[applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As our guests are being seated im steven knapp, president of George Washington university and delighted to welcome you to our city rom. This balcony affords a broad view of the nations capital. This is an excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University the nations capitol and has an excellent view of the washington monument. Our monument, and this location is rather extraordinary here. If you drew a line from the state department to the white house and another line from the Federal Reserve to the world bang they would actually intersection right where we are seat sitting right now. That tells you about the importance hover this location and affords us an opportunity to convene important discussions of events of global significance. So im delighted to welcome you to todays discussion nightle. Nato in the age of uncertainty. A conversation with the secretary general of nato. Were horde he could make time during his brief stero
21yearold mohammed of the Royal Saudi Air force purchased his weapon legally here in florida. Authorities say there was only one gunman answered was killed during the police response. Investigators are conducting additional interviews with the shooters friends, classmates, and witnesses. Our main goal right now is to confirm whether he agented alone or was he part of a Larger Network. Investigators say they found no evidence to suggest an ongoing threat to the public but some officials are calling for improved vetting of foreign nationals who come to the u. S. For military training. I think there is a frustration with this. I mean, you know, you have Foreign Military personnel coming to our base. They should not be doing that if they hate our country. Sunday afternoon a Police Escort led three hearses onto the naval station. Salute blues welcomed the victims. Their bodies were flown to Dover Air Force base. Back to you guys. Steve jonathan, i read in the local papers down there that sa
you go first. you re combing through this newly released testimony. nearly 400 pages of depositions and one from laura cooper, two from the state department. kathryn and chris andersen, state department officials and curt voelker, special representative to ukraine. what you draw from this testimony is how they re all painting a consistent picture we ve seen over the course of deposition after deposition. what laura cooper, the pentagon official does, is give a perspective how unsettled the u.s. government was about withholding of nearly $400 impeachable in u.s. security assistance to ukraine. cooper laying out how the u.s. defense department was concerned whether it was legal. they were told by the office of management and budget it had been frozen but couldn t find out what the rationale was, something that made people in the united states and embassy of ukraine find out what s happening.