Now live to london for british Prime Ministers question time. He tweaked the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter using hashtag pmqs. Members are finishing up other business prior to question time. Now to the floor of the british house of commons. To ensure that we have the future in wales. If the honorable gentleman has any doubts, look at the work my right honorable friend did to reassure seltzer receive 30 million pods, 800 jobs i wales, our commitment to the industry. We go to questions for the Prime Minister. Questions for the Prime Minister to answer the engagement question and then call the supplementary. Thank you, mister speaker. You have been updated on the leak investigation you referred to on the second of november and i take this matter seriously and return to update the house in due course. This morning i hav
At 202 7488003. You can join the conversation by texting us at that same number, also going to twitter cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. The acting defense secretary outlined the president s decision yesterday. [video clip] by january 15, 2021, our forces, their size and afghanistan will be 2500. Iraq will alsoin be 2500 by that date. With ouronsistent established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People. It does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Moreover, this decision by the president is based on continuous engagement with his National Security cabinet over the month past. Including ongoing discussions with me and my colleagues across the u. S. Government. I have also spoken with our military commanders and we all will execute this repositioning in the way that protects our fighting men and women, partners in the Intelligence Community, diplomatic corps, and our superb allies that are critical to iraqiding afghan and Civil Society. Secretarya
A bit later now theyre heading straight to the pentagon. Lets listen to the pentagon and to bring our brave Service Members home from kabul to kandahar and from mosul to flu, hundreds of thousands of americas finest sons and daughters who selflessly answered the call. To serve in the army, navy, air force, marine corps, and coast guard have brought us to this point. Their efforts and sacrifice will go down in history as a pit in my eyes, in the strength of commitment and empathy of a force that is unlike any the world has ever seen. Just last night, i joined Vice President mike pence and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general milley to attend the dignified transfer of 5 american soldiers who perished on duty in the middle east. This was a somber and humbling moment. That reminded us of the tremendous sacrifices made by the men and women of the United States military in service of freedom and security. Our armed forces take an oath to support and defend the constitution of the Un
We will get into that. Let me say a little bit about scott. Welcome, scott. Many of our viewers know scott from his very long and successful and productive tenure and engagement with the National Park. He has been retired for a little more than 10 years or a little less than 10 years, excuse me. Geez, actually six years. Peter one thing john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We also talked about partnerships with academics. We have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina silver, one of the first historians who came to the park and had conversations about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg. Time and time again, john have noticed these connections between academics and public historians. Cant then conclude there is this great gap or golf between the two sides. I thought we could open by howng you reflect upon battlefield interpretation has changed over time during your career. And then,
Much more on all those stories coming up in just a bit. But now its time to get a check of the Weather Forecast for the first time this saturday morning was the high today of spark a good morning robin good morning, good morning everybody in a live shot coming in from the golden gate fog checking in again this morning looks like an. Fairly think is what we got going on not much the way of wind circulation here we keep it to the Single Digits to calm dont expect that to improve outside of just local winds to some degree and im pretty re here. We have of the fog going on which will mix out to only give us kind of hazy sky conditions into the afternoon comes back again in greece has to tomorrow with promises of not being quite as intense although we saw this yesterday like this. But it looks like it may not be as intense. According to the forecasts projections here looking forward into tomorrow morning. But we do have a heat wave coming our way though beyond that right now we have lower 6