Kounalakis. Here. Commissioner. Here. Motion for the minutes of the september 21, 2016 and september meeting. There was one thing in the agenda under oh gosh. I dont know the page number. Im sorry. Never mind. Thank you. Or second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor of the minutes of september 27 and september 27 say aye. Aye. Opposed . Item 2, Public Comment on executive session. Is there any Public Comment on executive session . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Number 4 executive session. So moved. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. I move to reconvene in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . I move not to disclose anything discussed in closed session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the rolling of
Moved forward, we can now report there are a total of 92 crew members that have been identified as having some level of involvement. That means other participating in the cheating or knowing something about it and the standing of and reporting it. In an abundance of caution as we follow these new leads we have temporarily decertified these 92 crew members, and there are no longer on alert at this time. Lieutenantgeneral wilson and just a few minutes will discuss police held is rearranging his impact what i want to reassure his that i remain confident to our bases last week even more confident in this safety, reliability, effectiveness of the Nuclear Mission. I remain this way for basically the same reasons as i reported to all of you two weeks ago. The differences i went and saw it for myself one week ago. Just to recap, there are multiple checks and balances in the system, and there are a variety of ways that we ensure the reliability and safety, not the least of which is the fact tha
The senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s. 2199 postcloture. That all time during adjournment, recess or morning Business Count postcloture on the motion to proceed to s. 2199. And finally, that the filing deadline for firstdegree amendments to s. J. Res. 19 be at 12 00 noon tomorrow and seconddegree amendments be at 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid we hope to move forward on paycheck fairness and vote on cloture on the constitutional amendment early tomorrow afternoon, mr. President. So if theres no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order, following the remarks of senator sessions, which will last for 30 minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sessions mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer we are not in the middle of a quorum call. Mr. Se
Quite difficult to assess in the heat of the moment. The humanitarian organizations were preparing for, quite rightly, a worst Case Scenario where without they were very large numbers of people trapped on the mountain. I think a combination of possibly overestimation of the number of people there originally. The fact people are insensitive resourceful, and night after night numbers of people were getting themselves off the mountain, and the involvement of the peshmerga forces, in rescuing groups of people, particularly some Syrian Kurdish forces, interesting people from the mountain. It became clear later on in the process that there was a far smaller number than we thought, and that the best way to getting them off with to reinforce the land route that had already become established. We are confident now that there is nobody stranded on mount sinjar. Who is trapped there. That isnt to say that its perfectly peaceful situation there. There are still isil forces around the mountain, but
Orders to try to capture this man. But apparently a firefight broke out. Handtohand combat he resisted. He was killed in the firefight along with other isis fighters there. His wife captured and taken back to iraq. The big question why this guy, why was it worth risking so much u. S. Military lives to go after him . What we are being told is he was an isis leader if you will in their oil and gas operations. So thats very key. Because of the Financial Impact the financial benefit to isis. But perhaps more serious even there had been a sense by the u. S. That he was increasingly involved in isis command and control. And isis operations. And u. S. Officials are beginning to indicate there may have been a reason to believe he might have been in contact at some point with abu bakr albaghdadi, the very reclusive leader of isis. The guy the u. S. Of course wants to get. All right. Lets talk more about this Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is with us from beirut. Nick you ha