The dnipro, and the northeast of the dnipro region, kharkiv, and on the morning of july 31, the russians attacked kryvyi rih with two ballistic missiles, one hit a residential highrise building, the other an educational institution. Unfortunately, among them, 73 people were injured. They are looking for people. Lets see what kind of hell the russian occupiers created in kryvyi rih. And then they already returned. Why is it so strange, lord, all the prices are about the war in the south of ukraine, about the war in russia , as well as about the pseudopeace talks that putin wants, or maybe he just declares that he wants we will talk for the next hour before we start our conversation, i am turning to those who are watching us now on youtube, if you are watching us now on youtube please take part in our survey today we are asking you about how long do you think the war in ukraine will last six months a year, three years and an option as long as russia exists, and your option at the end of
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
Okay. I guess we have a break. We can get going. Welcome to everyone. My name is mack owens. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees. We offer an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition we have 18 certificates. Were very happy to cosponsor this event with mark meyer whom i will introduce this very second. Weve got a great speaker who is done a great deal of work in this area. Its a topical topic as you know. I think that department of redundancy department. We are cosponsoring this with the center for military and diplomatic history. Mark miller, say a couple words. Great. Im dr. Mark mirror. I wanted to thank dr. Owens, president who have done a wonderful job organizing this event and several others that weve done here and also lindsay markel. We do events on history that have relevance to todays issues. Weve been hosting an average about one event per week since we were formed nine months ago and we particul
Neil gorsuch will be sworn in today. Watch the ceremony administered by Justice Anthony kennedy live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. After that, democratic senator, chris murphy, talks about u. S. Foreign policy. We have it live at 12 30 eastern also on cspan. Now, a discussion on women in con bat. Speakers discuss the challenges and how allowing women in combat has changed the military from the institute of World Politics, this is just over an hour. Welcome to everybody. My name is mac owens. I am here at the institute of politics. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees, an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition, we have 18 certificates. We are very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyier, whom i will introduce in just a second. Very important topic. Weve got a great speaker, who who has done a great deal of work in this area. It is a topical topic in the redundancy department. As i say, we are cosp
Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to represent them in the United States senate. As our nations first person 6 enlisted rank he had a unique ground level view on matters of war and peace and a strong, strong commitment to our troops. I thank chuck hagel for his service. Dr. Ashton carter has an impressive distinguished record of service as well in government. An advisor scholar. He has what it takes to be a great secretary of defense.