Terrorism. John harwood will join us from the white house. Before we do that, lets get up to speed on this mornings other top stories. Michelle . Lets start with oil. Crude prices dropping after fridays opec meeting. As a result theres no agreement on output targets. In fact, the cartel didnt even mention a quota, something we havent seen in decades. Analysts say this is a message that opec or saudi arabia is willing to deal with low prices. You can see wti is back below 40 per barrel. U. S. Gasoline prices dropping again as well. The lundberg survey says the average price is down 4 cents. 2. 10, the lowest level since late january. In global news, big win for venezuelas opposition. The Party Winning control over the National Assembly and changing the balance of power. The victory comes 17 years after hugo chavez started the socialist information. It could mean dramatic changes down there. In corporate news, General Electric is terminating a deal that it had to sell its business, its a
Targeting Islamic State Headquarters Training camps and combat vehicles. Strikes against the Khorasan Group was carried by the us alone. But five arab nations did participate in the third phase of the operation which began after midnight. It focus odd Islamic State targets near the border with iraq. That rollings gave president obama gave him some cover for opening a new front for the islamic take the. And the president he made sure to highlight the arab partners in his remarks today. I also made sure that america would act as coalition. Thats exactly what we have done. We are joined in this action by our friends and partners. Saudi arabia, the united emrates, jordan, bahrain, and qatar. The strength of this makes it clear to the world that this is not americas fight alone. And when asked about the length of the campaign. Pentagon officials quarnd it could go on for years. Could this take years . I would think of it in terms of years. I can tell you that last night strikes were only th
Targeting Islamic State Headquarters Training camps and combat vehicles. Strikes against the Khorasan Group was carried by the us alone. But five arab nations did participate in the third phase of the operation which began after midnight. It focus odd Islamic State targets near the border with iraq. That rollings gave president obama gave him some cover for opening a new front for the islamic take the. And the president he made sure to highlight the arab partners in his remarks today. I also made sure that america would act as coalition. Thats exactly what we have done. We are joined in this action by our friends and partners. Saudi arabia, the united emrates, jordan, bahrain, and qatar. The strength of this makes it clear to the world that this is not americas fight alone. And when asked about the length of the campaign. Pentagon officials quarnd it could go on for years. Could this take years . I would think of it in terms of years. I can tell you that last night strikes were only th
The teacher wars what are they . Guest im always asked to boil it down and i think weve had the conception in american politics that our educational problems are teachers problems, so we need to start with a new group and turn the page. As i explain in as i explained in the book, the our 3. 4 million american teachers. We hire 100,000 teachers in the school you. There are so many of them. We are so make it to the school. We cannot fire our way to success because theres no method to make sure the people we hire would be any better. We must improve the skill set of the teachers would already have working in our schools. Theres a lot of collaborative practice of weekend used to be that. Host Dana Goldstein is the author. Yes sir Nonfiction Author or book you like to see . Send us an email to booktv at cspan to work. Tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook. Com booktv. Now on booktv, christopher hill, he appeared on colorado public radios colorado Matters Program that was recorded
It seems to me if this trend really continues unfortunately 2015 will be recorded as the bloodiest year yet since 9 11. Mike mentioned one of our recent obligations related to terrorism in north africa and the impact regionally and globally. We do have copies for those who might be interested. Let me just mention that were covering a broad area all the way from [inaudible] health security, for example, the ebola crisis, and in general i think we have to look at the record. And the record of last year 2014, for example, there is an increase of 30 in north africa over 2013. And, again if you look at 9 11 from 9 11 you look at that particular region which really underscores the nature of the threats, there is an increase of 800 , and so on. And so today were going to discuss several of the countries in the region. Again, there are many terrorist groups involved in this activity. Some are regional and some are foreign fighters and so forth. So i think were going to deal with both the domes