The whole entire riverbed started taking fire from the high ground. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. President trump continues his assault on the process thats led to an impeachment inquiry against him. The president again demanded to know the name of the whistleblower, whose complaint about his controversial call to the leader of ukraine started the whole investigation. Democrats in the house have not called the whistleblower to give a deposition, fearing for his or her safety, but the whistleblower has now agreed to answer questions from House Republicans in writing. Here is natalie brand. The whistleblower should be revealed. Reporter President Trump sunday intensified his calls for the whistleblower to be identified some five weeks after their complaint triggered the impeachment inquiry. It was like a big antitrump person, hated trump, and they said terrible things. Reporter but the whistleblowers identity remains protected
The meeting will come to order. This hearing is entitled the Trump Administrations syria policy perspectives from the field mic. Thank you. Before i begin i would like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, elijah cummings, though we lost almost one week ago. Like others on this committee i had the pleasure and privilege to call him my friend for almost 20 years as we worked work on n issues that have confronted congress and our country. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed a legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While we had, he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind, he was firm and his commitment to use hisit many talents, and the powr of his position, to wait in our behalf of the disenfranchised and to reduce p the suffering tt he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, the cause of justice, the cause of liberty, and the cause of
In syria between 30 and Kurdish Forces. Witnesses included a representative from the Syrian Democratic counsel the former special forces officer who fought alongside the kurds. Before i begin i like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, Elijah Cummings who we lost one week ago. Like others on this committee at the pleasure privilege to call elijah at my friend for almost 20 years. We worked the many issues that confronted congress. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed the legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind he was firm in his commitment to use his many talents and his power of position to weighin in behalf of the disenfranchised and reduce the suffering that he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, a cause for justice and liberty and equality for all. We in our nation would be well
Before i begin i like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, Elijah Cummings who we lost one week ago. Like others on this committee at the pleasure privilege to call elijah at my friend for almost 20 years. We worked the many issues that confronted congress. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed the legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind he was firm in his commitment to use his many talents and his power of position to weighin in behalf of the disenfranchised and reduce the suffering that he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, a cause for justice and liberty and equality for all. We in our nation would be well served to follow his example and spirit had presence here on this committee will be sorely missed. Today we will examine the trump and ministrations decision to draw u. S. Force
From other countrys militaries. Its about two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning. And, maam, im honored to be able to moderate you this morning, so as she just mentioned, were going to be talking about secretary james new book. Ive read it, ive listened to it. Its absolutely amazing. I will tell you today, thats what were going to talk about. So, maam, first and foremost, just to kind of break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story. Well, throughout my life, and as you heard, be i have been at this business of our National Security for actually closer to 40 years. Time goes by since that bio was written. Ive been always a civilian and i have worked in congress. Ive been in the pentagon for several tours and ive been in private industry. Always working on defense issues. As i was making my way up and trying to figure out my career next moves through the ups and downs of life, i would always look up to the people above me and