(noise) the subcommittee will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. this is examining the afghanistan tragedy. and i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. good morning, and welcome to the subcommittee on national security s first hearing of 2020. we begin this year as we did and 2019, with an examination of the u.s. war in afghanistan. after 18 years of war in afghanistan, this is now the united states longest running conflict and has taken the lives, and the has come out the cost if billions of taxpayer dollars. after almost two decades of lighting, al-qaeda and the taliban the situation in afghanistan has continued to deteriorate, and is at best a stalemate. today, the government of afghanistan lacks control over half of the country, and it is estimated that the taliban has about 60,000 full-time fighters, compared to 20,000 in 2014. meanwhile, isis the branch of the islamic state comprises betw
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4 00, 5 00. It will be partly sunny by then. What to wear . A chilly morning. Temperatures around 50 degrees. You need a jacket, long pants again this morning to stay comfortable at the bus stop and waiting for the metro. Coming up next, weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Amelia is out in the storm team 4 x 4. Melissa looking at the roads and work zones. They will be clearing up shortly. Overall, we look quite good. Outer loop, we have that work zone still with one lane getting by. 66 and 95, both looking quite good. Same thing with prince georges coun county. 270, that is nice for us into and out of town. 95, cherry hill in maryland also moving quite nicely. A live look at 66 coming up in a couple of minutes. Melissa, thank you. Monitoring a developing story in new york where a doctor is now in isolation after testing positive for ebola. His name is dr. Craig spencer. He recently returned to the u. S. After working with ebola patients in guinea. He had a fever yesterday. Within mi
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I think were going to go ahead and get started. Thank you, everyone, for coming. Hello. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you so much, congressman johnson, congressman jones, congresswoman watson coleman, congressman takano, everybody here with us today, thank you for your leadership. Im sara lipton, executive director of take back the court action fund, and ive spent my entire career fighting for access to abortion and Reproductive Health care. Its that fight that brought me to take back the court last year when it became all too clear that the Supreme Courts illegitimate rightwing majority was coming for our bodies, for our futures, for our autonomy, and for our lives. This term the court turned some of our worst fears into a terrifying new reality. It threw out half a century of precedent to strip away a right to abortion, the fundamental human right to control our own bodies. The decision to overturn roe is going to cause countless people and families to suffer, most es