In just a moment to the Foreign Relations committee will come to order and thank you to all those for being here. Todays hearing will examine the crisis in libya. Like to thank your witnesses for again appearing before the committee on this important issue. Unfortunately six years ago after they nato intervention in libya remains on the brink of civil war. Like many of its neighbors libya failed to transition into a stable Representative Democracy hoped for by the citizens following the arab spring. Sadly its a libyan people who have paid the price. Fighting between militias has undefined internal security, we can government institutions and damaged the economy. It is also posing substantial risk to the u. S. And to our allies. Infighting is created a permissive environment for terrorist groups like isis. The organizations gains in libya have led to u. S. Supported boteri options in places like sir. Conditions allowing extremists to thrive remain. I think any of us agree that the libya
Here. And todays hearing will examine the crisis in libya. I would like to thank our witnesses for again appearing before the committee on this issue. Unfortunately, six years ago, after the nato intervention, libya remains on the brink of civil war. Like many of its neighbors, libya failed to transition into a stable, Representative Democracy hoped for by citizens following the arab spring. And sadly, the libyan people have paid the price. Fighting between militias has undermined internal security, weakened government institutions, and damaged the economy. It is also posing substantial risk to the u. S. And to our allies. Infighting has created a permissive environment for terrorist groups like isis. The organizations gains in libya have led to u. S. Supported military operations last year in places like sert. Weve had some successes there but conditions allowing extremists remain. Many of us agree the libyan political agreement needs to be altered as the current government lacks the
Good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. Im neither a mathematician nor a racist. In fact, im bad at both of those things. But im told this is the formula when someone shows prejudice towards minorities in the world of ride share, uber and lyft and whatnot. They found africanamericans and people with africanamerican sounding names will have to wait longer for rides, and are more likely to see those rides canceled by the driver, even before theyre picked up. Dr. Steven soth studies transportation as the executive director of the center for Automotive Research at stanford. Joined this morning by sara lacy and John Schwartz of usa today. Let me start with what even inspired the study. What made you think, you know what we ought to do is we ought to see if this is a thing . It really started when don mckenzie and i were grad students at m. I. T. And during the course of our time there we really watched as ride sharing was kicking over a big part of the Transportation Business in the countr
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Virginia, for military members, heads to another swing state in north carolina, Hillary Clinton is holding a rally in florida. It is vital in the race for 270 electoral votes. All of this comes as trump and ashley pulled ahead of clinton in the siena National Poll, until that is the first debate. Blake rinds priebus predicted Hillary Clinton leading comfortably in the polls, he said come labor day the polls would be a different story and turns out you might be right. The National Poll released this morning, donald trump leading clinton by two points. Both trump and clinton set to host debates in minutes, trump is in virginia and later north carolina, clinton is set to appear momentarily in florida. Her Campaign Plane earlier this afternoon clinton was asked about the new poll and she says she is sticking with her strategy, she downplayed those numbers. I pay no attention to polls. A lot have been good for me recently. I dont pay attention. They are not so good i dont pay attention. We