Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
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This morning. Beautiful sunrise though underway. You wont need the shades just yet. You are looking at ten minutes into downtown. Watch for the brake ls arouklahoma avenue. Thats ak matt, thank you v much. We are now just a fews awaym te galction this morning we know who is on the ballot here in wisconsin. The primari gaining national attention, especially paul ryans contested at. Thema is lve in milwaukee r now where supporters ofh wisconsin congressman are celebrating victory. Good morning, thema. Grning, melindhe voters came to polling places just like th one to make their vo heard. That high profile race. E speaker ry from janesville isngki away wi re than 57,000votes. That is ryan held a Victory Party last night in janeille. Nehlen receivedotes 11,00 sterday. N times as uncertain these, is easy to resort to division. It is simple toy on peoples fears. Stick. Tuff sells, but it doesnt it doesn work. We have aemennnncomg out onhat it is we are doing, going t hold the government aoun
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