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7:00 tomorrow. we will see you then. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] the president will argue today that it would be a historic mistake if congress blocks the nuclear accord with iran. he president will frame the decision before lawmakers as the equential foreign-policy issue since the decision to go to war with iraq. he needs the backing of enough democrats to fight gop opposition. the white house says it has enough democratic support to a pulled a veto. read more at the hill.com. we will have live coverage of the president s speech today at american university starting at 11:20 a.m. eastern. to post yourble thoughts on facebook and twitter. after the president s speech we will be taking your phone calls. coverage on capitol hill over on c-span3 getting underway momentarily. the senate banking committee on the iran sanctions. that hearing is underway. following on c-span3. agreement with national security experts also talking about the role ....
be sure to watch washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. a former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and a former undersecretary of state, talking about the ongoing contact this conflict between u.s. role in afghanistan. it is hosted by the center for new american security. good afternoon, i am the ceo. we are delighted that you could join us today. a rollout of the new report that we have done on afghanistan and the way forward. we were thinking about the presidential , it seems that afghanistan as it were to continue 16 years of the strategic leadership group. also a former military officer told four times in afghanistan. pioneered a new approach to counterinsurgency in many case studies and books as the model for how it can be effective. he went on to be a season advisor for general pates. i m fortunate to have him as my senior adviser on policy for afghanistan and pakistan. a natural and match a natural and national treasure. within weeks we ho ....
we are delighted that you could join us today for a rollout of the new report that we have done on afghanistan and forward. as we were thinking about the presidential transition we thought it was important to put together some papers for the next president before we knew who the president would be. really recommended what would protect and vent american interest in any number of topics. it scenes that afghanistan is a war that continues 16 years on that this is a critical area where a new administration would have to grapple with us strategy, objectives and a way forward for the campaign. so we commissioned a senior fellow here to lead the development of the report. he is not president and ceo of strategic leadership group. he is also a former military officer four times in afghanistan. once commanding an airborne infantry task force. and pioneered deed as has been written up in many case studies and books as a model for how they can be effective. he then went on to b ....
that you can joined us for a rollout on a report of afghanistan and moving forward. as we were thinking about the presidential transition we thought it was prudent to put together papers for the next president really recommending our way forward that would protect american interests in any number of topics and seemed to us that afghanistan a war that continues 16 years on that it was a critical area where a new administration was going to have to grapple with u.s. strategy objectives, and the way forward for the campaign. and so, we commissioned chris colenda, here to lead the development of the report. chris is now president and ceo of the colenda leadership group. he s also a former military officer four times in afghanistan, once commanding an airborne infantry task force in kunar, and has been written up in many case studies and books as a sort of model how counter insurgeoncy can be effective. i was fortunate to have him as my senior advisor on policy for afghanist ....
presidential transition we thought it was important to put together some papers for the next president before we knew who that president would be. really recommending a way forward that would protect and advance american interests on any number of topics. and it seemed to us that afghanistan as a war that continues 16 years on that this was a key area where administration would have to grapple with u.s. strategy, objectives and the way forward for the campaign. and so we commissioned chris columba who s a cnas senior adjunct fellow here, to lead the development of the report. chris is now president and ceo of the strategic leadership group. he s also a former military officer, four times in afghanistan, once commanding an airborne infantry task force in kunar nuristan which pioneered a new approach to kointdar insurgency and has been written up in many case studies and books as a sort of model for how counterinsurgency can be effective. he then went on to be a senior ad ....