The. Host i think that is so important. One of the most popular things we have ever done on our website , a terrific photo essay called once upon a time in afghanistan. And people just cannot get enough of pictures of women in pencil skirts. Snazzy magnumera. Guest film students. Host absolutely. Development projects, groovy record hang out kind of clubs. There was a sense of afghanistan on a trajectory of development and actually in that time before it all started to go down the u. S. Was competing for influence both of them building these big projects. The tunnel that connected afghanistan north with the capital. These are incredible. There were moving Society Forward in very significant ways. The poor, landlocked country. People are astonished to learn that it is such a bad experiment, there was an alternate trajectory that was possible for afghanistan, and i do think we all become sort of historical determinist. After the fact relic, that was inevitable. Like about your book is it
Forcing workers and their spouses out of the plans that they like. TaxesCompanies Say that and government mandates make it more difficult to hire, and doctors warned that the law does not come close to addressing the real problems in the health care system. This is not working as promised and the president knows this. Busy handing out waivers and delays. Protectans want to everyone from the Health Care Loss we can focus on stepby step reforms that actually lower costs. We think it is only clear only fair to give all americans the same breaks the president is giving big businesses. President obamas Energy Policies are not our concern. Republicans have in all of the above Energy Strategy that will lower prices and boost manufacturing, and improve National Security. Is blockingident chances to make energy more affordable, such as the Keystone Energy pipeline. Been five years since the keystone application was first filed. This has passed every environmental review. No taxpayer dollars inv
Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The truce in ukraine never had a chance. The slaughter on the streets of kiev erupted again just hours after a ceasefire was announced between police and antigovernment protesters. This is kiev, the capital city, the center of the violence. The Health Department there reported 67 people were killed today. For three months, protesters have been demanding that ukraine have greater economic ties with western europe. This week, the protests exploded in violence. Cbs news correspondent Holly Williams is near the square in kiev tonight. Holly. Reporter scott, the fighting has died down here in the center of kiev tonight, but after a day of bloodshed, the demonstrators are already putting up new barricades preparing for more violence. Ukraines fragile truce crumbled within hours. On kievs Independence Square this morning, protesters were picked off with live ammunition
The command process is coming under view as well as the longrange plans for u. S. Troops there. An in depth traininger nord to review all of our op sagsal authorities and rules of engagement. That order and acknowledgment that something went wrong. Rules of engagement spell out when and how thest military can conduct air strikes with the ac130 gun ships that hit the hospital. Doctors without borders say the u. S. Knew it was a hospital. They were under attack for 30 minutes. It could not have been a mistake. Until were told otherwise, until we see an independent investigation, well presume that this was, in fact, a war crime. Did this violate u. S. Military rules . Even though the afghans request that support, it still has to go through a rigorous u. S. Procedure. There was no air controllers, american Forward Air Controllers on the ground. We had a special Operations Unit that was in close vicinity that was talking to the aircraft to deliver those fires. If the u. S. Knew it was a hos