Were organized around a picketing ministry from the age of five i would protest gay people originally and then from there to everyone outside of the church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go with them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around the ministry. Host how does that begin if you talk about this loving family that you have and a normal childhood when did the god in 91, when i was 5 years old, an incident occurred it happened shortly before that. An incident happened at a local park where my grand father was biking through the park and he thought he saw my older brother who was then about 4 or 5 years old being approached by two men trying to lure him into the bushes. He discovered that this local park was a place thats well known for as a Meeting Place for gay men. So he went and started trying to get the city to clean up the park. My grand father called it great park. The bible passage cited was in romans. The response to that first p
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff 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 win 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
Too. Tenyear well above 1. 8 and 1. 822. A developing story from china with big implications for u. S. Companies the Financial Times reporting that the communist party now ordered all state offices to remove foreign hardware and software within three years. This could hit firms like microsoft and dell, hp, especially hard. Now analysts estimate 20 to 30 million pieces of foreign equipment would need to be ultimately replaced. The order is not yet public yet but was described to the ft by two Cyber Security firms so this is going to this is like the fallout from huawei this is the fallout from huawei everybody out of the pool at one time think about microsoft and by the way one of the names not on the list, apple. Interesting where is apple . Apple doesnt do a lot of enterprise work in terms of corporate maybe not government. Maybe not government work but. More of a consumer play i dont know. I was thinking about that this morning. Where apple plays in that. Apple is obviously threaded
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
Where i was over the weekend among the headlines and there were a lot, a warning about potential risk for the u. S. If Tech Companies decide not to do business with the pentagon. My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on department of defense, this country is in trouble. That just cant happen so we have to, it is up to the Senior Leadership to say i understand these are emotional issues, we dont have to agree on everything, but this is how were going to do it we are going to support the department of defense. This country is important. Meantime, heavily redacted 103 page document that was just made public a short while ago, amazon says President Trump launched, behind the scenes attacks against the company, which led to it losing out on the major jedi contract for Cloud Services that we have been covering so closely. Guys, in general the bottom line from jeff bezos at the event this weekend is amazon, you could make the argument origin, the Space Company looking for Nation