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Democrats, 2027488000. Independents can call 2027488002. Regis on social media on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. More from the report from cnn about this Ongoing Investigation. It says a federal grand jury in washington on friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. The charges are still sealed under orders from the federal judge and plans prepared friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as monday. It is unclear what the charges are. The report goes on to say the special counsel investigation is focused on potential between the Donald Trump Campaign and russia, as well as obstruction of justice by the president who may have tried to impede the investigation. Cnn said investigators are scrutinizing donald and his associated financial ties with russia and they are examining foreign lobbying conducted by former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and former National Security advisor Michael Flynn. An
Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
Yes can hold off on the falllike thoughts for a couple more days at least. We had some cool mornings. It was nice. Look, its still summer officially. Lets enjoy it. Meteorologist bill henley is here with his first alert forecast. Summer until the 23rd of september. It will feel like sumner a big way over the next few days. Warm and muggy this morning already, were tracking scattered light showers in delaware, south jersey and reaching into south philadelphia. Very light rainfall here. Its not going to last all day. The clouds, those will be staying with us for much of the morning. Its a clear view from the comcast center, 77 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00 it will be up to 80 degrees. Mostly cloudy at noontime, 86. I expect to see the sun break throthahis afternoon. That will finish the link between the 80s and 90s this afternoon. Well warm back into the lower 90s today. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood to show you where the 90s will hit when im back in ten minutes. I
Indoor accuraciment all of these things accuracy. All of these things are issues that are important that need to be addressed, and they will, hopefully, with a robust ip trials which are Technology Transition trials will be adequately addressed. Host Mignon Clyburn is one of five fcc commissioners, shes been our best this week on the communicators along with Gautham Nagesh of the wall street journal. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Coming up, the u. S. Special envoy to south sudan, donald booth. He discusses the civil conflict in the country, its root causes and the recent cease fire agreement between the government and rebels. After that members of the Senate Judiciary committee will hear from officials with the justice department, secret service and federal trade commission about their recommendation to combat cyber crime after the recent Consumer Financial data breaches at target and nieman marcus. A