The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material and questions for the record, subject to the limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that today is mr. Mccauls birthday. So happy birthday, mr. Mccaul. [ applause ] im 35 years once again. Yes. Me too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy toward iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well, after we invited him, he announced he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate, whether you agree with this administrations approach to iran or not. I dont think there is a member of this committee who doesnt want to hear from mr. Pompeo and the American People certainly deserve to hear answers with our troops and diplomats being asked to hand in harms way. But this commit
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In the star ship program. Guy how far are we now to the star ship program . Its a big piece. Matt talking 30 rockets instead of the nine on the falcon. Its really adding complexity to the program and you see them thinking of technology that allows you to get it all the way to mars as complexity, too. Hellon elon talked about the physical issues of getting to gravity and when you get to that size rocket, you Start Testing technology, physics, or our understanding of it as we know it today. Vonnie theres no particular regulator for these type of missions but the International Telecommunications union coordinates the allocation for frequency of communications, matthew, so in a sense space x is given a lot of freedom and seems to be using the freedom pretty well. Lets talk about the satellites and go up in the tower and then one is at the ch lower orbits and they have to push their own solar panels to survive in space. Its very ingenious. Matt theyre using a lot of technology though its go
The month of september. Lower than the 145,000 the economist were looking for. Certainly steady. The Unemployment Rate dropped to a 50 year low at 3. 5 in the last time you saw a number like that we went on the move in 1969. Joining me too talk more about the week that was and what is ahead the deputy managing partner michael and sarah are here. In chief economist anthony chan. Great to see you guys. Thank you for being here. What was your reaction to the numbers . What i see, wages are not rising as rapidly, that gives the Federal Reserve not to concern and they can continue to stimulate and help the whole economy. In case anybody thinks his number was not strong, you have to look at the expectation of what the Federal Reserve will do right after the numbers were released. You saw that drop by ten Percentage Points in october and 10 in december. Still strong and suggest will get to that but it tells you the markets are engaged in feel this number was a positive number. You make a real
The month of september. Lower than the 145,000 the economist were looking for. Certainly steady. The Unemployment Rate dropped to a 50 year low at 3. 5 in the last time you saw a number like that we went on the move in 1969. Joining me too talk more about the week that was and what is ahead the deputy managing partner michael and sarah are here. In chief economist anthony chan. Great to see you guys. Thank you for being here. What was your reaction to the numbers . What i see, wages are not rising as rapidly, that gives the Federal Reserve not to concern and they can continue to stimulate and help the whole economy. In case anybody thinks his number was not strong, you have to look at the expectation of what the Federal Reserve will do right after the numbers were released. You saw that drop by ten Percentage Points in october and 10 in december. Still strong and suggest will get to that but it tells you the markets are engaged in feel this number was a positive number. You make a real