I represent the committee is on and will come to order. [inaudible] the committee of Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Again i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters including the wildfires in the west and hurricane is in itself. As the churning, i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal health needed to respond, recover and deal back stronger. Today the committee on Homeland Security is meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later, we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soi
I represent the committee is on and will come to order. [inaudible] the committee of Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Again i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters including the wildfires in the west and hurricane is in itself. As the churning, i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal health needed to respond, recover and deal back stronger. Today the committee on Homeland Security is meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later, we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soi
Administrations decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nature of two nato allies. I am currently the director of the International Security program at george mason university, and it is a great pleasure too preside over todays discussion on the topic that i i think is particularly compelling. So, in our topsyturvy world where we write love letters to authoritarians and publicly disparagee our allies, its kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkey turkish relations in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none coming and maybe we will figure ou out today how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its of course been a tumultuous relationship, one where the executive branch and congress dont always see eye to eye. Is it fundamentally a Security Partnership or do we have a stake
For the president. But found no collusion required everchanging scope memos from rod rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and produced only highly frustrated partisan prosecutors who were trying to overthrow the president. So sad. The attorney general william barr, is the antimueller, he is smart, principled and successful. And as you can see, very talented musically. I love bagpipes to tell you the truth. An 11 attorney general who can do this to kick off prosecutors. Today demonstrating how intellectual leader opens remarks. Right here tonight, we will have the story. And President Trump is this evening on his way to osaka, japan. Where he will attend the g 20 summit where the president plans to meet with a number of foreign leaders and among them, chinese president , xi jinping. Who reneged on a trade deal. Has all been forgiven . Should it be . The president today said any prospect of a trade deal needs intellectual property theft protections. And if communist china is not open
Community there has been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and the treatment of Digital Assets with crypto currencies. I would like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doing on this front since there is a lot of interest and then i will open up to questions. Last month a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary is developing a crypto currency for go the Treasury Department has expressed very serious concerns it could be used by many launderers and terrorist. Crypto currencies such as bitcoin has been exploited for illegal activity from cybercrime or tax evasion, extortion, ran somewhere, illicit drugs, Human Trafficking those that attempt to use crypto currency defined maligned behavior and this is a National Security issue. The United States has been at the forefront of regulating entities that provide crypto currency. We will not allow Digital Assets to operate in the shadows to tolerate the use of the crypto cur