It is my honor to introduce representative adam schiff who represents californias 28th Congressional District in los angeles county. Representative schiff is the ranking democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. He is a leader on all intelligence issues and has been outspoken and thoughtful on the issue of russian interference in the recent u. S. President ial election. After the congressman gives remarks, he has agreed and other participants on the panel include rand beers who has a distinguished career of Public Service including as acting secretary of the department of homeland and at the white house working with people like dick clark. He started serving the country as a United States marine in vietnam. Jeremy bass will be on the panel as well. Jeremy is managing director of Beacon Global Strategies and an excellent chief of staff and one of the best people i have worked with at the cia and dod. Julie smith is also on the panel. She was a colleague working a
Museums celebrates its 250th birthday. A drone strike in pakistans north region has reportedly killed at least five people. A senior al qaeda commander is said to have been among those who died. Omar fa rube was head of the grubes operations in pakistan and afghanistan. On saturday al leader was killed in a similar attack. The kamal, there has been another senior al qaeda member, hes the latest to be killed from a drone strike. Just how significant was he . Reporter well, as you mentioned, he is believed to be operational commander for afghanistan and pakistan. Hes a pakistani. However he rows to prominence first starting as a spokesman for al qaeda in pakistan. But rose in power and was said to be a key commander. One slight correction, just two days ago the Pakistani Military used Ground Forces in a special operation in which the other senior al qaeda commander was killed, he was said to be responsible for masterminds being the subway attack in new york. So that operation was carried