Pension reforms that sparked massive strikes. Hello youre watching all 3 International Im words on a lot could thank you for joining us. A suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb outside the background airbase one of the main u. S. Military outposts and afghanistan the attack comes not long after trump surprise thanksgiving visit to the same base local media reports say the powerful blast hit a medical facility close to the bases main gate and at least 2 people were killed and more than 70 injured according to local sources a shootout quickly followed and its being reported the 3 of the attackers remain at large 3 others have been killed and another captured a local t. V. Channel says the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack the american president visited the airbase in late november thanksgiving speaking to military personnel trump struck an upbeat tone. Open the devotion everyone. Has given here tonight america is winning again we are winning like we have not won in a long time. And you know what were respected like we havent been respected in a long time america is winning again and america is respected again and respected at the highest level donald trump was saying that he was winning that most american president s since the american invaded afghanistan says that they are winning but they are not winning in fact because the taliban is controlling half of afghanistan and after 18 years of war with afghanistan and trying to force the taliban from afghanistan the United States has come to the conclusion that they have to negotiate and we negotiate with the taliban the same force that 18 years ago they invaded afghanistan took was the taliban from the country because they were harboring terrorism and they were harboring some of bin laden what the American Government says it says because theyre taliban are weak thats why they keep sending terrorists every day but the real the real truth is that the taliban are the real forces unfortunately in afghanistan and you have to count on them in order to secure afghanistan. Well alongside all of this an article has been published in the u. S. Press detailing years of deliberate this information by top american officials aunties more and guess the it has more on the story hundreds of thousands dead trillions of dollars lost generations traumatized but you know what nothing good comes easy nothing in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. All that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and were doing a tremendous job. And as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest and al qaeda and we. Weve got them down very low numbers you didnt need to be nostradamus or clairvoyant to know that someone was telling bull its just logical fallacy you cant keep fighting the same guys for 20 years and claim that your winning but then appearances must be kept up its important that everyone thinks youre winning right up to the moment you admit you lost why well its obvious no one has the remotest clue we were trying to do here we didnt have the focus notion of what we were undertaking there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front and over stated objectives grew lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and wed never have known if it hadnt been thousands of secret and classified documents or have got to start stuff from the white house from the pentagon the un and the various n. G. O. S well we would have known its pretty damn obvious that the war is going terribly but who says mouth and all that it is worth considering what the president the deficient said and what they actually believed when i called our troops in action i did so with complete confidence in their courage and skill and tonight. Thanks to them we are winning the war on terror. And. Today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror are we capturing killing or deterring a dissuading more terrorists every day than the addresses on the radical clerics are recruiting training and deploying against us does the us need to fashion a broad integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists the us is putting relatively little effort into a long range plan but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists the cost benefit ratio is against us see when youre in your 2nd term and you started a really messy war that you just realized you cant hope to win there only so many ways to save your own but heres a list of words you should use courage the more crecy kids schools and hospitals and for the people that dont buy your baloney get a hope in there as well thanks to the courage of these military and civilian personnel a nation that was once a safe haven for al qaeda is now a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school new roads and hospitals are being built. And people are looking to the future with new hope also poor in money into huge Infrastructure Projects to obligate money that was appropriated to so we could spend it through Building Infrastructure and waste that have vanished and could never sustain or even the use in some cases if youre a nato country taxpayer i honestly dont believe you can comprehend how much of your money was poured into this adventure you 1st need to understand the sheer a degree of incompetence that these leaked documents show imagine for example someones putting together a crew for a bank heist they invite a bunch of people give them a time and place and tell no one what their role is no plan so everyone shows up thinking that everyone outs knows what to do and things go as you would expect now is the time to save your own hiding lets add a few more words difficult days human rights confidence success we will reward Good Governance work to reduce corruption and support the rights of all afghans men and women alike. There will be difficult days ahead but i am absolutely confident we will succeed. You just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state and society and not have if you corruption you just cant a legacy of mass corruption thats putting it lightly what else the jew expects the guys on the ground they sought disaster they were reported back to washington washington with its countless the pardons that now have the courage to stand up and say they screwed up so they put up appearances everyone was doing what made them look best rather than what worked best interesting enough many of the documents were published with the name Lessons Learned perhaps an effort to extract something anything of value from this unmitigated disaster but you know as it have got a star not long ago and after seeing what i saw there i can tell you all asli i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are putting them to use. Capitol hill has erupted into base their arguments as democrats and republicans pick over the findings of a report into the justification of the russia collusion probe the socalled horowitz report was released on monday and while the democrats and much of the media are claiming vindication the republicans have been quick to seize on irregularities of the f. B. I. s investigation what happened here is the system failed people at the highest level of our government. Took the law in their own hands the report from the Inspector General that looked into the investigations of the Trump Campaign in 2016 has been received on capitol hill differently by different parties democrats seem to see the report as disproving the allegations prank put forward by donald trump the allegations claiming that there was a politically motivated spying effort against him this is democrats the i. G. S. Report conclusively refutes these claims this was not a politically motivated investigation there is no deep state republicans however have a very different interpretation of the report would you like trump hate trump dont care about trump you look at this is more than a few irregularities. Because if this becomes a few irregularities in america then god help us all a point of contention has been how the f. B. I. Handled the salacious steel dossier now this is a da ca that made allegations against us President Donald Trump regarding russia and the f. B. I. Deemed it not to be credible they looked into the source who gave this information to Christopher Steele and determined that it was not really a credible allegation but that didnt stop them for applying for pfizer warrants in order to wiretap members of the Trump Campaign on the basis of this down cia the f. B. I. Even described the source as being truthful and cooperative when trying to obtain the warrants this is what Inspector General horowitz had to say about the errors of the f. B. I. We found as we outlined here are deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by 3 separate handpicked investigative teams on one of the most sensitive f. B. I. Investigations and after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within the f. B. I. And other reports seems to also indicate that former cia director john brennan may have misled the public when he testified about the role of the steel dossier in obtaining warrants and carrying out the investigation furthermore mccabe and combing f. B. I. Officials have argued that they somehow are vindicated by this report they say it shows that the f. B. I. Did nothing wrong and that trumps allegations are simply not correct this is the response from fired f. B. I. Director james comey and Andrew Mccabe do you feel vindicated tonight that this report concludes that you did the right thing. You know as i said ive known all along that we did the right thing not just me but the group of people that i worked with at the f. B. I. The f. B. I. Fulfilled its mission protecting the American People and i pulled in the u. S. Constitution however what they seem to be saying about how theyve been vindicated and how the f. B. I. Did nothing wrong doesnt seem to match whats being said by Inspector General horowitz james comey said this week to your report vindicates him is a fair system interviewer. You know i think the activities we found here are going to indicate anybody who touched this all the horowitz report seems to join many recent reports in washington d. C. That were expected to clarify points of disagreement between trump and his opponents and just like many of these other reports while it was expected to shed some light and bring some clarity to the issue its simply up for interpretation with trumps supporters seeing the report one way and trumps critics and the Democratic Party seeing it very differently. Lets get a bit of info on this because we can now cross live to old rasmussen hes executive director of the Eurasia Center the o. L. Thanks for joining us on this as we just heard in the hearing we heard Inspector GeneralMike Horowitz saying that basic and fundamental errors were made by the f. B. I. Jury in the trunk russia investigation so do you think theres going to be some repercussions from this. I would hope so there are numerous errors in just the handling of the entire thing both in the by the court application. I understand all through the manual correction were made. Additional information no one notified the 5 court. That these were unsubstantiated claims made in the dossier in the sealed off nor who paid for the seal dossier we also have got some very unusual relationship going on and weve got actors. Finally the bruce or his wife Nellie Nellie or happened to be working for fusion g. P. S. Which originated the dossier weve got our Text Messages going back and forth between senior officials as well which were clearly. Politically and in nature hand an anti president