And new cases, the governor said there is some positive news today. He said hospitalizations for the coronavirus continue to drop as well as the number of people in intensive care units. With a Record Number of deaths he said the state is not out of the woods yet heard he urged people to keep up their actions that are helping to turn the tide on the virus. I know there is deep desire, people are making calls on an hourly basis saying its time to open back up. Consider the deadliest day in the state of california, the last 24 hours. 8. 5 increase in the total number of deaths. We saw 5. 6 increase in the total number of people tested positive in the state of california. The governor also offered assistance to people with Student Loan Debt being 21 out of the 24 largest student loan servicers have agreed to hold off on payments for 90 days. He also signed an executive order to ban debt collectors to garnish those 1200 payments that are comingthe federal government. Now we go to napa coun
Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac in broad terms, our military strategy in the middle east is part of an interagency, International Effort to sustain a conditionsbased approach designed to defeat violent extremism, two, to prevent regional dominance by iran, and, three, to ensure our allies and partners. Thank you for your support to our men and women in uniform. I appreciate the opportunity to appear here today and look forward to your questions. Thank you, gentlemen. We now move into the questions. Our two witnesses have a hard stop at noon, which means im going to be more aggressive about enforcing the fiveminute clock. Make sure we can get to as many members as possible. Im not going to ask questions. I will yield to mrs. Davis for the first set of questions, five minutes. Thanks. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And thank you to both of you, dr. Esper, and dr. Milley for joining us. I appreciate your statement and i wonder if you will just perhaps in a more refined fashion,
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
Running for president and also talk with the chairman of the south Intelligence Committee adam schiff. Plus as the 2020 candidates pick up the pace, offering more policies and more personal attacks. Joe biden is a dummy. The president is literally and existential threat. Brennan we will kick off the 2020 cbs news Battleground Tracker with a look at where the democrats wh it comes to theirto nominee plus have analysis on all of the political news of the week just ahead on face the nation. Good morning, and welcome to face the nation. We begin today with the increasing tensions between the u. S. And iran. And secretary of state mike pompeo. Good morning, mr. Secretary and happy fathers day. Thank you. Good morning. We have had a series of events in past days, the attacks on the tankers and these reports of a missile being fired at a u. S. Drone. How is the u. S. Going to respond . I think you have to put it in the context of 40 years of behavior inside the Islamic Republic of iran, this
Bipartisan legislation surrounding tiktok. Ve a conversation about the threat the Chinese Communist party poses to the United States and how he is leading in congress to take this complex issue head on in a way that makes some progress. Congressman kevin represents oklahomas first district. Can i call you kevin for a minute . That. Kevin was born on an air force base and gained early appreciation for the sacrifices m make. He really has a quintessential american background. He earned an Architectural Technology school, she used to work and pay for his engineering degree. After undergrad, kevin went on to work as an Aerospace Engineer for rock will international. Kevin was out of work when it rocked the industry. He saved purchases for his Mcdonalds Restaurant by operating Small Businesses writing computer programs. In 1997 he built a farm and bought his first Mcdonalds Restaurant inhe purchased two s restaurants. He grew that organization over the next decade owning 24 Mcdonalds Restau