trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy and it s sunday night in america. hamas released some of the hostages taken during the october 7 attack on israel including a 4-year-old american child, which may have you wondering what depraved group take as 4-year-old child in the first place? hamas does. the same group that orphaned that child by killing her mother and father. while people of good conscious celebrate the release of that whiled and others, many hostages we main, separated from their loved ones, deprived of food, light, liberty and most likely humanity. hamas did not, of course, release hostages because t the right thing to do. hamas only did so in exchange for plastein january prisoners and a pause in israel s ground invasion in gaza. as fighting resumes, internal medduations are reportedly still on going. so how do you even begin to negotiation with a terrorist group we have former navy seal commander and hostage negotiator dan o shea. th
trey: good evening and thank you for joining us, i m trey gowdy and it s sunday night in america. hamas released some of the hostages taken during the october 7 attack on israel including a 4-year-old american child, which may have you wondering what depraved group take as 4-year-old child in the first place? hamas does. the same group that orphaned that child by killing her mother and father. while people of good conscious celebrate the release of that whiled and others, many hostages we main, separated from their loved ones, deprived of food, light, liberty and most likely humanity. hamas did not, of course, release hostages because t the right thing to do. hamas only did so in exchange for plastein january prisoners and a pause in israel s ground invasion in gaza. as fighting resumes, internal medduations are reportedly still on going. so how do you even begin to negotiation with a terrorist group we have former navy seal commander and hostage negotiator dan o shea. th
Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
Good afternoon. I call this joint hearing of the readiness and subcommittees of the House Armed Services together. I would like to honor the 17 sailors lossed in the uss fitzgerald. And also the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months, our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causeative factos that have resulted in the death of 17 sailors. Our men remain confident that our navy remains the most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As secretary james mattis stated in august, it creates unpredictability and makes us rigid. We can not deal with new and revealing threats. We know our enemies are not standing still, end of quote. Passing another temporary measure compounds the negative impacts for our military. Some of those impacts are highlighted by the demanding training and certification gaps necessitated by increased operational demand. Speake
Again, we were fortunate in this regard. It is a very special place, the Columbia Gorge, but as this narrow channel through the Cascade Mountains occurs, these trains run through the middle of virtually every community along the way. They represent a rolling time bomb and citizens are right to have grave concerns. I dont think the citizens along the Columbia Gorge are mull identified by think mullified by thinking it could have been worse, we were fortunate this time. Instead what the citizens of mosier are thinking and citizens along the gorge are thinking, our concerns about these rolling explosions hazards are confirmed and we need to take serious measures so that one of these trains does not blow up in our community in the future. Now, there are inspections that take place. The track was reportedly inspected on may 31. A track detector vehicle used lasers and other technology to inspect the track within the last 30 days. But what happened . Why did this occur along this stretch of