Just watching as this subcommittee meeting coming together. The hearing featuring the lead singer of u2, bono, and also policy and foreign experts from the u. N. Here. Meeting today to talk about violent extremism. Live coverage here on cspan3. Well hear from state department and u. N. Officials and among the witnesses, again, the lead singer of the band u2. All right, folks. Take a seat. This is what its like to be chopped liver. The subcommittee will come to order. Hearing today is on the causes and consequences of violent extremism and the role of foreign assistance. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Demonstratety secretary of state tony blinken. Bono, lead singer of u2 and cofounder of one and red. General james jones, former National Security adviser, supreme allied commander in europe and president of the jones group international. And kelly complements, deputy United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Ill make a short opening statement. Let senat
Could be undone. We worked together, senator durbin, on debt consolation. With senator leahy, we worked with instagram. I got to know senator purdue. We were traveling around. Im thinking who is the republican and who is the democrat . Of course they are talking on other subjects very easy to find outlet. But on this stuff, this is like the one thing that you all agree on. It brings out the best in you. Im sure of that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you mr. Chairman and for being here today and testifying. I certainly agree with all the comments about the importance of aide. It is about our security and the impact of whats happening in europe affecting us in the United States because we do have Transit Alliance that has been critical to world order. We had a hearing this morning in the Foreign Relations committee on isis and international terrorism. One of the conclusions that i drew listening to the testimony and our witnesses generally agreed with this is that we have been good in t
What are you going to do to get the aid out while we are working on these Bigger Solutions . The reason i mentioned circles is, when you get to the countries of first asylum turkey, lebanon and jordan. We know what is pushing people to make that journey. To put themselves on the high its, jeopardize their lives, is not the violence because it is gone. It is to two things a lack of access to employment and jobs for the parents. And a lack of access to education for the kids. A big focus is working with those countries in particular to open up both access to schools and access to jobs. We are working very closely with unicef on that. It is partly a question of resources and the contacts we are talking about. On the jobs front, it is hard to say i will give a job to a syrian refugees, even though you, a fellow citizen, dont have one. We are working with Innovative Solutions to do that. The europeans are looking to create better access to the market for products produced were refugees are
Put into the record a screenshon shot that we quoted from the website just this morning that still has the fetal tissue sales components. Have we reviewed the document . Know because we pulled this this morning but you are welcome to look at it. We also have im going to reserve the right to object. You can reserve the right and we will come back when we have the force of exhibit that we will put in the record with the exhibit so that you will know where they came there was a question on exhibit d5, the chart that showed the growth of the procurement Business Revenue that came from the business magazine articles into the Congressional Research service so that you all are aware of that. And then there was also a question on exhibit b. For, the chart with the number of abortion clinics. The information on that chart came from the procurement Business Owner and contract with the abortion organization, so ordered. I withdraw my resignation. But the last statement he made about the last docu
Many as a Million People may march today in defense of freedom of speech. Along with politicians from the u. K. , from france, germany and turkey from israel and from palestine. You mentioned the video that just surfaced made by Amedy Coulibaly hes the man who took the hostages friday in the kosher supermarket. He pledges allegiance to isis although new evidence that he never wanted to go and fight with them. However his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene who French Police say is suspect also in the terrorist attack doesnt does appear to have slipped away. Turk irk authority say she crossed the border in to syria on the 2nd of january. Another thing that Amedy Coulibaly underlines in the video is that he coordinated his attacks with the attacks of the brothers, Cherif Kouachi and said kouachi of the people at the satirical magazine charlie hebdo. French politicians are calling for unity universally france has largest Muslim Population in europe and very ethnically diverse society. They are