Next, a look at the u. S. Electricity industry and the reliability of the electric grid. Well hear about efforts to strengthen electricity infrastructure and the Energy Departments role in responding to hurricanes harvey and irma. Held by a house energy subcommittee, this is an hour. Well come to order. Good morning and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of a challenge on the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple role call votes may be up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had a great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, analise. I will not give it but ask to put that in the record. Without objection, so ordered. Mr. Rush, would you like to put your statement for the record . For the record, okay, guys. Moving forward, we have three witnesses here. We have mr. Chattery, ms. Hoffman and mr. Collard. You have five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member rush, members of the subcommittee
Today will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of challenge on the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple role call votes may be up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had the great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, i will not give it but ask that without objection so ordered. Would you like to speak or put your statement for the record . For the record, okay, guys. Moving forward we have three witnesses here. We have mr. Chadre, you guys have five minutes. The head of furk. You have five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. Ranking member rush, members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to be before you today. Before i begin my marks i want to briefly reflect on the passing of senators demin chi, former chairman of the committee and hell be remembered. Id like to start by taking a moment to acknowledge all those impacted by hurricanes harvey and irma, the los
The country soldiers are patrolling the capital harare and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard earlier but the military denies its a coup a takeover follows a bitter battle over who will succeed the ninety three year old president which split the rulings on a party into two main factions i dont want us to reports from harare. Parts of harare are now on lockdown and soldiers in army have blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts people say they are cautiously waiting to see what happens next many are relief so far there has been little violence i can see however moving as usual no more business. Moving around freely. The countrys war veterans say they have had enough of president Robert Mugabe many helped keep him in power for nearly forty years we. Should have been recalled from is a row as the president insisted. The mob his army said on wednesday the president Robert Mugabe and his wife are safe in their private residence south africas president jacob zuma sai
Im down in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up. Americas renewed confidence and standing in the world has never been stronger than it is right now fresh from his tour of asia donald trump his accomplishments calling the trip historic. Thousands of nigerians displaced from their homes go up against the government accusing it of a land grab. So. Im going once going twice rarely or not of the vinci painting set a new record at auction in new york. The u. N. And the African Union are closely monitoring the situation in zimbabwe the military seized power in the early hours of wednesday but exact details of the situation in the country still remain unclear but president Robert Mugabe spoke by telephone with his South African counterpart on wednesday jacob zuma says mugabe is confined to his home but the military says its not depose the president well the army supporters describe its move as a bloodless correction they say the military is focusing on what they call crimin
Hearing, and we will show it again now in insincerity. We will show it again at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. Afterrt off right witnesses and senators enter. Sen. Burr i would like to call the hearing to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today. The director of national intelligence, dan coats. Good to see our former colleague. Director of the Central Intelligence agency, mike pompeo. Director of defense intelligence, vince stewart. Director of the National Security agency, mike rogers. Director of Geospatial Intelligence agency, robert cardella. Fbi,cting director at the andrew mccabe. Thank you for coming in on such short notice. Since 1995, this committee has met with an open forum to hear about and discuss the security threats facing the United States of america. I understand that many people tuned in today are hopeful that we would focus solely on the Russian Investigation and their involvement in our elections. Let me disappoint everybody up front. While the committee certai