Merkel and french president francisco on. Im pleased to have french president franciscus oisncisco lund france hollande. It said you know as much about sanctions as anybody in the Obama Administration its sad that you as much about sanctions as anybody in the Obama Administration its said that aboutow as much sanctions as anybody in the Obama Administration. A linkage between what the sanctions are trying to achieve and overall u. S. Government policy. We bring to bear all of what the u. S. Government is trying to do to effect a policy objective. The second is that we have as much International Buying in and cooperation as International Cooperation as possible. Our sanctions are much more effective when we have our partners around the world working with us. The third key element is a very clear objective. I think the sanctions against iran are a good example of that, ofre we had all the elements the u. S. Government working together. We had International Buying in international buyin.
Over the course of the year, that customer is paying 42,000 for the body parts, it is hard to imagine how the procurement business is operating at a loss, and what we are seeking to do is to figure out if there is a violation of the law, and if someone is selling these fetal tissue parts for a profit, and that is what we are digging down on. We are looking at the pricing of fetal tissue represented in those d series documents, and then we have constructed the chart that shows where there seems to the movement of the money. So you all have heard this debate from both sides. Youve heard the questions coming from both sides. I am going to start, ms. Clayton, with you, and work my way down to mr. Sukhia. Very quickly, what i would like to hear from you, what documents would you request or subpoena from these procurement organizations in order to find out . We have asked for banking records from the procurement business that has been the point of discussion today and they have refused to gi
And thats a big priority. They enter minister, you mentioned, is always been very pushy on this. We are having the french that is being set up and should be working before the end of the year, and the european, very much necessary, has been passed by European Parliament in april. So all the tools you have in the u. S. And your enforcing and you are willing to share our tools that we are enforcing and trying to enforce in many cases, indeed in europe. Its not the only reason, its not the only add to but its part of the answer. And to answer for directly the question, i dont think of these tools are outdated and not working. They provide very ethically response and add additional layer of security. Staff one followup question. One question that ive had, the department of Homeland Security now has a Peace Agreement in place with dozens of countries, the numbers increased rapidly in the last few years. The question is how those agreements are being operationalized. How quickly this informa
Assistant secretary in the department of Homeland Security for border immigration and trade policy. Were also supposed to be joined by tom bush, but he had a illness that came up this morning, so was unable to join us. Well proceed with these three fine panelists for discussion of terror travel related issues and what we can be doing to prevent terrorists from exploiting the travel system in support of their objectives to carry out attacks in the United States, over seas and our allies which is a key element of their efforts in term in pursuit of carrying out attacks. You know well have a moderated discussion. Ill jump right in and put the first question to seth. If you look at the, you know, current terrorism of threat that we have with isis, very diffuse threat, with al qaeda, a variety of other groups, its very different than the threat that existed when many of the u. S. Government programs to prevent and disrupt terrorist travel were created 15 years ago, 10 years ago. So you have
Ambassador stevens we dont know the answer. Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him . In may . Yes or no. Yes, i believe i did. When was that . I dont recall, and i want to clarify for the record, this document is about all of libya, and not just benghazi. You know, congress woman, i appreciate, and i really do, the passion and the intensity of your feelings about this. We have diplomatic facilities in war zones. We have am bass stores dors that we send to places that have been bombed and attacked all the time. And youre their boss. Youre right, i am. Youre their leader, is that correct . And are there ever situations where you call them, where you bring them in, where you are personally caring and concerned and are letting them know that . Are there situations where you recall, and i would like to know the situation with ambassador stevens, and what month it was with ambassador stevens because there are no call logs with him. And we have no record that you had any con