Partsinevelos, Jonathan Hoenig and liz peek. After an attack on saudi oil facilities, will President Trump be able to drum up support for action against iran . What do you think, liz . I think it is very difficult, the european allies in particular want to preserve the so called jcpoa, the nuclear deal with iran. They have their own selfinterests and mercantile interests at heart. They want to do deals with iran. The minute the deal was concluded they were in iran negotiating all kinds of pretty large scale export projects and stuff like that. They want that to continue. There was a little bit of a breakthrough today when boris johnson, obviously the new head of the u. K. , said he was interested in possibly doing a deal, and irans foreign minister also talked about how maybe we could do a new deal with perpetuity of inspections and restraint on building a Nuclear Weapon in exchange for perpetuating the lifting of sanctions. So theres movement, but its a pretty tough sell. Thats the mo
The committee will come to order. I note that a quorum shall be present without objection the committee is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee, not on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. The committee is meeting today pursuant to the testimony on examining racial and gender wealth gaps in america. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing is around a Critical Mission avoid the subcommittee exist. The racial and gender wealth gap is real. Unacceptable and actually much larger than people think. True wealth can be defined by adding of total assets including cash retirement account or your home and then subtracting liability which is credit card debt, student loans, mortgage to reach you reach your net worth. The median net worth of white household with 130,800, the white median net worth of latina and households was 17530. And for black househo
[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director
Mr. Mcaleenan good afternoon. How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, fran, for the kind introduction, and thank you for the opportunity to be with you today to have this important discussion on the state of security and immigration concerns nationally, but also, hopefully, we will have a conversation and dialogue on some of the other department of Homeland Security priorities, and of course, with the members here. I know many of you have been following the crisis over the past year and tracking the growing regional challenge of migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for order for our Border Security, but it has led to a significant humanitarian prices as well as a foreignpolicy challenge in the u. S. And throughout the region. I would like to take a dialogue the dialogue today a little and thee the headlines daily news cycle and kind of look back at the challenges over the past 10 months or so, in our efforts to addr
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