The Prime Minister. The remarkable thing about that award is that tony blair got it from someone who used to work for gordon brown. So, obviously, the person who gave the award knows about peacemaking and peacekeeping, but i think it is not for me to get involved. Jack dromey. In 2010, the Prime Minister promised to protect the front line, yet with the Biggest Police cuts in europe, our Police Service is facing the loss of 30,000 officers, more than half of them from the front line, which is threatening, in the words of the association of chief police officers, their ability to perform their statutory functions and protect the vulnerable. Does the Prime Minister understand the concern that is being expressed in communities all over the country at his governments systematic undermining of the bedrock of policing. Local policing and neighborhood policing . I do not except what he says, because, look, we have made difficult decisions about police budgets. We had to cut those budgets by 20
The breaking news. Good afternoon, bruce. Reporter for days [ no audio ] the School Superintendent of Montgomery County, joshua starr, is leaving, pushed out in some ways after losing the confidence of about half of the school board. The news was announced at a Board Meeting just a few minutes ago. There is a News Conference that is going on right to see how they play this, but four members of the board have been saying for quite a little while that starr had failed them. There had been questions about the way hes handled a couple of allegations of employees sexually assaulting children. There have been issues about his on againoff again support for starting school later and allowing children to sleep in. And Board Members have complained in particular that he has no clear vision on how to close the achievement gap between white and African American children. We had a chance to hear a little bit of that News Conference just a few moments ago. Lets take a listen to patricia oneil, the s
We want to begin this morning with another looming issue, how the u. S. Should deal with isis and isil. There is a new poll out showing a majority of americans want Ground Troops. Do you agree or do you disagree to go . 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. Or send us a tweet http twitter. Com cspanwj. Post on facebook, www. Facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Here is a comparison from september of last year. Those who favor the use of Ground Troops now at 57 versus 47 . Those who oppose 37 percent, what was 46 just a few months ago. We also have a line set aside if youre active or retired military. That number is 202 7480003. Good sunday to you. Lets begin with the New York Times. The piece points out that american intelligence agencies are struggling to determine how difficult it will be to take over multiposul. I battle that is intensifying for aor a major test of the Obama Administrations strategy to stop the
Them, they will protect you with their lives. So we knew that if tax was able to line this up and invited us in, we would be relatively safe. The one thing we had to worry about was in order to reach the commander he was negotiating with, we had to cross through to other commanders territory. So we got them in mission at the night before we were supposed to leave, we get a phone call from the commanders guys and they said to welcome to come tomorrow at the one thing you cannot do is bring a woman. And subtext and i look at each other and said we said, we are not separated from the way. So our translator who had close ties to the taliban, he said you know, what are we going to do . They said dont bring a woman. We said you have to figure it out because im going. And so the next morning he showed a very early and he said, i know, we will say you are mr. Dexters wife and he cant leave his wife alone in a strange city and you must come. So we said fine. We just all up and i was completely
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible they are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. Thank you to my partner and best friend Bruce Lindsey of the Clinton Foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the Library Foundation and the chairman of the lbj Foundation Library board in austin. Our National Archive partners are led by the affiliated libraries are here with us. And smu, Clinton School of Public S