Beginning everybody. Welcome to books and books. The cultural heart of south florida. Tu first and foremost have get you to silence your cell phones we dont have any eruptions that would be great. Also dont forget to go to our webpage. You can give us your email address. We do it £. 60 every month. You can pick up our calendar events on the counter when youre buying yours book this evening. Dont forget to visit us at all of our stores. Keep an eye out for that. We are happy to have with us this evening Vanessa Neumann and blood profits. To introduce our author we have a good friend and colleague please welcome russell. [applause] thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here and one of the reasons that the nasa asked me to do this was number one because we are partners in a Consulting Company which does phenomenal consulting and this book is just an example and result of that which she will tell you about. But also ramon is a likeminded individual u. S. Exiled now in this country as
Senator. There is too much stuff going into too Many Disparate groups and it actually has made the job of the armed opposition more tough. We have to be tough with for some of our regional allies. On the ground senator, as isil has pushed out of places it will be really important to try to get help into the civil administrations. The Syrian Government wont go into those places and again these are in a sense the political side of the opposition linked to the moderate armed opposition. So the state department has worked with the dedication and resources and program money as i was pushed out of place. So there is clean water several hours a day. Maybe the schools can reopen in some places and that kind of thing. Just one more question and my time is short. We have got a lot of stock in edwards and many of us got to know him and yet we didnt support him. Trucks that were supposed to be delivered were delivered months late. I mean it was almost like, i dont even want to use the word because
They have been truly humbled by the outpouring of the encouragement and support for the decision to quit tobacco. As we go forward with the private sector to continue to take a leadership role. Es. Chair will recognize himself and Ranking Member for purposes of making Opening Statement. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. A little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. Two of them were killed when a facility emblematic of our country was set on fire. And two of them were killed when they dared to fight back and defend themselves. And others. Sean smith, chris stevens, ty woods and glen doherty represented us. They represented our country, and our values. We ask them to go. We sent them, and they were killed because some people hold a deepseated animus toward us simply because we are us. So to the family and the friends, and the loved ones o
As assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security, he testified about changes made to improve security at foreign posts. He was joined by members of the state Department Best Practices panel, which made security recommendations of its own. This is a little less than three hours. [no audio] we are experiencing an audio problem with this event. We are working to fix the technical difficulty and will continue running it. Hopefully, the audio will come back shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, we are experiencing audio difficulties. We apologize for that problem. We are working to fix it. We will have it corrected, hopefully, shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, experiencing some audio difficulties with this recording of this hearing on cspan. We have found another version of the recording. We are going to play that now for you from the top, on cspan. [no audio] come tomeeting will order. The chairquorum for persons taking testimony, percent to house rules. Without objectio
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