Next the united States World War one Centennial Commission marks the opening of the national World War I Memorial in Washington Dc with a Video Tribute and Flagraising Ceremony to honor the 4. 7 million americans who served during the war the memorial opened to the public on april 16th. It you for more than two centuries the stars and stripes has flown over the land of the free. And the home of the brave we know that its flying around the World Today everywhere us forces are stationed protecting all of us. There are nuns still alive who saw it flying above the american doughboys in places like bella wood cantini and the muse are gone. Now its our job to keep faith with those brave men and women who came before us. In less than two years some 4. 7 million americans would join the armed forces during World War one. Many of them volunteers and just six months of decisive combat. More would die than in a decade of War And Korea and vietnam combined. With a higher Casualty Rate than World W
Be assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. Earlier the approved the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services and that vote was 5544 per it also, this week science and Technology Bill, live Senate Coverage now here on cspan2. E e senate will come to order. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton today the senate will vote on Kristen Clarkes nomination to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. I will of course oppose her nomination. We have a lot of partisan nominees around here, so thats not very surprising. But mrs. Clarke isnt just partisan, she is extremely is partisan. She called senator murkowski shameful. She accused senator manchin of being disingenuous and she casually slandered 200 200 sitting senateconfirmed judges as white male extremists. If confirmed for this position, she will be entrusted with representing the United States government in front of those very judges not exactly a credible a
Risk of blood clots. The cdc director now has to sign you have. I just interviewed dr. Fauci, and here is what he said. Well, the j j vaccine is clearly a highly efficacious vaccine. And i think the pause, which some people may have taken as a real condition, the pause should underscore how seriously we take safety because the risk of this is extremely low, very, very low risk of this adverse event. And the fact that the cdc and the fda originally paused this should underscore to everyone that we take safety very, very seriously. So when a vaccine is let out again to be able to be vaccinating people in this country, you can rest assure that thats a safe and efficacious vaccine. As officials work to combat Vaccine Hesitancy, gop senator ron johnson is undermining it. The science tells us that vaccines are 95 effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor hooz one or not . You got a vaccine and science is telling you it is very, very effective. Why
Hard to believe, isnt it . It means that im always amazed that generation after generation, the women and men, they give their lives for their country. They dont give it for their country, per se. They give it for their mothers, their fathers, their uncles, their aunts. Brothers and sisters. It means i have trouble these days ever showing up at [inaudible] proudly insisted on putting on that uniform and going with his unit to a rack unit to iraq. Look at the mall. Was it a hard decision to make . Know, for me it was absolutely clear, absolutely clear. We went for two reasons. From the very beginning, you may recall, i never thought that we were there to somehow unify afghanistan. Never been done. Never been done. Thank you all for being out here in the rain. It means a lot. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2021] every day we take your calls on washington journal, live in on the air. Coming up we will talk about the biden Climate Policies with garrett graves
Third trip to afghanistan, 2011, convinced that it was time to leave. The primary mission had been accomplished. Within a few years of our invasion, al qaeda had been reduced to a shell of its former self, and we had shifted to a new mission, nation building. At the outset, there was reason for us to stay and engage in that mission and work with the new governments to help get it on its own feet. But, by 2011, that mission for all intents and purposes become a permanent one. And now, after 20 years of war and handwringing about when the right time is to leave, we have to acknowledge some basic truths. Our military presence in afghanistan is not creating the conditions necessary to eradicate the taliban, nor, the conditions necessary to create a fully functional Afghan Military or government. In fact, the fact on the ground would tell you the opposite is true. The longer we stay, the more powerful the taliban becomes, and the less willing the Afghan Government appears to be to make the