Watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Governor Dennis Daugaard outlined his legislative agenda for 2017 in his annual state of the state address. He spoke to state legislators at the state capital. This is an hour. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Ok, sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was very kind of you. Thank you. It is good to have you back in pierre to the new members of or legislature, welcome. Im sure youll enjoy this experience immensely. Before i begin today, though, id like to note a historical milestone. Today is the beginning of Lieutenant Governor Matt Michaels session as president of the senate and prior to that he presided forever four sessions as speaker of the house. Those 11 sessions make Matt Michaels the longest serving presiding officer the history of the south dakota state legislature. Lets recognize and thank him for that service. [applause] thank you very much. Over the past six years, we have
Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was very kind of you. Thank you. It is good to have you back in pierre to the legislature, welcome. Im sure youre going to enjoy this experience immensely. Before i begin today, though, i would like to note a historical milestone. Today is the beginning of Lieutenant Governor Matt Michaels seventh session as president of the senate, and prior to that, he presided for four sessions as speaker of the house. Those 11 sessions make Matt Michaels the longest serving officer in the south dakota legislature. Lets recognize him and thank him for that service. [ applause ] thank you very much. Over the past six years, weve undertaken many significant initiatives together, and have made progress in many areas. Today, im going to provide updates on many of our efforts in the areas of education, transportation, criminal justice, workforce and Tribal Affairs among others. I want to up
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During what turned out to be a very critical time, before and immediately after the 9 11 attacks. He was very much involved in u. S. Efforts to oust the taliban from afghanistan and bring hamed karzai to power and the books title refers to the period between september 11 and december 2001 when karzai made his return to afghanistan from pakistan. Other books of course have reported extensively on the war in afghanistan including some by other former cia officials. Bob offers fresh details about the role of both the cia and the pakistanis in the pashtun areas of afghanistan in the months after 9 11 with his ringside seat as the Senior Agency official station the closest to afghanistan. He recounts meeting by meeting and sometimes even phonecall by phonecall how events unfolded. As he explains in the beginning of the book he knew early on that he wanted to write about the experience and about what happened so he kept extensive notes and was able to review many relevant documents. After hi
A few quick administrative notes, now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything that might go beep. Secondly, when we get to the q a part of the session, we would ask if you have a question, that you make your way to that microphone there because we are videoing tonight, were videoing ourselves and for our Youtube Channel and also cspan booktv is here. And lastly, at the end before you come up to get your book signed, please fold up the chairs that youre sitting in and lean them against something that looks like it wont topple over. [laughter] were really very pleased to have Robert Grenier here with us this evening to talk about his new book, 88 days to kandahar. Bob spent 27 years with the cia, three of them a a station chief in islamabad during what turned out to be a very critical time before and immediately after the 9 11 attacks. He was very much involved in the u. S. Efforts to oust the taliban from afghanistan and bring hamid karzai to power. And the books t