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Department of state. Thank you for coming to focus on the subject of human rights and iran. I want to recognize some amazing attendees we have over 50 members of the diplomatic corps, thank you very much for coming but we also have so many people from the iranian diaspora as well we will begin todays program with secretary mike pompeo with three cohosts for religious freedom Deputy Director mike bell. During the listening sessions we heard the members of how we can continue to share your story and support your voices and we will dive deeper into the issue and also have an opportunity to hear from survivors who have firsthand experience of the Iranian Regimes oppression. Assistant secretary for human rights and labor previously chaired and served a six term as commissioner on civil rights. With a 15 year interface dialogue. My friend, bob. [applause] good morning, everybody. ....
The goal was not to level the place, but to minimize damage to property and most important of all, to minimize casualties. That was accomplished. My daughter did not belong to any group. She was innocent. She had nothing to do with all of this. They killed her. Do it again, i would do it again because the cost was high. And theen, civilian military who gave their lives not for us. They gave their lives for democracy, for freedom. I do not mind paying any price under the sun to be free. On december 19th, 1989, while panamanians were getting ready for the christmas holidays, the United States was secretly mobilizing 26,000 troops for a midnight attack. I saw helicopters approaching. They were close. The lights went out, the helicopters began to shoot. People were running left and right without direction, without knowing where they were going. It was not just machinegun fire. There were bombs. The noise was frightening. You could hear ....
Said he will vote no on the new trade agreement. I just want to stress that this should not be attemp be a e for future agreements, not the way we approach trade in future. We should look to expand trade. David bringing in republican congressman jim banks in indiana, i assume you are in favor of the deal, you heard senator tumi what do you think . He does not say anything about merits of usmca which is really good for United States of america, our economy and our workers. I grew up in a home, a son of factory worker where nafta was a 4 letter word when i was a kid. My dad is as happy as anyone that donald trump fulfill one of the Biggest Campaign promises he mad to replace nafta with usm. There are political consequences to this and policy consequences to passing usmca as well. This at the end of the day this is a big win for the president and country. Thank you congressman. ....
Failure as we outline in the report, not just by those who prepared the applications, but also by the managers and supervisors in the crossfire hurricane chain of command, including fbi senior officials, who were briefed as the investigation progressed. Paul michael mulkasi served at the 81 attorney general of the United States. You supervised the fbi as ag. Is this kind of behavior tolerable, if your view . No, it is not tolerable and should not have been tolerated. The number of misdeeds here is so enormous that its hard to know where to begin. It really flooded the zone. But whats clear is that they felt people the failures were on the senior level. Usually you rely on seniors to keep rogue agents in check. Here it was the seniors that went rogue and the evidence in the report and statements in this report that the most senior, jim comey, was aware certainly at the time that these wiretaps on page were renewed that there was inf ....