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up our phones and hear your reaction of the shooting at a black church that left nine people dead. there is still much to learn about what happened, the victims and the shooter. our phones are open if you want to share your reaction to that church shooting this morning. we split our lines up regionally. if you re in the eastern or central 202-7,408,000. you can also catch up with us on social media on twitter or facebook or e-mail us at journal.c-span.org. we re beginning that shooting that happened late last night in charleston, south carolina. here s what we know. a gunman opened fire at the emanuel african episs copal church. nine people died. the pastor and state senator was killed. the police described the attacker as a clean shaven white man who was 21 years old. the gunman fled and the police are still searching for him. and the police chief called it a hate crime. the latest from the new york times . we ll keep you posted. but we re opening our phones this morn ....
to pass the t.p.a. now, the leadership has chosen to take a bipartisan bill, passed by both chambers of congress that would aid our law enforcement officers and public safety workers and inject the unrelated controversial trade debate into it. i can say that because i m one of the sponsors of the bill. this bill, the defending public safety employees retirement act, i worked with my friend, congressman reichert, on, on behalf of the men and women who serve the public in physically demanding work each and every day. it would ensure that they could assess and access their full retirement benefits at the time they retire without incurring a tax penalty. it s a good bill. i m not only one of the sponsors, i voted for it. but today this bill to provide tax fairness for our law enforcement officers, has been twisted, diminished, to a convenience vehicle to ram through fast track for deep far deeply flawed trade bill. this is not the same bill, mr. ranking member through th ....
good morning, we meet to receive testimony on the situation in afghanistan, i am pleased to welcome general john ,icholson back to the committee we thank you for your many years of distinguished service and leadership of u.s. and allied forces in afghanistan at a critical time. we would ask you to relate to the brave men and women fighting under your command how appreciative and how proud we are of their service. at war ins been afghanistan for more than a decade and a half. it is always worth remembering that american forces went to afghanistan because that was where, under the century of the under the taliban regime, now counted planned and trained for the september 11 attacks that killed 3000 innocent civilians on american soil. our mission was to ensure that afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for al qaeda or other terrorist groups to attack america or our allies and partners, that mission has been successful for 15 years but it is not over. american f ....
yes, he is over there, hiding with a beard, not how he appears in the film. casey affleck, he is in manchester by the sea. probably the hot favourite to win best actor ‘s night. he s got the pressure from andrew garfield behind him but i think it is casey affleck s, it seems he is winning everywhere else. i have to say, it s not the performance i love the most, but i see why it is getting a lot of heft behind it and see why it is getting a lot of heft behind itand i see why it is getting a lot of heft behind it and i think it s probably going to carry at all the way through to the oscars. hard to see anyone coming in and tripping up casey affleck other than his own beard. jason solomons and lorraine candy, fantastic to have you alongside me and bearing the cold. we could even hear each other for some of it, an absolute treat! thank you. the british film academy awards will get underway in the next 15 minutes or so and we will have a special results programme for you h ....
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 ....