And privilege it is to appear here on behalf of the men and women of the Intelligence Agency and intelligence enterprise. I thank you for your cometting confidence in their work, your support is vital to us as well as our National Security, and i look forward to answering requester questions. Thank you. Thank you very much, general, well have a sevenminute first round. Starting with you, questions about afghanistan. Our isaf joint commander said that in 95 plus of tactical fire fights in which the Afghan Security forces engage they held their ground and defeated the enemy and noted that at no time did the Afghan Security forces in the past summer lose urban area or urban population cementer. Not a Single Center overrun by the taliban. Do you agree with the military commanders in their assessment of the capabilities of the Afghan National Security Forces . Let me start, and the general can chime in. Theres no question that the ana, the Afghan National army, enjoyed tactical success, par
Delegation for this historic state visit between our nation, the first in nearly 20 years. And our press Conference Today i quoted the son of france in 1831 set out across our Young Country and a chronicle of our american democracy as those are always amazed this nation of ours and captured its. As well as anyone ever has. Tonight i would like to share some of his lesserknown observations about american dining, the absence of wind in our meals which first struck him as very disagreeable and still cannot understand a multitude of things that americans succeed in introducing into their stomachs. Some things did not change. When francois came here years ago to study i suspect he said the same time. About the white house, but the traveling companion wrote the president of the United States occupies a palace that in paris would be called a fine private residence. And he wrote and i very much can relate to this, the power of the king of france would be know if there were modeled after the po
The Committee Urged the sources of such reports to provide it with all information that could help us to undertake our mission. Sixth, the committee is considering with a great attention all possible scenarios for the cause of the accident. So the media report that official referenced says the noise heard on that cockpit recording is the sound of an explosion and that explosion is not from an accident. The report also said the recordings reveal there was no sign of mechanical malfunction. This as isis is doubling down on its claims of responsibility in a new propaganda video. And egypts foreign minister is saying the International Community did not heed egypts call to seriously deal with terrorism. So were also learning that this is not the first time a passenger jet has been threatened in those skies. In august, a Thompson Airlines plane narrowly avoided a missile when heading into Sharm El Sheikh. And today, the department of Homeland Security says it will tighten security for u. S.
Welcome to our viewers around the world and in the United States. Were coming to you live from beirut, lebanon and we have breaking news to bring you out of egypt. Egyptian media are saying that there has been an explosion in a Christian Coptic Church in the northern part of the country in tanta and state media reporting that the death toll there has risen to 15 People Killed. Dozens have been wounded. We still have details coming into us, very significant day of course today is palm sunday. And ben wedeman is at the turkish syrian border, he was our cairo bureau chief and we were discussing, ben, a little earlier that this comes also weeks before as we show our viewers by the way, because this is video im seeing for the first time, aftermath of that explosion in tanta, egypt. Chaos there among worshippers and were seeing some people hurt or killed there as well on the ground. There is an important visit by the pope as well planned in a few weeks. Reporter yes, this church in tanta was
Welcome to americas news hq from washington. Im kristen fisher. Nice to be inside with you, leland. Leland great to be here with you. A lot to talk about. He said to be as close news weekend over the holiday. Im Leland Vittert couldve fox news alert. John conyers in the past couple of minutes announcing he is stepping aside from his role as Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee although he is saving congress that he denies misconduct allegations despite having settled with one alleged that term. Molly henneberg with us as this continues to break on sunday afternoon. House democratic rendered a leader nancy pelosi said today she thought Michigan Democratic congressman john conyers would do the right thing in a couple hours later the announced that appeared to be clear hes not resigning it is stepping down as the top democrat or Ranking Member on the how powerful Judiciary Committee on ethics investigation looks into sexualharassment allegations of payments to keep the allegati