Wells. 2 00 p. M. Eastern, virginia democratic senator, mark warner, and democratic representative Lauren Underwood. And republican congressman will hurd of texas will talk about the progress that capitol hill has made investigating Cyber Security threats. Watch live coverage on cspan3. Jamie raskin is with us, the congressman sitting on the committee. Congressman, welcome to journal this morning. Good morning. We started the program asking viewers about the president s remarks last night on facebook. I dont know if youve had a chance to see any of that. Any reaction to that . Youre talking about the 45minute diatribe rant about the election . Yes. Well, look, the president has painted himself into a corner here. Theres been a complete divorce from reality. Every election official involved in administration of this election, infer counting the ballots, has rejected the president s outlandish claims about there being some kind of systemic or massive fraud. Even attorney general barr yes
British welcome to lead, you could join us the u. S. Decision to rapidly reduce the number of troops in afghanistan has set off alarm bells amongst those following events in the country. Some of trumps own military leadership, including the u. S. Commander responsible for the middle east, marine general frank mackenzie, have warned against too. He pull out from a country that has yet to see a stabilization of levels of violence in a deal agreed with the taliban. The u. S. Committed to a complete troop withdrawal by any next year. But the fear is the latest move to end americas longest running war could strengthen the hand of militant groups, including the taleban in the country. The sun could be setting on the u. S. Presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001 to help stabilize the country off to overthrowing the taliban. A mission thats cost more than 2000, u. S. Lives over time. U. S. Troop numbers have waned now. Outgoing president. Donald trump want
Things we report from the area that bore the brunt to cause fear. The World Health Organization is warning the world not to relax its guard as the push for a Coronavirus Vaccine shows signs of progress. This is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news about called good 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for the new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases were seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas u. S. Pharmaceutical firm says the results from trials show that the vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Its really important milestone in the fight against the kind of make up because it demonstrates that our very senior morning 1273. 00 is able to prevent over 1000. 00 disease including severe disease. And its really just a milestone though. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, b
That, as things develop, nato will continue to adjust its presence. She says that even with the further u. S. Reductions that have been announced, nato will continue its mission to train, advise and assist Afghan Forces and is committed to funding them through 2024. And heres the interesting sentence, phil. She says, as secretary general stoltenberg said before the announcement, we must preserve the gains we have made in the fight against international terrorism. We went into afghanistan together and when the time is right, we should leave together. Now before the announcement secretary general stoltenberg said we will leave together. That clearly has been thrown into doubt by the us president. Well, i have told our daughter from back to you to australia. You need law to really. Because what you say, were going to hear next from the German Foreign minister, heiko mohsin. He also is concerned about these u. S. Plans. Its especially important to us that the progress weve achieved so far
Another spike in the frontlines wackos facing the odds on a daily basis. 5 british welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. The u. S. Decision to rapidly reduce the number of troops in afghanistan has set off alarm bells amongst those following events in the country. Some of trumps own military leadership, including the u. S. Commander responsible for the middle east, marine general frank mackenzie, have warned against too hasty a pullout from a country that is yet to see a stabilization of levels of violence in a deal agreed with the taliban. Earlier this year, the u. S. Committed to a complete troop withdrawal by me next year. But the fear is the latest move to end americas longest running war could strengthen the hand of militant groups, including the taleban in the country. The sun could be setting on the u. S. Presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting his since 2001 to help stabilize the country off to overthrowing the taliban. A mission thats cost more th