And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
Former president obama and former Vice President biden gave tribute speeches. This is just over an hour and a half. Boston has given this nation some of the greatest leaders from john adams the john f. Kennedy and that is something that we are very proud of. Secretary kerry is in that same tradition. As a diplomat, he has called many places all. Home. Any places i do not know these been at any address longer than here. Thank you for being a boston voter. [applause] in case you are not committed, walsh is on the ballot. In all seriousness, the secretary is a true bostonian and a good neighbor. I secretary of state, he took every opportunity to showcase our city with foreign dignitaries. We know the impact of your leadership not only in washington dc, but on washington street. Not only in middle east but in east boston. Thank you. As a senator, you took on issues that were not easy or popular. Protecting the environment, investing in education, fighting for local and small businesses, gr
Boston has given this nation some of the greatest leaders in the country, from john adams, to john f. Kennedy, and that is something that we are very proud of. Secretary kerry is in that same tradition. As a diplomat, he has called many places home. I do not know these been at any address longer than here. Thank you for being a boston voter, by the way. [applause] in case you are not committed, walsh is on the ballot. But in all seriousness, the secretary is a true bostonian and a good neighbor. As secretary of state, he took every opportunity to showcase our city with foreign dignitaries. We know better than most impact of your leadership, not only in washington dc, but on washington street. Not only in middle east, but in east boston. Thank you for that. As a senator, you took on issues that were not easy or popular. Protecting the environment, investing in education, fighting for local and small businesses, growing our high tech economy, and today we look back and see how visionary
Rose we con keud with another part of our conversation with jony ive about the question of what makes apple apple and the pivotal role of design. I think that i have such a wonderfully deep reference for the for the Creative Process that wasnt motivated about what can it do for me. It was so much more pure than that. But a reverance for the Creative Process, and to, we both recognized the ideas were tenuous and fragile. And we both were comfortable at laughing at the appalling ideas we had. And we were both quiet enough and sensitive enough to be able to listen to the quiet ideas. Because very often i think we assume that this big grand idea that eventually will turn into something that can change the world can and very often does start as such a quiet, tent tiff idea. And that we, i think we both knew how to listen. Even if it didnt appear that we were paying attention. We would both listen. And it could sometimes be days afterwords that he would say or i would say, do you remember th
Rose we con keud with another part of our conversation with jony ive about the question of what makes apple apple and the pivotal role of design. I think that i have such a wonderfully deep reference for the for the Creative Process that wasnt motivated about what can it do for me. It was so much more pure than that. But a reverance for the Creative Process, and to, we both recognized the ideas were tenuous and fragile. And we both were comfortable at laughing at the appalling ideas we had. And we were both quiet enough and sensitive enough to be able to listen to the quiet ideas. Because very often i think we assume that this big grand idea that eventually will turn into something that can change the world can and very often does start as such a quiet, tent tiff idea. And that we, i think we both knew how to listen. Even if it didnt appear that we were paying attention. We would both listen. And it could sometimes be days afterwords that he would say or i would say, do you remember th