Thank you so much. We will be momentarily joined by senator cain and other members. We are, as you know, in the midst of voting. I would like to welcome our witnesses to the hearing this afternoon. Mr. Frederick stefany, principal civilian Deputy Assistant secretary. That is a mouthful. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Assistant secretary of the navy for research, development, and acquisition. Vice admiral william godliness, commander of the seasons command. Admiral gerard mcclelland, Program Executive officer for Industrial Infrastructure, and miss diana maurer, director of defense capabilities and management for the government accounting office. Thank you for your service to the nation and for the truly professional services of the men and women under your command. I also want to recognize our Ranking Member, senator kramer, i also want to recognize senator cain and senator sullivan. And i appreciate my colleagues willingness to hold this joint readily readiness hearing on this very important
Live coverage of the Senate Foreign relations giddy this afternoon. Committee this afternoon. You can check out our schedule atormation any 1time cspan. Org. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] president obama tries to get house and senate numbers to respond to alleged Chemical Attacks in syria. They do have a camera at the white house. We will bring view comments. Theres also a classified re think with congress on capitol hill. We have a camera there. We will bring that to you soon as it becomes available. The president and Prime Minister abe spoke by telephone yesterday. The white house reporting that they agree that the use of those type of weapons is a serious violation of International Norms and cannot be tolerated. Speak on that. Syrian civilians took place delhi two weeks ago killing an estimated 1430 people. Took place in damascus two weeks ago, killing an estimated 1430. The the Senate Foreign Relatio
Im kasia madera in london. We start with breaking news. Iran launches a Ballistic Missile attack on a us air base in iraq, iranian tv says it was in revenge for the american killing of general soleimani. The pentagon says the missiles were launched from iran theres no word yet on casualties. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore, the headlines as the human toll rises in australias bushfires, we hearfrom people trying to protect some of the countrys precious wildlife from the disaster. We hear the story of how tensions between india and pakistan, have kept a family separated
in kashmirfor decades. Hello and welcome to this special edition of newsday. Its 1 00am in london, 9 00am in singapore and 4 00am in iraq where iran has launched a Ballistic Missile attack on air bases housing us forces in the country. The pentagon says at least two sites were hit in erbil and al asad west of baghdad. It says the missiles were launched from iran itself. Iranian state tv says the attack was launched in reve
Their goal, to convince a Republican Majority Senate that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, abusing his powers and obstructing congress. President trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a Strategic Partner at war with russia to secure foreign help with his reelection. In other words, to cheat. The president s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won. As president zelensky was taking power, mr. Giuliani was already engaged in an effort to convince ukrainian officials to announce two sham investigations. Following russias invasion of ukraine in 2014, the United States has stood by ukraine. When the funding for the Security Assistance came up for a vote under this roof, 87 of you voted for the aid. President trump did not think the aid was important last year. He ignored you and the direction of congress. As a former chief of police i think its quite interesting that ambassado