Dealing marijuana three times on a street corner. I was not a supporter of it. The kmie is meeting today. The testimony on the findings and recommendations in the Syria Study Groups final report given the timing of this hearing, well have is the discuss the ramifications of policy changes in syria and have the study Group Recommendations instill address our challenges there. I thank our witnesses for appearing today and without objection i move to move the full report into the record. I now recognize myself. Thank you r very much for testify iing today and for your work on the final report of the Syria Study Group. Your report is a thoughtful, informed overview of the conflict and provides pragmatic recommendations for how american policymakers can protect interests and stabilize syria. Its well known that President Trump does not like to read, but i wish he has skim med the executive summary of your report before his recent phone call with president erdogan. Your assessment notes the
Good evening, theres no harder lesson than the one taught today to angry atlanta educators. The judge threw the book at them. Teachers principals among them handing down lengthy prison sin tenses for their roles in a massive cheating scandal at which standardized test scores at underperforming schools were inflated. Our chief education correspondent rehema ellis shows us how it all played. This thing was pervasive, its like the sickest thing thats ever happened to this town. The judge imposed harsh sentences on eight former Atlanta Public School educators, convicted of racketeering conspiring to fix standardized test scores to improve results. There were thousands of children that were harmed in this thing, this is not a victimless crime. Three disgraced educators were sentenced to 20 years, serving seven in president en, the rest on probation. The others were sentenced to five years, serving one to two of them behind bars. Emotions ran high. As the sentences came down. You sit down, i
I think there are a lot of people who represent the same thing. Im very much hoping that one of those people come along soon and, you know, who understands the constitution, who understands freedom, what true freedom is all about, who understands how to empower people, who understands economics and the importance of taking the heavy foot of government off the neck of business and industry, and who understands that this is, in fact, a judeochristian nation with real values. [applause] political pundits have defined you as a conservative, particularly following the prayer breakfast. How would you define yourself, politically . That easy. I consider myself logical. [laughter] you know, as far as im concerned, common sense should be in both parties. Thats why its called common sense. So you know, you look at something that has been politicized, you know, like benghazi. Now, whats the big issue there . A big issue as far as im concerned is that we are telling our troops that if you get into