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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 12032019 20240713

And at 9 00 a. M. , dr. Steven on a new study of Life Expectancy in the u. S. The Supreme Court yesterday to go up its first one rights case in nearly a decade. How or even whether the court will decide that case is still to come. This morning, we would like to hear from you on the issue. Good morning, it is tuesday, december 3, 2019. We will start with your views on gun laws and how they should be changed or not changed. If you think gun laws should be more strict, the number to call is 2027488000. If you think gun laws should be less strict or loosened, 2027488001. If you think gun laws should be capped as they are, that line is 2027488002. You can send us a text. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. That line, 2027488003. On twitter, tweet us at cspanwj. You can post your thoughts at facebook. Com cspan. Top of also keep you on the latest in the ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140923

Correct . Yes. Would an attack on another diplomat coming into benghazi that caused the country to pull o out. Im assuming youre referring to the attack on the british ambassador. I am. I certainly thing think its indication of instability. So those are two trip wires that you would consider insignificant, would you not . Yes, sir. And what was done with the security after those two trip wires were tripped . Sir, as i said, i was not here at that time. Well, youve read reports. Im aware that the rsos were increasing physical security. They were engaged with training in the facility. They had run drills with the annex. I think from what i read they were doing the types of things an rso would do when he sees the situation beginning to deteriorate. Well, thank you for your testimony. Thank you all for being here. And lets hope we can get some results out of this tragic event. The chairman now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Shift. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to thank you ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20140920

As assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security, he testified about changes made to improve security at foreign posts. He was joined by members of the state Department Best Practices panel, which made security recommendations of its own. This is a little less than three hours. [no audio] we are experiencing an audio problem with this event. We are working to fix the technical difficulty and will continue running it. Hopefully, the audio will come back shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, we are experiencing audio difficulties. We apologize for that problem. We are working to fix it. We will have it corrected, hopefully, shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, experiencing some audio difficulties with this recording of this hearing on cspan. We have found another version of the recording. We are going to play that now for you from the top, on csp ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings 20130920

There were other people but wanted to go. I wish you had spoken to them. We did not even tried, we did not asked for permission, we did not asked for flight clearances. I disagree with what you are saying. You just told me they did not get to the ready. , you never asked those nato partners. I commanded nato forces and the likelihood that nato could respond was absolutely zero. I am so outraged by the conduct of this committee today. 83 years worth of service to this country by these two men and they are being treated shabbily and i apologize to you. It is totally unnecessary. We are trying to get facts and where trying to prevent this from happening again and badgering you does not achieve that goal. There also point out that has been a classified briefing, mr. Chairman, on the whole issue of whether Lieutenant Colonel gibson was told to stand down. There was an Armed Servic ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140918

Recommended they not be used . I read reports of that, sir. Okay. You were once an rso, correct . Yes, sir. In your distinguished career, do you ever remember recommending that a service not be used . That being hired over your protest or yourar recommendation . Not in my experience, sir. Okay. But you would have at some point recommended somebody or maybe not recommended anybody . Was it your job to look at the performance of these people tht you were w aware of . When when we have barredded contracts. When we find the contractor is not performing we have variety of ways to deduct money and ultimately find theyre not performing. If theyre found to be lacking and not performing contract they can be terminated. They can be barred if that goes that far. You mentioned. February 17th, martyrs brigade i believe what it was called. We were told that was the host company security. Is that true or not . I, i would hesitate to call that host
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