Just watching as this subcommittee meeting coming together. The hearing featuring the lead singer of u2, bono, and also policy and foreign experts from the u. N. Here. Meeting today to talk about violent extremism. Live coverage here on cspan3. Well hear from state department and u. N. Officials and among the witnesses, again, the lead singer of the band u2. All right, folks. Take a seat. This is what its like to be chopped liver. The subcommittee will come to order. Hearing today is on the causes and consequences of violent extremism and the role of foreign assistance. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Demonstratety secretary of state tony blinken. Bono, lead singer of u2 and cofounder of one and red. General james jones, former National Security adviser, supreme allied commander in europe and president of the jones group international. And kelly complements, deputy United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Ill make a short opening statement. Let senat
Could be undone. We worked together, senator durbin, on debt consolation. With senator leahy, we worked with instagram. I got to know senator purdue. We were traveling around. Im thinking who is the republican and who is the democrat . Of course they are talking on other subjects very easy to find outlet. But on this stuff, this is like the one thing that you all agree on. It brings out the best in you. Im sure of that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you mr. Chairman and for being here today and testifying. I certainly agree with all the comments about the importance of aide. It is about our security and the impact of whats happening in europe affecting us in the United States because we do have Transit Alliance that has been critical to world order. We had a hearing this morning in the Foreign Relations committee on isis and international terrorism. One of the conclusions that i drew listening to the testimony and our witnesses generally agreed with this is that we have been good in t
People to radicalize and carry out Violent Attacks in europe. The Hearing Committee is just over 2 20. This is what it is like to be chopped liver. [ laughter ] the subcommittee will come to order. Our hearing today is on the causes and consequences of violent extremism in the role of foreign assistance. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, deputy secretary of state, antony blinken, bono, from u 26, former allied commander in Europe James Jones and president of the jones group international. And kelly clements, deputy United Nations Committee Member for refugees. Ill make a short Opening Statement and let senator leahy do the same and well have a second round. Number one, this was a good day for photographers. I hope you got a good shot, there. Ive just gotten back from my 30something trip to the region. I had the pleasure of being in turkey with bono and egypt. And each person here is tasked in their own way of trying to inform the congress in making policy de
This is what it is like to be chopped liver. [ laughter ] the subcommittee will come to order. Our hearing today is on the causes and consequences of violent extremism in the role of foreign assistance. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, deputy secretary of state, antony blinken, bono, from u 26, former allied commander in Europe James Jones and president of the jones group international. And kelly clements, deputy United Nations Committee Member for refugees. Ill make a short Opening Statement and let senator leahy do the same and well have a second round. Number one, this was a good day for photographers. I hope you got a good shot, there. Ive just gotten back from my 30something trip to the region. I had the pleasure of being in turkey with bono and egypt. And each person here is tasked in their own way of trying to inform the congress in making policy decisions to deal with what i think is a crisis that you either pay now or you pay later. To the American
What are you going to do to get the aid out while we are working on these Bigger Solutions . The reason i mentioned circles is, when you get to the countries of first asylum turkey, lebanon and jordan. We know what is pushing people to make that journey. To put themselves on the high its, jeopardize their lives, is not the violence because it is gone. It is to two things a lack of access to employment and jobs for the parents. And a lack of access to education for the kids. A big focus is working with those countries in particular to open up both access to schools and access to jobs. We are working very closely with unicef on that. It is partly a question of resources and the contacts we are talking about. On the jobs front, it is hard to say i will give a job to a syrian refugees, even though you, a fellow citizen, dont have one. We are working with Innovative Solutions to do that. The europeans are looking to create better access to the market for products produced were refugees are