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Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Here is a scenario i think about a lot. Imagine soldiers or Intelligence Officers on leave with family, and over the course of two decades or more the soldier honorably defended america. Then suddenly that vacation turns into a nightmare. The European CountriesNational Police takes the soldier into custody, detaining him or her on politically motivated charges, a prison sentence abroad is a distinct possibility. A spouse behind bars for defending freedom, a son or daughter robbed of their mom or dad, all on the initiative of a prosecutor in the netherlands. Making sure this does not happen is the essence of american first foreign policy. Sadly, this is not a hypothetical. It could become reality if the Internatio ....
Our free radio app, and be part of the conversation through the cspan program. Cspan, created by americas Television Companies as a Public Service and brought to today by your television provider. Today marks the 57th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader medic are actors in medgar evers in jackson, mississippi. More about the tragic events. For many of us that have gone thiseas, fought for country, fought for mississippi, for alabama. Ht we fought for north carolina. We fought for illinois. We fought for every state in this union. Now were going to stay here and see the things that the mayor have said become a reality. 15 minutes after midnight he got out of car and 40 miles away a sniper fired a single shot. The bullet hit him in the back and crashed through his body and into an open window of the house. He died within an hour at a jackson hospital. ....
On the go with the free cspan radio app. Leaders, there was a recent poll on this topic. It asked what should be done with the statues of confederate leaders. Roughly 2 roughly one third of the voters in the poll expenses should be taken down. 44 said the statues should remain standing, down eight point since the survey was taken down two years ago after the riots in charlottesville, virginia. The poll was done with Morning Consult and politico. A history of some of those bases across the u. S. That have come into the conversation and its history such as for georgia. Ing located in it was established as a training down in world war i and was named after a confederate general who was present at the battle of antietam and gettysburg. Mr. Bragg, named after ragg. Established as an artillery Training Ground in world war i, named after a u. S. Army officer who served in the seco ....
At. Is the pleasure to be with you. The way l. A. To structure our conversation today is there is no shortage of hotspots in the world but i will start with the defense budget. The fiscal 16 budget coming indy 500 85 billion about 35 million is the cap so with those caps to make some of the tough choices what is appropriate to under the cap like the 2013 u. S. Been advocating defense reforms with military composition reform with backoffice personnel and the budget makes these recreations but it is not the first time you have seen these. And many do seem dead on arrival. With of bipartisan for sequestering these but how the Republican Congress handle this . With respect to sequestered there is an exercise of political malfeasance that you would endorse acrosstheboard cuts in respective of strategy is a forfeiture anyone that subscribes to that should be removed from office. And go back to appropriate and i encouraged they will ....
An unarmed black man. A state Law Enforcement agency released the video of the traffic stop that occurred last saturday that led to the Fatal Shooting of walter scott and led to a murder charge against nowformerofficer Michael Slager. The video from officer slagers dash board camera catches the mercedes being driven by walter scott with an unidentified passenger. Slager has said that he pulled scott over for a broken tail light, and the video shows at least one of the brake lights is out. Slager tapped it as he approached scott. The officer was wearing a microphone. No, i dont have insurance. No, he has all that stuff. Yes sir. Im sorry about that. Pelley as you heard, scott said he had no insurance or ownership documents. He told officer slager that he was in the process of buying the car. About 27 seconds later scott ....