Netanyahu took great satisfaction from president trumps decision to ignore longstanding International Convention and recognisejerusalem as israels capital, but that diplomatic boost cant disguise mr netanyahus vulnerability at home. Hes the target of a long Running Police anti corru ption investigation and may soon face charges. An interesting moment, then, for my guest today, cabinet minister naftali bennett, to declare that he wa nts to naftali bennett, to declare that he wants to be israels next Prime Minister. Is a changing of the guard in the offing . Naftali bennett, welcome to hardtalk. It is great to be here. Lets start with politics and personal ambition. It was a very interesting moment for you to decide to reveal to the israeli public that you want to be israels next Prime Minister. It was hardly helpful to mr netanyahu, was it . Well, actually what i said was only after the neta nyahu it . Well, actually what i said was only after the netanyahu era. I support the Prime Mini
It helps describe his message, it helps drive the news of the day which he can do every day and does every day. Hes constantly driving the message and therefore having us around really allows him to do that. Q a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Homeland Security Officials talked about what theyre doing to combat threats to the u. S. , focussing on interagency communication and efforts to improve efficiencies. They spoke before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. Good morning. This roundtable of the Homeland Security Governmental Affairs will come to order. I want to welcome our participants, well call them, i guess theyre witnesses. We have the honorable elaine duke, the honorable claire grady, the honorable george scott and the honorable john kelly from dhs, the gao as well as the office of the Inspector General. This roundtable discussed the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house passed their bill. They have a memorandum of understanding to consolid
Sharing. Thetor ron johnson chairs committee. This is one hour 45 minutes. Sen. Johnson morning to this roundtable. We will come to order. I want to welcome our participants. We have the honorable elaine , the honorabledy george scott, and the honorable john kelly from the dhs. Discussndtable is to the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house has passed their bill. They had a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that process under the department, the community of the Homeland Security in the house. It is more messy here in the senate which is not unusual. The committee has taken up in past authorization of the psa and coast guard. There are a number of components , my staff keeps telling me 50 of dhs under the authorization. That is what we are here to talk about today. Think it is accurate to say the house authorization and this is what we do in these authorizations. We take with the they do and codify it. Testimony it is pleasing to see how many recommendations the department has
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For todays purposes, were going to close this hearing that was again called by supervisor cohen. I think well try to make a motion to file this hearing. Ok. All right. Well do that without objection. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us today . That completes the agenda for today. Thank you. This meeting is adjourned. Clerk [ roll call. [ roll call. ] item 2, approval of minutes. So moved. There are no minutes. The minutes of the january 30th, 2018, will be presented for approval at the next meeting. Item 3, Public Comment on executive session. Since there was no executive session today, we are skipping items 3, 4, and 5. Item 6, pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] please be advised that the ringing and use of all cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of my person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pag