Senior Vice President at the white house historical association and the director of the David Science Center for white House History. The white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about that rich and diverse history of the white house and the people who live and work there. Our guest this evening is michael he is a retired rear admiral from the navy civil Engineer Corps. He served in a variety of assignments around the world and is 29 year military career. Including as commander of Camp David. After retirement thousand ten, Michael Jordan private industry is a chief executive officer of the Building Information Technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. In october 2017, he published his first book inside Camp David the private world of the president ial retreat. Mike travels often speaking about the book has been covered by the wall street journal, the Today Show Cspan and many othe
Morning is Toby Harnden. Thank you for joining us. Guest good morning. Host how is it that the cia played the first role in the days after 9 11 . Guest the cia had been going in and out of afghanistan since 1999, liaising with the leader of the northern alliance. Surprisingly, the pentagon had no plan for afghanistan. The cia said we have a plan, and we have been going in and out of the country, and we have regional experts, linguists, and to send in small teams. That was the plan that President Bush went for, and that is what happened in late september and october and led to the fall of the taliban regime. Host you write, within the government, america had abandoned afghanistan after the cold war. It sent small teams into the country to assist leaders of the northern alliance. The pentagon had no military plan for afghanistan. You say the first team, something called Team Alpha, talk about the team and its mission. Guest Team Alpha was the first team behind enemy lines. There was a br
To three hours a week. Hello and welcome to the programme. It is some storm that reverses the flow of the Mississippi River Hurricane ida landed a category 4 hurricane and blew through South East louisiana with such force that at times they recorded sustained winds of over isomph. Today the Search And Rescue teams were fanning out across the state to assess the scale of the damage. And it is widespread. There have been reports of people climbing into attics to escape the rising waters flood. The rising waters. Its not as bad as katrina, which devestated New Orleans 16 years ago it would appear the levees, barriers and pumps have done theirjob but still, there are i million people in and around the city without any power, and they will be for some time. From New Orleans heres our correspondent, neda tawfiq. This was the force of Hurricane Idas wins. A Hospitals Roof was lifted off by ease by the gas. Low lying areas were overwhelmed by the tidal surge. This footage from a Fire Station i
Officials are expected so present three sets of data to show vaccines may be waning against covid and the variant. But hospitalization and deaths are not. It is very effective against those. This as hospitals across the country are reaching really Desperation Mode and running out of beds for covid patients. Amazing to be there again. First we do want to get to afghanistan where the scene has become increasingly dangerous at the kabul airport. The taliban controlling who has access, beating people in the streets as thousands of people are trying to find a way out of the country. Cnn Chief International correspondent Clarissa Ward, she is on the ground amid that chaos. She just filed this report as desperate afghans crowded around her, gunshots could be heard in the background. Let me try to explain to you the situation where we are. Its very hectic. You can probably hear those gunshots. We are about 200 yards, even less than 200 yards away from the entrance to the kabul airport. We just
I want to live. As far as how his family is doing, he gave this update in a Facebook Post last Week Quote that regret, that plea, did not follow in his footsteps, thats a common narrative emerging in the pockets of the country dealing with the worst outbreaks right now. The ten states with the highest new Case Counts in the country are also now the states with the highest increase in first shots administered. That has been the trend for the past three weeks now. Overall, the average pace of vaccinations across the country is steadily rising. Look at the Bottom Right of your screen. People are scared. Without full protection from the vaccine, they have good reason to be. According to data kept by John Help skins university, we just crossed the threshold of 200 Million coronavirus cases across the globe. With the Delta Variant dominating, that number just keeps rising. The cdc now reports that the Delta Variant accounts for more than 93 of covid cases in the u. S. That number is as high