Good morning ladies is ultimate. Welcome to the Carnegie Endowment. My name is george and i am a Vice President for studies here at the endowment. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning for a discussion with pakistans relatively new ambassador to the United States , asad majeed khan. While he arrived in his ambassador position in january, he has long and deep experience both in washington, working on u. S. Issues back in the ministry and most recently was serving as ambassador to japan. Before coming here. He has an outstanding sense of not only dynamics with the u. S. , but globally and him particular asian security. We are honored to have you with us. What we will do, i will ask a few questions to get the discussion started. And then we will turn it into a larger discussion. I have invited the ambassador if at any time he wants to ask you all a question or me a question, about what is going on in this very predictable rational environment in which we live in in washington, we ar
Expressed regrets about that chant saying he disagreed with it. Is his feud with the four Democratic Congresswomen setting the tone for his 2020 Reelection Campaign . Lets ask wall street journal communist who served as Senior Advisor to president george w. Bush, karl rove. Carl, welcome. You wrote this week for us that you thought that alexandria cortez and i assume some of the other women in her squad are hurting democrats and helping the republicans. How so . They are so big a presence in social media and in the media generally that their leftwing views are getting an outsized attention and so when alexandria ocasiocortez puts out a draft for the Green New Deal that talks about how flatulence and unspecified measures to restrict people from getting on planes to take their vacations in a transfer mission of our entire society it gets attention. Similarly, their views on things like israel and the war on terror the first week in july aoc called for the abolition of the foreman of home
Good morning ladies is ultimate. Welcome to the Carnegie Endowment. My name is george and i am a Vice President for studies here at the endowment. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning for a discussion with pakistans relatively new ambassador to the United States , asad majeed khan. While he arrived in his ambassador position in january, he has long and deep experience both in washington, working on u. S. Issues back in the ministry and most recently was serving as ambassador to japan. Before coming here. He has an outstanding sense of not only dynamics with the u. S. , but globally and him particular asian security. We are honored to have you with us. What we will do, i will ask a few questions to get the discussion started. And then we will turn it into a larger discussion. I have invited the ambassador if at any time he wants to ask you all a question or me a question, about what is going on in this very predictable rational environment in which we live in in washington, we ar
Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time, this subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation, and the General Services administration in response to those committees and subcommittee document requests. I now recognize myself, for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here, although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi, and gsa have not complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration, in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to performance important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents and information requested from agencies. That, in turn, r
Got us to where we arent from 2016 to 21000 and then well talk about how to fix that ok well 1st of all everything you said is connected so so so let me go back in 2008 what happened was we had an acute financial crisis predicated on the fact that banks created all of these toxic securities and then lend lend money to other banks to buy them and lend money to small towns in norway and california and Pension Funds to effectively buy toxic assets created out of credit they had lent through the Mortgage Market that happened the fed came in and in an unprecedented manner the Federal Reserve decided that the way to fix this. Amidst a dramatic kind of experience that occurred with hank paulson former c. E. O. Of Goldman Sachs and treasury secretary at the time on his knees in front of nancy pelosi who was speaker of the house then and now in congress and he said you have to help the banks so fed wants to help the banks Treasury Department wants to help the banks because otherwise supposedly