never happened to me in those five years. but as somebody who has gone intense hardship and really seeing the difficult side of it, for me and so many afghan women going through the hardship and those living in the country, they are who we will continue to fight for. we will never give up. we will try to push to ensure they get access to education. our communication with the international community as well, they can t simply abandon 38 million people in the country, half of them women, to simply assume that this is the type of life that they need to agree to because this wasn t the kind of life we agreed to. we are an islamic society and we have the right to be educated and this is in
spending, well, it passed a $768 billion bill for the pentagon and the military. on this vote, the yays are 316. the nays are 113. the bill is passed. that was just last week. there certainly wasn t the kind of showdown debates we are hearing right now or even a lot of attention, but also had an enormous cost to taxpayers. if you put the number in context that s an annual pentagon budget, just annual. it comes out to $7.6 trillion when you march it out over a decade which is, as you can see, far more than the $3.5 trillion progressives want for the safety net. a former obama adviser discussing this today saying military spending gets almost no debate while less than half of the cost of investing in people and saving the planet is so hard to pass. very important to think about if we want to understand what is happening on capitol hill today, and we have special guests to get into it when we are back in
countries who have leadership that is very inclined toward trump, that likes trump, or that at least wants to flatter him and do him favors. why is this ukraine, why are we back to that country in particular? we ll go back to the president s campaign chairman, the one who is now in federal prison awaiting word on whether he will also subsequently someday have to do time in state prison. when paul manafort was hired to run the trump campaign, it was an unusual hire, right? paul manafort was not a totally anonymous figure, but what he was known for wasn t the kind of thing that would stack you up to be the next presidential campaign chairman. he had been a business part anywhere ner of roger stone, president s political adviser going on trial on felony charges in november. he had been implicated in a big criminal fraud scheme involving federal housing funds during the reagan administration. that s one way to be famous. he was known basically as a gun for hire who would represent the most
it gets to all of what we re talking about. they testified the facts about russia as you stated them, the facts about iran as a.g. stated them and the facts about north korea as the entire intelligence committee is in agreement now other than trump, who is enamored with his love letter writing behavior with a murderous dictator. look, i think he sort of got uncomfortable with the coverage he was out of step with the law enforcement community and intelligence community, so he tried to say hey, that hearing that you were able to watch live, that s just an example of fake news, like this is the media s problem. you can easily look at transcripts of that hearing. you re able to just watch it. this wasn t anonymous sources where he can dispute. these were his intelligence community leaders, leaders of his intelligence community in public saying things that are contradictory to positions he s taken. he sees the media as such a foil he could sort of say fake news in any scenario but this wa
that he decided he was going to run for president. and he asked her to be his press person. i don t think he asked her, he actually told her. and i think she was a little nervous about that at first. and i thought, oh, well, that s because she was from greenwich, connecticut, sort of the center of establishment republicanism. and this wasn t the kind of republican that the folks in greenwich would think would be a great person to work for. but she was mostly concerned about whether she knew enough and would be good enough. and so her friends counseled her, oh, it will just be a few months and the campaign will be over and you can go back to working for ivanka trump. well, he won. and he relied on her throughout the campaign. and then she became white house communications director. very unusual choice for the job since she rarely speaks in public. she i mean, i ve only heard her say a few words a couple of