34 days out now until the Iowa Caucuses who will emerge from a crowded group of candidates . A lot of people asking that. Were also of course following the developing news out of baghdad. Hundreds of protesters storming the u. S. Embassy there and they are protesting recent air strike against an iranbacked malitia were following that story. Were also expecting more protests out of hang kong, they are now just two hours away from ringing in the new year, and mass demonstrations are planned as well. Well take you there. Im Ashley Webster in today for stuart, Varney Company about to begin. Ashley and on this last day of 2019 why not start with breaking Economic News for you right now, were getting the latest numbers on home prices. Especially when its positive right to end this decade this year, so were up monthovermonth 1 for the year for the last year were up over 2 and weve been talking all year long about slow down taking places in housing especially with existing home sales which rep
Will be shot, but understand you may very well be back again and again as the documents that were requested finally come in. For that, i am truly sorry that you may have to come back here again and again, but if we do not receive documents that were requested in plenty of time, then many of your testimony today will be a first round and not in fact a definitive oversight that we expected to have. With that, i recognize the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this very important hearing, and i thank you all of our witnesses for being with us today. The horrific bombings of our embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 were a watershed moment for our nation. Following those attacks, the state department reported that 80 of its overseas facilitiy i did not i repeat, did not meet Security Standards. Congress authorized billions of dollars to expedite Embassy Construction around the world. As part of this effort, the state Departm
Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we build. But what i am concerned with, its just not logical to the people we talk to and, frankly, to me that you can build under Design Excellence as quickly and as costeffectively as we did under standard Embassy Design. You pull a design off the shelf and build it and adopt the facade in a way that is fitting with the local the country as opposed to going through a design bid build with architects and builders, it just doesnt make sense. Now, if you can show me with facts and figures that it does
Our campaign chairman. They tend to have a title but not do a lot of work mark is the exhibit obvious opposite. He worked tirelessly on our behalf and gave us great advice. I am lucky to call him my friend. Our party is stronger and virginiaans are fortunate to have a legislator of his integrity in the state senate [applause. ] i thiing thank thosr the miles that they covered and cathy and i are so happy as they expect their new baby. Our finance team was a great did a great, great john. I thank pat mullins and the staff at the Republican Party of virginia who were shoulder to shoulder with us throughout this, and pat will be missed as he steps down as chairman of the Republican Party of virginia. I appreciate his service to our party. And i want to thank the rnc and their victory staff led by josh daniels who did a great job. Of course, the tip of the spear was the ed for senate campaign. And the tip of that tip was our campaign manager, chris levitt, who is tireless, smart, committed
Information request by Judicial Watch produced the incriminal natures email from rhodes to 12 members of the president s senior staff. The email dated september 14 with the subject line reading prep call with susan states the goal for her National Tv Appearances was, quote, to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. Press secretary jay carney today struggled to attempt to persuade the White House Press core that this email was not even about benghazi. It was specifically not about benghazi, it was about the overall situation in the region, the muslim world, where you saw protests out seed of Embassy Facilities across the region. This socalled talking appointments around benghazi as you know because its been substantially reported on were prepared by the cia. And in this case, the overall issue of unrest in the muslim world. So then why did the white house hold back this back this email, a document that was originally classifie