Out of. If you could perhaps speak to that issue, protecting and hardening it to our terrorisms. Thank you for the question, chairman smith. I will defer to my colleagues specifically in relation to power africa and those engagements. I can tell you the recognition that we encounter from Energy Companies and energy agencies, ministries in our International Engagements to an everincreasing degree recognize the importance of protecting infrastructure. One of the things the department of energy does is to enter into cooperative engagements with Key International partners. We do this at their expense, at the expense of the host country to help them identify older abilities, vulnerabilities. Plan their systems so there is resilience to in the threats, at all hazards approach whether one is talking about severe weather, cyber attack or physical attack. We have found that this is an area where the United States is in a position to add tremendous amount of value from our experience. I will hav
Saying how delighted i am to have made my very first trip out of europe, as the very first also european commissioner for immigration, here in the United States of america. Europe and the United States are longstanding allies and partners. We share the same fundamental values. Freedom. Peace. Democracy. Our joint meeting here yesterday and today is another concrete example of how together we can be more effective in upholding and defending our common values. Needless to say, the relations between the European Union and the United States in the justice and the Home Affairs Area reflect the strategic character of our partnership. Not surprisingly, our meeting this morning with attorney general eric holder and his team was very successful. Very positive. Very friendly. And very productive. I also had a very fruitful meeting yesterday with the Homeland Security secretary, jeh johnson, which helped make the days meeting very a success. Today, as was said before, we discussed the future of t
Are pose a high risk for terrorist financing, or perhaps the weak spot may be with the other federal regulators, that the other federal regulators arent focussing and emphasizing on whether or not these banks are in compliance with the counterterrorist financing regulations under the bsa. But it seems to me its unacceptable, two banks, if you look at the actual orders issued, only two banks where i could find references in those orders to threats regarding terrorists claims. Yes, sir. In that light as we look at our partners throughout the world, we have relationships with him, many of whom we give tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid, its always of concern to me of how we are not honored by our relationships with our partners and particularly in this situation thats so critical for the National Security and for theirs as well. To what extent, what would you advise us as a congress in Going Forward and how we could put greater pressure on these respective countries an
Or not she would have a federal investigation of the situation in baltimore. That is beginning in just a minute. You will see a reminder. Every weekend, book tv. And every weekend on cspan3, American History tv. 48 hours of history. Thanks for being with us and we will go to the Justice Department. This should be beginning shortly. We are live at the Justice Department waiting to hear from attorney general the Loretta Lynch who is expected to announce an investigation in baltimore. The wall street journal had a piece about it online. Justice department to investigate Baltimore Police, saying the department of plans to launch a civil investigation. It comes among highlighted scrutiny of Baltimore Police after the death of freddie gray a 25yearold black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody. The mayor of baltimore said wednesday she requested the department to inquire whether the department had a pattern or practice of our constitutional policing. It should get und
Is a country with unrivalled skills and creativeness, a country with such good humor and such great compassion. And i am convinced that if we draw on all of this, then we can take these islands, with our proud history, and build an even prouder future. Together, we can make Great Britain greater still. Thank you. [applause] [applause] [applause] ed miliband thank you for your kindness, friends. Friends, this is not the speech i wanted to give today because i believe that britain needed a labour government. I still do, but the public voted otherwise last night. Earlier earlier today i rang David Cameron to congratulate him. I take absolute and total responsibility for the result and our defeat at this election. I am so sorry for all of those colleagues who lost their seats. Ed balls, jim murphy, margaret curran, douglas alexander, and all the mps and indeed candidates who were defeated. They are friends, colleagues and standard bearers for our party. They always have been, and they alwa