Subcommittee. Civilian security democracy human rights and global womens issues will come to order. And the title of the hearing is tax on u. S. Diplomats in cuba. Response and over sight. We have one Government Panel testifying today with the following three witnesses who are here. And were grateful if r you joining us here today on behalf of the executive branch. The acting assistant secretary of state. For the bureau of western hems fear. Todd brown. The department of state. And the medical director of the bur reof medical services. For the department of state. Thank you all again for being here. There are two goals to the hearing today. The first, is to accompliestabl facts of what occurred. The second is conduct over sight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today. By our panel. Late 2016, staff at the United States embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among the scription they co
Relations committee. This is an hour and a half. This hearing of the subcommittee. Civilian security democracy human rights and global womens issues will come to order. And the title of the hearing is tax on u. S. Diplomats in cuba. Response and over sight. We have one Government Panel testifying today with the following three witnesses who are here. And were grateful if r you joining us here today on behalf of the executive branch. The acting assistant secretary of state. For the bureau of western hems fear. Todd brown. The department of state. And the medical director of the bur reof medical services. For the department of state. Thank you all again for being here. There are two goals to the hearing today. The first, is to accompliestabl facts of what occurred. The second is conduct over sight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today. By our panel. Late 2016, staff at the United States embassy in havan
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Had a confrontation with cops at a casino in las vegas. [ Police Sirens ] police insisting there was no Excessive Force or any racial profiling. Does this video back them up . Where will he go . O. J. Simpsons parole days away. Reportedly eyes florida to call home. Why the attorney general does not want him coming to her state. Can the state squeeze o. J. Out . Good morning, everybody. Lets get right to our top stories. The twin crisis facing donald trump on this saturday morning. Overnight the president asked for and received the resignation of his health and Human Services secretary tom price after the intense scrutiny of hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on charter flights. More cabinet members coming under fire for costly travel expenses. Now the head of the Veterans Affairs department facing hard questions. Meantime President Trump taking heat over his response to Hurricane Maria as puerto rico continues to struggle to get critical aid. After one Administration Official calle
[applause] there are a bunch of people who need things but i want to see from the outset it is fantastic my parents are here and one of my boy is is wearing his favorite tie. What has bullfighting aside the regime and syria and with people wondering how and whether hezbollah may be part of a retaliation if theres a strike over the use of chemical weapons. The designation finally of the military weighing as a terrorist group within the European Union there is plenty to talk about hezbollah in the hearing now and we will circle back to that but for the sake of context, lets start at the beginning. One reason i wrote this book is because the lack of context that has been out there. There is so little publicly available in any fashion about the history of hezbollahs covert activities outside of lebanon. If you look at the literature and before i started into this, i did, theres lots of good stuff on hezbollah. But theres lots of good literature on hezbollah and almost all of it is about he