lack of leadership. There are many units from different afghan Security Forces. Afghan special forces, Afghan Army Special forces, and afghan is in t
Water trip Water Treatment facility is at capacity. The state has helped find the grants to help that facility expand the Water Treatment facility and let the cheese factories expand. Thats the kind of thing the government can help as this is due. Isagain, governments role not to help one business compete against another. Government should only be involved in keeping regulation low, keeping taxes low and fair across the board, keeping taxes predictable, and getting out of the way of letting the free market do its job. Ofone of the main powers idaho governor is the ability to make appointments, which can really drive the agenda of your administration. How would you go about selecting the agenda for your administration . Isi think the good model what they use for appointing judges where they have some lawyers get together and review the applications for those positions and then make those recommendations to the governor, and i think in the case of judges, they recommend three people. I t
Outside forces and intertribal faceoffs, looking to the future about questions about whats next. As u. S. Forces prepare to leave there is reason for hope. Last weeks president ial election defied prediction. 350,000 Strong Security presence was far less than feared. It was according to outside monitors a big win for democracy. And a setback to the taliban which had vowed to disrupt the vote. I mean if its up to them, no elections at all. But we want the elections, we want somebody who will deal with the taliban, evolve that issue and then resolve that issue and then come out and vote. Beyond the relatively smooth election, the limits on the talibans power, as evidenced by fault lines documentary, this is taliban country, in which the group struggled against the better armed and better organized rch Afghan National army army about. They dont fear any attacks from them and they move all around the city without fearing them. His report concluded with this when u. S. Withdraws mos mostf i