Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
Available podcasts. Thank you for joining me today. I have to tell you, i thoroughly enjoyed your book. I had the opportunity to read it and its obviously a timely subject. Obviously very important subject. Very. As you made know, im a pharmacist currently the only phenomenon pharmacist in congress so health care is something that is extremely important to me. Also important to the american citizens. I think everyone would agree we. They thought it was interesting you start by start off the book with the premise the Health Care System is broken, and if we look at the polls i think the polls would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say that the Health Care System is broken. Right, well, i really think that health care is going to be in the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll, just came out from gallup that said 35 of the American People polled weighed health care as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen in t
Iraq when we come back a difficult and dangerous business with the people making palestine its a battle to independence has killed thousands but now theres fresh hopes of ending the conflict in cameroon more that. Hello there still some very warm weather across the southeast and pin to the mid Atlantic States in United States we have got this a clear area here this is where the heat is in place and then this line of cloud is where weve got the dividing line between the much cooler air to the northwest and this warm moist air across much of the south as he had through friday the temperatures beginning to come down so washington d. C. 24 degrees 18 celsius in new york but atlanta 35 that is still more than 10 degrees above the average for this time of year cooling kansas city at 15 degrees and as well here weve got more snow to the rockies as we head through friday by saturday that clears it means fairly swiftly eastwards and then weve got some fairly heavy rain across the upper midwest
Pollsess pulls poorly poorly and this trend is bipartisan. Democrats and republicans, most assignment a failing grade. Over the past decade, congress has not once approved in Approval Rating over 30 . Congresss 990s, Approval Ratings were in the 40s and the 50s. Today, they are in the teens and 20s. Once thought to be the great repository of americas republican principles, it is now a broken branch. Why has Congress Come to this point . Martha causes . Has anything changed since trumps election and the democratic takeover of the house . Can this state of affairs be changed . To answer this question, we have assembled a distinguished panel of experts on congress with a variety of perspectives and i will introduce them quickly in alphabetical order. I will introduce them all so we can launch into their remarks. Our first speaker is catherine pearson, associate professor of Political Science at the university of minnesota. She worked for several years as an assistant to several members of
Problem clarks burk southbound 270 after 121 clarksburg road crash on the right shoulder. We do have that crash but not t. Eing much of a delay eastbound 66 Fairfax County parkway, disabled vehicle has cleared out of the way. Everything is nice and open. Inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, dont have any complaints on the beltway. No road work either. Those eastbound lanes clo d another water main break in arlington, northeney betwe north quinn and north oak street. Eun . Thank you. Ne its 5 01, a controversial arrest has turd into charges for a montunmery coty Police Officer. The announcement was made on tuesday. Now people in the county want more accountability from police. News 4 justin finch is li at Police Headquarters in gaithersburg now with more on this story. Justin, good morning. Reporter aaron, eun, good r mong. Those charges came down yesterday, Second Degree assault and misconduct in office for officers kevin morris. He he is t officer seen in that video that first appea