Case in hopes it can solve one of tell worlds biggest art thefts. A powerful bomb killed eight and wounded 400 others in afghanistan. The bomb went off near an army compound in the capitol. Its the fourth attack in afghanistan in two days. In a moment we will go live to Jennifer Glasse in kabul but first her report. Reporter the explosion was so big it could be heard all around the afghan capitol. Windows shattered and buildings collapsed. Translator the ground was shaking when the explosion took place, i thought it was an earthquake. It was so horrible. Reporter while the target may have been a military compound the dead and injured were mainly civilians, hospitals were inundated. Translator all residents in the area were shocked. We are concerned about the securitiky is getting worse day by day and there is no guaranty how long we will live. Reporter civilian casualties are record high with nearly 5,000 afghans killed or injured in the First Six Months of this year. For Afghan Securi
Lessig. A conversation with carter and a discussion of Health Topics from around the world. Saturday night at 11, former vp Dick Cheney Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Deputy Assistant of state on their book exceptional which looks at form policy. On cspan three, saturday starting at noon, we are live from georgia for a commemoration a commemoration of the 13000 Union Soldiers whod died during the civil war and the Confederate Military prison camp questions will be taken before and after the ceremony by phone, facebook and twitter. Sunday out for on real america, Pope John Paul ii as they address the United Nations. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Next u. S. Ambassador to the un, samantha power. She talked about the upcoming meeting in the General Assembly later this month. She answered questions about russes support of the assad regime. This is just under one hour. Today we have samantha power. This is her first visit with our dining club. Many of her predecessors have b
Lower rates, address International Taxation in ways that currently but american businesses at a disadvantage, and allow for repatriation, but not simply empty out the treasury. And would generate enough revenue so we could pay for some infrastructure. Hope was that we would get some nibbles on the other side. To his credit, paul ryan expressed real interest in discussions and negotiations, but your previous speaker, mitch mcconnell, has said that he is not interested in getting tax reform, comprehensive tax reform of that sort, done. So theres still work being done. We are still in conversations with mr. Ryan, and i know that senators schumer and others have been working on the possibilities of a fairly robust ultimately you have to ask the leader of the senate, majority party, brought in to try to get this done. I understand why tax reform is losing, because those of us who believe in a simpler, fairer, more competitive tax framework in the abstract sometimes look at our bottom lines
In is reprehensible. Host what does the unit is the United States do . Theconflict has dominated report the Obama Administration. Needs to look at a little bit of history with respect to russia and the former soviet union and syria. Syria is the oldest client state in the middle east for the soviet union and now russia. The relationship goes back decades. Assads father cemented that relationship, so the prime military supplier of nuclear technology, supplier of training and equipping of the military in syria was the soviet union and now russia. It was no coincidence, for putinle, that prudent and russia negotiated an them to remove chemical weapons which were the former this soviet union and russia. Relationshipd, old. They are not going to give up easily on that. Problem we have got is even in military,he syrian they are kind of crumbling. Assadss a solid position in syria continues to erode. Think qiagen putin has some motivation in trying to rescue the situation before death collaps
Good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on u. S. Strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. Before i proceed, id like to remind our witnesses this committees rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and id like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. The tragic loss last week of Master Sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 combat deployments reminds us of the high stakes of our mission in the middle east and how grateful we are to americans serving there. We need a strategy worthy of those who carry it out and, unfortunately, we dont have that. Whats worse it appears the administration has not even defined the problem correctly. A policy of isil first fails to understand that eye significant for all of the threat it poses is actually a symptom of another power thats now raging across the middle east. The epicenter