John s. Mccain iii good morning. The Senate Armed Services Committee Held a confirmation hearing for several Defense Department nominees. Among them was mark espers to be the next Army Secretary. Other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to i would like to say that ive been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the Defense Authorization bill. I think most members were happy with their briefing that we received concerning reactions on the uss mccain and others so we are glad to begin this hearing. We thank all of you for joining us this morning. We welcome your family and friends here with us today. As is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony we invite you to introduce those who are joining you. Sta
Wounding 20 others and the victims ranged in an age 18 months to 77 years. About a dozen of those who were killed were children and they included the daughter of the churchs pastor. The shooter reportedly drove up to the Church Wearing a low approved fast Tactical Gear and began firingng in the parking lt butre he entered the church at some point a some point of local residents who live near the b church began firing back n the shooter then drove off with two residents in pursuit eventually crashing his car eventually dying of a gunshot wound that may have been selfinflicted. President trump and others have said this exchange of fire with citizens responding to save lives shows that the policy response to the shooting should be to arm more good guys with guns. Let us not forget that 46 people were shot before the citizens came on the scene. Now this reported shooter, 26 years old had served in the u. S. Air force from 2010 until 2014 working in majestics. 2012 he was courtmartialed or
Ok folks. Good afternoon. My name is john hammering. I am very pleased to have you all come, today. We will have a wonderful afternoon together. I look forward to this important conference. But i just say we have a little safety announcement for everyone. If we do have an incident where i have to ask you to get up and leave and follow me, the exits are right behind me. There are three doors. The stairs that take us to the street are closest to this door right here. We will no downstairs and meet across at National Geographic and get some ice cream or something. Just follow me if we need to do something. I need to give a bit of background for this project so that you understand what you are going to hear. This is a remarkably important thing because of the context of where we work. Ago, may, chairwoman fu ying, chairwoman of the Foreign Relations committee for the Peoples Congress came to me and said we think that the time is right for a serious study done by chinese think tank scholars
Maximumsecurity prison in acapulco. Clashinghell with the Current Administration over Donald Trumps conflicts. First, the eyes of the world had descended upon hamburg, germany as the g 20 summit gets underway. Leaders of the worlds most powerful nations are gathering to discuss issues ranging from trading Climate Change to counterterrorism. However north korea is bound to make its way onto the agenda with the leaders of japan, south korea, and china president. The focus will undoubtedly be the meeting between donald trump and the russian president Vladimir Putin. For more lets go across to Robert Parsons standing by in hamburg. Good afternoon. What are we likely to get out of this meeting . Our trump and putin likely to see i to eye on anything . That will be adjusting. We dont really know. This has to be one of the strangest meetings, a russian and a u. S. Head of state, for many decades. Bear in mind that donald trump himself has gone on record in at least two occasions saying he is
I would like to turn it over to him. Thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. As was said im head of the History Department at nc state university, and i want to thank ed for asking me to moderate the panel. Im looking forward to it. Ed has already been introduced to you. He is a member of the faculty, he History Department of Duke University and also vice provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and leading a study support bid National Endowments for the humanities as long as is lats and the father of a soon to be hope to be ph. D in the humanities. He certainly has wanted to explore career opportunities. The rest of the panel, from eds left back toward me, next to ed is kevin anderson, who is currently the Senior Deputy attorney general for the state of North Carolina. He also heads the Consumer Protection division, and he has been directing that for the past five years. He has been lead attorney on a wide range of cases and investigations involving financial fraud, health care, telecom