The world, afghanistan, a sovereign nation that is a participating member in our global community, affiliated by the world bank and ims. A country in transition thanks to the efforts of the ambassador, president guhany and others, working together in harmony towards a common goal. The transition of a country that has known too much violence, conflict, and separation. To be embraced by the World Community as a peaceful, emerging leader for its region in the world, diplomatic, and global community. Afghanistan got independence from britain in 1919. Timing is everything, ambassador. First diplomatic ties to the United States in 1921 and that relationship has been maintained to the present day. The population now is almost 32 million, 50 under the age of 18, 27 of its population live in urban areas. Two official languages. Afghanistan is a land linked nation. It is almost as big as the state of texas. I dont know if that is a backhanded compliment or not but it is a compliment. Education i
And everything in it. Teach us to trust you in turbulent times, striving always to live for your glory. Bless our senators. May your completeness surround their incompleteness, your strength support their weakness and your wisdom guide their minds. Give them the insight, guide them down paths they cannot see. Give them the insight, the courage and the faith to escape the repetition of old errors as they strive to embrace your truth. Lord, help us all to offer to you the sacrifice of repentant hearts. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell last week, the Republicanled Senate passed two more Appropriations Bills by a large bipartisan majorit
30 years, may not be from russias strength, but weakness. That, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. We know that the reset of relations, that the Obama Administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right . The reset has been a failure. We know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. What this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russias heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, ill stop there. [applause] well take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and im going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and ill change it a little bit. How
Human rights at all and that is true but use that as a dodge and a way of precluding discussion on human rights. But should we have a one taiwan policy . And secondly, the taiwan act section two points out the enactment of this is necessary to maintain peace,s ability stability, and in their. What would happen if taiwan became under prc control and doing a will if a shift would have effects on Security Partners and allies in east asia, including japan and south asia . Thank you. I think i might have been in that meeting that you speak of. It was a few years ago. Thank you for your comments. To mostlike to point recently, you may have seen in the press that there has been more dialogue between two sides. The head of the Mainland Affairs councils from taiwan met with the head of their Taiwan Affairs office. We have gone on record as saying as we support that kind of warming of ties. One of the reasons why there has been such a discussion is because we have been so supportive of taiwan, g
Against the political world. Unless youre a stooge working in the white house. Weve heard time and time again, mika, republican senators especially saying voting by mail is safe. The election is not going to be rigged. We even had the wall street journal editorial page a few weeks ago saying donald trump is talking like a loser. Talking like a guy who they know is going to lose. If he wants to keep talking like a loser he should quit and let somebody run for the presidency who thinks they can win. Good morning, welcome to morning joe its friday, august 21st, along with joe, willie and me, we have washington anchor katty kay. And executive editor of the recount John Heileman. Willie, what do you think about last night . Well, it was an extraordinary moment for joe biden. I just go back again, it was six months ago that he was left for dead politically. It was over. Fourth place in iowa, fifth place in new hampshire, everyone knows the story. Now six months later there he is standing on