Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
The irs targeting of political groups. In october, chaffetz introduced legislation to impeach koskinen. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing on examining allegations of misconduct on irs commissioner John Koskinen part one. I begin with myself. The constitution sets forth a system of checks and balances and grants each branch of government tools to shake sure no one gets too much power. The power to write the laws, power of the purse, impeachment power and other powers. They allow congress to expert oversight over branches including rooting up corruption, fraud and abuse by government officials and taking further disciplinary action on behalf of the American People when warranted. The duty to serve as a check on the other branches including against corruption and abuse is a solemn one and congress does not and must not take this responsibility lightly. That is why this committee scheduled a hearing
Why it is not a normalcy . What aspect of it is not quite normal . Ms. Sullivan i will invite jerry bell to answer your question. You are talking about a range of probabilities, and this is potentially reinforcing factors which make this year more uncertain than others. But, jerry, do want to answer that . Seasonl we have three classifications, nearnormal refers to a range of activity defined by the overall season strength, as well as the numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms. We used near normal instead of oftentimesple think as the mathematical average, and we are not talking about the mathematical average here, we are talking about the middle third of the seasons with a certain level of activity. Ms. Sullivan each one of the season designations is a range of prospects, not a distinct number. Either the lower range, the nearnormal range, or the higher range. There are uncertainties, like. Ou said bell yes. If somebody could address, talk more about the signals we might be activat
Going anywhere, pretty flat. And Hillary Clintons big plan for the economy. Big fanfare, buried this morning. The media utterly ignoring it . Why . The left may be embarrassed by their socialist candidate . There are give aways, galore, spend big on everything, and this morning, the media again is just bashing trump. The clinton plan, awol. Its friday morning, however, lets join the celebration of american excellence. Phelps at 31, runs away with the 200 individual meter medley. Simone biles, poised and brilliant, crowned the worlds best. Nbc should give them a special medal for salvaging, the salvage job theyve done on their ratings. Have you ever seen anything like this . American olympic gold, a totally skewed media and the stock market goes to the loon. Varney company about to begin. The stock market goes to the moon. Have you looked at your 401 k lately . You are giddy, mr. Varney. Stuart yes, i am. American gold, the stock market, fantastic stuff. Yeehaw. The dow, the nasdaq, s p
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley one day after donald trump used the Second Amendment to shoot himself in the foot, Hillary Clinton used her First Amendment right to speak out against him. Thats where we begin tonight with Major Garrett. If you are running to be president or you are president of the united states, words can have tremendous coue reporter that was Hillary Clinton in iowa today, reacting to what donald trump said yesterday at a rally in north carolina. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, i dont know. Yesterday, we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from donald trump that cross the line. Reporter trump argued he was only talking about political took note of trumps comments. The inference the violence arises in an atmosphere of suspicion that trump helped create, one in which the g. O. P. Nominee warned supporters of abridged Se