Today to hear testimony on the Trump Administrations budgetary and policy priorities in the middle east for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from witnesses about the fy 20 budgets for the department of state Near Eastern Affairs bureau as well usaid bureau for the middle east. Thank the witnesses for appearing today. I recognize myself for purposes of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant ebt secretary shanker and administrator harvey for testifying today. Nearly three years in the Trump Administration, the United States face as multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration touts maximum pressure policy, iran continues to detablize countries from iraq yemen and leb ondespite President Trumps rhetoric tehran that is laufrmd attacks on International Shipping and regional states. Undermining u. S. Deterrence and credibility in the process. The Iranian Nuclear program is more advanced today than the day that President Trump took office. And the
Operation in syria, humanitarian efforts in the region, and foreign aid to saudi arabia. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the chair will come to water. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear about the policy priorities for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the fy 20 budgets, the Near Eastern Affairs bureau. We thank the witnesses for appearing today. Forw recognize myself making an opening statement. Thank you for testifying today. Nearly three years into the Trump Administration, we have faced a multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration counts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destabilize countries from iraq to yemen to lebanon. Despite bellicose rhetoric, iraq has iran has attacked regional shipping, undermined u. S. Credibility in the process. To
Weve been walking out in space and never all the ladies together. I know. All the ladies but not single. All the ladies ooh. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Im marcus washington. And im kris sanchez in for laura garcia, and vianey arana is in for kari hall this morning, and at least were not seeing the drizzle. Its not drizzly out for most of the bay area but its cool, though. Look at santa rosa 46, napa 44, down through santa cruz 48 degrees. In through san jose still the 40s and if youre going to be headed now anywhere today, youre probably going to notice well have a little bit of that cloud cover, still going to be breezy around the coastline and concord i want to show this to you. This is typically one of our hotter spots. By 12 00 well be at 68 and get this, only expected to hit the low to mid70s but enjoy it because we have a warmup that may be approaching sooner than you think. Lets head things over to mike. All right vianey, the richmondsan rafael bridge where marc
International space station. Why it took 35 years to happen. Finally. Its friday, october 18th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The kurds are very happy. Turkey is very happy. The United States is very happy. Reporter the president defends his ceasefire. Despite an agreement by turkey to temporarily halt the fighting in northeast syria, gunfire reportedly broke out overnight. Reporter White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney backtracking on his statement about quid pro quo with ukraine. Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. Next years g7 summit will be held at a florida resort owned by President Trump. It will be completely and totally unfuneral. Its a domestic of the domestic emoluments clause. The son of el chapo free after he was detained by mix Security Forces following hours of intense gunfire. In support of chinese prodemocracy supporters in hong kong has cost the nba millions. Our games are not back on the air in c
Christie smith spoke in light of the power shutoff. They remember that day like it was yesterday. They shared stories of loss and rebuilding. There was talk about updates on Community Preparedness and some pointed out challenges that are still ahead. In oakland, they remembered the disastrous and deadly fire that swept through the hills 28 years ago. I would ask that we give a moment of silence and the preparedness center. Her home burned in 1991 and many of her neighbors are new. Some of them dont know about trimming the trees or keeping the brush back on the house and all of that basic stuff that i was not aware of. She learned all about the Disaster Preparedness after the fire, but her planning was tested this month when pg e turned off power to help prevent wildfires. What i gained from this power outage was how what an island i was. I couldnt communicate. Council member believes the shutoff plan was not well sought out. The utility has said it will improve communications. The city