Predicted it would not have been this strong. I hoped and thought we would have been in a better place in terms of having weakened the taliban. The good news is they are still fighting. They have taken those casualties and held together. They have continued to be able to recruit and take the fight to the enemy. Last point, they have been able to continue to recruit. You had not imagined five years ago that the taliban would be strong, none of us could imagine could be this strong and able to conduct core level operations. This is a reason that the Afghan People are so proud of the army. , you know all the candidates. I was honored to meet with several of them with you a couple weeks ago. Could you please help us understand the choice that is now before the afghan better on voter on the afghan saturday. And what the choice might signify in terms of who the afghans would like to see replace president karzai after his 12 years in leadership. Thank you. That is quite a big task. I suppose
You biggest surveillance makes it almost impossible to be an investigative journalist because it makes it impossible for people to communicate with one another. Edward snowden has praised russia for standing against Human Rights Violations by the powerful. President putin has just invaded and then annexed crimea. The relationship between the United States and russia is increasingly hostile. There is even talk of a new cold war. How worried should we be that mr. Snowden is old herbal is vulnerable to the Russian Intelligence Services to in this increasingly tense situation . I need to back up a little bit. Be in russia . He was on his way to latin america where he was going to transit from russia. United government canceled his passport. He was in the transit area of the airport. President Putin Blakeney made fun of u. S. Intelligence services. The one place that you can operate and go get . Go get him there. It is asking a lot for Edward Snowden who is under international asylum. It is
Eventually, it is going to be corrected. Set that, relax, this is the greatest nation on earth. After 100 years we finally have a congress and a senate and a president who have finally done something for the people. Host that is all the time we have for this mornings washington journal. We hope you will join us again tomorrow. We go live to the brookings institution, holding a panel on afghanistan 2014. The president ial elections and the planned withdrawal with general john allen and ronald nuemann, former ambassador to afghanistan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Thank you for coming to discuss afghanistan. We have ael ohanlon, very distinguished group of american and afghan individuals and officials to talk with us former officials and continued scholars and experts on afghanistan to talk about the transitions underway. This upcoming saturday is afghanistans
Fib director james comey said today that encryption features built into new cell phones by google and apple could hurt Law Enforcement efforts. Thats next on cspan2. Then a conversation on voter i. D. Laws and their potential impact on the midterm elections. Later, a debate for colorados senate seat. Wisconsin is known as americas dairy maintained because we make the most cheese and the beseeches. The industries developing in wisconsin from what was a homestead cheese, where everybody each farm family made cheese for their own use. It was recognized that we had an ideal environment for raizy dairy cattle, and cheese was really just a way to take that perishable product, before refrigeratorration, would only last three days. If you make cheddar cheese, can last for a decade. This is late 1880s when the industry got started in wisconsin. Generally farmers in the neighborhood would form a cooperative. They would build a Cheese Factory and they would hire a cheesemaker, and the cheesemaker
They sent a letter to the speaker yesterday demanding that the chairman be censured and removed as the Committee Chair because it is shabby treatment. The Ranking Member of that committee cannot allow said given opening statement. We did begin to speak a man having his might cut off. On the level and nature of the fight. Democrats better learn to fight harder because republicans play politics to win. They play hardball and democrats if they want to be competitive, they better play hardball and get their voters out. That is the key have to get them trained to vote in every election and local elections. Thats the judges that are putting your kids behind bars him at the local School Boards that are deciding whether or not your kids are going to learn creationism or intelligent design versus learning the science hello to the cspan viewers. Sorry we are a little bit late. We had some trouble getting into the events. [laughter] we think that is attributable to the attendance and security. So