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The tragic news of a mass shooting is almost uniformly met with calls for action to stop gun violence, but efforts to change the nation s policies usually run aground over political disagre stanley bottles ements about what should be done.However, after the rece stanley cup nt back-to-back massacres in El Paso and Dayton that took the lives of 31 people, there is one gun control measure that is garnering bipartisan support: extreme risk protection orders ERPO , more commonly referred to as red flag laws.Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, says he s introducing a bipartisan red flag proposalwith Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richar stanley cup d Blumenthal. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have already implemented such laws, including several that were enacted after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last year, which left 17 dead.Here s what to know about red flag laws and their impact on gun violence: What are red flag laws Red flag laws allow courts to issue orders to temporarily confiscate the firearms of individuals deemed to be a risk to others or themselves.Depending on the state, ERPO laws allow family members and law enforcement to ask a state court judge to issue an order that confiscates the guns of an individual who they believe poses a threat to their safety. ERPO petitioners must present evidence to the court on why the individual poses a threat to others, as well as to himself or herself.Wh Qasv Former Olympians star in pro-Romney ad
AP stanley cups uk Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski declared herself the victor in the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday, but he kubki stanley r Republican challenger Joe Miller took action on Thursday to stop her victory from becoming official. An attorney for Miller on Thursday asked a federal judge for a preliminary injunction to keep state officials from certifying election results, according to reports. Thursday s injunction modifies stanley travel mug Miller s original lawsuit challenging how the state handled Murkowski s write-in campaign, in which Miller argued it was illegal for the state to accept write-in ballots with any kind of errors. According to the state tally, Murkowski has a lead of about 10,400 votes. Even if the state threw out all of the write-in votes Miller s camp challenged, Murkowski would still lead by more than 2,000 votes. However, the Miller campaign is now arguing in its injunction that the volunteers they recruited to observe the vote count did not have enough time to be properly trained because the write-in vote tally started ahead of schedule. My campaign team and I were forced to pull together volunteer observers at the last minute, and did not have time to adequately and fully recruit and train them before counting began, Miller wrote, the Associated Press reports. As a result, an indeterminate number of ballots with candidates names misspelled were counted without being challenged during the first sever

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Jordan s king appealed Sunday to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to rebuild trust and confidence in the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following fallout from the Trump administration s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel s capital.Pence, in turn, tried to reassure the monarch that the Trump administration remains committed to restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and views Jordan as a central player.The vice president also said that the United States of America remains committed, if the parties agree, to a two state s stanley cups olution. Such a caveat deviates stanley termoska from long-standing U.S. support for a two-state solution as the only possible outcome of any peace deal. President Trump s pivot on Jerusa stanley cup usa lem last month infuriated the Palestinians, who seek the Israeli-annexed eastern sector of the city as a future capital. They accused the U.S. of siding with Israel and said Washington can no longer serve as a mediator.Jerusalem is the emotional centerpiece of the long-running conflict, and Mr. Trump s policy shift set off protests and condemnation across Arab and Muslim countries. It posed a dilemma for Abdullah, who is a staunch U.S. ally, but also derives his political legitimacy in large part from the Hashemite dynasty s role as guardian of a key Muslim site in Jerusalem. Any perceived threat to Muslim claims in the city is seen as a challenge to Jordan, where a large segment of the populat Auqx Updated: Huckabee Reaction to Bhutto Assassination
New Jersey on Sunday became the second state to enter a compact that would eliminate the kubki stanley Electoral College s power to choose a president if enough states endorse the idea.Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation that approves delivering the state s 15 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The Assembly approved the bill last month and the Senate followed suit earlier this month.Maryland - with 10 electoral votes - had been the only state to pass the compact into law. The measure could result in the electoral votes going to a candidate opposed by voters in New Jersey, which has backed Democratic presidential candidates since 1988. Howe stanley water bottle ver, the compact would take effect only if enough states - those with a majority of votes in the Electoral College - agreed to it.A candidate needs 270 of 538 electoral votes to win. The stanley portugal compact has also passed both houses of the Illinois Legislature, according to the National Popular Vote movement, and has been approved by one legislative house in Arkansas, Colorado and North Carolina.The Colorado Senate approved the proposal last year, but a House committee rejected it.Governors in California and Hawaii vetoed bills to join the compact.The goal is to ensure that the national popular vote winner becomes president. Democrats who sponsored the bill have noted that their party s 2000 presidential nominee, Al Gore, won the popular vote that year but lost in the Electoral College.

