[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
Caller he indicated he was willing to work on the with the Ethics Committee. The Ethics Committee will hold some kind of hearing and come up with a recommendation, expulsion or something else. I was talking to the former chief counsel for the chief act Ethics Committee, he said sometimes investigations can , or weekss and years to months. Not say what the timeline would be. They do investigate what happened when they were not in the senate, yes. That leaves the senate open to moore should henot become in the senate. The Ethics Committee has left this exception open in the past. The Ethics Committee said they would not continue looking into allegations that representative victor moore should he become in the, even though the allegations were before he became a senator. Host you mentioned roy moore. Is talking about an ethics investigation if you were to be elected by alabama on december 12 . Indicatedch mcconnell that the Ethics Committee practice move forwards. There is a question as t
Attorney general Jeff Sessions, one of the speakers at the National Lawyers society federalist meeting in washington. Later there will be a keynote speech by white House Counsel gahn. D mc live coverage, here on cspan. [applause] host good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be with you and to look at this overflow audience here. Particularly, its an honor to me to introduce a gentleman. Hat i have known for long time hes a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. As lawyers we all appreciate the many responsibilities of the attorney general. He is, of course, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the area easedernment area eased the Legal Advisor to the executive branch. And he has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. Sessionscareer of jeff could not have been better to make him such an ideallyqualified person for this responsibility. Jeff, of course, as you know,
Well, good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. Im cliff may, the founder and president and im pleased to welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through the massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. I think you all know the background in may of 20 laechb 11. A naval navy s. E. A. L. Team got osaum ma bin laden. We should have learned a huge amount of information but we couldnt because it was under lock and key. The most resiferous pressures to release that information but most recently 470,000 documents have been released and we were given an advanced look bike mike pompeo who said this should be available to scholars and journalists and others. So with that im pleased to thand conversation over to our moderator, Kimberley Dozier who has had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq until she was wounded in the car bombing in 2006. I should note that todays event should
Narrated by actor james cagney. This army film presents a critical history beginning with the 1985 failed revolution up to the construction of the berlin wall. This halfhour film was nominated for a 1963 short subject documentary academy award. James at the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk, some ride. Some are wellshod, some are barefoot. Some are so young, they must be carried or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest openly. It doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. Havana, cuba, january 1959. This road leads to this wall. Red china, september 1960. This road, this wall. Berlin, december 1961. This road, this wall. In the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher and scholar, karl marx, who maintained only that only through a syste