Under the eight previous years of republican chairmen, debate was never cut off when democratic members offered difficult amendments during democrats members democratic members offered difficult amendments during the process. We took tough votes when we needed to. Mr. Speaker, i wish we could have had such a different conversation today, the day after veterans day, than this one. But i would be remiss in my duty as Ranking Member if i did not call out this behavior and ways in which it fails our nations veterans. Chairman takano has spoken movingly about how he want us to use his chairmanship to stand up for the rights of minority veterans and i commend him for that. And have stood alongside him in doing that work. Including in may when we stood side by side to launch the Bipartisan Women Veterans Task force. Yet i urge him now in carrying out this that commitment not to spurn the historical bipartisan traditions of the Veterans Affairs committee, not to trouns on the rights of the min
Intelligence Committee Concludes its second week of public hearings. You can join the conversation by phone or send us a comment on facebook and twitter. Is next. Host good morning. Two weeks of hearings in the books. Congress is in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. We heard yesterday from david holmes who is political counsel to the embassy in ukraine and dr. Fiona hill and now the question before washington and the nation, what happens next . It is friday morning. Ahead, highlights from cspans live coverage of the House Intelligence Committee. How the hearings are playing out in the morning papers, social media, political circles and your calls, tweets, and comments. You can begin dialing at 2027488000. That is our phone line if the hearings changed your mind. If they did not, 2027488001. If you remain unsure, 2027488002. Also, you can send us a text message at 2027488003 or tweets at cspanwj. We will read your tweets during the course of the morning and facebook at facebook. Com
President erdogan and mrs. Erdogan. Thank you very much. First lady, thank you very much. And i know youre going to go out to lunch after this. Great honor to have you. The border is holding very well. The ceasefire is holding well. Weve been speaking to the kurds, and they seem to be very satisfied. As you know, weve pulled back our troops quite a while ago, because i think its time for us not to be worried about other peoples borders. I want to worry about our borders. Weve got plenty of borders to worry about. I want to thank the president for the job they have done. Again, this has been thousands of years in the process, between borders, between these countries and other countries we are involved with, 7000 miles away. So, we want to worry about our things. We are keeping the oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind, only for the oil. And i have to just finish by saying that the president and i have been very good friends. Weve been friends for long time, almo
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everybody. And everybody who is looking at us virtually and everybody in line in the security line trying to get in. And everybody who will be watching sometime soon on a cable network. So i am jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center and today we are probing a very complicated issue that is in my view d valvoline policymakers in washington and all over the world. At least three parts of the problem are the u. S. , china, and the 5g supply chain. The Wilson Center has just produced this is a prop, a spectacular policy brief by Melissa Griffith who is in the front row, and we will see in a little bit which is entitled there is more to worry about the huawei. I think you get the just of this. And she will explain in detail but run, do not walk to read this. Meanwhile, what captures the attention around 5g is that Chinabased Huawei has led the way in developing the superfast networks which will power self driving cars, virtualreality and
Good afternoon. And welcome to the National Press club. The place when news happens. Im andrea edney, immediate past president of the National Press club and and i serve on the bof both the club and of our journalism institute. We have a really, really Great Program ahead, invite you to listen, watch or follow along on twitter using the npclive. For our cspan audience and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause a reaction you may here are not, is not necessarily from working press. Let me begin by introducing the head table and a like to ask you to please hold your applause and until all of the head table guests are introduced. Helpful to have the list. So from my left and from your right we have sean butcher, Communications Manager at disabled sports usa and editor of challenge magazine. We have retired navy captain jim noon, command of the American Legion post 20 here at the National Press club. Next to capt