no matter how you how you feel towards mr trump president crimpers the relationship but there obviously was i would happen to disagree with the with the overall finding it not politically motivated i mean theres numerous things in very very questionable. Issues revolving around there on this and and somebody probably takes will need to take some type of action to repair the reputation of the f. B. I. In the agency well lets talk a 2nd about that that reputation of the f. B. I. Because present donald trump himself a seize on the findings has cooled f. B. I. Agents come during a rally in pennsylvania do you expect him to take action against the agency i think i think you probably need that up to. Now to to e. G. The bar since the f. B. I. Would kind of come underneath the justice purview on that hell probably be involved but i would think. You know most i would say 99 percent of the people ive known some former f. B. I. Agents as well theyre amazing people theyve dedicated their lives theyve do amazing work unfortunately we had some very senior people. That were heavily involved with this both from handpicking who were on between these different variation of investigative committees as well as those not really overseeing it accurately and and overlooking and misleading the court to basically allow for the trump a Trump Campaign to be spied on thats essentially what happened here and and and it just ballooned into this whole. Investigation we had over the last couple of years of the waste of money in perfectly look at a rush again hoax lets look at it and that light complex that al because with all these investigations reports testimonies resulting from what you call that the rush to get hyped someone called the trump russia private keys think the American Public is actually very well i whats going on. I think that the American Public is split in there and thats another problem with this whole situation is i think and that leads into the impeachment as well i think were a divided country right now and i think the hearings the investigations the most recent actions going on in contrast growth are doing nothing but further furthering that divisiveness and. So you know. I just dont i think theres a lot of unprofessionalism that that took place. For personal or political reasons and. The im a month fortunately also the press is is divided as well youve got one station that you that you continue and a lot of the alternative media that are very critical of what went on with. With this investigation or the and these investigations and then youve got many of the Mainstream Media that are touting and supporting this so vindication but i think as. Mr norwood said i see no been the case here at all. Should there do i can you know like i said i do not agree with the overall finding but but but i think look hes just looking at when turnley within the f. B. I. A. G. Barr is looking much broader and i think youre going to see a lot of interesting relationships and well see what what comes out of the the a. G. s investigation going on as well with those nice at their elbows sides of the on the by surprise on the government seem to be very divided on this rasmussen executive director of the Eurasian Center thanks your time thank you. French government is pushing ahead with its controversial Pension Reforms despite huge public cost and achievers all to mass protests and strikes the Prime Minister fully presented his plans on wednesday and shown that you penske would live in paris. Perhaps one of the most controversial elements that was announced today is the fact that the retirement age will increase by 2 years it will go up to 64 while the legal age will remain at 62 if french workers wont to receive a full pension they will have to work those extra 2 years now lets break down some of the detail of how this is going to work the government said today this was added phillipe the Prime Minister that those who were born before 1975 will not be impacted by these changes or tool if youre born after 975 in your mid career at the moment the more youll find is around 70 percent of your pension will be based on the system and 30 percent on the new system and that those who turn 18 in 2022 they will be integrated for the 1st time fully into the new system this is a system whereby the 42 current pensions in france will be amalgamated into one universal payment the Prime Minister said some of the big winners as a result of this would be women who for the 1st time would receive 100 percent compensation for the time that their own Maternity Leave would also points towards their pension from their very 1st child while the 3rd child and he said there would be a guarantee of a 1000 euros a month in pension in retirement for those who had worked a full career lets have a listen to what else it would fully pacha say so we may disagree on some points but the governments ambition for universal amity is now bishan for social justice there is no hidden agenda were not looking to penny pinch here or there we dont want to hurt anyone on the contrary we want to protect the poaching power of workers and the purchasing power of pension well already were getting some reactions from the unions who seem to be very unhappy with whats been announced by the french Prime Minister one union seed you know this is the union that is the major union for the s. N. C. The Railway Workers here in france say that they are now calling for a reinforcement of the strike which is now in its 7th day here in france weve also heard from Police Unions who a mover lising before that speech by the Prime Minister this morning saying that they want to halt and not mobilization as a result the suggestion is the unions dont feel that the government has listened to them and hasnt gone far enough theyre all human to all of this is that people will ha