Mike 33. This book captures the second half of my career. Which was entirely focused around the terrorism question, first with al qaeda than at the end with isis. It captures what i did every day for 18 of those 33 years. The most important piece of this to me is the last chapter which talks about the commitment and dedication and amazing work that the men and women of the cia do every day and the sacrifices that they make, from the family sacrifices all the way to being lost on the battlefield. And how we deal with that at the agency. So, this was a lifes work, in some sense. I wrote it very quickly. My heart is in there, my soul is in there. I really hope you all enjoy it. Charlie you also talk about National Security threat. Give your sense based on the career you have had, the conversations you make, the research and data you look at. How do you see the threats to the United States today . Mike i divide things into two categories. National security threats, those people who are act
A country which is useful at this time might suddenly be a place receiving 20,000 refugees in three days or Something Like that. One of the things that we are already doing and have to do more of is theable to surge staff between posts and also between functions within the Foreign Office in london so that we have a more flexible structure is that can respond to reseissly sh reseissly the reality that priorities can change and change rapidly and we need to respond in a way that is appropriately agile. Can i ask you about another area of your budget. At the present there is still an fco grant to the British Council. Is that one of the areas that you may well be getting rid of, and what are the implications to you do, for the branding of the British Council and the sense of its identity with the soft power of our country. Well the British Council plays a vitally Important Role in projecting the u. K. Soft power. But it has been generating an increasing proportion of the resources it needs
Washington. And that is not the only traffic youll see. We have been telling you all week about this now. People are strongly encouraged to take metro with all the road closures that will be in place for the popes visit. Well share some of those with you in about ten minutes. And dont forget, download the app as well to get around the traffic. 4 31 is your time now. Want to check your hour by hour forecast. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell here with more on weather. Cool again, chuck. Little cool and a little wet outside early this morning. No heavy rain to deal with, but there are rain drops on the roadways early this morning. So that could slow things down just a touch. But most of the rain for now is in fairfax, montgomery, and howard counties lifting northeast bound toward the pennsylvania border. A big break in the action down south and west of us before you run in a couple more showers south and west of charlottesville. So wha should you be planning on your way out the door
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The boys were all between nine and 11 and from the same extended family. There were killed as they ran away from an initial blast suggesting they may have been targeted intentionally. Calling theon, debts does tragic. President obama also limited the mass killings of palestinians but defended israels attacks by saying they are in selfdefense. The palestinianamerican teenager whos beating by Israeli Forces was caught on video this month has returned to the United States. He wasbu khdeir says watching demonstrations and East Jerusalem when he was seized. The video shows him lying on the ground as the officers repeatedly beat him with batons. He was left with facial bruises and severely swollen eyes and lips. He was a cousin of mohammed abu khdeir, the Palestinian Teen kidnapped and burned alive in an apparent revenge attack for the killings of the three israeli teenagers. Moments after landing him in florida wednesday night, tariq urged supporters to remember his cousin and the dozens of