And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
His commitment makes him a valuable asset and we are happy to have you. I would like to join you and welcome mr. Donovan. He is an outstanding attorney and an outstanding public servant. Great to have you on board. Just to show how bipartisan we are going to be, as a democrat, i would like to welcome my former colleague dan donovan. It is great to have you here and i look forward to working with you. Anybody else echo mr. Richmond onto a more serious topic, yesterday in boston, sorts are merging that mr. Rahim was killed by federal Law Enforcement officers after lunging at them with a knife. After communicating with and spreading isis propaganda online. Known associates are also being arrested as we speak. These cases are a reminder of the danger posed by individuals radicalized by social media. In garland one month ago. He urge others to do the same the mohammed cartoon contest that islamists have singled out as a target. The final tweet minutes before the attack, he told his follower
Rain late tonight into the early parts of tomorrow morning. Still keeping a very close and watchful eye on a friday snow chance. Here is the rain that is coming our way for tonight. Still a long, long ways away from us, so it will not impact any of your plans through the morning or the evening commute today. Storm team 4 radar all clear of rain drops this morning. The next 24 hours, a chilly start this morning. Mostly in the 30s. Rain on the way, not raining at 7 00 tonight. Rain moves in probably after 9 00, 10 00. But rain coming to an end by about this time tomorrow morning. How is it all going for affect your commute . That is in ten minutes. Breaking news on maryland 80 fingerboard road. Take a look at this. A fatal crash from overnight. As far as alternates go, 85 or 109 going to be your way around this. 270 at monday rows, no issues. 29, bw parkway, route 1, everything here looking quite good. 66 and 95 also looking pretty good. Angie has more on the fatal accident. Some pretty
Democrats and gop blame each other for the mayhem in that city. Ofhow do we increase Economic Opportunity in inner cities in america. If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. You can leave a posting at facebook. You can send this an email. As we get started on this monday morning, there is an oped piece in the washington journal. He is the ceo of the baltimorebased business. He talks about his experience. He writes that the supply Chain Management company that he started is in downtown baltimore. The real cost we might be if the higher more of these baltimore ends. He continues to write that the most direct way to offer hope to discourage people is to hire them. The Business Community has a simple message. Help us help you. You can read the whole thing at the wall street journal today. The Washington Times has this story. Democrats and the gop in each other for this mayhem in baltimore. We speak broadly about innercity poverty. A new political fight corrupted sunday. This is