Cspan2. Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations iran policy before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the president s decision to kill iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Committee chair representative eliot engel threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Subject to limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that todays mr. Mccalls birthday. So happy birthday. Im 35 years once again. Me, too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy towards iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well. After we invited him, he announced that he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate whether you agree with this administrations ap
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What hes the proposal office. For a couple only when we meet with glue to newsmakers and talk about the stories the. Zeros. Hi im Steve Clemons and i have tons of questions that day how dangerous is the situation between the United States and iran and how did we get here lets get to the bottom line. Its hard to believe today but less than 4 years ago there was hope that major conflict with iran was off the table the major world powers had signed a deal constraining Irans Nuclear program and a new chapter in u. S. Iranian relations was being written or so that was the thinking well think again after a radical change of administrations in the United States the tearing up of the nuclear deal with iran and the assassination of one of irans top generals are all bets off and does anyone know where were heading fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have all the answers to these questions valli nasser is professor of middle east studies at Johns Hopkins university and author of the shia
If i hack up a lung, i apologize. I committed to this a few months ago, and you just never know when youre going to get sick will im here to share my journey from arizona to working in National News and politics here in the nations capital. Before i start rambling about myself, id like to get to know all of you a little better. How many for you is it your first time in washington, d. C. . Welcome. Thats kind of a lot of you. And where are you from . Any west coast eers . Yeah. Not that many. What about new yorkers . Anyone from the south . Nice. Are there any d. C. Locals here . A few. You know, my twoyear anniversary in d. C. Is going to happen at the end of april, and i notice that d. C. Is a very transient city so i never really meet a lot of people that were born and raised here who stay here. Its a tough city, but its a beautiful city and theres so many opportunities out here if you look for them and if you work hard. How many of you want to pursue a career in politics or news . M