[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes reinhardt program on counterterrorism and intelligence and im very, very please to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, Russell Travers. Todays conversation is part of the institutes ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office at nctc as acting director in august, but its not his first, second or third time in the building. He felt many other leadership positions within nctc including Deputy Director counsel to the director, acting director to the office of datacomm strategy and innovation, chief data officer, among others picky suppositions at the office of the director of national intelligence, the Defense Intelligence agency, the nationals could counsel, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff so were really very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of
and whether his client wants to see the former president indicted. mr trump has been seeking donations. as you know, from his supporters fundraising off his claims he was going to be arrested this past tuesday and in a new series of statements on the social network is calling the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, quote, danger to our country and to quote animal he s also linked to an article with a photo of bragg next to a photo of himself with a baseball bat looking like he s ready to take a swing. brags office, meantime, sent a letter to house republicans who are seeking to investigate the investigators. the letter says. house republicans only got involved quote after donald trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact the letter continues is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry. here s how speaker mccarthy s reply. impossible. i don t understand why he only just poli
political ones development as well on the federal side. lawyers for the former vice president were in court today behind closed doors, trying to block a grand jury subpoena for his testimony in the january 6th case, and in the classified documents case. tomorrow is the day the former prisons attorney , evan corcoran, is expected to give additional testimony and turned over documents after the d. c district appeals court. upheld. the judge is incredibly rare decision to set aside attorney client privilege under the crime fraud exception. now we have reporting tonight on all of the above cnn s kara scannell on them and hadn t case and kaylen poland s on the federal action caress canal starts us off. so any idea why things have slowed down with the grand jury in new york. this grand jury has been hearing evidence in this case since january. we ve seen a number of the witnesses close to this david pecker at the national enquirer. um michael cohen, who is trump s fixed or the man
Started this morning, and visibility is not great in a lot of places. Wilmington, dover, millville, trenton, it is kind of foggy up in the mountains, we have 6 e airport. And thats what we are talking about, those numbers will change next time we look at them. So as far as rain is concerned, we have little bit in southern delaware, north and west every us, weaver some thunderstorm activity that were watching, to see if it makes it here, and again, Sussex County, delaware, they got the first rain yesterday. We all ended up with some at some point on tuesday. 62 degrees right now, with calm winds, and that helps the fog to form. And other temperatures are in the 50s, and 60s, as we mentioned, in hazleton, it is 56, west chester, 61, same in millville, and cape may. We didnt have we had so much cloud cover overnight we didnt have a lot of radiational cooling. So it is zero six to start in rehoboth beach. Looks like well get to 80 degrees, maybe some sunshine, at least by the ends of the d
[ cheers and applause ] i believe that we must never hesitate to act when necessary, including unilaterally when necessary against any imminent threats to our people. But ive also insisted that it is unwise and unsustainable to ask our military to build nation nations on the other side of the world or resolve their internal conflic conflicts, particularly in places where our forces become a magnet for terrorists and insurgencies. Instead its been my conviction that even as we focus relentlessly on dismantling terrorist Networks Like al qaeda and isil we should ask allies to do their share in the fight and we should strengthen local partners who can provide lasting securi security. And these convictions guided the policy we pursued both in iraq and afghanistan. When i took office, the United States was focused overwhelmingly on iraq, where nearly 150,000 american troops had spent years fighting an insurgency and helping to build a democratic government. Meanwhile, al qaeda had regrouped