Breakfast at st. Anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on cspan 2. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u. S. , china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. From the Brookings Institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. Welcome. Im mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of mc to say hello and welcome you before i hand it over to tom bowman. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Thrilled that he would join us. He spent time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that no of course is approaching the end of its second decade. Before i hand the baton to him ill introduce laura miller, who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan at the state department, ha
Here cspan3, well stay live and take you to the Brookings Institution in washington. Foreign Affairs Senior fellow michael o hanlan moderating a discussion on afghanistan. It will be moderated by tom bowman. Just getting under way here live on cspan3. Many other parts of the world. Im a huge fan of her bravery and brilliance as she studies these kinds of phenomena so without further ado, tom, thanks for joining us and over to you. Michael, thank you. Its great to be here and thanks to everyone for coming out. Afghanistan is back in the news, thanks partly to the Washington Post and its series, afghan papers. So i hope you have many questions because were going to be start calling on you very quickly. And i want to start by asking michael how he sees things right know with the peace talks and also talk a little bit about your proposal to have 5,000 troops in afghanistan for the next five years. As some of you may know, theres talk about reducing the forces in afghanistan, now currently
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
Decades of conflicts well we begin with breaking news from saudi arabia. Its been reported 310 people have been killed following a crush whilst observing hajj. Hundreds of others have been injured. Lets cross straight to omar salah joining us from mecca. What is the latest . Saudi authorities, and the civil selfdefence authorities are sending more ambulances. I saw about five ambulances arriving to the area behind me, and i heard two helicopters, and i saw two helicopters hovering, i dont know if you see the building behind me. Its the devil complix. Its a 4 story building. Theres a statement from the Civil Defense saying that the incident around 9am. An unexpected rise of a number of pilgrims heading towards the complex a started and a crush happened. People fell, everyone jumped and fell on everyone else. And that made about 310 People Killed in that tragic incident. We still have no details of what the saudi Authorities Say they will investigate how it happened, but i have to say th
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