Cspan. Org history. Host joining us this morning from nashville is Michael Newton at vanderbilt university, the director of International Legal studies program there is also a former Senior Advisor to the investor at large for war crimes issued in the state department from 19992002. You been an Expert Witness what is the icc . Kiss the International Criminal court in the hague. Its a Permanent Court with permanent prosecutors and registry and defense counsel with broad jurisdiction with war crimes against humanity. The key thing for viewers to know is its a treaty based courts on the its a very complicated interconnected treaty that is reviewed periodically. Thats the notion in the hague. When people say the world court, they typically talk about the International Court of justice which is between states on the civil side but this is the criminal court. Host why does it matter by treaty . Guest it matters a lot because there is certain ascribed jurisdictions. The ideas when i join the
[inaudible conversations] thank you all so much and welcome to the National Press club. Im emily wilkins, the 117th president of the National Press club and for cnbc. Thank you for joining us on this incredibly important topic. The first World Press Freedom day took place not the first one, but the first one in the u. S. Took place in the National Press club in 2011 so were grateful for those of you who joined us both in person and online today. On one hand its an exciting time all over the world giving important and moving speeches. Some in santiago, chile and all over the world. Well get the latest information on the three u. S. Journalists who are wrongfully being held overseas, you know their names. Austin tice, who works for the Washington Post has been held for nearly 12 years now in syria. Evan gershkovich, a wall street journal reporter taken in russia one year and two months ago and alsu kurmasheva, editor at Radio Free Europe, who has been held in russia for more than six mon
So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony from earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite some time ago about what the best thing that could conceivably happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announce. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases, white sands, ft. Hood, Patrick Air Force base, and my very favorite, joint base lewis mccord, which i have the privilege to represent. You seemed pretty rushed at the end of that discussion about what it is that the Affairs Office is
So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony from earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite some time ago about what the best thing that could conceivably happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announce. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases, white sands, ft. Hood, Patrick Air Force base, and my very favorite, joint base lewis mccord, which i have the privilege to represent. You seemed pretty rushed at the end of that discussion about what it is that the Affairs Office is
Consumer financial Protection Bureau. This portion is about an hour and 15 minutes. Okay. Well call the hearing back to order. Well be respectful of the directors time here. We do have a number of members that have returned. So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington, mr. Heck, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite sometime ago about what the best thing that could conceively happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announcements. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases,