Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac in broad terms, our military strategy in the middle east is part of an interagency, International Effort to sustain a conditionsbased approach designed to defeat violent extremism, two, to prevent regional dominance by iran, and, three, to ensure our allies and partners. Thank you for your support to our men and women in uniform. I appreciate the opportunity to appear here today and look forward to your questions. Thank you, gentlemen. We now move into the questions. Our two witnesses have a hard stop at noon, which means im going to be more aggressive about enforcing the fiveminute clock. Make sure we can get to as many members as possible. Im not going to ask questions. I will yield to mrs. Davis for the first set of questions, five minutes. Thanks. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And thank you to both of you, dr. Esper, and dr. Milley for joining us. I appreciate your statement and i wonder if you will just perhaps in a more refined fashion,
Its. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching our i robot turn joining me today to discuss the articles of impeachment being brought against President Donald Trump and the war budget being approved without a starter is the former United States representative out of florida Alan Grayson Alan always a pleasure thank you thank you and your opinion im very curious as a former democrat House Democrat has the as the case for impeachment been made against President Donald Trump and in your view. Oh i think donald trump commits impeachable offenses roughly once a week and i think that this one is long overdue its clearly not just a misdemeanor but a high crime to take 400000000. 00 of the publics money and use its try to bribe a Foreign Government investigating a political opponent that sounds like a high crime to me its an abuse of power you know one of the things i want to ask you to is its interesting when you look at our history of impeachment you know we havent we have
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
Son was one of the victims at the orinda house party. He is hired a lawyer. The lawyer today telling me the family has not been contacted, they have not been updated. It is only adding to the grief they are experiencing after all of this. Juliette goodrich, kpix 5. The owners of that home at 114 lou seal way lucille way had a history of allowing airbnb renters to throw big parties on the property, according to records obtained by the mercury news, as recently as last february michael wang and his wife are charging 800 for large parties, plus 350 cleaning fee. At one point they have posted on airbnb that renters could throw parties at the house with as many as 30 guests. A historic day on capitol hill as the democratic led house held its first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. For weeks u. S. Lawmakers have heard more than 100 hours of closeddoor testimony. Today the public at a chance to watch two diplomats take the stand. Nicole kelly in his life for us o
Im annemarie green. We begin with extraordinary testimony in the impeachment inquiry. The first public hearings detail President Trumps alleged effort to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden. Yesterday two career diplomats, bill taylor and george kent, testified on capitol hill. Taylor said a member of his staff overheard a july phone call between President Trump and u. S. Ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland. After the call sondland told the staffer the president cared more about the investigations of the bidens than ukraine. President trump denies any knowledge of the call and said the impeachment hearings were a sham. Natalie brand is on capitol hill. Natalie, what else did we learn from yesterdays hearing . Reporter good morning. House democrats say that new revelation adds to the evidence that instructions were coming from the top, and weve also learned that staffer taylor mentioned yesterday is expected to testify behind closed doors on friday. The top u. S. Diplomat in ukr