The committee will come to orderment good morni o order. Good morning to everyone. Without objection the chair is allowed to declare a recess at anytime. Ill recognize myself for my Opening Statement. Im honored to be conveeting todays hearing, my very first as chair woman. As we continue to mourn the loss of our friend and colleague, elijah cummings. I am mindful of his life long mission to seek not only common ground, but higher ground. With that in mind, im very pleased to hold today tfs hearing on an issue we have been fighting for for many years, the need for comprehensive paid family and medical leave. Its important for people to understand the Current Situation in our country. Right now, were one of only two nations in the world that does not provide our workers with any form of paid family or medical leave. The United States and papua new guinea. I remember when i was pregnant with my first child and i asked my offices about leave policy. And do you know what they said . Leave,
All right. Hearing will come to order. Welcome, everyone. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on u. S. Policy in iraq. I thank our witness for appearing today. Before recognizing myself for the purpose of making an Opening Statement, i would like to take the opportunity to recognize and thank the members of our committee who served in iraq. Were grateful for your service and your input today is going to be invaluable. I will now ill make an Opening Statement and turn it over to the Ranking Member. Also before i begin on my comments here, i would like to take a moment to express my condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed in pensacola last friday, the three sailers dedicated their lives were taken from us far too soon. And we need answers about the shooter and how this happened. Certainly at this point, the president and all of us must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with the United States investigation so we can understa
Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Guest thanks for having me. Host how does the president s Reelection Campaign will with impeachment . We would rather not deal with it at all. If democrats are going to take the country down this path, we will deal with it. We have seen a massive influx of volunteers, donors, people reaching out to the campaign for the first time. The House Judiciary Committee releasing its report. The democrats are saying we have invited the president to come and take part in this hearing. They claim it is unfair. How can they claim that when they are not participating in the house hearings . Guest from the beginning, republicans were not allowed to call witnesses without chairmanships approval. This has been cooked from the beginning. Nancy pelosi announced this inquiry before the transcript cannot, before the whistleblower complaint came out. They jumped this shark without all the facts. They have shown no interest in getting the facts from the begin
And for our country. And to are this Incredible Company in brand in texas is an honor for all of us. I mean with syria . Were happy, i want to thank president erdogan of turkey, thank the leaders of the kurds. Many people came in to this for this. It was unconventional. But they saw it was not working out what they were doing. And were happy with the way it worked out. Very successful. And now over the next number of days, things will happen that will be positive, there is a lot of goodwill right now in turkey with kurds and everyone involved, membership people are involved many people are involved, i want to thank mike pence, mike pompeo, they did a fantastic job, all of my representative who went two days ago late in the evening, got there, not easy, a little bit dangerous also they did a fantastic job. Do you think it is over . I do. I think it will all work out now. I think they needed an unconventional touch, i am very unconventional, right. I knew 6 months ago, he told me at the
We want to know how the candidates differ from the present why they think it could do a better job. Strict President Trump did not respond to our invitation to this if it. And another had a scheduling conflict. Each candidate will have 60 seconds to speak. It may also give an additional 30 seconds to respond as fall is. Time will be deducted if the rules are not respected. Speaking order and putting up spots at random to mexico. Think everybody again. Business insider thank you and have her fill his monarchs are to stand in the same stage with you. Start like this, president of the United States will be impeached very soon. The president of the United States will deserve to be impeached very soon. Lets cut through all the craziness, were going to spend the next hour an hour and half as anthony and lynette said talking about really important issues Climate Change and trade and whats going on down the border. Lets be clear. This is about trump. This is about that guy in the white house.