Middle east for the fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from the witnesses about the 2020 budget2020budget for the departf Near Eastern Affairs bureau. Thanks the witnesses were appearing today and now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant administrator for testifying today nearly three years into the administration the United States faces a multitude of challenges while the administration touts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destabilize from iraq to lebanon despite President Trumps bellicose rhetoric, tehran has been able to launch attacks in the International Shipping and regional states and undermining the deterrence and credibility in the process. The program was more intense today than it was on the day President Trump took office and the International Community is more divided in confronting it. Iran continues to imprison americans including my constituents and finally the human rights of its own people. Iran
We dont weve seen the governments that have come before ever more of these where Economic Growth didnt happen as much where poverty wasnt reduced where there was repression actually here in the seat out of altos and so im going to keep on voting for him because at least hes done things in the time that hes been in power. John heilemann baer thanks for that. Hong kong police have been firing tear gas and water cannon that protests is throwing petrol bombs thousands of prodemocracy activists saga rallying against the ban on face mosques the demonstrations began 5 months ago sponsored by an extradition bill which was later shelved for protests of why didnt call for more democratic rights pedram brown is in hong kong with the latest. Once more another tense standoff here in nathan road which is the busiest sort of fate in hong kong the police have just charged down the street after reclaiming it earlier in the afternoon but the local people 7 are unhappy because the police would be firing
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Suicide blast as u. S. Military special Operations Forces cornered him and moved in toward the tunnel where he was. President trump spoke about this at the white house, lets get right to Jennifer Griffin with the latest right now. It was a mission more dangerous than bin laden raid, the president said the flight in and out of syria was the most dangerous part. The flight took over an hour, up to 70 u. S. Special Operations Forces launched in kurdish held northern iraq, they took fire approaching the target, the president described Abu Bakr Albaghdadi last moments. He died after running into a deadend tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way, he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest killing himself and the 3 children. The president says u. S. Forces were on the ground in the compound for over 2 hours and collected, quote, highly Sensitive Information on future isis operations, a large number of isis fighters were killed, some were
Effectiveness of us communication with others, other republics and other countries. We have with us today im speaker will be assistant secretary of state and senior artificial in a euro of Public Affairs, and were glad you could joinus today. We look forward to this event. She joins the state department in every third 2018. But in the year later she became, she was already assistant secretary but took on the responsibility of the undersecretary ofstate. For Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Two of which were united under the nine, she has led one of the largest restructurings in 20 years so this is a very ambitious, interesting effort which is not created the bureau of Global Public affairs which she is the head. Welcome, she was Global Corporate Communications Senior Vice President for the waiver set of new york and she has also previously in washington worked for Newt Gingrich and as a lead member of his medications team. And communications survey. She holds a masters degree in po