In d. C. Well have the latest in a live report. And later, the end of an e era. The Washington Post declaring the power suit a thing of the past. We want to know what you think coming up. Good day at 9a starts now. Oh, boy, straighten your ties. Make them a little tighter. Get going. Pull up your suit coat. Thats right. Good day d. C. Its 9 00 sorry one on this thursday december 7th. So you guys said it. You dont think the power suit will ever go away. No. I think i read the article. Well talk more about it later. I dont think its so much as the power suit going away as maybe what the suit indicates is changing a little bit. Now people are maybe using their suit to show a little more style. Does that make sense . I dont think so. I think washington will be the last to adopt that maybe desmoines i watch well talk more about it later. Listen on the fashion note also ahead this morning, the future of fashion pam tone is out with the official color of 2018 and it is white. Well have to sta
Theyre very familiar with those weapons is done by contractors and i know Beltway Companies that stilling gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan wherever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs are presently run by the agency cia and it goes on and on and on and the way it probably happened in a number of ways is that they really captured or they went to opposition fighters who may have joined isis but in many some of them were actually mislaid when they were parachuted in either of those approaches and in the one case when isis initially took over mosul back in two thousand and fourteen. They took incredible amounts of weaponry from the iraqi fighters who went and then mosul fell so they were theyve been able to get these weapons theyve been able. To. Actually modify it to to suit their purposes and and be able to adjust launch tubes for example so that they can comply with. The weapon systems itself so the ice is engineers if you will were very very cl
Weeks. Of the watch of the hawks i robot and im having a while and then joining us today to discuss the arms business in syria is former pentagon analyst Michael Maloof thanks for joining us pleasure always a pleasure so michael let walk us through this how exactly in your expertise in your belief do you believe these weapons and that up in the hands of isis what do you know they told us that they are being are the syrians and then they ended up at isis house what do you think happened well it was a very clandestine program to obtain from Eastern Europe a lot of the weapons that syrian. Opposition forces were very good half million with. A k forty seven zero r. P. G. Where do you get them from Eastern Europe and the you still have surplus is there today youre very familiar with those weapons by contractors and nobel waco. But is it still in gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan where ever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs principally run by the ag
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Ladies and gentlemen, i am proud to present the 32nd governor of the state of south dakota accompanied here in phoenix by the first lady of south dakota. The chairman of the western governors association, the honorable dennis dugard. Thank you, jim. Thank you, christine. Christine, you have a good voice. Jim, well. Lets move on. [laughter] let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. I am pleased to see so many western governors here. We have a Great Program planned, and im delighted we can share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with Top Administration officials including the secretary of labor, the secretary of transportation, u. S. Forest service chief who will be visiting with us momentarily. And although he was not able to stay for todays activities, we visited with the secretary of agriculture. We will hear to other keynote speakers. The president of the arizona cardinals, and john ratzenberger. Most of you know john as the famous cliff clavin fro