The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection pictures authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Members of the full committee who are not members of the subcommittee on terrorism illicit finance make it is great in todays hearing and all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. This hearing is entitled the exploitation of Cultural Property examining the legal activity in the antiquities of art trade pick now recognize myself for two minutes to give an opening statement. Most of the statement is going to be simply presented into the record but just to talk about the nature of the sale of historical artifacts, archaeological artifacts, the isis groups are now destroying entire Cultural Properties and putting them on the market for sale. Many times the money goes in the terrorism. Thats all you hear to discuss today. The rest of my statement will be printed into the record,
In the State Capitol today in indianapolis at the governors residence, donald trump at his children had breakfast at the home of one of his top vp contenders, mike pence who auditioned as donald trump number two at an audition rally last night. Senatort gingrich and Jeff Sessions of alabama came to the Hoosier State today for their own lastminute face to face huddles with the candidate at a downtown hotel. The candidate also reportedly called Chris Christie to be a finalist as well. If you are on all confused on his stance, do not worry. The candidate cleared it up today in the interview with fox news. Mr. Trump the level of receptivity has been incredible and the governor has been amazing. So, we will see what happens. Newt gingrich is coming in today to see me. You are down to two . Mr. Trump no. Chris christie is someone i like. He is a total professional and a lot of people do not understand that. I am narrowing it down. I am at three and potentially four, but in my own mind, i am
Also, join the conversation on cspan wj is our handle. You can also send us emails. We will get to your thoughts in just one minute. Joining us is candidate delaney. He is here to take your questions about this intelligent report. When you begin with what Dianne Feinstein had to say. She talks about the findings of this report. We have 20 findings and conclusions which fall into four general categories. First, the cias and enhanced interrogation techniques were not an effective way to get a better intelligence information. Second, the cia provided extensive amounts of inaccurate information about the program a end its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the cia inspector general, and the American Public. Third, the cias management of the program was in adequate and deeply flawed. Fourth, the cia program was far more neutral billion people were led to believe. What did we learn from this report . About theknown a lot basics of what was done to al qaeda
Do that way and one of the things i wrote down that wasnt in my campaign, but as i took office, my major job was to spend money. Not to save money. But to spend money, but to spend it in the right way. And then as i analyzed and had when i was on the counsel, the very negative funding for us is property tax. If you raise property tax they want to hang you by the nearest tree. If theres not a tree, theyll just run over you with their pick up truck either way. But you dont mess with property tax, so i got our city out of the property tax business. We fund our city basically by two sources. Sales tax and eweutility franchise and when you do that, people dont care where you spend money. As long as you dont raise their taxes, they are fine and we raise the taxes by good, Economic Growth that ill talk about in a minute and so, that is where we have come from and that is a that has allowed me to do that in that way. Philosophically for my goals my overarching goal or principle is if it doesnt
Today his spokesman is out with a nasty attack on his female opponent, which is probably not going to help. We are one step closer to obtaining the stamp of approval as the Senate Foreign relations today voted to approve u. S. Military action against the Syrian Government of bashar al assad. The tally, 10 to 7 in favor of military action. The ayes were compromised of 7 democrats and 3 republicans. The nays, tom udall and chrisser if murphy and five republicans, jim riche who was on this program last night. The white house quickly reacted with a statement reading in part, we commend the senate for moving swiftly and working across party lines on behalf of our National Security. The military action authorized the resolution, would uphold Americas National security interest by degrading assads chemical weapons capability and deterring the future use of these weapons, even as we pursue the broader strength of this strategy in syria. Earlier today in stockholm, the president defended his de