General mattis added that this lunch went significantly farther and lasted longer than north koreas previous long range tests. In response a south Korean Military had a missile firing drill of its own. A big step over for that senate tax bill. It sent the bill to the full senate for a vote. The two republicans who said they were voting against it wound up supporting the bill. Democratic leaders skipped a meeting at the white house after a tweet from the president. allison . Reporter democratic leader said after that tweet it would have been a waste of their time to attend the meeting. Republican leaders say it was silly or petty and they say it was democratic and tics. So they decided to not show what. They have been all talk and no action. Reporter before meeting with gop leaders President Trump rallied senate republicans. Earlier a stop with the desktop democrats in the president tweeting nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer saying quote i do not see a deal. Schumer and pelosi pulled ou
Things that impose burdens on us like that might be the sort of thing that presents problems for us. Im not speaking, again, not speaking with respect to any proposal, but thats the kind of consideration we take into account. Okay. Im going to go ahead, go ahead. A point on that, again, not talking or addressing any specific proposal, but if we were required to for a provider to disclose the number of orders served on them, that gives the adversaries ad go ahead indicators, perhaps, depending on the relative numbers whether to use that Service Provider or not, and its difficult to accept. If i may add to that, one thing the pam is aware of, the dni announced a annual report of the number of orders issued under various provisions of fisa and the number of targets affected. The executive branch is trying to the extent possible to take steps towards transparency to be taken consistent with operational effectiveness to delineate the number of orders and targets expected by fisa orders with
Half. Good evening. Tha thanks so much for coming. We have a number of thank yous. Executive deep, nation institute, the guardian and others worked to make it possible. We obviously have a special thank you to watching and who came out tonight. It is being live streamed and taped for book tv and free speech television. So i would ask everybody to check cell phones to make sure it is off. And just so you know it is being filmed. We will take questions and pass around note cards and reading them from up here so they can be part of the live stream and booktv. There is going to be a book signing afterwards as well. Hey market books has a table d gary is going to be signing. I went to washington, d. C. This weekend and had a couple extra hours. I went to see the king memorial. How many people have seen it . It is exceedingly depressing. The original plans for the monument included plans to honor other martyrs but they were scrapped. King towers over us. 14 quotes on the equal. And not one u
I believe we should not at this time add additional sanctions. We should fully keep those sanctions in place. That is how my believe, the main reason why iran is where they are out because those sanctions have had an impact. My committee, the Armed Services committee, has been very much involved putting those sanctions in place. Alas National Defense authorization act had the last tranche in that bill. Im not one who has any sense at all and opposed to sanctions. As opposed, i am very for it. If we respond to this possibility in a negative way instead of being study and keeping sanctions in place, if we tighten the screws now when it looks as though, apparently against some opposition at home and in iran, that the iranian leadership may be willing to talk about ending, modifying, changing and making less threatening their nuclear program, and to response is negative, they could very well lose the very countries, particularly russia and china, who have stood with us to put sanctions in
And met with president karzai. Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman about improvements in the country as the u. S. And prepare to remove troops from afghanistan in 2014. From the council on foreign relations. Is an hour. Welcome to the foreign relations. Im johnathan karl. A high honor to be here with levin. Introduction. S no interduck carl levin is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services from the great state of michigan and of special interest to me, just back from a trip to afghanistan where he commanders over there and also had a one on one president karzai. Im eager to hear about that and senator levin has some tomarks about the trip afghanistan and then we will have a conversation. Levin . R well, thank you, jon. We appreciate the invitation to join you this morning and look forward to that conversation as well. Just here to share my ideas but hopefully to receive ideas that we all need in this kind of a world that we live in. Mentioned, i recently returned from