All right, why dont we get w started since time is short. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is harry kazianis. Welcome to our friends here in the flesh as well as thosese joining on Facebook Live and ast well as cspan3. Today we present a real treat, not one but twopart discussion on u. S. Missile defense policy. Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me on my right, senator tom cotton from arkansas, part two after senator cottons keynote address as well as q a session a lively debate on Missile Defense with joe and rebecca from the hudson institute. Now im going to keep remarks very brief as we want to spend as much time as possible with senator cotton, obviously it goes by saying that washington faces severe challenges when it comes to missiles and proliferation of missiles throughout the world. Obviously north korea is very much in the news and the abilities to actually at some point hit the homeland. Senator cotton has been at theue forefront of advocating for a robust Miss
Treat, not one but two part discussion on u. S. Missile defense policy. Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me, right, center to tom khan from arkansas. Part two after his keynote address as well as q a session will be what hope is a lively debate on Missile Defense with Joseph Cirincione and rebeccah heinrichs. Im going to keep my remarks prebrief doesnt want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible. It goes without saying that washington is faced with severe challenges when it comes to missiles and the proliferation of missiles throughout the world. Obviously north korea is very much in the news to get the departments of it short, medium and longrange Ballistic Missiles and the ability at some point his homeland. Senator cotton has been the forefront of advocating for a robust Missile Defense strategy. His remarks will be around 20 minutes or so. After that will open the floor to questions for about 25 minutes. Please keep in mind during the q a to state your
Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i urge all of my colleagues to vote no on this terrible martial law rule. We have no idea what the hell we are going to be voting on. This is a rule that allows them to bring up anything between now and september 5. Ill ask my colleagues to vote no on the previous question and if we defeat the previous question ill bring up h. R. 15, which is a bipartisan senatepassed comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. And mr. Speaker, mr. Speaker, were talking about kids, poor kids, most of them fleeing terrible violence. Im ashamed at the insensitivity and the lack of compassion from the other side. America is a better country. Lets not lose our humanity in this process. If the United States of america stands for anything, it stands out loud for human rights. Were better than the angry mobs yelling at children. The anger and the nastyness and insensitivity is not the face of america we want to show the rest of the world. We are better. I urge my colleagues on the other s
We had a couple of showers influence marin county that have fallen apart. We are looking at only drizzle through 9 00 and partly sunny and temperatures in the upper 60s at noon and mid70s and back to the mid60s by 7 00, and drizzle is more spotty inland this morning and high clouds and sunshine and mid70s at noon to nearly 88 at 7 00 and low 70s at 7 00 and midtoupper 60s along the coast with drizzle this morning and a few pockets of sunshine to afternoon. Good morning, we are starting off right now on a busy note. If you travel through fremont we have a street closing we with a bad crash at fremont boulevard both sides are shut down define dakota and ferry lane until 10 00. Avoid the area. Detours are in place. We have a sigalert if hollister if you go through the pass we do have both westbound lanes shut down because of a crash involving a big rig and ten other vehicles. Eastbound traffic is moving through and westbound traffic is moving through on shoulder and intermittent lane bloc
Cairo, is a longterm deal reachable . We will speak to author norman finkelstein. Then president obama signs a bill to send 225 million in emergency funding to israel for its iron dome defense system. But does the iron dome system work . I would not spe money on an intersector that has near zero chance of intercepting artillery rocket. The interceptor probably costs in excess of 100,000 per interceptor and it is maybe achieving a 5 rate, maybe. Could be lower, against rockets the cost may 1000 or 500 thousand dollars each. We continue our conversation with mit physicist theodore postol. Then the new york medical Examiners Office has ruled the death of eric garner a homicide. A new york man. [indiscernible] once again, the Police Beating up on people. Two weeks ago eric garner died when a new york police placed him in chokehold after he was confronted illegally selling single cigarettes known as loosies. Over the weekend the Police Arrested the man who videotaped garners death on his ce