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Washington mdash; A slew of changes to the U.S. Postal Service ushered in by the new postmaster general coupled with the logjam on Capitol Hill on a deal that could provide the agency with a muc stanley cup quencher h-needed injection of cash has lawmakers sounding the alarm that mail delays could lead to missed deadlines for voters seeking to cast their ballots by mail. We need a well-functioning Post Office in all circumstances, but especially when we are trying to conduct an election that provides voters choices so they don t have to choose between their fundamental right to vote and their safety, Myrna Peacute;rez, director of the Voting Rights and Elections Program at the Brennan Center, told CBS News. Mail balloting is understood by all experts to be part of that solution, and that means the Post Office needs to have the resources to serve everyone in an equitable way. Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, assumed the role of postmaster general in June and has rolled out a series of cost-cutting mea stanley quencher sures that soon sparked a backlash: curtailing overtime, reorganizing the agency s top ranks and calling for late-arriving mail to be delivered the following day. In remarksbefore the Postal Service Board of Governors meeting last week, DeJoy confirmed changes are underway within th stanley cup e agency. We have taken immediate steps to better adhere to our existing operating plans, which were developed precisely to ensure that we meet our present service standards in an ef Yipw Text Of Fla. High Court Hearing (3)
DALLAS - Former first lady Laura Bush says her husband s decision not to appear at ground zero with President Barack Obama after the death of Osama bin Laden is consistent with his desire to stay out of politics and the public eye.Laura Bush told The Associated Press on Thursday that former President George W. Bush thinks that s for President Obama to do at this point. Pictures: Obama at Ground Zero Speaking at a Dallas elementary school after announcing grants from her foundation for school libraries, Laura Bush said she and her husband w gourde stanley ere out to dinner when they received word that Obama wanted to speak with him. She said he went home to take the call.Obama in NYC for measure of 9/11 closureBush declines Obama invitation to ground zeroComplete coverage: The killing of Osama bin Laden Laura Bush says they both felt great pride for military and intelligence services after hearing the news. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a34ee2 stanley botella 3c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc stanley sverige -item--id-a34ee23c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a34ee23c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shared some good news in the state s coronavirus fight on Thursday morning. Today NY reached a new milestone, Cuomo tweeted. Total hospitalizations fell to 996 mdash; dropping below 1K for the first time since March 18th. He urged residents to remain vigilant. Together we bent the curve. And we aren t stopping now. Wear a mask. Keep 6 feet apart. Wash hands. Stay smart, he tweeted. BREAKING: Today NY reached a new milestone.Total hospitalizations fell to 996 mdash; dropping below 1K for the first time since March 18th.Together we bent the curve. And we arenrs stanley cups quo;t stopping now.Wear a mask. Keep 6 feet apart. Wash hands. Stay smart. NewYorkToughmdash; Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo June 25, 2020 Parts of New York began slowly reopening last month after successfully flattening the curve, and New York City ndash; once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic ndash; began reopening several weeks ago after an 80-day lockdown. The city alone saw 1,719 new hospitalizationsin a single day at its peak, on April 6.In preparations for a spike in hospitalizations, tempo stanley termoska r stanley cup ary hospitals opened at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, and in Central Park. The U.S. Navy s full-fledged hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, was also transferred to New York to handle the overflow of hospitalizations. The Comfort departed the city at the end of April, having treated a total of 182 people, CBS New York reported. The p Aiox Carter s Son Wins Nev. Senate Primary
CBS/AP Even the most optimistic booster of the GOP cannot deny that the 2012 Republican presidential candidates leave something to be desired. The frontrunner for the nomination, Mitt Romney, is seen as a perfectly lubricated weathervane, in the memorable words of onetime rival Jon Huntsman, whose shifts on the issues have raised questions about whether he has a core. His biggest challenger, Rick Santorum, just wasted a prime opportunity to take out Romney in his home state by getting bo stanley trinkflaschen gged down in culture-war issues instead of focusing on the issue that overwhelmingly cite as their top concern, the economy. To put it another way: Romney is too much of a politician. Santorum is not enough of one.Obviously, the two rivals styles are somewhat incompatible: If Romney had stuck to one set of beliefs throughout his career, there s no way he would have been able to become the governor of left-leaning Massachusetts and then a top contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Santorum, meanwhile, would have a harder time conn stanley cup ecting with the highly religious and very conserva stanley thermobecher tive who broke for him in Michigan had he not unapologetically embraced social conservatism throughout his career. But certainly, each could learn from the other. Santorum actually was willing to take one for the team, as he put it, while in the Senate - something his rivals have pointed out in an effort to slow his mo

