So we specialize in only north korea. We do it daytoday, which is in the slow summer days of august can be very, very difficult. You know, we are really struggling sometimes to find leads for stories to do something original and its those times when personally it does get to you and you just wish this could be a bit more of a normal country and access and get in and interview various people and find leads for content. Thats something that troubles me a lot. And its something in the long term if we cant resolve well, i think, drive good journalists away from the subject because they will just find to it be such a challenge to continue working on. The other thing which has been alluded to is we have an issue, a difficulty with reports from north korea that its quite unique to international relations. So we often hire south korean nationals, be they interns or staffers in seoul and we actually have a problem with quite a high turn over rate with these people because oftentimes they will a
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Think we gave you a copy, mr. Secretary, i would ask you to look at for example your budget last year was at least 39. 2 billion. There is probably a number that we attribute out of that to Counter Terrorism someplace. It depends on what aspects of our mission do you consider Counter Terrorism . One aspect of the budget goes to Counter Terrorism. I suspect there is is a number assigned to that and i just dont have it offhand. If you can get that to us later on roughly. I would venture to say it is billions of dollars . Is that correct . And then your number one goal, your number one goal is to prevent terrorism. And then there are measures. Now, what you would you venture to say that i would ask you to take a look at this . If you spend billions of dollars and your number one goal, your first performance measure is the percentage rated higher in customer feed back to understand the threat. And then you go on the second one, the percentage of Intelligence Report rated satisfactory or hi
They are prepared to proceed to a vote on the kavanaughs confirmation. Heres former top doj official under president george w. Bush, he was on newsroom earlier. I think dr. Ford has to testify, if she doesnt testify i think the senators will rightfully go ahead and devote. Otherwise any stray accusation uncorroborated would be enough to shut down the senate and prevent the confirmation of any nominee for any judicial executive branch job and we cannot allow that to happen. Harris chief White House Correspondent john roberts, that was putting it distinctly. He doesnt mince words, ive known him for a long time and he tells it like he believes it is. Judge kavanaugh is at the white house again today, officials tightlipped about what is transpiring at the white house. On tuesday sources told fox news they conducted a socalled murder board, a bunch of people sitting together in a panel, the Judiciary Committee hearing room pummeling him with a lot of uncomfortable questions he would expect