administrations of both bush and obama explained it would trying to do here we didn't have the full goose newsham that would ruin the taking through the fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources. internally the pentagon knew that the situation was bleak however that is not what was told to. u.s. public for years americans have gotten a steady stream of information claiming that there was progress being made in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them she cure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and we're doing a tremendous job. and as you know a big part of the job is. certainly the biggest and we. we've got him down very low numbers why is lies and more lives the usa has been in afghanistan for 17 years now making it the longest military engagement in all of us history and despite the new revelations showing how bleak the situation is

would trying to do we didn't have the full goose newsham that would ruin the taking there is a fundamental gap in distancing of the front and over stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and now the public was kept in the dark about these realities and instead of being told the truth about the situation said reports about alleged progress to getting the impression that things were getting better and that this probably led to thousands of deaths on both sides of the conflict instead of telling the truth it was just a constant stream of alleged progress reports here's some of what we heard. in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. that i set to defeat al qaeda and tonight a chance to rebuild is within reach and we're doing a tremendous job. and as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest. and we. we've got him down very low numbers now u.s. troops have been in afghanistan for 17 years

would trying to do we didn't have the full goose newsham that would ruin the taking there is a fundamental get up and distancing of the front and the stated objectives. in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary now these new revelations come in congressional testimony that comes just roughly a month after the afghanistan papers were published by the washington post now these afghanistan papers were a trove of documents from the office of the inspector general now it's important to note that these documents essentially say that u.s. officials really didn't have any strategy for afghanistan and didn't really have an understanding of what was actually happening on the ground or an understanding of the country and the conditions there this is how it was put by a figure in the military who oversaw operations in afghanistan under the administrations of both bush and obama and afghanistan and we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. that i set t

resort of davos is set the stage for an unlikely battle between america's treasury secretary steve newsham and teenage eco activists gratitude and it was the u.s. finance chief that got the ball rolling. she the chief economist who is she i'm confused after she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us it doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that the remaining 1.5 degree carbon budget and on going fossil fuel subsidies and vestments done it up well steve is not the 1st u.s. official that grettir thornburg has clashed with of late you might remember that back in december donald trump suggested the activists should quote work on her anger management problem and their differences and disputes continued at the world economic forum simon from the in case you missed it team takes a satirical look ringside it's that magical time of the year when our wealthy overlords gather for the double speak in homage for a glitzy gathering looms for bringing together the world's business elite yet the one percent meat for champagne and skiing in the mounta

secretary of state appeared at the press conference along with steven newsham the secretary of treasury and journalists got got pretty tough in asking him questions and basically it's now been almost a week since the killing of qassam solomonic the top iranian general and a lot of questions are being raised about the trumpet ministrations claim that this was absolutely necessary to save american lives they say it was a justified killing they say that qassam solomonic was plotting attacks against america but a lot of these journalists to ask questions at this press conference pretty clearly weren't buying it let's review some of what was said. if you have specific information about the threat and didn't have anything to do with our embassy. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on the u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to happen and american lives were at risk because community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally right there was an im