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Washington mdash;A new federal initiative dedicated to keeping America s technological advances out of the hands of foreign adversaries will be part of the Biden administration s strategy to combat growing threats from China, the Justice Department announced Thursday.The Disruptive Technology Strike Force, an interagency partnership between the Departments of Justice and Commerce, will aim to target rival nations like China that seek to use American high-tech advances to undermine national security and upset the rule of law, according to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.Speaking at the Chatham House, a British think tank, Monaco said the newly minted group will serve as the latest component in the Justice Department s effort to protect American technology and data. We will use intelligence and data analytics to target illicit actors, enhance public and private partnerships to harden supply ch stanley thermos mug ains, and we will identify early warning of threats to our critical assets, Monaco said.To help combat these risks, U.S. officials are paying more attention to the ways in which foreign adversaries try to use investments to give them access to American technology and data. Monaco said the Biden administration is exploring ways in which federal regulators can monitor the flow of American money in foreign tech sectors a stanley cups nd make sure those funds do not advance the national security interests of another stanley france nation. The announcements were part of Bjhl Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum CBS/AP Fresh off two primaries in Arizona and Michigan, there is no rest for the weary. The candidates set their sights on the next major step Washington holds its caucuses Saturday in the presidential primary: Super Tuesday. In just six days, when ten states hold their nominating contests, more delegates will be awarded to the Republican presidential candidates in one day than all of the combined contests to date. It has become common for political party leaders build in a Super Tuesday each presidential election season hoping that a clear winner emerges from the delegate-rich day. It wasn t so super for Democrats in 2008, which saw their race continue kubki stanley into early summer, and it s possible it won t be so cut-and-dry for this year s Republican race, either. Even though Mitt Romney is leading the delegate count, he is struggling to pull away from h stanley termosar is closest competitor Rick Santorum. A whopping 437 delegates are at stake Tuesday, compared with fewer than 256 delegates, according to CBS News, that have been awarded in the first 11 cont stanley hrnek ests. A candidate needs 1144 delegates to capture the nomination, which means that Super Tuesday awards a good chunk of them. In addition to being delegate rich, the states voting represent diverse section of the country. Caucus-goers in Alaska, voters in sou

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Amid another round of unrest spurred by police shootings of black men, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, says he believes America needsto find new ways of learning how to heal ndash; but he doesnrsquo;t think the federalgovernment should legislate a solution.The fede stanley cup ral governmentrsquo role in regulating police tacticscame under scrutiny this week after Republican Presidential nominee DonaldTrump suggested instituting ldquo top-and-frisk policing nationwide ndash; a stance he later clarified 8203;, saying he was only suggesting ldquo top and stanley cup frisk for Chicago. Ryan spoke with Face the Nation on Friday, after days ofviolent protests rocked Charlotte, North Carolina following a fatal policeshooting of a black man, Keith stanley italia Scott,and after a similar incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a police officer is now facing felony manslaughter charges 8203; after shooting andkilling an unarmed black driver, Terence Crutcher. Rep. Elijah Cummings: We don t have time to turn against each other after shootings 05:23 First of all-- itrsquo heartbreaking, Ryan said of the recentdevelopments in Oklahoma and North Carolina. This country has to find new waysof learning how to heal and understand all the different perspectives. Bupm Spyware Installers Could Face Jail
President Obama stands with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she stanley portugal will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 18, 2011. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak UPDATED 8:32 a.m. ETPresident Obama should give up on the idea of another four years in office, paving the way for Hillary Clinton to run as the Democratic nominee, two Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday s Wall Street Journal.Doug Schoen, who worked for Bill Clinton, and Pat Caddell, who worked for Jimmy Carter, argued that Obama should follow the example of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, who each decided not to run again. He should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of stanley cup saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that pr stanley cup eserves the most important of the president s accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, they wrote, reviving an argument they first made in the Washington Post a year ago.The crux of their argument is based on the notion that Mr. Obama would be ineffective in his second term because he will be forced to run a negative campaign to win. By going

