As the regular police for the army. So they do get attacked and they do attack and they are feared by the taliban and the insurgents because they are directly linked with people inside the communities and so the language between the police and the army is a strong one and continues to work at. And the provinces that they have these are institutions of the governors have police armies in the intel folks altogether inside of one for lack of better term, and Operational Command and control for regional and at the provincial level and they provide interaction and sat right next to each other and then they interact with higher headquarters as well. And my Head Quarters in kabul, i have Afghan Police that sit next to each other inside the conjoined Operation Center and so interaction is very good. What i would tell you is that less than 10 of the people in embrace the taliban and that number continues to go down. A lot of that is because of the actions of the taliban and i understand that ci
I think the age of the common man is a less problematic term than the age of jackson because a lot of these things are happening independent of jackson or the jacksonians. I think you could do worse than the age of the common man. If you want to pitch it that way. Granted, native americans probably disagree with that. That is the thing. I am jotting down a list of the broad themes that happened 1815 to 1848. Youve got enfranchisement transportation revolution, a rise in the conflict over slavery, president jackson who towers over the period for 812 years or so, market revolution the age of reform. You can attach historian names to all of those themes. Professor feller well done. Thank you. And we are trying to look for the unified field theory. It probably does not exist that ties it all together. Maybe the best thing to do is here is all these themes, and Andrew Jackson was the big kahuna, and so jackson was the and Andrew Jackson was the big kahuna and be done and not try to figure o
Responsibility we have in the stewardship of this beautiful blue and green orb that we live on known as planet earth. Lets honor our responsibility and lets not override the veto that the president has put on this bill. Thank you, mr. President. I am here today to discuss the Keystone Pipeline approval legislation and the president s recent veto as well as our own our effort to override the veto. I will be joined by a distinguished colleague from south dakota, also are calling on the other side of the aisle from West Virginia will be joining us shortly, as well as the chairman of the energy committee, are calling from alaska. I would like to make a couple of points upfront and then turn to my colleague from south dakota. What ive got here, and i have shown it before on the senate or on the senate floor, is the route that typed xl pipeline will take. It will come down through montana where he would pick up domestic crude. Often people think of it as moving canadian crude, but it also pi
Welcome, everybody. Thanks for joining us. One day after families gathered for thanksgiving and an increased number of travelers went to the airports. Theres concern about the staggering rate of coronavirus in the country. The cases in america may be an undercount. It may be eight times higher with many people experiencing no symptoms. This is happening as states, local governments and organizations like the ncaa are trying to stop the spread of covid. We are in los angeles at lax airport and dallas texas. Aaron, im going to start with you on this one. Lets talk about the new rules at lax, the new testing as well. What has been implement sod far there . Reporter thats right. Theyre introducing Rapid Testing next week here at lax. Anyone who wants to take the test will be allowed access to it with results in one or two hours. Just lack last week they implemented an interim testing site that gives results in one or two days for anyone traveling to location that requires the negative covi
Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about