welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in
good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefing operati
reintegration and reconciliation programs. they want to feel that they will get their lives back, and that means emphasizing agriculture. it s an agricultural country. they used to export ag products until the soviet invasion in 1978. and we need to help restore gural. we made gur the top nonsecurity priority in this administration. in the previous administration they were spending more money destroying poppy crops and agriculture. you saw that yourself in the south how we re not going after the poor poppy farmers anymore, we re going after the big drug lords and interdictions. so we had to make all these changes. the people see these changes. we also have to produce the most critical issue there, which is security, and security is the key. i was really struck in prepping to talk to you today reading a lot of your briefing transcripts and your interview transcripts with other people, and you are you are combative