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Sharon i am sharon pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew and cspan with us tonight. For those of you who want to find us later you can go to our page and we will upload it on youtube. Is that correct . Foundingon pratt, the director of the institute of politics, policy, and history of thehat the University District of columbia. We relaunched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the country. F this unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. Topics ofave contemporary interest we always that topicl down on to talk about the historical origin. That certainly is true for the compell ....
Business with the u. S. Government agencies. Starting with breaking news out of libya this hour with the internationally recognized government has pulled out of ceasefire talks in geneva on the same day warlord Khalifa Haftar forces attacked a port in tripoli the government of national called say the attacks on civilians showed after is not serious about working towards a resolution at least 3 people were killed in wednesdays attacks tripolis port so important its a gateway for food fuel and all sorts of imports for the country and libyas National Oil Company announces there will be major disruption to schools hospitals and power stations half his forces say the target of the shelling was an arms ship believed to be the 1st such attack in this offensive the city has been under attack by half his forces since april and now all fuel vessels have been ordered to leave for ....
John s. Mccain iii good morning. The Senate Armed ServicesCommittee Held a confirmation hearing for several Defense Department nominees. Among them was mark espers to be the next Army Secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to i would like to say that ive been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the Defense Authorization bill. I think most members were happy with their briefing that we received concer ....