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secretary of state rex tillerson testified last month before a senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on his department s 2018 budget request. the trump administration wants to get 30% of the budget for the state department. south carolina senator lindsey graham chairs this two-hour hearing. the subcommittee hearing will come to order. i d like to welcome secretary of state tillerson. we need to increase defense spending. but once you do that, then if you re not going to deal with entitlementeds, you have to go to non-defense discretionary funding to find the off sets. and this account gets pretty much devastated. i m not blaming you. i m not blaming anybody. i just want the country to know i think this budget request is in many ways radical and reckless when it comes to self-power. and i look forward to working with you, mr. secretary, to find a better budget but also to find a better state department. you just got there, been there for a few months. a year fro ....
that happens tonight on c-span2 s t.v.. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone thank you so much for coming. we are going to have a discussion and then we re going to open it up to q&a after 30 minutes. and as you probably know or may not know this is been filmed by c-span. so thank you very much c-span. [laughter] also, please ask a lot of questions and be as provocative as you want to be so that we can have a lot of very interesting conversations and that will be great for television. so, my name is geneive abdo. i am a senior fellow and we also have joyce karam a correspondent for al hayat. i think for any media particularly for this media i think she is a very interesting and truthful take on all sorts of issues in the region but also happens in washington. if you read any of her coverage about the iran nuclear deal it was absolutely spot on. thank you. we are honored today to have her with us and so we are going to begin and they are going to start taping i ....
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