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vasquez looks at the future of u.s./cuban relations in a trump administration. post-fidel castro. >>> and boston university assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. c-span's "washington journal." live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >>> at a pentagon briefing today, afghanistan military operations commander general john nicholson wrapped up 2016's military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. this is about an hour. >> folks, we've got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. i'll be calling questions for general nicholson. sir, all yours. >> thanks, jeff. good morning, everyone. great to be back with you all again. want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. what i'd like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 and where we've come and a little bit about the way forward. our main objective inning if is to prevent the country from being used as a safe haven for terrorists to at

vasquez looks at the future of u.s./cuban relations in a trump administration. post-fidel castro. >>> and boston university assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. c-span's "washington journal." live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >>> at a pentagon briefing today, afghanistan military operations commander general john nicholson wrapped up 2016's military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. this is about an hour. >> folks, we've got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. i'll be calling questions for general nicholson. sir, all yours. >> thanks, jeff. good morning, everyone. great to be back with you all again. want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. what i'd like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 and where we've come and a little bit about the way forward. our main objective inning if is to prevent the country from being used as a safe haven for terrorists to at