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[inaudible conversations]. And were live this morning awaiting remarks from defense secretary Ashton Carter being interviewed by politicos correspondent mike allen and defense editor, brian bender. Should get underway in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politicos chief White House Correspondent mike allen and politico defense editor, bryan bender. [applause] good morning. Thank all of you for recovering from your st. Patricks days festivities to make it out here for a early playbook breakfast. We appreciate. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Were grateful for you tuning in as well. Im grateful being joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came from politico from the
Chief White House Correspondent and editor. Good morning. Thank you for recovering from your same patrick festivities to make it out here for an early breakfast. We appreciate it. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Where always grateful to you for tuning in. I am joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came to politico from the boston globe. He has known secretary carter going back to the 1990s. How did that work out . Brian i wish it was a more peacekeeping operation. We are honored to have with us today secretary of defense Ashton Carter who told me he has worked directly for seven secretaries of defense including republicans and democrats. He has worked in 11 administrations and came back as the boss. Someone who has negotiated with our enemies, has written or cowritten 11 books when he was at yale, enjoy the upset astrophysics and medieval history. Comes in handy these days. Before we kick off we want to thank bank of america and John Collingwood for these conve
Again the warmth of the day is allowed to escape. Weve got near freezing right now and even teens and Single Digits around the Desert Southwest right now. Sunny skies again today and highs just in those upper 40s and near 50 degrees. dead and another on the loose. After an attempted robbery at a doctors office. Kirsten Joyce it happened last night near charleston and rancho. Police say the two suspects walked into the office. In a room. Then, police say they pistol whipped the doctor. They say the employee put in the lt. Dan mcgrath metro homicide the employee went out into his vehicle and got his own handgun and as he was going back into the office the two suspects were going down the stairs. Were fired. Its still early in the investigation but Police Believe one of the suspects opened fire. And the employee fired multiple shots. The female suspect was shot. And was taken to the hospital where she died. Detectives say the second suspect is still on the loose and believe he may be inju
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