Many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and cnn anchor and the author of the new book shadow war inside russia is operations to defeat america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and most of the wall street journal. And its had a lot of good critical success. You may not know jim was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Embassy in china. Hes a graduate of the university in washington with his wife and former journalist for abc news and they have three children and he is reported hed around the world in asia and europe and the middle east and made some opening observations throughout the book and then we will open up for qanda. Thanks to all of you for taking time out of your busy friday and the folks at home appreciate having you here as well. Thank you to peter. He was one of the first few people to read the manuscript of the book early on and since he didnt throw it back in my face i thought i was probably okay moving forward with this and h
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A theme like lives matter is here all sorts of groups from different parts of the community are protesting the drivers obviously around d. C. Are pretty angry but as the presses point out there is a Climate Emergency under way so you might have to have a bit of a slow commutes at least today lets turn to other news now and at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan in whats believed to have been an air strike that happens in the muscle collar region of Helmand Province people have gone that arent sign to locals facility wounded are being treated authorities are investigating reports that the airstrike hit a wedding celebration a mistake correspondent robin wright has more from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military o
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