Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
Gate bridge. Nice and clear we had some fog streaming through earlier now that has a gone away so 50s and 60s is where were sitting right now this is a very comfortable range of numbers in a pretty familiar area to be in as far as your morning goes this is familiar territory to start the morning in its our afternoon highs that will be a bit of a scorcher and for many of us that just are used to the heat after a couple of nice days behind us its definitely going to be a surprise for those of you stepping outside if youre sleeping in 96 degrees for your average inland daytime high today and as those talk to daryn james and robin about we are seeing a couple of triple digits out there today even more of them come tomorrow and into thursday, ive got more details on that heat still to come rob and all right. Thank you john will head back to the golden gate. Another pretty shot of the bridge here its hard to focus on the traffic when this fuel is so pretty right for the traffic looks good at
Quotes a meeting of Foreign Affairs will come to order. Discuss how the biden administratiā i unconditionally handed over afghanistan to the taliban terrorist organization with his refusal to enforce the doha agreement. Todays hearing comes at a crucial moment in this committees investigation into the Biden Administration catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan. Four months after President Biden announced a withdrawal the senior military advisors and its own Intelligence Community repeatedly issued dire warnings about the damage this would create. At the same time i a, along with other republica members of congress virgil President Biden shuffled the conditions of the doha agreement. Prepare for the eventual fallout of our withdrawal. He ignored us including his own state Department Personnel who issued a dissent cable in july warning of the dire situation on the ground. Instead the tr became imminent the white house and state Department Leadership stuck their heads in the center so
Door because pruitts security broke in to check on him after he didnt answer his phone. Cnns Abby Phillips joins us live from west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending the easter weekend there on palm beach island. Good morning to you. There is a lot going on. Thats right. Good morning. Just another day and another problem with one of the president s cabinet members. The Environmental Protection agency had scott pruitt as under fire today over his spending on a condo in washington, d. C. The fact that he paid what seems to be below market rate for that condo, about 50 a night. But only for the nights that he stayed there. As well below what people say you ought to be paying on capitol hill in that area for a nightly stay in a room there. But scott pruitt is just dealing with several of these issues with ethics. A couple of days ago there was some questions raised about his use of a 24 7 security detail not only when he is on official business but also whether he was on
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