Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was very kind of you. Thank you. It is good to have you back in pierre to the legislature, welcome. Im sure youre going to enjoy this experience immensely. Before i begin today, though, i would like to note a historical milestone. Today is the beginning of Lieutenant Governor Matt Michaels seventh session as president of the senate, and prior to that, he presided for four sessions as speaker of the house. Those 11 sessions make Matt Michaels the longest serving officer in the south dakota legislature. Lets recognize him and thank him for that service. [ applause ] thank you very much. Over the past six years, weve undertaken many significant initiatives together, and have made progress in many areas. Today, im going to provide updates on many of our efforts in the areas of education, transportation, criminal justice, workforce and Tribal Affairs among others. I want to up
Board plans to meet to discuss a sale of the bulk of the french builder of power plants and trains to ge. Matt campbell joins us now with the very latest. We heard about the deal yesterday. It was a great bloomberg exclusive which you helped to break. Give us a sense of where the different parties are standing. What seems to be taking shape is a significant transaction that would leave a small part of alstom behind. The transport business which makes Rolling Stock would actually be separated from Everything Else alstom does. Transport is about 20 to 25 of sales. Alstom ismajority of being taken over by General Electric according to people familiar with the situation. But of this is official yet we expect an announcement could come soon. Even in the next few hours. The fact that the unit is being left to one side may allow a political way out for the french government. This is a trophy asset for the french government. They are not tacking over the trains. There was some hint the french
United states has demonstrated capabilities that threaten the United States. We believe north korea has taken steps towards fielding a system although remains untested. They used a launch vehicle to a satellite into orbit. These developments have been accompanied with a crest of public rhetoric was the United States. Iran continues to develop Technical Expertise in areas including Nuclear Reactors and Ballistic Missiles from which it can draw Nuclear Weapons. These advancements strengthen our assessment that tehran has a scientific and industrial capacity to produce Nuclear Weapons. This makes the issue its political will to do so. Such a decision will reside with the Supreme Leader and we do not know if he will decide to build Nuclear Weapons. The United States and our allies are tracking syrias stockpiles, particularly its chemical and biological warfare components. Its advanced Chemical Weapons Program has the potential to inflict mass casualty is. Casauualties. It adds are concerne
Train hub. Claire mccaskill is here and the politics of putting politician names on public places. If its wednesday, we have election results. A new generation of republicans is rising in nebraska as outside groups claim victory in the senate race. Ben sachs, a former bush official, who was endorsed by a host of National Conservatives and Tea Party Groups comfortably won his primary with nearly 50 of the vote, beating back an 11th hour surge from banker sid dinsdale. Shane osbourne, supposedly the chief rival, ended up finishing third. 17 outside groups are claiming to put some money into sasses campaign. All of them quickly declared victory because every one of them was responsible, right . Freedom works ignored the fact they had originally endosrsed hs opponent. Ben sasse won this race because he never stopped fighting for conservative principles. If this is the only win for the National Tea Party group, it was a failure. You had paul ryan and the National Review supporting him, clai