Next a house hearing on Sexual Assault in the military after the death of private first class Vanessa Guillen. They reviewed how Sexual Assault is reported. Victims advocates recommended changing the process. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am the chair, jackie speier, we will have a hearing entitled hashtag me too moment, an examination of Sexual Harassment and perceived retaliation in his apartment of defense at fort hood. The hearing will come to order. We are here to discuss the pernicious military culture, time and time again, report after report exposes an environment ripe for sexual veracity where women are afraid to report their harassers because of fear of retaliation, ostracism or worse, fear that they wont be believed in the harassers wont be held accountable. By declaring hashtag i am vanessa gillen, thousands of taken to the streets and social media demanding respect. Demanding the rules of the, quote, old boys love and locker room talk are no longer the price of adm
And Foreign Policy. Tel he is a graduate of west point, army,ear veteran of the serves as a professor at Georgetown University and has visiting professor at the National Defense university. He serves on the board of marine corps the University Foundation and the Advisory Boards for the west for oral history and operation renewed hope. Me in welcoming jim. [applause] you for coming to what should be an extraordinary event. Pete is not only a great friend but he defines the definition of american. Graduate of princeton and harvard. We wont hold that against him. He served in the u. S. Army. Right . Yes. Is another mark in his favor. Three combat tours, right . Three tours. Yes. Three tours. Combatnze stars, infantry man badge. Extraordinary, including now working with fox news. Put his life on the line im not really sure what possessed him to write this, but i think in the arena is both, you know, courageous, dangerous politicallyy incorrect. In the world in which you live, something tha
Iran took aim at Secretary Of State antony blinken. According to blinken was wrongly blaming iran for the conflict between israel and hamas and says the u. S. Is exacerbating the conflict by overly aligning itself with israel. Whats happening to u. S. Troops overseas. Theyve been attacked 14 overseas they have been attacked 14 times and sitcom telling two dozen Service Members killed in iraq and in syria in just one day. And earlier today another rocket fired at u. S. Forces in iraq and intercepted and no injuries reported. We go live to jerusalem, Trace Gallagher is standing by. Is there concern tonight in israel that this conflict is destined to grow wider and more dangerous, especially when it comes to the risk to our troops in the region . Yep, i think it is already there, laura. You are pushing in that direction. You talked about the 14 attacks against u. S. Servicemembers and blinken, who is blaming iran, as is the Biden Administration vowed to defend u. S. Forces and you have u.
Good evening. Were deeing highed have join us erre van dick, investigateoff journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region and our moderator, Senior Vice President of programs at World Affairs. Were recording tonights program so please take a moment to silence your cell phones. Im tim, the Program Officer here at World Affairs. If you enjoy the discussion and are interested to learn more about the organization, ill be around after the program. I want to turn it over to our modern rater. So, good evening, everything, and thank you for joining us. Its my great pleasure to introduce our guest this evening, erre van dick, journalist, author and cbs news consultant who covers afghan and pakistan. He has authored a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban and another work in afghan. He is also written for such publications as the New York Times, newsweek, and national geographic. And in 1981, while working as a correspondent for the New York Times, van dyk lived w
Sent to the department of Homeland Security and because of the automatic information seri sharing, no locality can be a sanctuary. Thats the latest from here. Even even further clarification from northam. Its flatout wrong, and northam opposes sanctuary cities in any form. Local Law Enforcement should follow federal immigration law. You can add another name to be the next Prince Georges County executive. Dunn edwards joins the list running to succeed. There will be a number of candidates to choose from, and former Obama Administration official as well as maryland state senator. Police are looking into a claim by a councilmember that a group of n on fire while they were collecting campaign signs. A friend posted this picture. Police were called by the Board Commission walked into their highest walked in smelling of gasoline. No comment on whether bridgeman is cooperating. Bridgeman was a loser in a highly contacted threeway mayoral race and charged with secretly recording a fraternal or