About we works toxic phone booth. Jason and a special summit on security. They have got a new exhibit called revealed the hunt for bin laden. We begin with our top stories. In the politics section, it is lights, camera, impeachment. Jason House Democrats count on public hearings to bring to life testimony that has already been given behind closed doors. Your is billy house in d. C. What we saw was concern on the part of state Department Officials about back channel diplomacy by rudy giuliani, and evidence, hearsay evidence, secondhand evidence of what they were hearing trump was up to. Kailey how long can all of this really go on . What is directly next is this upcoming week of four hearings, four separate hearings, including what could be the biggest one, that of Eu Ambassador gordon sondland, who is the one who may have had the most direct contact with President Trump on whether or not he wanted to withhold aid in return for investigations. The House Intelligence Committee is hoping
Good evening everyone and welcome to tonights event were delighted to have joining us this evening Jerry Van Dyke and investigative journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region and our moderator carlos Senior Vice President of program at a World Affairs were recording tonights program so please take a molt to silence your cell phones. My name is tim callahan a Program Officer here at a World Affairs. If you enjoy tonights discussion and youre interested in learning more about the organization, i will be around after the program. So please introduce yourself. I will now like to turn it over to our moderator carlos. So good morning everyone and thank you for joining us its my great pleasure to introduce is our guest this evening jer is rei van dyke a journalist, author and cbs news consultant who covers afghanistan and pakistan. Host authored a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban and another work in afghanistan. Also written for publication New York Tim
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol