Mr. Banks without objection, so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to this hearing of the military personnel subcommittee. Todays hearing is focused on admissions, curriculum and diversity of thought at the military Service Academies. I want to thank our witnesses for being with us today. I hope this hearing provides an opportunity for our members to have a Productive Exchange with our witnesses and provide answers to their questions. First, let me say i believe our cadets and midshipmen are some of the best and brightest scholars and athletes our nation has to offer. Each year a small group of americans know their path wont be easy, that it demands sacrifice and hard work and in the end, nearly a decade or more of service to this great country. And that is why we are here today, to ensure that our cadets and mids are getting the first class education and the elite military training that they need. But i do have some concerns. All of the military Service Academies use race as selectio
Mr. Banks without objection, so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to this hearing of the military personnel subcommittee. Todays hearing is focused on admissions, curriculum and diversity of thought at the military Service Academies. I want to thank our witnesses for being with us today. I hope this hearing provides an opportunity for our members to have a Productive Exchange with our witnesses and provide answers to their questions. First, let me say i believe our cadets and midshipmen are some of the best and brightest scholars and athletes our nation has to offer. Each year a small group of americans know their path wont be easy, that it demands sacrifice and hard work and in the end, nearly a decade or more of service to this great country. And that is why we are here today, to ensure that our cadets and mids are getting the first class education and the elite military training that they need. But i do have some concerns. All of the military Service Academies use race as selectio
To day. Also, ahead political showdown, a day after protesters clashed with police in germany, President Trump expect to go meet with the russian president. Great to have you with us it is 5 01 looking live along the parkway on this friday, tgif we made it through another week. Yesterday Scott Williams we went through it with the rain. Below average temperatures. Yesterdays high only 75 degrees in philadelphia but we still have left over cloud, fog and some showers to get through for your friday so weather by numbers scale of one to 10 only a six. Morning showers out there. Afternoon sunshine, warmer conditions and all about that weekend outlook which looks nice. Ultimate doppler right now showing thaw mess of the moderate to heavy rainfall is off to the north and west and that energy will pin wheel through later this morning. But as we move toward places like allentown, Lehigh Valley, easton, bethlehem, moving toward mount pocono, jim thorpe we are looking at maryland rate to heavy ra
Good evening. We begin in the bangladesh capital amid ports reports of an arrest after an attack in dhaka. Dash dhaka. Its understood that the restaurant is frequented by locals and foreigners and a massive gun battle is said to be ongoing between attackers and security forces. Heres what the u. S. State department had to say about it a few moments ago. The situation is ongoing. Obviously too early for us to say who is involved, motivation, any of that stuff. Its unfolding right now and we will obviously update you. Of course, bangladesh has seen a wave of attacks in recent months. Outspoken bloggers, people from from religious minorities and others have been attacked, even killed with match et es. The all of theryan Court Announced that it has annulled last months president ial election where the elected orate very nary rejected the farright antiimmigration candidate. Todays anullment comes after the Freedom Party challenged the vote, eye saying the postal votes were not handled corre
That its not okay to just use people because they are dying. Some of the rationale for some of the plutonium experiments and radiation experiments and other injections was that these people are dying and we might as well get some information from them. Being ill and hospitalized did not justify that. You still have to respect them as people. So what are key lessons from the radiation experiments. Ive only scratched the surface. I hope you will go and read more about them, in arlene wilsons book, Jonathan Moreno has a wonderful book on the history of the experiments, these human irradiation experiment books, a lot more detail. One of the lessons is the medicine and the quest for knowledge has to be looked at it the in a specific political, economic, social context. It cant be understood if you take it out of the context. These radiations experiments started in the context of a world war and ended in the context of a cold war which turned quite hot on occasion, which was characterized by