Scheme to furnish their own political and financial fortunes. You are here because you are indicted by the grand jury. Mr. Fattah, you understand. I do your honor. They say the allegations stem from a million tlar campaign loan, it outlines a scheme to repay part of the loan by channelling federal grant money through fattahs nonprofit and two private companies and it also names his wife and his son, chaka fattah jr. , who is facing his own charges. To take people in my family and smear their good name, that has a lot about character, that is the most unfortunate part of this process. Fattah pled not guilty to all of the charges and is free after signing a 100,000 bond and says he going back to work and looking forward to running for reelection hopefully winning a 12th term in congress. David thank you for that report. All right time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Yes, beautiful out there, hot side but cooler than yesterday, cecily tynan standing by this afternoon with the
Im pleased to yield to the chair mr. Wilson. And ladies and gentlemen, it is a unique situation where i have just been recognized and get to preside simultaneously. It really gives me an opportunity to thank the Ranking Member smith for their planning this week, cyber week. It is a recognition for our three witnesses how important what youre doing protecting American Families. Im very grateful. We had a hearing yesterday on Cyber Threats to American Families, our National Defense. We have this hearing later this afternoon. We have a briefing. I want the American People to know we have really good people like coppingman langevin all the way from long island, who is the Ranking Member of the emerging threat subcommittee. This really is a bipartisan issue that we face of great concern of attacks on our government, on private businesses, on american citizens. And what youre doing is so important. We have extraordinary staff people who are here working on these issues. And, again, each one
As president , but warning against taking them out on an arbitrary time line next year. The president announcing today that he would keep nearly 10,000 troops in the region until october 2016 and then cut back to 5,500 in early 2017. In a statement the majority leader said the decision to reduce troop numbers should be left to the next president. You can read more here at the washington examiner. Weve heard from the chair of the Armed Services committee, who released a statement saying given the troubling conditions on the ground in afghanistan and the other Security Problems in the region keeping 9,800 troops through at least 2016 is necessary for our security interests. You can also hear the president s announcement for yourself in its entirety and well have it at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time over on cspan. Known as the city of good neighborhoods, this weekend our cspan cities tour joined by Time Warner Cable explores the history and literary life of buffalo wrarks new york, on become tv