[laughter] you can watch this hearing and all confirmation hearings on our website cspan. Org. We will leave the last few minutes to take you live to the pentagon. This is the Briefing Room as we await the start of everything by defense secretary james mattis and joseph dunford. This is the first joint news conference. They are expected to provide an update on the war against isis and counterterrorism efforts. It should get underway in just a few moments. Live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I returned last week from a meeting in copenhagen with the ministers of defense from 14 nations to coordinate our political way ahead in the defeat of the isis campaign. Chairman dunford returned yesterday from a chief of defense meeting in brussels with 28 nato nations plus his counterpart in a dozen additional nations. They discuss the military aspects of that campaign. President Trump directed the department of defense to lead a complex overview of the campaign. We submi
Lets start with the conservatives, fall seats from an over rolled majority. The pound touching at lowest level since april. Those were lies, plain and simple. Meanwhile, the former fbi director says President Trump lied. Accuses the white house of defaming him and the bureau. Says japan has escaped inflation but still has a long way to go. I am live from sydney, where is just after it 00 a. M. 8 00. We continue our coverage of the election and the countdown to asias first major market. P. M. Here in 00 london. I am guy johnson. I will have the latest result from the election and how that is playing out in the markets. Suggesting an inconclusive Election Results with Prime Minister theresa may falling short of an absolute majority. Just remember the exit poll is going to be changed and we are going to start to learn more details as we start to get constituency is coming through. We are trying to get the first in the northeast of england. We will track every twist and turn, there will be
Thank you very much im going to turn it im going to turn it back over to the alexandria chief. Thank you, chief. Were not not folk, were not going to answer any questions at this point, because as the chief pointed out this is an active, Ongoing Investigation. We call the crime scene hot because were collecting information and evidence and it would be premature for us to respond any further in an hour and a half well come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps give you answers to some questions. But chief, any indication were done right now. Any other shooters this is a stable situation, theres no additional threat we consider this to be about closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. Well be back in an hour and half. That was Michael Brown there we continue to monitor this breaking news out of alexandria, virginia, this morning if youre just joining us, a gunman opening fire on a gop congressional baseball practice around 7 15 this mor
Cancelled. Major garrett is at the white house and joining us with the latest on that. It was a short agenda today. Only one public event for the president , a a 3 30 speech at the department of labor to highlight his efforts to expand the workplace apprenticeships. That event has now been cancelled. And the white house is contemplating where and how and if the president will give remarks about todays tragic events. I can tell you that the president has telephoned House Speaker paul ryan and is making other calls to members of the House Republican conference and leadership and the white house is reviewing the president s schedule for the remainder of the day gathering more information and contemplating when or if the president will make public remarks on todays tragic events. One of the things we do not know what the motives were, but if this was terrorism, this is exactly the kind of impact that they want to have. They want to scare people, create disruption and that kind of thing. Th
The subcommittee will come to order. Its pleased to welcome acting director Andrew Mccabe to represent the fiscal year 2018 fbi budget request. Often makes headlines whether the topic is terrorism, cyberthreats, espionage or international organized crime. The fbi leads antiterrorism, counterintelligence and National Security efforts while also combatting gangs, financial fraud, Human Trafficking, and public corruption. It is the indispensable partner to state and local Law Enforcement agency and our liaison with federal Law Enforcement partners. Were grateful that the fbi is leading the investigation into the wednesday morning shooting at the congressional baseball practice. We are deeply grateful for the work that your officers do every day and for looking into this terrible tragedy. Were very, very grateful for the work of courageous work of the capital police. The Law Enforcement officers of alexandria who saved a lot of lives that morning and for all the First Responders who came o