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
And im George Howell from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Newsroom starts right now. And we begin with the attacks that have shaken two u. S. Communities during the holiday season. In texas, a man opened fire killing two people during a Church Service before he was shot by armed parishioners. We will have the details in just a moment. Also in monsey, new york, the suspect accused of stabbing five people during a hanukkah celebration inside a rabbis home, this happened saturday, that suspect is being held on 5 million bail. Grafton thomas has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and first degree burglary. His Attorney Says he has a long history of Mental Illness and no history of antisemitism. We must warn you the video youre about to see may be disturbing. These are photos from inside the rabbis home right after the attack, and you can see blood on the floor and chairs overturned. And Surveillance Video from a neighbors home appears to show the attacker running toward his car afte
You havent 9 nonbinding non legally binding General Assembly resolution 2 years late that simply expresses condemnation for something thats now 2 years in the past and urges the myanmar government to take actions that it has repeatedly indicated that it is unwilling to take so no its very difficult to see how this resolution could be of any concrete benefit to either the. Refugees who fled into bangladesh or for the some 400000 or so estimated ranges who remain in myanmar and remain at risk of further genocidal attacks the sad part about it is that the un General Assembly the same body that issued the resolution recently passed the responsibility to protect unanimously in 2005 which makes abundantly clear that when a country is either unable or unwilling to protect its people from genocide crimes against humanity and other Great International crimes that it is the collective responsibility of the International Community of Member States to take appropriate action to ensure that these c
Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of a
On the massive 2020 rover thats set to pave the way for manned missions to space. Welcome to the program the United Nations is warning of devastating consequences to civilians and its lip syrias last rebel controlled province nearly 250000 people mostly women and children have fled the area after 2 weeks of heavy bombardment by russian and Syrian Government forces nicola gage has more. Tents go up in the syrian town of dunn are now a temporary harm for families with nowhere else to go they fled Martel Newmont in the south of italy province as Syrian Government forces advance many leaving most of their belongings behind. If not we fled from the bombardment and came here its a small camp that doesnt really fit a lot of people and the people just keep coming the situation is not that. Since the start of december nearly 250000 people have been displaced from the last rebel held area of syria most women and children many have fled by road for others fuel shortages have stopped them from get