Thank you, ambassador, for being here and thank you as well for being on the panel. I have yet to good to kuwait, the last time i had been there with 1990 during the gulf war. I got to take a second picture next to the two spirit towers, this time whats that . There you go, liberation towers. It was good to be back, but more importantly to see this Coalition Come together not only in the private sector and having 64 nation theres, but also, like you said, ambassador, seeing the iraqis out front, talking about the country, talking about not only Economic Opportunities in iraq, but also about humanitarian situation. One of the things the first day of the conference was great. The press was able to ask questions of not only Prime Minister abadi but also the kuwaitty Prime Minister and the deputy minister and the foreign mince sterp. The iraq i can press asked some of the toughest question. They warned dont go on a stage with mike pregent, hes going to ask tough questions. The iraq i can p
And authority on the subject with the iraqi ambassador, senior researcher. Im sure well have a great discussion with lots of important insight. On top of hudsons Live Streaming that we always do we have the honor of having cspan2 this event so another reading to the viewers out there. Reconstructing iraq and the good news from iraq is the military defeat of the terrible terrorist organization, isis, by the Iraqi Military with international cooperation. The task ahead is daunting. Iraq needs to rebuild and heal the communities. Challenges remain from funding, stabilization efforts in the even larger resources needed for reconstruction the coming years. Responding was one of the goals of the regions iraqi reconstruction conference in kuwait which secured around 30 billion from private actors. Significantly the gulf countries except in quite to the conference which is interesting testimony with its own troubled history with the iraqi nation back in 1990. Congratulations to the kuwaitis fo
But they didnt say exactly where. What happened was, the individual, the commissary sergeant, or whoever was in charge of the supplies in richmond, then sent a message back to the turnbull house, to lees headquarters, asking for more specific instructions. But what had happened as tracy again mentioned, these Union Sixth Army corps that morning had broken through the confederate lines,j basically were pamplin park is if youre familiar with that area, they broke through the union lines and lee was then forced to abandon his headquarters, so when that second message came for where do we send them, nobody was there to receive them. And thats to me and that comes out of the four volume seat of r. E. Lee, its an appendensy in the back of volume number 4. I think knowing that area quite n well, i think thats probably is what happened. Anyone else have a question . Ron has a question. He is making his way to the microphone. I will throw something out for chris here. Its a large campaign. Seve
Work. That leaves us with enforcement Taxpayer Services and i. Tchl. So when you take a cut, weve done the best we can to try to balance that. And our appripriations come in those buktds, so to come extent, were constrained by where the proepuaters put the funding. We have probably 3,000 fewer people answering phone calls right now than we used to have to go along with the 5,000 fewer enforcement people and the 5,000 we put into Identity Theft, so were making a balances decision to try to figure out how do i minimize the negative impact of the cuts im going to take. Depending on how you measure it every revenue officer, criminal investigateor produces somewhere between 100,000 a year each. So we know when we ineffect leave money on the table, you can talk to any agent and theyll tell you we know its not a question of guessing. When we look at returns we start with the returns that have the biggest problems and so, were leaving on the table, tax cuts for tax cheats, there are people who
A reported price cap. Russian oil imports by g 7 countries plus another u. S. Sen urges nancy pelosi to proceed with her schedule trip to taiwan. Despite growing threats from china to take forceful measures, if the us House Speaker follows through on our plans with just after 7 here in the russian capital and youre watching our to international, im donald quarter. Welcome to the program. Our top story today, france is the latest e u country to woo saudi arabias crown prince, whos come to paris for talks that says european leaders are desperately seeking alternative Energy Suppliers to replace russian imports. However, Human Rights Watch dogs are crying foul over the cording of the saudi prince. I feel profoundly troubled by the visit because of what it means for our world and what is means for jamal kush oak g and people like him. The visits by m b as to france and joe biden, to saudi arabia, do not change the fact that m b s has nothing other than a killer. If environmentalists though