And white house officials on may 20th, 27th, 29th, memorial day, and june 3rd on cspan and cspan. Org. A Bipartisan Committee held its first open meeting this month to examine visa security procedures and way to strengthen terrorist entries into the United States. Members heard from officials with federal agencies including customs and Border Protection, immigration and Customs Enforcement and the state department. Wisconsin republican congressman Mike Gallagher is the chair of the task force. Its about 90 minutes. The committee on Homeland Committee task force on denying terrorist entry into the United States will come toerd. We are examining the security of the visa process and Visa Waiver Program. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to start by welcoming back our expert witnesses to the capital and thank him for being here doing double duty for joining us yesterday for a classified hearing. I look forward to following up on some of the broader themes of briefing
Department briefed reporters on the 2017 trafficking in persons report and on other u. S. Diplomatic efforts around the world. This is 45 minutes. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the state department. Junior reporters in the back those are my kids. Hi, boys. Welcome to mommys new job. That means i will try to be a little bit nice today or at least keep it clean. Good afternoon, everybody. I know we have a lot to get to today. This morning, secretary tillerson released the 17th installment of the trafficking in persons report, also known as the tip report. We go into greater detail about that report, we have with us edge, who will join us in a second. She will deliver remarks and take a few of your questions. If you would like to ask a question, just raise your hand, let her know which outlet you are with. If you have any questions about the report, please do ask those questions of her now so she can best address them. When she is finished, i will take over and answer questions about other mat
Country. But it would be wrong to suggest that this is also just like its been in yemen and somalia were you going with quick light footprint attacks and leave. Here it is going to have to be a very constant form up operations at the scene already announced over the past month about 150 separate attacks they have done in 30 days. You can do the math there. It is five today. On over 200 targets that is just doing the basel and a few other locations in iraq. Obviously at some point and i dont think it will be immediate, this will spread to syria. Host you had a piece last week i believe that outlines the challenges the president faces could you also do price tag about the airstrikes in iraq so far. Over 200 million a month. Guest that is just containing it to iraq. If this spreads to theory the price goes up significantly. Host talk about that war. How much money are we talking about . Guest we dont know because the president has not put a price tag on it. When you consider afghanistan t
Include airstrikes and combat troops. The president has released the text of this speech. Four or fivepage speech. It should go 15, 20 minutes, and after that, we will be taking your phone calls. Again, if you would like to comment throughout the speech, you can go to cspanchat. Minute, the president will be coming into the cross hall. Here is what it looks like right now. My fellow americans, tonight, i want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as isil. As commander in chief, my highest priority is the security of the American People. Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country. We took out Osama Bin Laden and much of al qaeda leadership in afghanistan and pakistan. We targeted al qaeda affiliates in yemen and recently illuminated the Top Commander of its affiliate in somalia. We have done so well bringing more than 140,00
Recognition that we still remain in the eye of the storm and we must be diligent. I would offer to say that we will not fall victim to the terrorists intent, and that is that we will not terrorist ourselves. We will be vigilant which i believe is extremely important, but we will be fair and adjust and we will recognize the Civil Liberties of all. But we are in some very challenging and difficult times, and so i want to thank the chair woman for allowing us and this committee in working with me and the full committee to be the very First Committee that is addressing the question of isis here in the United States congress upon our return. That is an important statement for Homeland Security Armed Services, the Intelligence Committee are the corner stone of defending this nation, and our collaboration and working together is key. And that, we are doing. This factfinding hearing will lay the ground work for many other hearings that will be necessary to expeditionly address this question. T