Mr. Hanna, it strikes me in your response to some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle, comments with your role about Vice President cheney and the agreement or the decision to invade iraq is it was a mistake and you apologize for that in your own way. But we should just move on from that. Is that a misrepresentation of how you view your actions . Its senate more complicated than that. Of course. And too long to explain. That, yes, if the case depended on weapons of mass destruction in iraq, that was false. And the American People didnt understand the grounds on which we were going to war to take out a guy who is a horrible dictator and a major strategic threat to american interests that the American Congress in 1998 passed a law almost unanimously saying the iraq liberation act saying weve got to doing . To get rid of this guy. Didnt say war necessarily but it says weve got a big problem with iraq, we need to doing . About it. But it was based, wouldnt you say, on the assumption
Finishing up here at the National Press club. You can see this on our website cspan. Org. Going to a conversation with World Bank President jim yong kim. Hell be talking about preventing the next pandemic. This is happening at center for strategic and International Studies here in washington. Should start in just a moment. Good morning and welcome to csis. Welcome to those who are joining us online and those who are coming in via cspan and else where. Its an honor to be here today to welcome dr. Jim yong kim president of the world bank to speak on how to better prepare ourselves for future out breaks in this era of the new normal of recurrent out bakreaks weve se. Im the Senior Vice President here at csis. Just a few minutes of opening remarks. Dr. Kim has been president of the bank since 2012. And in that time has used his leadership quite strategically to bring about many changes internally and externally. Hes positioned the bank to be a lead player, a key player in pandemics, in sup
who wrote the script basically because he had a lot of time on his hands in the big house, thinks he s fine. we ll have a bunch of details for you just ahead. first we have to kick off your morning and a fox news alert. a gunman opened fire in the c.i.a. wing of the u.s. embassy in kabul, afghanistan. leaving one american dead. the gunman was an afghan national working for the embassy. he was shot dead. this is the third attack on u.s. buildings in kabul in the past two weeks. six men due in a london courtroom to face terror charges. three of them charged with plotting homicide attacks in britain. police say two of them traveled to pakistan to learn how to make bombs and the other suspects are charged with withholding information and funding terrorism. five gruesome and mysterious murders rock a quiet rural town. it unfolded when they spotted a child wandering a road 50 miles southeast of indianapolis. that led police to the address where they discovered a body of a man.
who wrote the script basically because he had a lot of time on his hands in the big house, thinks he s fine. we ll have a bunch of details for you just ahead. first we have to kick off your morning and a fox news alert. a gunman opened fire in the c.i.a. wing of the u.s. embassy in kabul, afghanistan. leaving one american dead. the gunman was an afghan national working for the embassy. he was shot dead. this is the third attack on u.s. buildings in kabul in the past two weeks. six men due in a london courtroom to face terror charges. three of them charged with plotting homicide attacks in britain. police say two of them traveled to pakistan to learn how to make bombs and the other suspects are charged with withholding information and funding terrorism. five gruesome and mysterious murders rock a quiet rural town. it unfolded when they spotted a child wandering a road 50 miles southeast of indianapolis. that led police to the address where they discovered a body of a man.
the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow s history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. what they are doing is they are putting a temporary ban on short selling. what short selling is is when investors bet that a stock will go down in its price, and europe s version of our securities and exchange commission, it put a temporary ban for 15 days on several european countries, including france, italy, spain, and belgium to put a ban on this practice to stabilize the markets after we have seen the extreme moves over the past week, and at least in europe it looks like it is working. the european averages ended significantly higher. now to the challenges that threaten the very existence of the post