We are very pleased to have pole here with us this evening. We crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for the Los Angeles Times based in washington over several decades he wrote about National Security and foreignpolicy on both the pentagon and state department and he held other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose in this cityy on the National Security affairs and in his new book he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out for in particular, ryan crocker, and patterson and Chris Stevens. How significant officers these days folks work with our military and intelligence communities in such countries of afghanistan, iraq, serious, pakistan and libya to combat terrorism and manage the challenging situations. At a
A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
As another top sponsor walks away. Turkey sins and the troops after a wave of airstrikes in syria leads to growing criticism. The u. S. Threatens sanctions in response. Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures gaining. 1 after we saw markets rebounding from two sessions of losses in the regular session. We had tech and Energy Leading the gains. We had a little more trade optimism today after bloomberg reported that china is still open to a partial trade deal. Suffice it to say we saw some of those gains being pared back in the afternoon session after another report said that china is starting to play down expectations of progress in those talks. Investors also had to digest the full mc minutes. Members seemed a bit more uncomfortable with that growing gap between Market Expectations and their own projections. The focus now on a u. S. Cpi coming out tomorrow. Lets see how we are shaping up for the markets in asia. Sophie we could see a mixed session in asia. We could see gains in tokyo. Could
Subsequent whistleblower complaint. At 9 30 a. M. , Family Research Council Center for religious freedom policies. Ravis weber host good morning. It is tuesday, september 24, 2019. President trump is in new york city where he will address the United Nations General Assembly. President trump became the First American president to convene a meeting on the issue of religious freedom and on the washington journal, we will begin on the topic of religion. We are asking your view of religion and public life. The phone number to call this morning, 2027488000. If you think religion doesnt play a large enough role, 2027488001. If you think american politics and civics gets that balance about right, 2027488002 is the number to call. You can also text us your thoughts. If you do, please include where you are from and your name. That number, 2027488003. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. Very good tuesday morning, you can start calling in now. We are talking about the
Host this whistleblower complaint that became public, at least the existence of the complaint are you involved in that at all . Guest no. Host what this complaint has shed some light on is there is a difference between whistleblowers in the Intelligence Community and the laws and rules they have to operate under and whistleblowers in the rest of the federal government. Can you explain why that is and what rules they have to abide by . Guest sure. The most basic difference is employees in the Intelligence Community deal with classified information and that needs to be protected. There are secrets, et cetera. That doesnt mean employees who work in the intelligence ormunity dont see fraud misconducts or violations of laws. There needs to be a system in place for all federal employees weather you work in the regular secret service or the Intelligence Community to report misconduct when it occurs. Host in the Intelligence Community, obviously we are trying to find out the information and wh