Authorization by a foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. This is about two and half hours. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] the media will come to order, good morning. Before we start i want to address some housekeeping matters. First, todays open portion is being broadcast live. And streamed on the committees youtube channel. We conducted entirely on an unclassified basis. All participants are reminded to refrain from discussing classified or other information protected from public exposure. It is my privilege to welcome a distinguished panel of leaders today to discuss Intelligence Committee anti threat assessment rate during todays proceedings we will hear from Lieutenant General scott director of the Defense Intelligence agency by the honorable William Burns director of the Central Intelligence agency. The honorable admiral intelligence, general paul, director of the National Security agency. And the honorable Chri
My name is frank mora, the director of the kimberly green Latin American Caribbean Center here at Florida International university. We are, for our friends in cspan, we are here located at the biscayne bay campus of Florida International university here in miami. We have another campus in west dade. The center that i direct is one of the institutes and programs or centers at the steven j. Green school of public and international affairs, again at Florida International university. Were just absolutely delighted to be hosting or cohosting this event. I want to thank our dean here, the dean of the Chaplin School of hospitality and tourism management, mike hampton. Thank you, dean, for supporting this. And this is a great event to have here on your campus, right . Also i want to thank another cohost, the Cuban Research institute. The director is here with us today and will be joining the panel in a second. A little bit about why were here and how we got here. Last year, the Brookings Insti
Good evening, we begin in iraq where Government Forces continued their retaking the airport from the Islamic State group. The army says it is now going to use that airport for its operation. Expect the battle foror ththe west of the city to be muh more complicated, not at least because of it being densely populated. Reporter iraqi forces pushed into westernmost of western most so western mosul. We are fighting the Islamic State group at the southern edge of the city. Trancesrying to breach breach trenches they used. Being drivenfter out of eastern mosul there were bombers, mines, barricades, trenches and tununnels. Jihadists were completely surroundeded in west mosul, so d little choice but the fight too the death. I iraqi forces carried outt airstrikes overnight, headed a ground attack on the city itself. Most of the fighting will be done house to house. It is believed 750,000 civilians are trapped inside the city. Losing mosul could spend the end of the extremist caliphate. The jihad
Good evening, we begin in iraq where Government Forces continued their retaking the airport from the Islamic State group. The army says it is now going to use that airport for its operation. Expect the battle foror ththe west of the city to be muh more complicated, not at least because of it being densely populated. Reporter iraqi forces pushed into westernmost of western most so western mosul. We are fighting the Islamic State group at the southern edge of the city. Trancesrying to breach breach trenches they used. Being drivenfter out of eastern mosul there were bombers, mines, barricades, trenches and tununnels. Jihadists were completely surroundeded in west mosul, so d little choice but the fight too the death. I iraqi forces carried outt airstrikes overnight, headed a ground attack on the city itself. Most of the fighting will be done house to house. It is believed 750,000 civilians are trapped inside the city. Losing mosul could spend the end of the extremist caliphate. The jihad