Vote the presiding officer does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote . If not, the yeas are 74. The nays are 19. And the motion is agreed to. There are two minutes of debate for each side on the next before the next vote. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , thank you for recognizing me. The presiding officer senator, would you suspend for one minute. The senate will come to order. The senate will please come to order. Please take your conversations off the floor. The senate will come to order, please. The senator from delaware. Mr. Carper thank you, mr. President. Colleagues, i take no joy today in rising to urge you to join me in voting no on cloture on the nomination of Aurelia Skipwith to serve as director of u. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To my disappointment, my dismay, miss skipwith is not providing information pertaining to her activities at the interior department as requested by Senate Democrats
A step back and say they believe in people cannot believe like this. Live from moscow watching our teams and National Thanks for joining us the program today im daniel. A u. S. Peace talks with militant group the taliban have resumed thats according to President Trump the u. S. Leader made the claims are on a surprise visit to u. S. Troops in the country its his 1st visit to afghanistan. In the studio for more updates on this maria obviously 1st visit to the country as we stated there in the midst of these negotiations what more do we know well we can say that it was a rather large move by mr trump although they call it a surprise visit to afghanistan we can say that the motives behind that are quite clear and in the war in afghanistan a bloody 18 year old long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars has always been a focus for american president since he took office in fact so his recent visit to american base in afghanistan was just to demonstrate that
A step back and see to believe them people cannot believe like this. Live from moscow thanks for joining us in r. T. International. 11 am here in the capital welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving taking part in the perfect photo opportunity paying his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops based there and he had a message for them in another apparent u. Turn he told them that talks with the taliban declared dead 2 months ago are back on. To get some more updates on this maria what exactly is behind this visit well while they call it a surprise visit to afghanistan the motives behind it are rather clear ending the war in afghanistan almost decade long bloody conflict that america was. That took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars has always been a focus for mr trump and he came to afghanistan on thanksgiving to demonstrate he is in charge hes controlling everything and everything is according to his plan a
Be. My hero. And i want people to. Believe. That. Thanks for joining us just on 12 here in. The program u. S. President donald trump has chosen to spend his thanksgiving taking part in the perfect photo opportunity and his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops based there had a message for them he told them that talks with the taliban declared dead 2 months ago on. Joining the shoot. To get more updates on this maria thanks for joining us what is behind this surprise visit well yes they call it a surprise these a. But the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan this bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to ended for his own for steve at home and for his global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghani
Here at csis and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event today featuring general john raymond whose command of u. S. Space command, and command of air force Space Command in colorado. We are lucky to have him join us for a public conversation with todd harrison, director of airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that can be considered bipartisan in nature in washington. Space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. [applause] gen. Raymond thank you. I greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to csis and had to apologize to the cas csis team because i always get more out of these engagement them i give. I hope we get to that, and have really good conversations and things i could take away and continue to w