Channel and abc news in london, ive been covering terrorism since 1987, so for 30 years. About six years ago we were celebrating the takedown of Osama Bin Laden at his compound in pakistan. And later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out an american cleric who was the First American targeted for death by the cia and in many respects the father of this digital jihad that we are living today. I am reminded that it is one thing to kill a man, another to kill his ideas. The topic of our panel today is whether the Intelligence Community has the tools it needs to blunt this terrorist threat. Id like to introduce members of our panel. Id like to begin with jane harmon who is on my far left. Jane harmon is a very familiar face here on capitol hill. She resigned from congress in february of 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson center as its first female director, president and ceo. Jane served on all major security committees and has made numerous congressional Fact Finding Missions to hot spo
Up to this point. After the gains we saw here, gains in oil prices, this morning the dax is up by 0. 8 . The cac and ftse 100 up by better than 1. 1 . Italian market, spain market, gains across the board better than 1 . Lets check out currencies right now. You can see the dollar is up across the board. Euro at 112. 11. Dollar yen at 101. 40. All of this is because of what we saw with oil prices. That is the big story were watching now. Watching it quite closely. Prices spiked yesterday on word that opec agreed to limit production, meaning the cartel would cut for the First Time Since the financial crisis. Today traders are focusing on the lack of detail, thats putting pressure on prices. Goldman sachs saying the opec deal should add 7 to 10 to oil prices the first half of next year but longer term the firm is skeptical. The analyst says if this proposed cut is strictly enforced and supports prices they would expect it to prove selfdefeating medium term with a large drilling response ar
Innocence of death and the imperative of replacing hate for something better. The middle east today, my friends, is still marred by the sounds and spectacle of violence, but it need not be. Because the region is also pulsating with life. It is the home of populations that are energetic, youthful, forwardlooking, and far more interested in plugging into the World Economy than slugging it out with historic foes. It is in them than we place our faith. It is for them, and for their horizons that we dedicate a collective efforts. And it is with them, that the United States of america is determined to turn back the destroyers and build a future that is characterized by prosperity, like peace and by dignity for all people. That is a worthy fight. Thank you all very, very much. [ applause ] coming up this afternoon at 3 30 p. M. Eastern time, a confirmation hearing for nominees to a number of Foreign Policy positions, including a new u. S. Ambassador to libya. Also before the Senate Foreign Re
For the young person giving them, but also give wonderful new contacts for us as we represent the United States abroad. So thats something i have observed and something i hope to continue in tajikistan, if confirmed. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you, senator. Im going to wrap up in a minute. Before i do, i want one other line of questioning for you, mr. Warden. If youre uncomfortable in going down this road, please say so and we can pursue it in a different setting. You talked about the i think its fairly well accepted by the International Community, that the assad regime used chemicals, even after they said they wouldnt and even after they joined the cwc and made all of the commitments. They have a partner today, russia. What role does russia play in the organization and, you know, when youre standing on this side of it, these things are stunning because if the United States was involved with a partner that was doing this sort of thing and we would wash our hands of it ver
They encouraged me to arrange this event which im so glad i did. That was great, but come back to my main sort of prepared remarks in a moment but today of course is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president kennedy and those of us of a certain age remembered this very well where we were and looking at the audience most of you are in that same category where we were and what we were doing and there are lessons that Kennedy Still could teach us today. Im sure you follow all of the documentaries and tv shows and commentary and so on. But one thing that is in my caucus that he listened and learned among the examples of this and having covered the white house for 27 years i can tell you that many president s do not listen and learn and are frozen in their own little bobble and they dont break out and managed to do this. When he took office he expected to be a president dealing with the superpower relationship of the u. S. Versus the union. His only contact with africanamerican