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At least 84 people were killed when a truck plowed into a crowd of people celebrating bastille day last night. Police later shot dead the driver. We will take you to nice and paris for political reaction. Christopher good to have you with us. We have more breaking news coming in, disturbing events in the capital of turkey, ankara, and in the largest city in turkey, istanbul. witnesses in ankara say they are hearing gunfire in the streets, and reports of military jets and helicopters flying over the city. Turkish media reporting Security Forces have closed two bridges over the bosphorus in istanbul. We dont have any news, but we will bring you more information asoon as it becomes available. Nearly 24 hours after the attack in nice, there is mourning, global solidarity, and flags at half mast. Investigators are trying to piece together the puzzle of why a tunisian national, a petty criminal with no known terrorist links, and in 1910 lorry into a crowd of revelers watching a bastille day
It is inefficient and ineffective for military and general sublive i would like to bring us home to my state. Obviously we have the port that dates back to world war ii in terms of some of its buildings and we have temporary military construction dating back to that time and we are in an aggressive up dating of that facility which is such a key facility for our army and i notice that they even have the nerve to put military construction and to these at aces in the United States in the overseas Contingency Operating funds paid can you comment about how this impacts your ability on readiness and training when you are being put in a fund yeartoyear and not certain and you cant plan with it . Sure senator. You are exactly right you cant plan with it and you cant just go yeartoyear and things like multiyear contracts and having relationships with industries to upgrade your weapons and equipment etc. Specifically what you are talking about is infrastructure which is a key component. We have
I want to thank you gentlemen for being here and your service to our country, and the meeting is called to order. I apologize for bag few minutes late. Forget we changed the time until 9 45 until 10 00 so ben could go to a meeting at 10 30. Can you for accommodating both meetings. Obviously afghanistan continues to be something that is important to our u. S. National interests. We brokered a government, if you will, the United States did in 2014, that create both a president and ceo office that has not been confirmed, if you will, through and continued on. We had concerns about that process taking place, and you wonder about the support that government has realtive to not being confirmed in the way that it normally would. I have a tremendous respect for president began ghann and a warm relationship with abdullah. Theyre have muddled through it together as one might expect with the type of arrangements that have been, quote, create from the outside. I was glad to see president obama com
That nationwide the continues to see the effect break havoc in this country. What will you do to improve the voting and there it is again. I would like to see open primaries everywhere. Federal voting holidafederal vor registration in 18 years of age we have joel here to join us. You will hear it again. And the automatic voter registration. Lets start with the congressman on this money and if you can be specific on the primaries of the voting i think it is a great solution we should have been in the state of florida. I think republicans should embrace this because we can grow the party by embracing the conservative solutions that appeal to independents and those that are no Party Affiliations so i would say yes to the open primaries and on the other issue whatever makes the voting more accessible and successful so we have greater participation. Congressman. First i have to introduce legislation for this purpose as i indicated before it introduced more than any other member and i introd