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Years. The u. S. Has been without a defense secretary all year since the departure of former defense chief jim mattis in december. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Our meeting will come to order consistent with our policy to start on time. We will be doing that. Good morning. Today were considering the nomination of dr. Mark espy to be secretary of defense. We thank you all for being here today. We anticipate during your opening remarks, dr. Espy, that you will introduce any members of your family who are here and other support groups. It is standard we do have the eight required questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. Have you adhered to ethical regarding conflicts of interest. Yes, sir. Have you taken any actions which would prepare to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising legislative and oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate committees of congre ....
The u. A. E. Is withdrawing some forces from yemen. Calls the British Ambassador to washington a pompous fall off to the u. K. Envoy says Trumps White House is dysfunctional. The emir of qatar is meeting the u. S. President at the white house chef i mean been hammered and fanny and donald trump oversaw the signing of commercial and military agreements are also discussing Regional Security and economic ties the u. S. Had deployed extra troops and weapons to the gulf citing what it calls threats from iran the president and the emir also discussed several Business Ventures between the 2 countries. Great honor to be with the amir of qatar a highly respected man a real leader in a large part of the world in a very important part of the world and weve known ....
Im bill merchant, the Deputy Director for collections, historian and curator here at the Dna Technology oracle society. And i welcome you for tonights presentation. You must be some of the not some of the 46,000 people without power. I think i got that number right. So thank you for for coming tonight. And i know mikes a great historian. Were going to have mike warden is going to present unleashed by a mob. And so without any further ado. My lord. Thank you. Thank you. I do appreciate you coming out. Its been a stormy day. Its been a stormy evening already. So thank you for getting here. And im going to talk to you about a pretty tragic event from 1890 to port jervis new york. I mean, its, what, 43 miles from here. So most people are probably familiar with the area, at least. And we were connected by the canal. So theres a strong connection between different communities here ....