Jack fairweather a former reporter in iraq and afghanistan and the author of a war of choice and the good war. He served as a bureau chief for the Washington Post in afghanistan and interviewing jack today is doctor Robert Jan Van pelt curator and one of the main authorities on the history of auschwitz from 97 to 98 he presided over the team that drew the master plans and participate as an Expert Witness in the case against the british historian and author david irving. Robert has published and served as a historical advisor on numerous films and curator exhibited at 2016. Before we get started i want to make a few quick housekeeping notes. We will have about 15 minutes or so for audience qanda at the end of the round so make sure to hold your questions for the end if you can and we will try to get to as many as possible. This program is being recorded and it will be available on our Youtube Channel within the next few days or so and i will follow up with an email probably tomorrow wit
Best away leaving a lovely wife and family. I want to express my condolences to him. He worked together on prolife issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of and property with the tragic wildfires. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. When i was in sydney, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expects hopes expressed hopes that hong kong will go back to the right path in that is for the right path. Guarantee the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do
Issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of life and property from the wildfires across that region. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. This was in sidney just past summer, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expressed hopes that hong ong will return to the right path. The right path, as i said before, is for the Chinese Party to commit to the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do not enjoy. They will continue to work with hong kong and the Chines
We will talk about all things fourth of july in a few minutes. If your home because you are on holiday, thank you for joining us. Welcome to the 9. We begin the newscast in the east bay were we have been following a big traffic problem on interstate 80 through heyward. Five minutes ago the backup heading southbound started to ease up after a deadly crash. We are live near the scene. What do chp officers have to say . Reporter they say this is a fatal crash and it was something that was possibly unavoidable at this point. And sadly the motorcyclist did pass away. I will say in the last four minutes, the five lanes of 880 have just reopened i want to say maybe 8 50 am. The motorcyclist turned away and been dealing started to reopen. If youre heading southbound on interstate 880 through heyward now the five lanes are open but the backup has extended. Take a look at the pictures we were able to capture as we got on scene about 8 45 am. We can see the motorcycle down the road right before i
Order. Without objection, share off the rise to the clearer recess at anytime. This hearing is entirely on youll test when it secretary the treasury of the state of the International Financial system. Without objection, all members of five minutes within which to submit extraneous into aerials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I will note of the outset of this hearing we have a hard stop as a crew to see the secretary at one pm this afternoon. We will strictly observe it. Now i recognize myself for four minutes to get an opening statement. Welcome, secretary yellen. I appreciate you being here today. Todays hearing is about the state of the International Financial institutions. I want to take a minute to talk about the debt ceiling crisis that we narrowly avoided. First, were all glad that they seized behind us and. No one wanted to default no legislative branch official no executive branch official your statement says waiting until the last minute hurts american credibility i