The hearing will come back to order. I hope you had a little bit of a break. Weerie, if we do this right, will be done in time for multiple loads. Let me join my colleagues in thanking you and your professional staff for the outstanding work that you have done. This has to be one of the hardest government jobs in government to be impartial and i just want you to understand how much we appreciate your work and your teams work. I think the rank and file agent in the fbi and their colleagues in the Intelligence Community need to know that we are there for them and we support them in their responsibilities. I had the privilege to serve on the committee and i would like to think that there is no more Ardent Supporter of our Law Enforcement agency than i and. That general hayden, when he wrote his book about his experience had it right. Plaintiff the edge, we are authorities in the interest of our National Security. It makes it important for us to mendacity,legality, deception and the exerci
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Canteens, rifles, army belts, and our helmets we were issued french helmets, rifles, ammunition, canteens. 8 00 p. M. , who would surprise winning historian thed mccullough talks about founders, particularly john adams, viewed slavery, and persevered in the shape face of hardship. He grew up on a farm where they had no money. His mother was illiterate. His father could sign his name, maybe could read, because there was a bible in the house. That was the only book. Day,hey worked hard every from childhood on. But because he got a scholarship to this Little College in cambridge called harvard, and, as he said, discovered books and read forever, he became the john adams that helped change the world. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Diplomats and experts from the u. S. And europe testify about russian interference in u. S. Elections. This hearing is two and a half hours. Today the committee convenes it to russians interference of the 2016 your selections in
4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. It is good to be with you this day. First we startfatality, this ti and the u. S. , the two victims said to be in their 60s. They were in the city of wuhan. And that brings the virus death toll now to at least 726. It is climbing so rapidly, it could not so overtake the sars outbreak of 2003. And the infection is on the rise daily, nearly 35,000 people now have the virus. The majority in china. And lets go live to china, steven jiang is following the story. Tell us more about the latest victims. Reporter george, we really dont know much about beyond what you have said. In the case of the japanese citizen, we know that he was a man in his 60s, died in wuhan. The cause of death was pneumonia. And as of now, it was listed as a lhighly suspicious case. And the American Embassy mere is not telling us much about their 60yearold because they say that it is out of respect for this persons familys privacy. But we know he this person died on thursday in a hosp
In state capitols around the country, Republican legislative leaders are pushing back against a growing network of conservative lawmakers attempting to pull the party further to the right with aggressive tactics aimed not at Democrats but at members of their own party.