Were joined by rob franek. Hes with the collegeprep Company Called the Princeton Review. Welcome thank you. Good to be here. So, whats changed . There are four big changes that have happened for the sat, and these big changes happened in march 2016. The four changes are the sat will no longer be testing on obscure vocabulary words. One of the most difficult things that id have for a Princeton Review student is to give them 500 words that theyll probably never use again to study for the sat, so that fear goes away. Number two is that weve eliminated one full answer choice on the sat. So, previous to march 2016, there were five answer choices for each of those questions on the sat. Now there will be four answer choices. Number three is that the writing section, which was required for the sat before march 2016, is now optional. And number four and this is so important. Number four is that there is no guessing penalty, which means that for every wrong answer that you get, there are no poin
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Other reactions whether its with our allies or whether its in the streets that are hard to contain. Rose we conclude this evening with lisa monaco. She was the former chief Homeland Security and quownt terrorism advisor to president obama. We left yemen some years ago, given the conflict there. And the threat to our personnel there. So any time you are undertaking operation, theres got to be consideration of the risk to the force. So the risk has to be worth the reward. And so those e the types of things you are considering. What is the next step in trying to go to raqqa. What is e force . We assess the only capable force is the Kurdish Military that we have been working with and providing assistance to. The provide with that, of course, is the reaction of the turks. Rose right. Our nato ally. But were really on the horns of the dilemma here if we do not arm the kurds in order to go towards raqqa to take raqqa and dislodge isil and its external operations there. If we do not do that, t
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Horsing Vice President michael the deciding vote. We will speak to california congresswoman Maxine Waters about devos and why she is already talking about the need to impeach donald trump. Your words, your actions have shown us that you dont respect us, that both you and all of your nominees for your cabinet us andre dangerous for all of our families. Amy plus, we will take a look at Donald Trumps foreign russia tom iran to mexico. Pres. Trump we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. It is not going to happen anymore. It is not going to happen anymore. Amy we will speak to harvard professor stephen walt author of the recent piece, trump has already blown it. And we will also talk to an iranianamerican doctoral student who has just returned to School New York after being blocked from reentering the country thanks to trumps muslim ban. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol