California. Im reall a member of the leadep council. As chairman of the California Republican party and moderator for todays program. What a welcome our audience members and thank you for your support here. She was make a donation, please text the words donate to 415 3294231. We will be discussing this in the next hour and be sure to ask your questions as well. If youre watching along with us, please put your questions in the text chat on youtube and we will get to them later in the program. And now it is my honor to introduce our distinguished guests. Maria bartiromo is anchor the mornings with maria and with wall street on Foxbusiness Network as well as anchor of sunday morning features on the fox news channel. If you are a busy woman maria. And shes also twotime Emmy Awardwinning journalist who was the first person to report live in the florida New York Stock Exchange in 2011, made history once again as the first female journalists to be inducted into the hall of fame. Duf also with
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
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Democrats, we want to hear from you, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Isependents, your line 2027488002. You can always reach us on social media, on twitter and facebook. House members on friday in the House Oversight committee described what they saw during their tours of the Detention Centers and they also sparred with each other about who was to blame. One of the first senators lawmakers to talk was representative alexandria ocasiocortez. Heres what she had to say. [video clip] much has been made about cbp agents in this hearing as well. This is not their fault. Agree. Respects, i woul it is the policy of dehumanization implemented by this administration laid at the feet of Stephen Miller causing the violence and dehumanization where hurt people hurt people. I would like to seek unanimous consent to submit the record of 17 women i met during my trip to the border. Universeswo different and it feels like we are speaking in two different worlds. One of the reasons for that, i beli
Remarked on how Educational Opportunities arent the same for people in Rural America as they are for in the cities. That comes back to this research that was done from the department of agriculture that show how the gap in College Attainment has grown between urban environments and rural environments. What you see from 2000 to 2015 environments, the closing of the gap of people who have High School Degrees. You are about as likely to have a High School Degree in world america. That gap has grown if you think about College Attainment. 15 to 19 . Om its a small increase. The gap for people in urban america has grown more. You are up to 33 . That is widening. Places like the university of alaska where theyve lost 41 of their budget and Rural American education options are declining. The gap between completion of High School Degrees has rural,between urban and that the gap between people who finish college is increasing from urban to roll. Rural. Guest if you are thinking about to your deg