That does it for us from all of her colleagues across the networks on nbc news. Thank you for staying up late with me. I will see you again tomorrow. The date is october seven and previously only on my calendar for one reason which it is vladimir putins birthday. He is 72 today. Congratulations. But now for Me And You and everybody, the date october seven is its own unforgettable indelible thing the same way that 9 11 is an unforgettable indelible date for us forever now too. On october seven, israel lost 1200 people in the Hamas Attack and october seven of 2023, a year ago today and they lost 1200 people and if you extrapolate that given the relative size of the population of our two countries, and attack of that size in our country would have been the equivalent of us losing 35,000 people. We lost 3000 americans on 9 11 and they lost relative to their population relative to that 35,000 people on october seven. They didnt lose them by crashing into planes or doing that in the building
This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Beforere we turn to the substance and then members should during these proceedings in light of the cautions by wearing a face cover such as a mask so i urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing a mask. We are also conducting this hearing which affords Additional Space for those who are physically distant so before we get into housekeeping let me give my best wishes to the president and the first lady for a speedy recovery of covid19. We were all quiteor shocked and distressed this morning to learn of their illness and we hope for a speedyy recovery they are very much in our thoughts. The department of Homeland Security leading dhs office of intelligence and analysis referring to the office throughout the hearing left the committee no choice to issue a subpoena for the hearing today from counsel of the client and then the forme
For george w. Bush Steven Hadley now with the atlantic counsel. Well have opening remarks and then switch over to the executive vice chair. I would like to extend a few thanks to some of our partners here with us today, penny, michael margolis, thank you very much. Without further ado, ill turn it over to you. Well, thank you, julia, and my thanks, also to steve hadley for moderating the discussion. Congratulations to the Atlantic Council for the opening of the center for geoeconomics. After having looked at your goals, its an extremely timely undertaking. More broadly now more than ever, the Atlantic Councils mission of a strange transatlantic relationship. Covid19 has affected our way of life. As a look to the future, that the right values guide us in a postcovid world. Thats why the transatlantic relationship so important. It represents over 40 of the worlds gdp and nearly half of global personal consumption. But it is about much more than the economy. It is a community of values th
Policy. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Before we turn to the substance of todays hearing let me address a House Keeping matter. First let me remind members should during these proceedings with the exception of when theyre speaking take precautions in light of covid19 including by wearing a face cover such as a mask. Were also limiting staff attendance at the hearing. I would encourage and urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing your mask. Were also conducting this hearing in the Capital Visitors Center auditorium, which affords Additional Space for those present to remain fizz any distant from one another. Before i get into the other House Keeping matter let me just express my best wishes to the president and first lady for a speedy recovery from covid19. I know were all quite shocked and distressed this morning to learn of their illness. And we hope for a very speedy recovery. Theyll be very much i
Remind the viewers about the purpose of your organization. Also could you tell viewers how you are funded . Voluntaryough donations from the American People. We are a Nonprofit Educational Foundation that tries to bring more transparency, accountability, and the rule of law to our nations public life. Host one of the issues of transparency that your organization spends a lot of time with is looking into the Russian Investigation and the backdrop of it. What wasople again essentially your take on what was done in that investigation. Guest my take is the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton campaign were nervous about the legal issues surrounding Hillary Clintons emails and other misconduct of 2016bama administration in as it related to Hillary Clintons emails and the targeting of President Trump. They doubled down on it, manufactured false allegations against President Trump to excuse unprecedented spy operations and later criminal investigations into trump and his team. Host what s