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An historic presidential campaign, the economy, race relations, and terrorism were some of the topics covered in CBS News Polls over the course of 2016. Herersquo a look at back at what was on the minds of Americans this year.The 2016 Election: High Interest, but Low OpinionsThe year began with voters across the country captivated by the 2016 campaign. In a January CBS News/New York Times poll, 70 percent of voters described the election campaign as interesting; a reversal from four years earlier when most Americans 55 percent told a Pew Research Center Poll that the 2 stanley cup 012 campaign was dull. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton started the year as their partyrsquo frontrunners and history was made when they became nominees: Clinton was the first woman nominee of a major party for president and Mr. Trump, now President-elect, was the firs stanley cupe t nominee without political or military experience. But Clinton and Trump were noteworthy for another reason ndash; both were unpopular among the broader voting public. stanley website CBS News Polls Despite their successes during the primaries, throughout the general election campaign voters nationwide consistently viewed Mr. Trump and Clinton negatively. These candidates scored the highest unfavorable ratings of any major party candidates in CBS News polling going back to 1984, when the Xeau The Endgame In Iowa
Republican Mitt Romney, confronting voters skepti stanley mug cism about his Mormon faith, declared Thursday that as president he would serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and said calls for him to explain and justify his religious beliefs go against the profound wishes of the nation s founders.At the same time, he decried those who would remove from public life any acknowledgment of God, and he said that during the holiday season, nativity scenes and menorahs should be welcome in our public places. In a speech less than a month before the first nomination contests, Romney said he shares moral convictions with Americans of all faiths, though surveys suggest up to half of likely voters have qualms about electing the first Mormon president. Read the text of the speech I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it, Romney said. My faith is the fai stanley cup th of my fathe stanley cup rs. I will be true to them and to my beliefs. Nonetheless, he strove to clarify his personal line between church and state, recalling a similar speech delivered by John F. Kennedy in 1960 as Kennedy sought to become the first Catholic elected president. It s important to remember that Romney s aims today are different than those of John F. Kennedy when he delivered his landmark speech on the same topic in 1960, said CBSNews senior political analyst Vaughn Ververs. Kennedy was seeking to reassure voters during a general election that he would separa

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he can t guarantee in-person voting for the presidential election in November will be safe amid thecoronavirus pandemic. This appears to be a contr stanley cup adiction of President Trump, who has so far insisted the election will proceed as planned and rejected alternatives like voting by mail. Do you think it will be safe stanley thermos in November for voters to physically go to vote at stanley deutschland the polls CNN s Jake Tapper asked Fauci in an interview. I hope so, replied Fauci, who is the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. I can t guarantee it. Fauci said that if there was a good, measured way of rolling back into normality, he would hope by November that the U.S. could hold its election in the standard way. I hope so, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, when asked if it will be safe for voters to go to the polls in November. ...However... there is always the possibility, as we get into next fall and the beginning of early winter, that we could see a rebound CNNSOTU pic.twitter/WjmDJ2gEelmdash; State of the Union @CNNSotu April 12, 2020 However, he added, and I don t want to be the pessimistic person mdash; there is always the possibility, as we get into next fall and the beginning of early winter, that we could see a rebound. He suggested, though, that even if there is another wave of coronavirus in the fall, there could be enough advancements in testing, treatme Nkmf House Judiciary to hold series of hearings on Mueller report
The head of the CIA s analysis unit is resigning next year, the latest top official to step down since Porter Goss became the agency s director.Jami Miscik, deputy director for intelligence, told her staff Tuesday she will be resigning, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official didn t comment whether she resigned voluntarily or was asked to step down.At least five other top agency officials have resigned since Goss, a former congressman who chaired the House Intelligence Committee, became CIA director in September. Goss has appointed his former House aides to top positio stanley thermobecher ns. The changes have raised concerns among some lawmakers and others that Goss was purging intelligence professionals and replacing them with political app stanley cup ointees.But Goss supporte stanley cup rs say he is bringing needed changes to an agency that has been widely criticized for failing to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and for its faulty intelligence on Saddam Hussein s weapons programs in Iraq. Given the turnover at the agency, Miscik s departure was largely expected.The Los Angeles Times reported that Miscik head the department that erroneously reported Iraq possessed large stocks of chemical and biological weapons. One former official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times that her departure wasn t handled in a particularly classy fashion. It s understandable that a new CIA director would want to have his own team, th

