Reforms, adding into this mix, of course, this is now a Midterm Election years year. Things are not easy in an Election Year so that adds into this complicated agenda they have. Up here on the hill tomorrow white house aides will be meeting with top congressional leadership trying to work towards that Government Potential Shutdown Showdown that we might have in a couple weeks and this weekend, speaker of the house, paul ryan, and Mitch Mcconnell, will be heading to camp david to meet with the president about the legislative agenda ahead. Also changes in the senate. Al franken, minnesota senator, Stepping Down Today and then all eyes on utahs republican orrin hatch, will he run for an eighth term . What are we expecting . Thats right. This is frankens last official day. Tomorrow his replacement, tina smith, will be signed in. He steps down amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. That officially ends his term here in congress today. Of course utahs orrin hatch, this is a big ques
in private among folks either between allies or among folks within the same national government are now playing out in a very public and very global town square and what you see is what afghan officials have said for years, what many inside the united states administrations, including the obama administration, have said for years, about not enough support coming from the pakistani side. but i don t think anybody quite expected to see it play out on twitter, all of the grievances put into one place in 280 characters. how do you see it, finally, colonel? you have a very important strategically but also nuclear power. absolutely. pakistan is a key element there and one of the things that we have to be very careful of, although the president is right in one sense in that the pakistanis have actually ob skondsed with a lot of u.s. aid to their country, on the other hand they have also helped us in many, many ways, including the capture of back in 2001 of khalid shakih mohammad