President trumps decision to fire fbi director james comey. This is an hour. Senator grassley normally, i dont start until a Ranking Member or members get here. In this particular instance, i can start, but im going to stop wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here, so she can make an opening statement. Good morning. I am pleased that we can hold this nomination hearing for three very wellqualified nominees to three important positions in our government. Noel francisco, nominated solicitor general. He will be the first ever asianamerican senateconfirmed solicitor general after confirmation. Steven engel, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel, an office that functions as Legal Advisor to executive Branch Agencies and the president. Makan delrahim, nominee to be assistant attorney general for antitrust division at doj. Makan immigrated to this country when he was 10 and if he confirmed, he will be the highestranking iranianamerican official in the department
No one to talk to. She was with me almost 13 years, and she became a member of the family. It has been two weeks since the russian speaking parrotroma has gone missing in new york. I caught up with the owner at the home in forest hills, queens. She calls me mama and she never bait on. Because she is a great biter. She doesnt accept any strangers. Reporter we went to the last spotroma was seen there at the apartment that opens on the terrace and standing right there. Romas with on the shoulder. All of the den, out of the blue, just flu off, took off. I keep walking. I call him. Roma. Plom. Roam 3458. Roma. Roma. I am walking. Tell me more about roam malls personality. Sometimes sneezes and you have to tell bless you or will keep sneezing. Builds you. Roma in russian saying dance. Dance with me. Do you like russian food . Grilled chicken, bacon. Likes cheese. Many, many vegetables except bananas. I dont know why. What yana has done, she has put roam millions cage right there and actually
Accomplishment. Later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out an american cleric, anwar al awlaki, who was the First American targeted for death by the c. I. A. And was the first of the digital jihad. And im reminded its one thing to kill a man and another thing to kill his ideas. Here we are today in a threat environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. And the topic of our panel today is whether the i. C. Has the tools it needs to blunt this terrorist threat. And i would like to introduce members of our panel. I would like to begin with jane harmon, on my far left. Jay harmon is a very familiar face here on capitol hill. She resigned from congress in february of 2011 to join the Woodrow Wilson center as its first female director, president and ceo. Representing the Aerospace Center of california during nine terms in congress. Jane served on all major security committees and has made numerous congressional factfinding missions to hot spots including north korea, a
Mccaul and dutch russberger and marco rubio and chris kuntz for sponsoring the event today. Between my time in Fox News Channel and in london ive been covering terrorism since 1987. So for 30 years. And i was reminded that it was about six years ago that we were celebrating the takedown of Osama Bin Laden at his compound in pakistan, which was in so many respects an extraordinary accomplishment. And then later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out Anwar Al Awlaki targeted for death by the cia and the father of this digital jihad that we are living today. And im reminded that it is one thing to kill a man, and another to kill his ideas. And here we are today in a threatened environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. And the topic of our panel today is whether the i. C. , the Intelligence Community, has the tools it needs to blunt this terrorist threat and would you like to introduce members of our panel. I would like to begin with jane harman on my far left. She
Representatives from all over the globe to show the importance of the governors in dealing with International Trade and Business Development issues around the globe. We as governors want to do direct relationships with many of these countries and businesses who have come here. I thank them. I first want to think chin thank china for hosting our opening lunch. I think Governor Hogan for his stellar introduction at that lunch in the great state of maryland. I also would like to reference brian and katie from canada who are here with us. Please give them a round of applause. [applause] please give the governors from japan around of applause. Mayors from mexico, a round of applause for the mexican delegation who have joined us here today. [laughter] as we kick off this meeting, i want to take a moment to recognize the support of many of our partners and supporters who we could not have this meeting without your support. They fund our best practices and other areas. They partnered with the