Also watch online at cspan. Org or you could listen with the free cspan radio app. And well go back now to the House Homeland Security committees hearing, looking at global and domestic terror threats against the United States. The committee will come to order. Our second Panel Includes mr. David rausch, the chief of police for the city of knoxville, tennessee. Rabbi abraham cooper, associate dean and direct dor tore global center. And richard cohen, president of the southern poverty law center. Ive been fortunate to be trained by the fbi, as well as participate in training at the u. S. Army war college. In addition to my over 28 years of experience in Law Enforcement. Todays Law Enforcement officers face an incredible set of challenges. One of the many myriad of challenges we confront is how to best respond to planned rallies, spontaneous crowds and civil disturb anlss by extremist groups while balancing First Amendment rights. What may have been started as peaceful demonstration can
Lets get started. Im dan runde. I hold the chair here at csis. Were going to have a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan. We have been doing a series of events on afghanistan over the last year. We recently hosted Abdullah Abdullah about two weeks ago. We couldnt have done this without the partnership of ambassador tony weng, the Senior Adviser here. Thank you for everything. I think were going to have an interesting and constructive conversation today. When i think about people who are qualified for their jobs or the right people at the right time, i cant think of a better person than my friend greg uygur. Fz who served both in pakistan and afghanistan has served some of the toughest places in the world for the United States of america. Greg is a friend. Greg is a patriot. Greg is a really qualified individual. Thank god that greg uygur has raised his hand and agreed to do Public Service again. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give him a round of applause. [ appla
Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committee is meeting today to exam the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and Airborne Reconnaissance will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, acting secretary elaine duke, fbi director christopher wray, ctc director nick rasmussen, for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to insure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee is extremely grateful for your service and director rasmussen, for over two decades, you have helped navigate an unprecedented landscape in combat terrorism
Is in session. For more information go to cspan. Org and click on series to view every program weve aired from the british house of commons since october of 1989. We invite comments about prime ministers questions on twitter using the hashtag, pmqs. Next, remarks by epa administrator scott pruitt at the National Review institute summit. This is half an hour. Here we are. Good. I am pleased to welcome to our stage scott pruitt. [applause] i am routinely assured by my friends on the left that he means to destroy the epa. [applause] i wish that were true but i dont think it actually is. He is not going to destroy it. Quick question for you, so your home state of oklahoma, my home state of texas, pennsylvania where i lived for a while, all these states do a pretty good job of regulating oil and gas industry on their own which is complex piece of environmental regulation. I look at these things say what to the point of epa. Im sure there is one. Tell us what it is. Kevin and i had a little