This meeting will come to order. Without objection, you will have five days to submit statements of material and questions to director subject in the rules. It will begin this missus secretary, thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago, we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran and iraq abusive force. Knowing that soleimani was in danger this terrorist is important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether makes american safer advances our interests. Weeks later we seen attacks and more than a hundred servicemembers and thousands more personnel back to the region. In development of our relationship with the reckon the fight against isis. And run again, pushing towards a Nuclear Weapon and you promised the American People that they would be safer and iran, would be detoured. So my wrong metrics of this policy has been a failure. Mr. Secretary shouldnt have been so difficult to get you here in your parents here today, is far too short and all we ha
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements extraneous material and questions for the record subject to length limitation in the rules. We will begin, mr. Secretary. Thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran, iraq and the use of force. No one doubts that case and solomon was a dangerous terrorist but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes american safer and advances our interest. Weeks later we seen attacks, injured more than 100 servicemembers, then then need to move thousands personal back to the region and remnant of our relationship with iraq and the setback in the fight against isis. I ran again pushing headlo
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Spotlight. Some are calling the most interesting summit in years. Our own Brian Sullivan is on the ground there call it an amazing turn of events as steve cohen is reportedly heading to queens as Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning and welcome to the show we have breaking news out of the European Union Joumanna Bercetche is live from london with those numbers. Good morning so this is the third reading weve had for the eurozone Third Quarter gdp. 0. 2 versus quarter two year on year we have the retail Sales Numbers for euro eurozone at 1. 4 versus expectations of 1. 2 the picture for europe has been some what dimmed by weaker retail and the Global Trading environment. One of the economies we are looking at closely is germany. The numbers there, exports have been moving in lock step with global trade you may remember in the Third Quarter, germany managed to skirt a recession coming in at 0. 1 with an expectation of 0. 2 for this time being eurozone is averting a recession n
So hes either trying to tell us how tough he is, or hes trying to explain his extensive brain damage [ laughter ] according to a new poll, former Vice President joe biden has retaken the lead nationally in the democratic primary said biden, im gonna win this thing or my name isnt whatever my name is. [ laughter and applause a record 31. 5 Million People are expected to be traveling for the thanksgiving holiday and no surprise, theyre all taking your exit [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause just how it goes thats just how it goes. A newspaper in canada ran a christmas ad this week and misspelled santas name as satan. [ laughter ] weird, thats so weird. The same thing happened to me at starbucks, said today was pie in the face day. And tomorrow is pie in the laundry room while you hide from your relatives day. [ laughter and applause mit students over the weekend set a Guinness World record after throwing a hot dog 120 feet and catching it in a bun. 50,000 a year, said their parents, who