afghanistan. the first thing you have to say is i certainly welcome i think many people welcome the fact that president trump and the trump administration has come forward with a new strategy for afghanistan without timelines and redoubling down on commitment to a gray cause. the fact that there are 3 million girls in school and there s a whole lot at stake in afghanistan not just our security but there s a moral component to this as well. i think that and there s a lot of progress. so for us to risk letting all of that go would have been the price is way too high. we ve been working on this for a long time here at csis. we ve done a number of things with ambassador wayne. we ve got a very good panel to cover the issues today but the other point i want to make is, you can t solve the challenges of afghanistan without diplomacy and development and that we certainly welcome the fact that there is a it requires a security component but the facts on the ground are being cha
and later economic advisers to hillary clinton and donald trump discuss their candidate s plans for the u.s. economy. today white house national security adviser susan rice outlined new policy directives from the administration to increase trade and travel with cuba now that the u.s. has normalized relations. some changes include allowing cigars and rum to be purchased for personal consumption. and a push for congress to lift a 50-year-old economic embargo. from the wilson center, this is 45 minutes. good morning. welcome to the wilson center. i m jane harman, the president and ceo, and we re delighted that you re here for a very significant event with our national security adviser. let me recognize a few folks in the front row. our former board member carlos gutierrez, former u.s. commerce secretary, and big fan of the president s cuba policy. he evolved, and i m delighted that he did. and then some of wilson center s finest, cindy arneson who directs our latin american pr
ended where they began yesterday. it was i guess a quiet august day. today is september, though. how did the european markets fair on the first day of september. whatever happened to italy and spain? come on, guys. but there s germany, france, and, of course, be the uk is the three, the one that was in the red. there s wti crude, continuing to fall now below 45, well below this morning and that 10-year note yield creeping above 1.6% at 1.613. our road map this morning does start with the first trading day of september. if you woke up and didn t look at the calendar that s what the day is. it s a volatile month. what s going to be coming. the apple tax saga far from over. tim cook calling the $14.5 billion tax bill from europe total crap. and european officials are firing back. shares of salesforce falling this morning. this after earnings that were fine, ceo marc benioff spoke with jim last night on mad money and we ll get into what s going on there and why that stock is
another day or two. and winter wants to hold grip of this and not get to spring just yet. and we have officially moved into the spring season and our temperatures are about feeling like it and across the board, slightly warmer the last hour at the airport and currently at 33 degrees and that is as you make your way inland into wane county. stark, summit. we re below the freezing mark and temperatures definitely below normal for this time of the year. and you can see from the live 5 radars we re picking up the spring snow across stark, medina, wane county and into summit count. the heavier bands in darker blue. and those are just light flurries into the massileon area and this will move out into late morning and you can see by 11, we should be sitting under mostly cloudy conditions. we re going to have a second round as temperatures move up 40s into akron and canton. we re transitioning into rain. by 5:00 p.m., we should be a- okay and everybody sitting under mostly cloudy c
this is cnn breaking news. breaking news tonight. mexico s president cancels a planned visit to the white house next week, as tensions escalate over president trump s news to start building a wall along the border. mr. trump says the talks would have been fruitless unless mexico agrees to pay for the wall. the white house press secretary suggested a 20% tax on mexican imports in the united states, maybe one possible way to cover the wall s costs. for the first time, republican leaders in congress are revealing how much u.s. taxpayers will have to pay up, up-front, to build that wall. they say they expect the trump administration soon will request between 12 and $15 billion to fund the wall s construction. another story we re following, president trump expected to move forward with his call for a formal investigation of unsubstantiated allegations of major voter fraud. the white house says mr. trump will sign an executive order, maybe tomorrow, maybe saturday, instead of ton