We have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to about emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of the sudden change we will significantly reduce Opening Statements. We will do 10 minutes so we can get right to questions. Witnesses, please keep your oral statements as brief as possible. At 11 45 we will recess the hearing and work with the agencies to determine when the witnesses can return. With that i recognize myself for a few remarks. I want to thank everyone for being at this hearing. Our thoughts go out to everyone and our colleagues representative meadows and representative gosar who cannot participate here today. Were now in the middle of a Glob
Tv. So, we will live on forever and ever after 3 a. M. When you cant sleep. [laughter] i will get a text from my father the following morning saying you are on television again. Im just curious a show of hands i like to ask how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum wax wonderful. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum and society into this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are pleased to partner with trust and you will see them up on the screen. I know Tim Gillespie but i know all i can see out there is darkness but lets think them for making the revolution possible. [applause] it is a pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Browne this evening. As it is sometimes the case but not often w that often we are ay welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince is one of the group of scholars have consulted in the E Development
Try to find a way to bring iran and the u. S. Towards agreement and away from confrontation. The u. S. Says no to iraqs request to step up talks on plans to withdraw american troops from the country. How to tie up to stand ready to move in support a medically australias Prime Minister sounds more troops to areas facing devastation from rapidly spreading wildfires. And im far as smile have all the days sports news including rafa nadal fights back to lead spain to victory over belgian reached the semifinals at the 8. Polo we begin with the latest fallout from the u. S. Airstrike that killed a top iranian general washington has an l. The new wave of sanctions on iran that target the countrys steel and Iron Industries the sanctions also go after 8 senior officials and the new measures are in response to irans missile strikes earlier this week on an Iraqi Military base that houses u. S. Soldiers today sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the iranian regimes terrorist activities the
Addressing the atrocities of the regime is committed against its own people. November 16, protests are spreading throughout the country and the number of demonstrators blocked the road. The state department received videos of what happened next. Many of the protesters flooded to the nearby marshlands to escape. They tracked him down and surrounded them with machine guns mounted on trucks. They then sprayed the protesters with bullets. Between the rounds, screams can be heard. In this one incident alone by the regime murdered as many as 100 iranians and possibly more. The regime looted bodies into trucks. We do not get to know where they went that we are learning more and more about how the Iranian Regime treats its own people. We have seen reports of many hundreds more killed in and around tehran and it appears it they could have murdered over a thousand since the protests began. We cannot be certain because it blocks information. Among those murdered or at least a dozen children inclu
By addressing the atrocities the Iranian Regime has committed against its own people. On november 16th, protests were spreading throughout the country and in the city of southwest iran, a number of iranian demonstrators blocked a road. The state department has received videos of what happened next. Without warning, the irgc opened fire on the protesters, killing several people. Many of the protesters fled to nearby marshlands to escape. The irgc tracked them down and surrounded them with machine guns. They then sprayed the protesters with bullets. Between the rounds of machine gunfire, the screams of the victims can be heard. In this one incident alone, the regime murdered as many as 100 iranians and possibly more. When it was over, the regime loaded the bodies into trucks. We do not yet know where these bodies went. But we are learning more and more about how the Iranian Regime treats its own people. We have seen reports of many hundreds more killed in and around tehran, and as the tr