Troops out of the middle east we take a look at the trillions spent on wars and the billions of men taining us military bases. Also this week the hog and pork industry has taken a hit from african swine flu in china and asia but does the Meat Industry need to change to save the planet. Frances digital tax on big Silicon Valley tech that could escalate a trade war with the United States. Well right now there are 200000 u. S. Troops stationed at more than 800 bases in 70 countries and territories outside the United States despite President Trumps pledges to end the endless wars the number of troops in the middle east has increased well the assassination of irans 2nd most powerful figure qassam soon the money by u. S. Drone strike has led to the deployment of more troops to iraq and one iran hit back and tensions appear to have eased for now a shadow war goes on which raises the question how much does the United States spend on its presence in the middle east well since 911. 00 taxpayers
Obtained by the House Committee this led those from transit to new Rudy Giuliani to the head of ukraine live on this is all involved in this you think theres more to the. I think that there is definitely a lot more otherwise the president would have let some of his top advisers speak to the house i mean clearly if he had people that could help clear him he would have let him speak clearly i think that these are people that wouldnt be able to clear him and i think that one of whats interesting is that you know nancy pelosi held onto these articles for some time and i think that it actually show that this was the right decision to make because as some of these senators went home over the christmas and holiday break they heard from their constituents who started to see as alex was noting as not being a foregone conclusion you started to see some cracks in that fire wall as you started to see some of these republicans saying that they be open to witnesses and i think with josh bolton or jo
History is underway with hot weather a and strong winds expected to worsen an already devastating situation the war funds. Well its 15 gnc on a tense day across the middle east iran has voted to retaliate strongly after the u. S. Killed the commander who spearheaded surrounds military operations across the region Major General qassam solomonic you know the air strike targeting so money occurred on a road at Baghdad Airport just a day after poor on protesters ended a siege or the u. S. Embassy in iraq the pentagon says President Donald Trump ordered the attack to protect u. S. Personnel abroad well the u. S. Embassy in baghdad has now urged all americans to leave iraq immediately irans Supreme Leader has called for 3 days. National mourning ayatollah ali how many warned of harsher vengeance said the attack would double sounds result to resist the United States and iraqs Prime Minister says the strike will spark a devastating war and called lebanons lebanon rather has called for the coun
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material and questions for the record, subject to the limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that today is mr. Mccauls birthday. So happy birthday, mr. Mccaul. [ applause ] im 35 years once again. Yes. Me too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy toward iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well, after we invited him, he announced he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate, whether you agree with this administrations approach to iran or not. I dont think there is a member of this committee who doesnt want to hear from mr. Pompeo and the American People certainly deserve to hear answers with our troops and diplomats being asked to hand in harms way. But this commit
The big market mover is gold, and this is a classic flight to safety. Its getting closer to 1600 an ounce. Thats a sevenyear high. 1577, up 25 bucks as of now. Price of oil, 63 a barrel. Can you imagine where the price would be if the general had been killed a few years ago, before america became Energy Independent . Got it. Here are the late news developments. The iranians threaten retaliation. Hundreds of thousands marched through tehran for the generals funeral. The iranians say they will no longer comply with Nuclear Enrichment limits contained in the nuke deal from which mr. Trump was already withdrawn. No backing down from President Trump. Oh, no. After the iraqis demanded the withdrawal of american troops, the president threatened to send them a bill for the bases we had built for them and he threatened to respond to any iranian attack by going after cultural sites. This has been hard line trump. In washington, Speaker Pelosi will organize a vote this week to restrict the presid