Gives evidence. Drink drive Leonardo Dicaprio takes home an oscar we start in syria where the u. N. Is going to deliver aid to besieged towns. There is a lull in the fighting. The areas include these three. Elsewhere they want to get aid here as well. There have been strikes in homs and idlib. Continued breaches would make new talks unattainable. It says forces have attacked several rebel held areas using heavy artillery and barrel bombs. To our correspondent now. As far as the air raids are concerned, not the potential air drops of aid, but the air raids, thats not a big surprise given that damascus was always reserving the right to go after the rebels and to go after i. S. I. L. As well. Reporter indeed, yes. Bashar alassads government had said that it was going to exclude i. S. I. L. And one of the main opposition forces, alnusra, which is linked to alqaeda. The opposition says there have been several breaches in areas where neither i. S. I. L. Or alnusra are present and particularl
Duty to give president ial nominees a vote. Appointment shall be made with the advice and consent of the senate that is very different than saying every nominee was teased about. What about the views the president of the senate . Joe biden was a senator for many decades. He was a loyal democrat. He developed friendships in both parties and before becoming Vice President he served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee in circumstances similar to where we find ourselves today. It was in elections here as campaigner in the underway, a president and a Senate Majority just like we have today and heres what we put on the washington post. The democrat from delaware, chairman of the Judiciary Committee has urged president bush into the Supreme Court until after warning that any nominee quote, would become a victim of a quote power struggle, end quote, over control of the Supreme Court. Biden said he was also urge the senate if bush decided to name someone. The article continued corbin said se
A spill is not quite same as a leak, but the classification in the federal government really do concern me. What are you doing to address these types of situations . My view is that given our Cyber Security mission should be a model for other agencies and departments. I am familiar with that article. I know that our Cyber Security experts and intelligence analysis are focused on addressing spills. My recollection is that the article is not accurate in all respects. Id be happy to look into that. That would be great. I appreciate it. I do appreciate it and thank you for your very good work up there. Thank you for all your employees as well. Thank you mr. Chair. Thank you senator ernst. Ive been cranking up numbers here. I got your sheet on on a Company Children big difference here is you are including all accompanied children including from mexico and i was talking about unaccompanied children from Central America which is a big problem. Lets get through this because its important. It a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on the posture of the u. S. Central command, Africa Command of special Operations Command in the context of our review on oversight of the fiscal year 2017 Defense Budget. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses general austen general rodrigues and general votel. We thank each of you for dedicated for decades of distinguished service and for your leadership of our men and women in uniform. I would like to extend a special thanks to chairman austen and chairman rodrigues as this may be their last appearance before this committee. Our nations most distinguished National Security leaders have testified before this committee repeatedly and we are witnessing the unraveling of a rulesbased International Order and nowhere is this unraveling more than the middle east from north africa to south asia. State authority and the balance of power are breaking down. This emerging vacuum has bee
Come under attack by the russians. That is clear. Secretary carter absolutely true. But they have been placed in areas which for many reasons have not been subject to aerial attacks. Secretary carter they are fighting isil. The russians are not. Even though they said they were. But the go back. Let me go back. It has shifted to train individual units to the i sil fight to providing some training to the leader and then some support. This is another aspect of approach which i would like to clarify. Individualaders, but enablers pride people with Technical Skills that can go in to the deployed units and provide those skills. Is that still being done . Secretary carter that is so part of the approach. The big differences rather than trying to form brandnew units we are identifying units already fighting isil, providing them equipment and as you pointed out, after vetting their leadership, providing them with selected abilities that help enablementge our from the air. The program is able to