A conversation and then towards the end of the hour we will open it up for questions and answers from the audience, so chairman eu grew up and kentucky, you served as a key adviser to senator mitch mcconnell, gave us a sense of how that background informs or doesnt inform you or approach more generally. Thank you for having me and the opportunity, its a pleasure to be here today, yes i did spend a good chunk of my youth and kentucky and also the opportunity to serve the Senior Center and party leader from kentuckian in the United States senate and sent mcconnell in terms of how that and firms my work at the commission, i cant quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about in his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance, his approach to bipartisanship. And my working for him, most of the if not all of the legislative initiatives that i worked on, they didnt pass the senate with 16 post, they passed with 85 plus votes, oftentimes a
Off the job at 31. 00 Assembly Lines across the country theyre frightened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached. And the United Nations is warning that Rohingya Muslims who remain in myanmar are living under the threat of genocide the un is repeating calls for top generals to face trial for forcing iran 3 quarters of a 1000000 to flee to bangladesh 2 years ago the un also says it has serious concerns about a crackdown on refugee camps in bangladesh it says aid workers accused of supporting rohingya protests last month have been banned their phones confiscated and a curfew imposed. Indonesias government to scrambling to control widespread forest fires which are causing a toxic case to spread to other countries this off smoke is causing causing a lot of respiratory problems and disrupting fights has more from the city of peckham baro in indonesia. Were in peckham bar city in the province of rio on the island of sumatra where 40000 hectares of land have been covered by smog and
Province are still dealing with the casualties from that bomb blast and in fact just in the last few minutes the death toll has gone up to 26 killed with 42. 00 injured and were told around a dozen of those. People in Critical Condition the interior Ministry Says 4 of those killed were soldiers so once again that vast majority of these victims are innocent civilians now the taliban has claimed responsibility has said it was a taliban fighter on a bike a suicide bomber who had gotten targeted the president ial bodyguards and special forces that may have been the case or it may well have been that these security guards intercepted the bomber on the way to try to get into this rally and try to get close to president ashraf ghani whatever the case it does seem to be part of the talibans threats being carried out to target these Campaign Rallies as we get closer to the election here in kabul after the attack that closely followed that one in the center of the city just around the building w
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In lexington, kentucky. You served as an its a advisor to mitch mcconnell. Give us a sense how that background informs or doesnt your approach at approaching policy. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here today. Yes, i did spend a good chunk of my youth in lexington, kentucky, and had the opportunity to serve the senior senator and party leader from kentucky in United States senate, senator mcconnell. In terms of how that informs my work at the commission, you know, i cant quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance. His approach to bipartisanship. Ofmy working for him, most if not all the legislative initiatives are worked on, they didnt pass the senate with 60 votes. They passed with 85 plus votes. Often times, and were talking substantial legislation on the energy front, multiple form bills, multiple highway bills. These are consequential pieces of legisla