The end of the fiscal year. With that i yield back. I thank the Ranking Member. Pleased to have three distinguished witnesses before us today to discuss this important topic. First, the honorable francis taylor. Became the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security in april 2014. Hes held a variety of senior level positions over his 35year career in government service. Most recently undersecretary taylor served as the assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security and director of foreign missions. Thank you, sir, for being here today. Next we have the honorable nicholas rasmussen, sworn in as director of the National Counterterrorism center in december of 2014. He previously served as nctcs Deputy Director since june of 2012, prior to returning to nctc he served with the National Security Council Staff as special assistant to the president , and senior director for counterterrorism. Thank you, sir. And last but not least, Michael Ste
Its sitting over in the senate and now its time for the senate to do their job. Good morning, everyone. As we continue to advance an opportunity economy, today i wanted to highlight just one of the things that makes america exceptional. And that is the spirit of generosity that we see all across this country. We see it in homes, in schools in hospitals, in hearts. And yesterday kevin mentioned that we had the chance to visit d. C. Central kitchen right here in the heart of the nations capital. And beyond the tremendous effort to get that food and to distribute it, theyre changing lives and it was so inspiring to meet lives that had been changed, people, because of this effort, had gone to school, had got some training and now were employed. And this is one of the Many Organizations across the country that embody that spirit of generosity. In eastern washington, i visited christ kitchen and we have a campus kitchen at gonzaga, union gospel kitchen and there are so much more. A large num
Office he olds, trying to unseat the Prime Minister, white house today, admitted that president has not called netanyahu to congratulate him a call of some sort to the now 4 term Prime Minister will be made within the quote, coming days. Meanwhile white house pettiness on further display. Accusing likud party of usings rhetoric. Josh ernest saying that u. S. , and this administration is deeply concerned about rhetoric that seeks to marginalize arab israeli citizens, ernest did not congratulate the Prime Minister on his win or the israel peal on the historic turn out of arab voters in the election more than tripleed from previous election. That is right ernest did not mention a fifth of israels population is made up of arabs and palestinians, and arab list took 14 seats in this election, we will take up this, including a negative response to the election ruts not only from the president , and Many Democrats but National Liberal media as well. What does that pore tend for port end for is
Thousands of South Koreans celebrating a tidal festival. The u. S. State Department Says the deteriorating security situation in yemen forced it to evacuate remaining personnel in the country. The Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting. They have launched a new offensive in the south. The president Abdrabbu Mansour hadi has tried to rebuild a power base. People gathering to protest the arrive of houthis. A helicopter was a sign that prohouthi sources may be close. They have tried to hang on to power since forced to fleet the capital. There are those that oppose the houthis, they are protesting against them. They will not fight the houthis. People travel the bombize that killed 137 on friday. The president appeared on television and said it was an attempt to push them into war. He needed to secure yemeni. The job as a president is to do that and invite powers and components including those that carried out the coup in order to agree and think it would help the arts. Negotiatio
By the sun. Chad and 9 ear have launched a ground and air offensive against boko haram fighters in northeastern nigeria. Local media, reporting that a convoy of more than 200 vehicles is headed towards the nigerian border, the offensive comes after the au, the African Union endorsed the creation of a Regional Force of up to 10,000 people to join the fight against boko haram. They pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of iraq in the lee vant. Nick sheeve iran joins me from karno from northeastern nigh year i cant. I appreciate you are not on the front line but you are not far from it. What do you hear or see about this new offensei . Jonah, we have been traveling in that region inside nigeria and chad and niger. These countries need to go in from chad from niger into northeastern nigeria where boko haram is largely headquartered. None of it, officials i am speaking to will give any details of how many troops are part of this. But as you said at least 200 vehicles. Is one of the larges