This could be the most expensive meal in history. Hello from sydney, im paul allen, this is daybreak australia. We are one hour away from the open of asia. Good morning to you, its past 6 00 p. M. In new york 5 00 p. M p. M. In new york. Over the next hour, we look at how the asiapacific trading day is shaping up. We have to look back at what happened on friday, there was both hope and fear just in the ups and downs of the trading day. You can see how it close in the red, down two point. 201 . It was lower because of what happened with mike flynn, saying he would plead guilty to at least one count of felony about lying to fbi officials, then we did see those pair of losses. We got the good that the tax plan passed through the senate. We are going to be looking ahead to what happened in mondays trading. I want to show you whats happening in terms of the Corporate Tax plan. The highest tax companies. Is the highest tax rate. You can see the fall when we saw the flynn headlines across. Sa
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] things are winding down here at the press club. If you missed any of the discussion of discussion with the chancellor at unc, you can find it online at cspan. Org. The herald newspaper today reporting that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell thinks the senate could pass along stalled Cyber Security bill before leaving for august recess, but that it will take cooperation. Could see a procedural vote to move forward on that measure tomorrow. Party lunchesin right now. You can catch the White House Briefing on cspan2. And of course, the senate with a gavel back in. More live coverage is coming up in about one hour, talking about the future of afghanistan with general John Campbell, the general of Operation Resolute support starting at 3 00 eastern time. Throughout the month we are looking back at the cities we visited this
As one of those District Centers is taken over within hours the Afghan Security forces are taking it back. They have the ability now, the capability to react much quicker, to move forces all around the country to go back and take over those District Centers. I think thats a sign of progress as they move forward. Again, they have technology, they have the people they have the training. I think the difference this fighting season is getting the right leadership in place, holding the leaders accountable for the welfare of soldiers and police. And then building the moral of the folk as they continue to take the offensive. Theyre very defensive in nature. 80 of the Afghan Security forces are on check points and youre vulnerable to attacks. Thats where theyre taking a lot of their losses on the small check points. Afghan local police were designed to be the guardian tofs village. Theyre supposed to guard that village. But theyve employed them five kilometer, 10 kilometers outside of the vill
We are very lucky to have Senior Vice President for asia and the Institute President director here today to opening remarks. I would like to quickly introduce them before they step on stage. Dr. Greenes Senior Vice President for asia and chair in modern and contemporary japanese politics and Foreign Policy. He formally served as senior director for asia and special assistant to the president at the nfc. Previously he was a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation and director of the andan studies Institute Professor of International Relations at the university of southern california. Get dr. Greene will give remarks first, followed by dr. Hahn. Thank you so much for joining us today, it is an and honor for all of us in the audience. Opportunity tohe hear your vision on koreas policy. Immediately the north korea and Nuclear Missile problem. Whether it is the Korean Peninsula or the moxie and development in asia or building rules for trade and invest and, the same principle app
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