Good evening. Im the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of the entire staff, welcome and thank you for coming. Its quite a treat to have speed with us to talk about his new book. This is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do standup talking about the book. Steve of course is a legend in journalism. To proceed the big picture and his skill at presenting the narrative of something he spent 20 years at the Washington Post including a stint as a financial reporter as the correspondent ahead of the sunday magazine after six years he was the managing editor of vapor. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as the president of the new America Foundation that took over as the dean of Columbia University journalism school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the new yorker magazine and along the way hes written revealing books about some important subjects of the involvement in afghanistan and the bin laden family and exxon mobil. He is one of two
Of the heart and bonnie tyler belts out her classic total eclipse of the heart to lucky fans chasing the eclipse, as it sweeps over the us. Good morning. Its tuesday 22nd august. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump says the us will fight to win in afghanistan, as he unveils a new strategy in the war against the taliban. In a major speech last night he said that he had changed his mind about withdrawing troops from the country. He also called on nato allies to do more. Our washington correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports. The man who always said he didnt want to intervene abroad came to announce the intervention in afghanistan is going to ratchet up. But said it was for the right reasons. We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan People how to live, or how to govern their own complex society. We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists. He announced the lifting of a cap on the number of us troops in afghanistan, and that there would be
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Property, and saved lives. This type of training is happening every day in the fdny and is essential to our ability to serve the city of new york. By investing in core areas, planning, incident management, leadership, communications, patient triage and treatment, hazmat, marine firefighter and search and technical rescue, we are better prepared to adapt to a changing threat environment if disaster strikes. We have structured our Core Competencies to respond to routine and extreme events, including acts of terrorism. Thank you again for the opportunity to speak here today on this important topic. Thank you. Chair recognizes mr. Ielpi. Thank you for inviting me here. Its a pleasure to be able to speak to you. Before i start, id like to acknowledge behind me theres a large number of family members who lost their loved ones here that are here to listen to this talk today. Id like to thank the Port Authority who lost fabulous 37 guys and gals, 12 still missing today. New York City Police de