Karen hult, a science professor at virginia tech. Shes also a member of the white house transition project Advisory Board. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. Karen good to be here. Host the white house transition project, tell us about it. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. It is staffed by Political Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by martha i am a member of the Advisory Board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. Providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready t
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Endorsement of his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah one afghan expert says to the us the process may be more important than the result for the travel ministration they are simply looking for a candidate that wins the election and is free if and fair a possible way as possible they want to have a president that is seeing with credibility and legitimacy by the Afghan People its very unlikely thats going to happen with donald trump insisting he has no intentions of restarting the peace talks in afghanistan and a new initiative will have to come from whoever wins the president ial election there and that means for the time being the war continues and so does the cost in money and lives Alan Fischer Al Jazeera washington. And haiti antigovernment demonstrations bring more chaos to the streets. And zimbabwes founding leader is laid to rest Robert Mugabe is buried in a letter. After a dispute between his family and the government. I once again welcome to another look at the International Ful
We have no shortage of lovely summer weather across the mediterranean late summer weather is you have your minds eye further north sorry much like or some bands of clouds lots of rain and some pretty strong winds brisk winds rattling in once again across the northwest of running right across the British Isles the low countries across a good part of scandinavia. In london so the academic 18 so were going to feel anything like that when you get on the strength of that wind 15 celsius there for berlin we push across towards those eastern parts of moscow struggles to get to 11 degrees so lets head back down to the summer getting up to 2728 degrees over the next couple days after this may even touch 29 on monday those blustery showers the blustery conditions they continue. Filtering across northern parts as we go through monday further south fine dry and sunny sums it up madrid 30 degrees celsius and that sunshine that extends across northern parts of africa is chewed a similar conditions h
Open polling stations and maintain a certain level of security across the country but despite that many parties here will be wondering just how valid this result can be with so few people voting and the allegations of vote rigging of voter fraud have already started between the major candidates. So if you come here down there at 4 years is a mere masseys filed assigned we look at one of the armed groups thats refusing to join the peace accords. And got a bit of a drive a couple of days ahead across much of japan want to see showers but nothing really in the way of heavy persistent rain also the Korean Peninsula has been enjoying some fine dry weather its warm 28 celsius monday in seoul and warm as well across much of japan 29 degrees in tokyo then by choose a more rain pushing in from the south and to the west and pushing across into the southern sections of the Korean Peninsula as well 29 in seoul with a chance of some rain showers now plenty of rain really gauge the impact in taiwan