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
Was founded on. Was founded on it was founded on a deep and profound belief from people that brought a great these areo people all arguable and debatable points today, but in many ways benefited from that tradition. So, i want to talk about citizenship, which is an interesting concept because in the islamic tradition, citizenship, the actual word in is thefor citizenship place you were born. Historically, it is conferred upon people based on birth. You can be naturalized, but it is a birthright if you are born in a place, historically you are a citizen of that place. One of the interesting verses in the koran the koran swears by the city of mecca and it says the prophet was a lawful citizen of the country and had a birthright of being born into that city, he had a right to be there, and he had a right to think freely. And he was being wronged and oppressed. Is a birthright, but it is also related to the idea of suffrage and enfranchisement. The idea we can participate in our government
Reporter this only affects Congressional Elections but those effects are quite significant and some say it can cause election chaos. It all started with a federal court ruling. They said district maps relied on race so they redrew the maps and ask the Supreme Court to let them use the old ones. And the state is racing getting ready to brace for the elections. Under the district maps, if the Supreme Court is not moved, they must refile for a june 7th primary based on the new maps. It makes it difficult for the candidates. Position they happen but in. There is no runoff, no comparison between the choices we had before. Reporter there is a possibility a single candidate could run for multiple offices at once. If it sounds nfusing, very hall says that is because it is. Reporter it is mass confusion. We need more time to make a decision. The senate side past legislation involving the newly drawn maps and tomorrow they switch. Clearly this is an onion with a lot of layers. If you want more d
In shoreham. And police had to shut down that street because of downed wires. We just checked. Right now there are no reports though of widespread power and you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Here we go, today, on this friday the 13th. Got 55 degrees. Which is warmer than normal. And were looking at some wind out there this morning too. Up the Hudson River Valley. 50 around caramel and newburg and middletown. 5 poughkeepsie and newburg and kingston and 52 long island, the numbers way warm for this hour of the day. But we have this wind today. And the winds going to be west as you see its about 8, 14, 16 miles an hour and it only gets higher today gang. So its going to be a gusty windy day and high this afternoon 58 degrees. But the wind is on. Wednesday gusts up to 40 wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour today and 35mile an hour wednesday gusts tomorrow and well talk more that in just a mom
The longest war. Mr. Bergen . Mr. Bergen thank you. My chance today is to outline the threat from the newest wave in domestic jihadism in the United States. We have identified 62 at individuals from public records have try to join isis or newsworthy al qaeda affiliates or trying to do so. They come from across the United States. We found cases in 19 states. James komi says that some of these are not public yet. They do not fit any public profile. They are bosnian americans this creates problems. Unlike in the case of alshabaab which attracted somali americans mainly from minnesota. That was a very focused group of who was going. This is across the United States. We found american females. These are a group this is a group of misogynistic individuals. Yet we found about 1 5 of the 62 females, a number of them are teenagers. This is a new phenomenon this is a relatively young group. There were teenagers as young as 15. The only profile that they share is act to on the social media. In so