Structure in that country and the influence of regional partners like pakistan, china and india. This is 90 mince. Okay. Were going to get started. Im dan rundy, hold the chair at cis. Were here to talk about nonmilitary components of u. S. Strategy in afghanistan. I think the first thing you have to say is i certainly welcome, i think many people welcome the fact President Trump and the Trump Administration has come forward with a new strategy for afghanistan without time lines and doubling down on a commitment to a great cause. The fact there are 3 Million Girls in school, a whole lot at stake in afghanistan, not just our security but moral component as well. Theres a lot of progress that doesnt get a lot of coverage. For us to risk letting that go would be high. Its been a privilege to work with my friend ambassador wayne, who is the former coordinator. Weve done a number of things with ambassador wayne. So weve got a very good to cover the issues today. But the other point i want t
Was out of his handcuffs, waist chain and disappeared into the woods. I asked the director a couple of minutes ago if, in fact, he was wearing shack else, handcuffs an waist chain when he left the facility. He said absolutely he was in all lee chains. However, when the police told us held a News Conference at 2 30, they say they werent sure whether or not he had shack else on his leg, but thats what the detention director told me just a couple of minutes ago by phone. That he was in shack else. Now, there have been no reported sightings of this man in the last several hours. Weve been listening to police channels and hearing some reports of people that were suspicious. The police have gone and checked all those out and so far, they have not found this manning. Lets show you a little bit more about what weve been covering all day it began just minutes after david watson escaped with his handcuffs and ran into a wooded area off dorsey run road and jessup. Officers went through the woods
Quickly. It is good we have a point of view of somewhere we all trust. He was appointed by the Deputy Attorney general looking into ugs influence in the 2016 election. My decision continue a finding that crimes have been committed or that prosecution is warranted but says the nature of the investigation requires someone who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. To have no one truly independent in politics and has all the resources that he needs to focus on the oversight of what russia did. There has been support for him. He worked in the private sector since 2013 and schumer tweeted he has confidence that the investigation will follow the facts where they lead. Support coming from a republican senator who earlier didnt want a special prosecutor. I was out spoken of that now this seems to be a hybrid to bring sometime in to work with the fbi to make sure they can get the job done. He is planning to brief all senators aft the capital tomorrow and house memb
European equities are trading now, just under 30 minutes to the close and the losses on the stoxx 600 becoming quite entrenched on some of the country benchmarks, losses of more than 1 and on the stoxx ,00 right now, down 8 10 of 1 red across the wheel with every Industry Group in lost territory. Health care, real estate, Consumer Discretionary underperforming, the travel and leisure stocks underperforming for a lot of the session. Are here, risk aversion partly on the policy paralysis in the u. S. That perhaps has been compounded by the geopolitical risks and the Ongoing Investigation with the terror attack in barcelona. Volatility, what is interesting, i have the fix in blue and the v stocks index, this is year to date, we saw both a spike in yesterdays session, the vix coming back, below 15. Volatility innovated in european equities. Aoking at the euro, a bit of theme of dollar weakness and the session today with the euro higher against the dollar, one point 1751 and this is the eur
School of law in 2008. Editor tontributing the atlantic online and serves as the magazines or corresponded. Respondent. R his most recent book was reading the u. S. Constitution was published in 2013 by Oxford University press. Finalist for the american bar associations award for his previous books. His book religious freedom on trial was also a finalist. He has written for the near times, the new york review of books, the nation, the new republic, and he received his master of law from Duke University where he served as article director. Before attending law school, he received his ma in english writing. He was editor of the harvard crimson. [applause] thank you. Introduction. Ous i also think everybody thank everybody who came out at a time to think about president ial transitions when we may not want to think about president ial transitions. Here we are. I want to thank the sponsors of this event, the National Archives and record administration, and the harry Truman Center for gover