Inspector general sopko, welcome to the Foreign Affairs committee. Forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans statement. Thank you mr. Chairman pro tem, United States has been in afghanistan for almost 19 years, the longest war in the history of the United States. We sacrificed much on the battlefield, but we achieved a great deal. We decimated al qaeda and greatly weakened their global network. As a resul
Efforts in afghanistan. We will come to order. All members will have five days to submit statements to the record. Notice, we are here today to examine the lessons from americas war in afghanistan. , welcome general sopko to the Foreign Affairs committee. I look forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans st
Said that they would finish the wall by 2021, but now the governments top border official says, not so so fast. One border sheriff reacts. Hello, good evening, im blake burman in for elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Else to begin other than your with money and the markets. It was another record close this evening for the dow, and for the fifth friday in a row we can say the s p 500 notched another weekly gain. The market continues to rally into the end of 2019, so we kick things off with gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Reporter it was a strong week for stocks, but they stumbled into the close here. Looks like santa may be leaving the building. We got a new record high for the dow, the 22nd of the year, up 23 points. The s p virtually flat. So no record close there, and the nasdaq did not make a new record close, though it was above that allimportant 9,000 level. Listen to the s p 500 and what its managed to accomplish this year. The bigg
History and that they include more than 2000 pages of previously unpublished notes from interviews of the were 400. 00 Afghanistan War insiders everyone from generals to diplomats to aide workers even afghan officials and what do all these interviews and transcripts ultimately reveal well as john sop told the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction told the post the American People have constantly been lied to lies my friends that have cost us more than a trillion dollars caused more than 2000 u. S. Soldiers to be killed and snuffed out of existence over 100000 afghanistan souls. And that is at the very core of why its time to start watching the hawks. What. It looks like. Its with. The politics if you. Like you know what i got. With that we. Would. Love a little in watching the hawks i am tyrrell but for joining us today discuss the latest on the Washington Post afghanistan papers hug that is about turns out a good Political Consulting consultant rory reilly topping r
Say out for little girls everywhere prepare some of the young ladies for a reality feel that we dont push them into a cold hard world where they have to fend for themselves and there is no one there to face them on a whiteboard. Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 2 pm welcome to the program its a moment of anger and frustration for russian sport after the countrys flag was banned for 4 years from all major world tournaments the decision was made by the World Antidoping Agency or water let me put in has expressed his support for russian athletes. Because any more punishment must not be collective affecting people who have nothing to do with certain violations there are no complaints against the Russian Olympic Committee if there are no complaints the country should compete under its National Flag as stated in the olympic charter it means that while this decision contradicts the olympic charter and we have grounds to appeal