Cooler out towards the coast. More details in your forecast are still to come back to you darya thanks a lot with the heat it was just what weve been seeing with wildfires. This is dangerous for big fires are burning across. The bay area in the east bay and the north bay right now. And they were likely sparked by the lightning. So we added that to what weve been through and as john said its going to let up a little bit its still going to be hot really worried about when to when it comes to fire james yeah, absolutely so lets lay the groundwork the scene for you. We have the marsh fire thats the farthest one to the south were tracking right now in Alameda County right there in the sun all regional wilderness was aboard a Santa Clara County that fires continue to burn out of control burn out of control the deer zone fires burning on the east side of mount diablo just east of clayton sparked all yesterday and continues to rage in the north bay we have a pair of fires there as well the hen
We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important