Warns the global risk of coronavirus is now very high around 50 countries already affected. Stocks in the u. S. Continue to slide coronavirus takes its toll on global markets. Hello after a week of what was labeled a reduction of violence in afghanistan the u. S. And Afghan Taliban are expected to sign a provisional peace deal that could put an end to americas longest running war President Donald Trump is sending his top diplomatic qatar for the historic signing and says the Afghan People should embrace the chance for a new future but theres a long way to go the deal is seen as a possible 1st phase for the taliban to hold talks with the. Government in kabul to decide the future course of the country so lets take a look at how we got to this point the talks began in september 28th with the appointment of the u. S. Special envoy. Himself an immigrant from afghanistan so american diplomats military representatives and the taliban held more than a dozen rounds of negotiations in doha with
U. S. Continue to slide as coronavirus takes its toll on global markets. Major escalation in syria turkey hits back after 36 if its soldiers are killed by Government Forces in rebel held. Hello after a week what was labeled a reduction of violence in afghanistan the u. S. And Afghan Taliban are expected to sign a provisional peace deal that could put an end to americas longest running war President Donald Trump is sending his top diplomat to qatar for the historic signing and says the Afghan People should embrace the chance for a new future but theres a long way to go the deal is seen as a possible 1st phase for the taliban to hold talks with the government in kabul to decide the future course of the country so lets take a look at how we got to this point the talks began in september 28th seen with the appointment of the u. S. Special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad himself an immigrant from of down the stun american diplomats military representatives on the taliban held dozens more than a doze
For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Strategies a former npc president and a cochair of the nbc Headliners Team which organizes these
To listen, watch, and follow along on twitter at the Hashtag Hashtag npc live for our cspan. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Str
The reason its nonsense is because he doesnt know. Nobody knows. Thats why we have a policy we have a review of these procedures. Thats why we have nepa. Thats why the National Environmental policy act is in place. That many of my friends across the aisle view as the foundational environmental law. It requires federal agencies to evaluate the environmental impacts of projects before the project can be approved. The corps is in the process of doing that. I dont know if youre worried that the outcome might not be like you like. But if everything you said is true, then they certainly wont permit it. To be clear, im not advocating for or against this particular project. I dont know enough about it. But what i am saying is congress should stay out of the process of individual reviews. Setting the press dents of injecting political precedent of injecting political opinions into the nepa process means any project in the future will be subject to the whims of the Majority Party aft at the time