First up, some clues as to what a donald Trump Presidency might look like. The u. S. President elect named the top two members of his team. Prebus will be his chief of staff it has turned into a battle at the white house between the populace outsiders that got trump elected versus the Washington Party establishment. Reporter team trump is taking shape as two key positions are filled. Priebus has been named chief of staff was steve bannon has been named chief counselor. Now i will have them both with me in the white house as we work to make America Great again. Reporter the seemingly contradictory report contradictory appointments are vintage trump. A washington insider to serve in the influential white house chief of staff position, trump is signaling a willingness to work with the republican establishment. Ebus has close ties to paul ryan, who has a strange relationship with the president elect. That ban and is anything but a traditional choice. It was push for a more populist and nat
Americans are always uncomfortable with this concept. Seats. Squirm in their dont you make your own luck . Not in war. Sometimes it is made for you. This is absolutely critical. Who among those commanders at all levels is lucky and who is unlucky . We have talked about some of the unlucky ones. John lucas. Weve talked about some of the lucky ones. Dwight eisenhower being first among them. No one luckier than him. He keeps seven lucky coins in his pocket and he takes them out and rubs them. Mark clark, the four leaf clover. His wife send it to him. He keep sitting in wall keeps it in his wallet. The answer is yes. Yes, we have to go through this. You are looking for killers. Killinge breeding divisions. Of northur of them out africa and theyre really good. First division, third division, 34th division, First Armored division. They are full of kilelrs. Killers, because that is how you win. You find men you are willing to kill other men and leaders who are willing to lead them to kill oth
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Ukrainian armed forces. Markets, focus of this show, seem to be regaining their composure you see there the market dropped to 90 points at its worst levels. The oil is back to 103 doll per barrel on the front month contract 103. The vix is spiking most since february, still near historic lows we should note. President obama is expected to speak shortly. Well bring you as soon as it happens. Right now we want to go to colonel oliver north with me on the phone. Colonel, thank you for joining us. Give me your take on this situation. Melissa, one of the things that did happen earlier this morning there was a russian separatist commander before we knee that the Malaysian Airliner was missing bragged the fact they shot down a ukrainian su27 which is a transport aircraft, very common in the inventory of most of former soviet bloc countries. We also know that the buk surfacetoair Missile System is a sophisticated midrange Missile System t was in both the hands of ukrainians and of course russi
Are using them online. The courses we teach at george washington, for most of these kids, if it is not online, it does not exist. So part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources, loosed from the government through the freedom of information act, and then get them into in digital formats, organize them, curate them, index them. So students and journalists can find them. Citizens can find them. We get calls from congress. They have questions, too. How are you funded and where did you come from . We really were started by a whole group of journalists and historians back in the mid1980s who, each of whom had used the freedom of information act to get documents declassified from the government. I think the piles were stacking up in the kitchens. And to save their families i think they created the National Security archive. Not juast a repository but as an institutional memory and a followup because we not only inherited boxes and boxes of documents from these pioneering j