Every day, some new atrocity occurs, like yesterday or the day before. Three more people came forward with the idea that he had raped them. This has been going on for years and years and years. There were eight settlements against him. Obviously everyone in the company knew about it. I have to say, i wonder about his wife, who i gather last night announced she was leaving him, finally. How she could possibly not have heard about this. How do you think this happened . How is this allowed to go on and on and have nobody ever speak out until now . Gretchen because as a society and as a culture, we protect harassers. If somebody can actually tell me why that is the 20 million question, why . Why do we do that . Is it because we are protecting our own jobs . Is it because we are protecting a person in power . I think those are the top two reasons. But now that the floodgates have been opened, i give so much credit to the women who were able to tell their stories. By the way, eight settlemen
Sen. Corker the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We thank all those in attendance. In rolling out its new south asia strategy last august, the administration underscored the United States hardfought security gains in afghanistan and reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution. With the recent reports of shrinking government control of territory, continued high attrition of Afghan Forces and deadly attacks in kabul, it is clear that foundation is a long way off. But we are encouraged by the new strategy. 12,300 military personnel with additional requests approaching the level of our force commander requested in 2014. Our nato a nonnato allies have also reinforced their troop commitments and support to Afghan Forces through 2020. U. S. Commander nicholson says he has what he needs to assist afghans in achieving a sustainable outcome for the region. The new conditionsbased approach provides afghans, our allies and the taliban
Prosecutors and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. This committee is open. If a member of the audience would like to comment on any issue before the committee, please direct their requests through the Committee Staff director who is seated to my right. All Public Comments will be heard at the end of the meeting and at the discretion of the chair. It will be inappropriate for any member of the Public Gallery to offer oral arguments at any other time. Witness Public Comments may always be submitted for the committees consideration. Thank you, mr. Sullivan. Good afternoon, all. Id like to welcome the members, participants and everyone in attendance today to the Fourth Meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on investigation, prosecution and defense of Sexual Assault in the armed forces. The secretary of defense appointed 16 members to the committee, all of whom are participating here today. From ipad was created the National Defense authorization act of 2015, as amended. Our
On the bbc news at five. And in the victims and Grenfell Tower disaster have taken place. Theresa may apologised for the official response, saying it wasnt good enough. The duke of edinburgh has been admitted to hospital but is said to be in good spirits. And parts of the uk are basking in the hottestjune day since 1976 with a temperature of 33. 9c recorded at heathrow. Good afternoon from westminster. Our main story at 5pm. New measures to prepare britain for brexit have dominated the governments legislative the governments legislative priorities set out in the queens speech. Of the 27 bills that were announced by her majesty, eight were linked to brexit. There were also announcements on terror and security legislation and Domestic Violence, but there was little mention of the more controversial elements of the conservatives manifesto, such as grammar schools. So what was in it . The main focus was brexit and the great repeal bill, with the government saying it wants to build the wide
If it closes up higher again today that will be eight days in a row of gains thats the first time the nasdaq would have done that since february of 2015 got a whole lot of earnings coming out that will very likely influence where we trade today look at the dollar dropping to a tenmonth low against a basket of currencies the euro rising above 1. 15 for the First Time Since maze of 2016 look overnight in asia the nikkei down by 0. 6 . Markets in china were higher with the hang seng up 0. 2 the shanghai up by 0. 3 . In europe, in the early trade, you will see dax is weaker down by a half percentage point. The cac is down by a third of a percentage point markets flat in london with the ftse sitting just fractionally higher lets get you through the big corporate story of the morning netflix shares soaring to new highs. The company added 5. 2 million new streaming customers in the Second Quarter thats 2 million more than wall street predicted most new subscribers came from foreign markets. T