This is 20 minutes. Heads up oh, yeah. Good morning everyone. Welcome back 2024 is already off to a very busy start. I want to begin by addressing the shocking actions and lack of transparency from the department of defense. It is absolutely unacceptable that the pentagon waited multiple days to notify the president of the United States the National Security council, and the American People that defense secretary austin was hospitalized and unable to perform his duties. I represent fort drum home of the most deployed division in the u. S. Army since 9 11 there are currently thousands of tenth Mountain Division soldiers deployed in the middle east while those brave Service Members were under attack by iranian backed terrorists, the secretary of defense was in the icu, the deputy secretary of defense was on vacation, and joe biden and the white house were completely unaware. In the chain of demanding secretary of defense serves as connection to which the president commands and controls o
Take it. Join the team at contra costa college. Start today at contracosta. Edu a shocking accusation from Cassidy Hutchinson against Rudy Giuliani. The lead starts right now. In her new book, the star witness in the january 6 Committee Hearings, Cassidy Hutchinson now said Rudy Giuliani groped her. This according to an excerpt obtained by the guardian. Now giuliani is responding. Plus, interrogated on the hill. Tough questions putz to Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Special Counsel Investigation News hunter biden an into donald trump and the Justice Departments decisions to proceed with charges. Who does he report to . Again im not going to get into. Is it you. Im ultly responsible. Is it mr. Weiss did not have to report to anybody. He was the supervisor and Decision Maker in these matters. Also this hour, a brandnew cnn poll zeroing in on the primary state of New Hampshire. A state trump won the primary for but lost in the general election. Then and in 2020. Where does he
Thats it. Thank you very much for coming. Recently, a hearing held on the increase of number of unwanted phone calls and scams aimed at Senior Citizens despite laws allowing people to opt out of receiving marketing calls. We heard from someone who was a victim of one of these phone scams as well as a federal trade Commission Top regulator and a Computer Science and networking specialist. You can watch the hearing at 4 30 p. M. Eastern time and well take your phone calls and questions immediately after. Over on cspan. The cspans city tour visits sites across the country to hear from authors and Civic Leaders every weekend on cspan 2s book tv. And American History tv on cspan 3. And this month with congress on its summer recess, you can find the cities tour on cspan every day at 6 00 eastern. Today, the literary life of lincoln, nebraska, including the letters of novelist, biography of chief standing bear, and a book about the removal of native American Children from their homes. That st
Which isnt easy. Our country is a lot bigger and its different and we know that. Thats why we need support for that because it is a daunting you know, experience. Ford foundations already, you know, pledged their support. We need other powerful entities within our own country to think this is an important issue. So certainly that is one of the areas we feel theres a huge gap. The other one is were really hoping American Media can find ways to collaborate. Certainly in the field, thats so important. Jim seemed to feel that freelancers did as a whole, thats all they had is one another so they tended to Work Together in the field. But we really would love to see if we couldnt do more as American Media for colleagues in captivity, if you will. I realize this complex is very competitive here in our country. Its not a simple thing. But thats something i think jim would have liked to have seen. You know, some of the hostages mentioned to us once, this really was a big hostage issue. I mean, c
The taliban were about 40 miles away in a very precarious Geographic Area they were barely able to hold them back in. This area of the province it is south of tajikistan. South of the river and geography is very important. The story is how he and his ragtag force was able to maintain any kind of defense. So it turns out he has the only operating mine in the world. Goes back 1000 years. He has two emerald mines. Of course he allowed his men to grow opium because that was the only way they could get cash. That was smuggled across to pakistan but he also knew in may, this is four months away from 9 11 that something was going on in kandahar with bin laden. Something he heard was up through his contacts. Now he is tajik. So he has a very difficult time infiltrating a pashtun mafia for lack of a better word and particularly for the arabs who would be very suspicious of somebody with a different dialect even if they spoke pashtun. So at this point gary sawyer from the cia who had been statio