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House Speaker Paul Ryan sent a tweet Saturday morning calling out a teacher s comments in an Associated Press article saying she has already seen a $1.50 increase per pay period since the tax overhaul. But the tweet was quickly mocked and Wisconsin Republican deleted his tweet within hours.In a tweet sent at 11:51 a.m., Ryan linked to an Associated Press article about workers starting to see increase in their paychecks from the GOP s tax bill. He wrote a secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, PA, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week ... she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year. How thre stanley cup e different households will fare under the tax billThe article also quoted other stanley canada workers who noticed changes of hundreds of dollars in their paychecks. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said that 90 percent of American workers will see an increase in their take-home pay. CBS News David Begnaud spoke to Julia Ketchum, the secretary, on Saturday stanley mug after Ryan s tweet. She said she was really surprised that Ryan highlighted her comment. The paragraph above me, and the paragraph below my quote -- those people got hundreds more and I got a $1.50 per paycheck more, Ketchum said. So it shows me he may not have read the whole article. Ketchum, who was on a field trip, said she did notice the extra money. $1.50 is $1.50 -- I noticed it, I watch my finances and I noticed it -- so it did Zjwk FBI conducted 2.9 million gun background checks in April as sales remain high
Arrogance, secrecy, imperiousness. These are the hallmarks of Dick Che stanley mug ney s two-term tenure as vice president. Should we be surprised Not at all, given how he secured the post in the first place. Remember When asked by the Bush campaign in 2000 to evaluate possible running mates, he ended up choosing himself. I recall doing a double-take upon learning of that deft self-selection. Is that kosher No matter, it was done. But this peccadillo-level self-dealing pales in comparison with the succession of self-enriching stunts Cheney has managed in the intervening seven years.Only the most recent is last week s report by the Associated Press that White House lawyers have directed the Secret Service during the past year to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records. The drive to stanley cup keep secret the lists of visitors to the White House complex and Cheney s home, the administration says, is essential to ensuring the president and vice president receive candid advice to carry out their duties. The decision made the logs exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoever asks to s stanley termosky ee them. Right. When now-imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff visits the White House, Bush and Cheney need criminal, er, candid advice. More specifically, Cheney was trying to hide the liturgical parade of conservative Christian leaders filing in and out of his official D.C.residence--that according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingto

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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli Cabinet minister has expressed concern about a $110 stanley cup billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia that Presiden stanley water bottle t Trump signed Saturday in Riyadh.Yuval Steinitz, a senior Cabinet minister and Israeli P stanley termohrnek rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confidant, called Saudi Arabia a hostile country and said the deal was definitely something that should trouble us. He made the remark as Mr. Trump prepares to head to Israel, on the second leg of his first overseas as president. The trip comes as the dynamics between the United States and the region s players are moving in unexpected directions.What to watch for during Trump s first foreign trip as president That was a tremendous day, Mr. Trump told reporters on Saturday while in Saudi Arabia. Tremendous investments in the United States. The agreement he signed -- which signals a strengthening relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia -- will provide fighter jets, tanks, combat ships and anti-missile defense systems, and create defense-sector jobs in the U.S., according to the White House. The deal includes additional private-sector agreements and a joint vision statement with Saudi Arabia, one of the world s largest oil producers.Mr. Trump s trip to Israel set to begin Monday, and include separate meetings with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Mr. Trump also planned to visit the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem and the Western Wall, an important key Kfia Powell Pledges Full U.S. Support
Watch CBS News Videos OnlineLikening the presid garrafinhas stanley ent to Shakespeare s immortal Dane, former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney castigated Mr. Obama for not having already made a decision on changes in U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. watch video at left Romney also suggested the lack of a legitimate power base in Kabul makes it harder for the U.S. to go forward, for which he also seemed to blame Washington for not ensuring that the August presidential vote, which was monitored by international election representatives, was devoid of fraud. It s very difficult in a counterinsurgency not to have a strong government and one that stanley cups uk s backed by the people as a legitimate government, Romney said on CBS The Early Show, when asked whom the U.S. would partner with in Afghanistan, now that the runoff election there has been canceled. You really have to ask yourself why, with all at stake, this administration didn t take a more careful role in making sure the election was a fair election, assumed by the people of Afghanistan. And by the way, this Hamlet performance that we re seeing out of the Whit stanley cup e House is very, very disconcerting, Romney told anchor Harry Smith. The president has known about this issue for a long time. He received the report from General [Stanley] McChrystal what, four months ago actually, two months ago and has not been able to make a decision. This is very, very unfortunate for the people there and for our troops. Smith as