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i want to thank our witnesses very much. as you re well aware, we have votes going on right now. but with the chairman s guidance, we shall continue here out of respect for your time. we ll begin with my own questions, as other members roll in, we ll entertain those. but mr. kutcher, and ms. masanino, thank you for your leadership. this is such an important area. we re shining a national spotlight on the importance of it. and i m just so grateful for your efforts. do you both agree, as you work on this issue, that the state department s annual trafficking and persons report is a valuable resource in your efforts to fight human trafficking, and the scourge of modern slavery? yes. yes, absolutely we do. i do. you can t solve the problem if you don t know how big it is. that s exactly right. so presumably we want the report to be as accurate and comprehensive as possible. we do. yes. these are called leading questions. tomorrow i plan to introduce a piece o ....
welcome everyone to newsroom international, i m michael holmes in nature suzanne malveaux. we ll take you around the world in 60 minutes. today, three women shot to death in paris execution style. all of them kurdish political activists. and those 11 killer whales, they re apparently free now after being locked in by ice in a canadian bay. we ll bring you those stories. also, we re going to begin with this the national debate over gun control taking another turn today. vice president joe biden meeting with members of gun advocacy groups including the nra. biden heads a panel looking for ways to curb gun violence. right now as we speak, he is meeting with sports men and women as well as representatives of wildlife interest groups. that meeting started in the last hour. next hour he meets with the nra and gun owners groups. later, he hears from representatives of the entertainment industry. white house correspondent dan lothian joining us now live. dan, the vice pre ....
i m brooke baldwin at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. check out my blog for all of the latest interviews. now we send you to washington. cnn s the situation room with wolf start right now. brooke, thanks. president obama as the president s inner circle. also, the fierce spread of the flu across the united states and now a shortage of a critical medicine used to treat it. plus, prominent voices lending support to an unlikely idea of a trillion dollar coin. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. judgment, integrity, and friendship all cited by president obama as he nominated his chief of staff, jack lew, to be the next treasury secretary but the announcement is drawing attention to the makeup of the president s second-term cabinet. it s on track to be dominated by men. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is joining us from the white house. what is the white house saying about all of this? reporter: wolf, the white house has been asked about ....
comeback with this interview or more of the old lance. depends what he says, at the end of the day the quality of said confession is going to be important if there is one. have a great weekend, everybody. carol, back to you. thanks, soledad. stories we re watching in the newsroom new cracks in the divisive gun control debate, has the white house pushed the big players further from the negotiating table. remarks haunting this evangelical pastor, he s pulling out of president obama s inauguration. bernie kosar has new hope after struggling from effects of concussions, the treatments he calls ground-breaking. it looks like a wall of fire but the sky is not burning, it is a spectacular storm. newsroom starts now. good morning, thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new questions on the white house s search for ideas to curb gun violence in america. president obama vowed to bring together the vastly divided interests in the gun cont ....
extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. some of these efforts are successful. as you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face different levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. the taliban are not operating. there s less threat against you and your family. therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the security forces from those provinces. we purposely go and try to recruit students from the south or places [indiscernible] since the school system was not to this standard, i does not matter. we re not successful to bring them as much as we want. do you want to talk about these issues? in terms of who revises the afghan national army, in 2001, we had a plethora of offers. the pakistani, the indian, and the iranian fradkin to me and said it wanted to collaborate. i thought that we ought to try to devise some arrangement in which ....