With us and host of the global political. She spent four years living in russia. Thank you for being with us. Arthur harris as asking questions, International Diplomacy and state Department Correspondent for the New York Times. In previous reporting for the paper covered Southeast Asia and the white house. Thank you for being here. I think you are up first with questions. Mr. Harris this is after the super bowl of diplomacy. Give us your assessment of the president s speech. It was fairly bellicose. He talked a lot about sovereignty and he went after four countries in particular. How effective do you think that was . Does it put him in place over the next year to achieve some of his objectives on the International Stage . I think it was predictable and not any regrading our concerns around the world. That . R q expand on mr. Talbot there has long been the difference in sounding tough. A lot of republicans and conservatives believe there is real benefit in sounding tough. Boardt people
That the state department does in the morale of the people do it. Even, the number of people doing it is not just coming out of the white house and it is not president s days wants to see that part of the swamp drained. It is not a swamp. Hass an institution that outposts throughout the world that is absolutely essential to our security and nobody can make that argument better than our military. Ive heard the highest praise over the years from our uniformed military that diplomacy is where defense starts in that part of the isense of United States it is not getting the kind of leadership on the white house and it is not getting the leadership that it needs from the secretary of state. He is, i think part of the problem to request you think republicans are worried about what is happening . Absolutely. Of brookssident institution. Watch the full program or listen to it on cspan ready cspan radio app and he sure to check out our free cspan radio app. We welcome sure michael singleton. The
Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Committee and Homeland Security Governmental Affairs committee is called to order. This is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. I want to welcome our witnesses. I like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and in houston texas, florida, throughout the caribbean but particular puerto rico. Im sure we will be discussing that quite a bit. Maybe it wasnt contemplated when we first set up this hearing on the other threats. There are threats occurring throughout the nation and we will acknowledge that. All of the individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. Im sure everyone on this committee joins me in that. We are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of department of fullness security, elaine duke, the director of the fbi, christopher wray. The director of the National Counterterrorism center, nicholas rasmussen. We want to thank all of you for your service. This is perilous times, that face our homeland are growing pure
This hearing of the Senate Committee and Homeland Security Governmental Affairs committee is called to order. This is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. I want to welcome our witnesses. I like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and in houston texas, florida, throughout the caribbean but particular puerto rico. Im sure we will be discussing that quite a bit. Maybe it wasnt contemplated when we first set up this hearing on the other threats. There are threats occurring throughout the nation and we will acknowledge that. All of the individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. Im sure everyone on this committee joins me in that. We are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of department of fullness security, elaine duke, the director of the fbi, christopher wray. The director of the National Counterterrorism center, nicholas rasmussen. We want to thank all of you for your service. This is perilous times, that face our homeland are growing pure there growing
And we will feature contributors of the books from democracy and freedom and no wall they can build. Watch our coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival today on cspan2s booktv. Ray, actingtor for Homeland Security director elaine duke, and Nick Rasmussen give updates to the u. S. Federal response to puerto rico after Hurricane Maria from the Senate Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee. This is about two hours and 15 minutes. Senator johnson good morning. This hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Government Affairs committee, is called to order. This hearing of the Senate Committee and Homeland Security Governmental Affairs committee is called to order. This is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. I want to welcome our witnesses. I like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and in houston texas, florida, throughout the caribbean but particular puerto rico. Im sure we will be discussing that quite a bit. Maybe it