Rice, the security advisor, chaired. We thought that the plane had lost its way and hit the tower at the first attack with the first incident. Then, when i was sitting to condoleezas left in the staff meeting, what happened in the operation area of the white house, the situation room, somebody walked in and gave her a note that a second plane had hit the second tower. She closed the book and rushed out. I went back to my office, and the world changed that day for me and for the United States. Brian how long did it take them to figure out that you not only were born in afghanistan, you were a muslim and an authority on that part of the world . Mr. Khalilzad it took them a few days because i had been so involved in government and Foreign Policy issues that who i was and my background had escaped a lot of people. I remember at one point there was discussion of reaching out to the head of the Northern Alliance, and people did not know quite how to reach him, because the taliban, were reall
Th the sky high insurance rates in detroit and what it may say about race, income, and inequality. Plus, in session, g. E. Smith. From performing, con fronting the s and l ban. The pentagon is on the defensive tonight over its strategy against isil. The next remains the same, but the means of achieving it are changing, especially with the possibility of more u. S. Troops on the ground. National security correspondent Jamie Mcintire is at the pentagon. Jamie . Its a bit of a mixed message on the pentagon. On the one hand, it says the u. S. Military needs to do more to defeat isil on the ground. On the other hand, it says, u. S. Troops wont be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to direct combat. The new u. S. Strategy was on display in iraq last week as seen from the helmet camera of a kurdish fighter. For the first type, u. S. Commando did were paired with battletested local forces, and while the plan was for the americans to hang back, they were almost immediately drawn in to a fier
Contronation with a High School Student is out of a job. Caught again. I dont know how many times ive before to jail. I never try to keep up with that. I never gave it a thought. I know i never went to jail and stayed. A notorious jewel thief with a long record of heists and arrests after her latest run in with the law. And good evening to you. Youre watching al jazeera america. Antonio has the night off. President ial hopefuls have wrapped up their showdown in boulder, colorado. Jeb bush, marco ruboi, donald trump, Chris Christie, rand paul and others focused on mostly economic issues. Bill who were the winners and losers tonight . I think that the clearest loser was cnbc. This was a very raucus debate. And the candidates scored their biggest points by criticizing the media. I thought the candidate who did the best was the one who initiated that tactic and that was marco rubio showing himself to be a real fighter in this debate and Chris Christie also came out very well. He had a wond
Okay. That is the russian French Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. He is speaking in russian at the moment. When he goes back to english, well dip back in. I want to bring in al jazeeras National Security contributor. We just got a lot of developments on syria in the last 20 minutes, doug. Lets begin with the announcement that president obama has authorized fewer than 50 special operations troops in syria. A lot of pushback from the media in the White House Press room asking whether these are indeed combat troops or at least equivalent to. I think well see a lot of playing gotcha on boots on the ground. Were already seeing the president s prior statements being brought up, and whether this is or is not combat. I think that. Hides the fact thats troops are going to be there on the ground in syria, and this was change our commitment to what is going on. We can have discussions about what is combat and what is not. And quite frankly it depends on the role these troops decide to play, if the
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