You are happy with the job is as much fun as you thought it would be . Every day. [laughter] what are the most significant Foreign Policy issues or concerns to you . The Biggest Challenges we have in our country right now in the foreignpolicy area . I get asked this question rank ordering the challenges. Thats not the original question . [laughter] its an important question about priorities, resources, ideology and time and how you think about problems that for me the first half or task when i came in now 16, 17 months ago after having been the cia director was to make sure the state department was ready for crisis and spend time making sure my team was prepared for the day that every ceo tries to deal with. What happens when something really bad happens that was unexpected and is your team capable and have the resources to respond in the moment something that frankly not given enough thought about. In terms of priorities every morning the first thing i do is read about china. I take t
Thank you for the conversation today, thank you for your service, and thank you for being on the front lines of our nation and bringing us together in this important fight. It was an honor to be up here with you today. Thank you for the audience for engaging as well. A to be here. Thank you. Good morning everyone. I hope you guys are able to get your blood flowing. I do want to acknowledge all the media that has been with us for the last four days. We appreciate all your coverage and everything you guys have done for us, so thank you for being here. We would like to follow that fireside conversation with the honorable newberger by taking a more indepth look at the future of cyber. For our next session, 2024 and beyond, the hard road ahead, we have invited a distinguished group of experts to look at the topics through multiple lenses. Moderating this discussion will be renee when, former cio nasa our featured speaker for this conversation on the road ahead are dave frederick, assistant
Facebook, and twitter, and we sit down with john sopko, the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction to talk about the latest report. Host good morning on this monday, november 27. Congress is back for what is expected to be at least three weeks of work. Some are calling it a year and yearend sprint of work. President will be meeting with congressional leaders early this week to talk about all of it. At the same time, plenty of news from overseas, including one headline that says victory or failure in afghanistan . 2018 will be the deciding year. That is our focus for the full washington journal. Should the u. S. Stay or leave afghanistan . If you think the u. S. Should stay, call 202 7488000. If you think they should leave, 202 7488001. We have a separate line for afghanistan veterans. We look forward to hearing your opinion. Your number is 202 7488002. If not by phone, weigh in on social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. Also post a comment on our facebook page, f
Equity markets and check out the futures this morning. At this point there are very sharp upward moves. Dow futures are indicated up. S p futures indicated up by 22 and the nasdaq up by 56. Of course september hasnt been so good but with one trading session left, the dow, s p is and nasdaq are all sharply lower on the month. Nasdaq is down by 5. 4 . If you check things out for the quarter to date returns all three major indexes are poised to hit their worst record. You take a look at declines of 9 across the board. Heres the stories you need to be watching this morning. We start with the job market. Forecasters say the economy likely added 200,000 private sector jobs last month. Adp viewed as a key indicator ahead of this fridays big monthly payrolls number. In washington the senate and the house expected to pass a stop gap funding bill that will avert a shutdown for now. In the meantime, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says Congressional Republican leaders will begin a talk on
The clerk. Items on the agenda today will appear november 3rd unless otherwise stated. Supervisor john avalos chair avalos, vicechair supervisor tang and supervisor cohen. Item no. 1, please. City clerk [appointments, Citizens Advisory Committee for the Central Market street and tenderloin area] hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending august 2, 2019, to the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Central Market street and tenderloin areacity clerk sf 11234 there two seats. Supervisor john avalos thank you. Mr. Hall could not be here today. Bradford paul. Next person . Antionetta stadlman. I have been part of this and would like to stick with it. Do you have any questions . Supervisor john avalos yes, if you can talk about what your contributions have been to the committee . Well trying to get decent standards and competing or activating. The words skip my tongue. The various contributions to move out into the neighborhood. I have been in an sro in south of market for 23 ye