Have deputy secretary of state Steven Biegun here to testify. Originally planned to hold this hearing back in march but the need to focus on covid19 prevented us from doing that even as we continue to address the pandemic and the impact on the u. S. Citizens. It is important this can many continue it to work on the most pressing Foreign Policy challenges and obviously chinas one of those. This is especially the case and the topic we are discussing today is a Trump Administration is correctly recognized china as a strategic and global pedant competitor of the United States it will be the greatest foreignpolicy challenge in the decades to come. The policies of the Chinese Communist partys undermined u. S. Interests and values including those we share with allies and partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge to the fore front of american lyford we now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and pa
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Chuck hagel talked about that today in kabul. We will maintain a limited Counterterrorism Mission against al qaeda and its remnants, because as we draw down the combat mission, we have not forgotten, not forgotten what brought america to afghanistan over a decade ago. Meantime, in yemen, a desperate attempt to rescue a hostage from al qaeda and failure. Al qaeda terrorists killed luke somers and another western hostage during the raid yesterday. President obama ordered the rescue mission after u. S. Intelligence learns that somers could soon be executed. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins us now by phone. Barbara, explain what went wrong here. What we are learning is they lost the element of surprise. Reporter poppy, by all accounts, the navy seals did lose the surprise at the very last minute. Something like 1 humidity yards from the compound they were about to assault, where they believe the hostages were being held. They were discovered. A firefight broke out. And it bec
after a sexual assault. we are regretting the decision not to get their account. they go on to say we are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone affected be i this story. as we mentioned, there are a lot of people who feel affected by this story. the fraternity member, also, sexual assault survivors here who fear this could take away from a greater issue, which is rape on campus. i m so gad you said that, given the fact that the reality is one in five women on college campuses are sexually assaulted during their time there, it is a huge problem and jackie standing by her story saying this did, indeed, happen to her, let me bring in someone with and up close view of what is happening at the university of virginia and with this whole controversy. sarah menendez, she knows jackie. she is an intern at the sexual assault of uva. thank you for joining me. thank you so much. i appreciate it. let me read you a part of the apologies, the statement that