On Foreign Relations hosted the hourlong event, which covered regional security. Venezuelas oil reserves, u. S. Policy options, and irans influence in the country. Stephen thank you for being here today. Id like to start by saying i am from Mccarty Associates and will be presiding over todays meeting. Id like to introduce our panel. You got their full or partial bios in your packets, but Cynthia Arnson from the wilson center, the ambassador who has been in more countries than i can count including venezuela and colombia. We also have the former ambassador who has a long history in diplomacy. And almost the first diplomat in history to be expelled twice from the same country, but didnt quite make it. I tried. And francisco rodriguez, who has a long career in economics. Id like to just start by asking a general question and ask each of you in the same order i presented you, your view on things. Venezuela, the situation has deteriorated dramatically and even longer. Where do you see the s
Online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The acting intelligence director testified today about a whistleblower complaint concerning a phone conversation between President Trump and the president of ukraine. Director maguire took questions from members of the house Intelligence Committee. You can read the whistleblower complaint at cspan. Org. The meeting will come to order. Without object, the cheer reserves the right to recess the hearing at any time. The president ial oath of office requires the president of the United States to do two things, faithfully execute his or her office and protect and defend the constitution. That oath, of course, cannot be honored if the president does not first defend the country. If our National Security is jeopardized, if our country is left undefended, the necessity to faithfully execute the office becomes moot, where there is no country, there is no office to execute, and so the duty to defend the nation is foundational to the p
some of the october 7 attack. you are watching fox and friends first, on tuesday, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. greg palkot is on the border of lebanon. we begin with jonathan hunt. jonathan: israeli defense sources consider this to be one of the most significant gets since war was declared on october 7. they took out a commander in hamas northern brigade. they say he was responsible for directing some of the attacks of october 7 that were launched from the northern part of the gaza strip and they say in taking him out, they believe they have significantly reduced hamas s ability to disrupt the idf ground operation in the northern end of the gaza strip. they believe he was a big player in hamas northern gaza command. ground operation continue and what the idf appear to be trying to do is encircle gaza city in the gaza strip. they have gone down the western side of gaza and coming from the north00 east and appear to be trying to encircle entirety of gaza cit
You can watch the senate live right now on cspan2. While we wait for the Homeland Security hearing to resume, heres the first hour of testimony from this morning. Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committees meeting today to examine the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an Opening Statement i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and airborne reconnaissance. Will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I would like to thank the witnesses. Acting secretary elaine duke. Fbi director christopher wray. Ctc director Nick Rasmussen for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to ensure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee i
Cspans book tv. Michael mccaul of texas gave a speech on National Security at George Washington university. After he spoke three republicans from his committee participated in a Panel Discussion about the issues he discussed. This is one hour and 35 minutes. Good morning. If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. It is a real treat, a real pleasure and privilege to want to get host chairman mccaul on campus. He has been chairman of the House Homeland Security committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now, focused on a whole host of National Security issues and also chairs his committee in a genuinely bipartisan way, which is very true to the issues that our country faces on national and Homeland Security. I will be ve