But in terms of with regard to afghanistan today, with the laws of the Embassy Compound to have to be escorted income the they set ground rules your ability to rub elbows it is limited but it also means well understand much less for the good and for the bad. If i could have a beer at the embassy bar in kabul that i have to sneak into now, if i could go there regularly, i would have as many shopping details of dysfunction or interesting stories that turn out to be what the government would consider to be a good news story. But that interaction is so limited we dont get much of either one. We are all poor for it. Journalists cover these wars and it is the unfortunate development not just america fatigued but the real economic constraints of the newspaper industry and the media as whole. So it is much more difficult to convey a. That is a good point if i hear psittacine journalist dai here psittacine orthopedic surgeon. This is not a job for a mitschers people understand the context but a
Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i
People know. The story of how one kid is turning tragedy into triumph, spreading kindness through the el paso challenge. We come to everyone and we make the world a better place than it is right now. We want to begin with the demands for answers following the apparent suicide of millionaire register sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Guards found epstein dead in a new york prison. The Justice Department launching an investigation with attorney general bill barr saying epsteins death raises serious questions. Polo sandoval with us now. We know, polo, epstein had previously been on suicide watch. Sources say he was not at the time of his death. Are we getting any more answers as to why that was . Reporter we also know that he took his own life just about 24 hours after a court provided more insight into the allegations against Jeffrey Epstein. When you take a closer look at the time line, it gives you a better sense of the days leading up to what took place yesterday. He was 66 years old. He
Inaugural address, President Trump painted a dark bleak picture of our country in crisis when he declared this american carnage stops right here, it stops right now. But as a sitting president , trumps anger, hate and divisiveness pitted americans against one another, preying on our divisions and doing anything about the endemic and the epidemic of guns as fuelling a literal carnage in america. We now have more Mass Shootings in the year 2019 this january than days of past january 2019. As of monday, according to the data from the gun violence archives, theres been 255 Mass Shootings in the first 217 days of this year. Cant let this go on. Cant and i will not let this man be reelected president of the United States of america. Folks, this incompetence, his immorality, his carnage stops with us right here right now. Starting in the midwest. Limit to four years and i do believe this, that history will look back on this president as an abberant moment in american history. If donald trump
Thinking about dayton, talking about dayton, what the president was talking about on the plane back from the trip to these two cities is commuting the sentence of former illinois governor and candidate not connected in any way or form to the shootings in america. There is also as you pointed out exclusive new cnn reporting this morning about a potential misread flag in el paso. Lawyers for the family of the shooting suspect say his mother called police weeks before the massacre. She placed that call because she was concerned about her son owning an akstyle weapon. She was told by an officer her son had a right to own the gun. Police did not seek any additional information. The suspects mother did not leave her name. Meantime the Washington Post is reporting this morning the nras chief executive reached out to President Trump after the president voiced support for a background check bill, warning mr. Trump the measure would not be popular with his loyal supporters. Josh dossy a cnn poli