Capital. High level u. S. Delegation is on its way to tacky to meet president russia type at 0 on hoping to convince him to call off an offensive in northeast and syria Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike pompei or will try to broker a cease fire deal between turkey and Kurdish Armed groups but other one has insisted his forces will not stop until his objectives are met meanwhile heavy fighting continues between Turkish Forces and kurdish fighters in the border town of russell line which is considered a Strategic Point for both well child stratford is in jail and which is close to the scene of fighting in the attack hes border with syria but fast we go to sin and. Im sorry were going to come back to cinema shortly but right now charlie im going to ask you a little more about the fighting that youre just a few kilometers from talk us through what youre seeing there now. Well this morning there has been heavy turkish artillery bombardment of understand s. D. F. Turkish
Including signals from london and brussels that a brecks a deal is imminent but sticking points over the irish border remain. Also ahead hold off the political stage hong kong is embattled leader is forced to abandon her annual policy speech. Im going to get you off go with the sports olympic officials move next years marathon from tokyo to escape the city state. Hello the u. S. Is dispatching Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike on pay 0 to turkey hoping to convince its a hole to its military offensive in Northern Syria for President Donald Trump appears to be talking down americas role in the crisis saying syria and turkey will hopefully work it out by themselves turkey launched the operation a week ago after trumper broccoli withdrew support from kurdish allies for kurdish allies which turkey regards as terrorists. Tiriel doesnt want turkey to take its land i can understand that but what does that have to do with the United States of america if theyre fighting over
From its public website. On march 7th the irs reported that it was temporarily suspending us of the ippin application as part of an ongoing security review. The irs does not anticipate having the technology in place for either the get transcript or ippin application to provide multifactor authentication capability before the summer of 2016. The number and sophistication of threats to taxpayer information will likely continue to increase and these threats will be a continued focus of our audit and investigative activity. Chairman hatch, Ranking Member widen, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to share my views. Thank you so much. We appreciate having your views and will now turn to mr. Dadaro and i understand the other two witnesses will be here to answer questions if necessary. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you. Ranking member wyden, members of the committee, were pleased to discuss gaos work related to Computer Security at irs and Identity The
Apparently thats Old Fashioned now. So do you see that expanding more . Yes, congressman cummings. Not my thing. Im talking about absolutely. Hypergrowth. Hypergrowth. The challenge is its a very competitive delivery space. We compete for customers every day. Its the value proposition. Competitive pricing, transit time performance and visibility. And the Postal Service has made investments in all of those components to insure we improve our competitive standing. We need to recognize while our strength is last mile delivery, were challenged there. The socalled uberization of Package Delivery is very competitive. We recognize we have to compete for that business. The challenge ultimately for us, the package growth alone wont offset the losses in firstclass volume. Hence the need to address the legacy costs specifically looking at medicare integration as a cornerstone of our legislative ask. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I now recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. Fahrenthold. I want to foll
Who can keep taxpayer Information Safe. If you are a top notch tech expert, you already are taking a pay cut to work in Public Service compared to what youd earn at firms in oregon or california. Now, without what is called streamlined Critical Pay Authority, it can take four to six months to bring a new hire on board at the irs. So i want to be clear as we go to questions, taxpayer information is under assault every single day. But the irs does not have the Legal Authority it needs from the congress to build a Cybersecurity Team that can beat back the crooks. Already theres been an exodus of high ranking irs tech staff. The director of cybersecurity operations left a month ago. The terms for the remaining employees working under this Authority Continue to expire, including for one of our witnesses chief technology officer. Come 2017, there are not going to be any left. So today, instead of rehashing the past and just beating up on one agency or one firm, to me, the priority ought to b