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ate: Monday, August 20, 2017Time: 9:00 p.m. EDTCBSN:Live Online StreamOn TV: CBS News, check your local listingsThe head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, visited both Afghanistan and Pakistan this weekend to lay the groundwork for the announcement. And the president and his national security team met Friday at Camp David to discuss military strategy for the region. Officials in the region, as well as those in Washington, D.C., say Mr. Trump s plans may further be altered until Monday night s announcement. Secretary Mattis told reporters on Sund stanley cups uk ay that the president himself wanted to talk to the American people. The Associated Press pointed out that this will be stanley cups uk Mr. Trump s first formal address to the nation as president, and it comes after a period of isola stanley cup tion for him, following his comments about racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zfum Harris says Joe Biden is our nominee in response to lawmaker s call for him to step aside
Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney s suite of offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.Cheney s office was damaged by smoke and water from fire hoses, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said. The vice president was not in the building at the time; he was in the West Wing of the White House with President Bush.CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports the historic desk in the vice president s ceremonial office is said t stanley vattenflaska o be covered with soot - but sustained no fire damage. The desk was first used by Theordore Roosevelt in 1902. It was used by every Vice President since LBJ - and inside of the top drawer has been signed by various users since the 1940s.More than 1,000 people who work in the building were evacuated. The fire broke out on the second floor of the building around about 9:15 a.m. and was under control within a half hour, District of Columbia fire department spokesman Alan Etter said. Afterward, Mr. Bush and Cheney appeared on West Executive Avenue, between the White House and the damaged building, to thank stanley mugg District of Columbia firefighters. A fire tanker nearby still had its ladder extended to a window on the blackened second floor.The blaze was located in Cheney s suite of ceremonial offices. His working office is in the West Wing. Secret Service spokesman Darrin Blackford said the building stanley tazas was evacuated as a precauti
President Trump will address the nation Monday night with an update on the path forward for America s engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia, a White House statement said Sunday.Speaking at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, Mr. Trump is expected to announce the deployment of 4,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, meeting the request of commanders in the field. He s also expected to talk about what actions the U.S. will take to press Pakistan to stop acting as a safe haven for terrorists.President Trump s address to the nation
ate: Monday, August 20, 2017Time: 9:00 p.m. EDTCBSN:Live Online StreamOn TV: CBS News, check your local listingsThe head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, visited both Afghanistan and Pakistan this weekend to lay the groundwork for the announcement. And the president and his national security team met Friday at Camp David to discuss military strategy for the region. Officials in the region, as well as those in Washington, D.C., say Mr. Trump s plans may further be altered until Monday night s announcement. Secretary Mattis told reporters on Sund stanley cups uk ay that the president himself wanted to talk to the American people. The Associated Press pointed out that this will be stanley cups uk Mr. Trump s first formal address to the nation as president, and it comes after a period of isola stanley cup tion for him, following his comments about racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zfum Harris says Joe Biden is our nominee in response to lawmaker s call for him to step asideThick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney s suite of offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.Cheney s office was damaged by smoke and water from fire hoses, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said. The vice president was not in the building at the time; he was in the West Wing of the White House with President Bush.CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports the historic desk in the vice president s ceremonial office is said t stanley vattenflaska o be covered with soot - but sustained no fire damage. The desk was first used by Theordore Roosevelt in 1902. It was used by every Vice President since LBJ - and inside of the top drawer has been signed by various users since the 1940s.More than 1,000 people who work in the building were evacuated. The fire broke out on the second floor of the building around about 9:15 a.m. and was under control within a half hour, District of Columbia fire department spokesman Alan Etter said. Afterward, Mr. Bush and Cheney appeared on West Executive Avenue, between the White House and the damaged building, to thank stanley mugg District of Columbia firefighters. A fire tanker nearby still had its ladder extended to a window on the blackened second floor.The blaze was located in Cheney s suite of ceremonial offices. His working office is in the West Wing. Secret Service spokesman Darrin Blackford said the building stanley tazas was evacuated as a precauti
