One of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change thats taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. One of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact Precision Targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether its in Counterterrorism Operations, whether its in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. To illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gates used to love to tell about the old way we did business. Many, many years ago, supposedly, an Intelligence Officer was working in a foreign capital at a diplomatic cocktail party, trolling the Diplomatic Service as we often do, looking for hard targets and unfortunately this officer had a little too much to drink. So his mission attention wandered a little bit towards more amorous pursuits. Across the room, he spotted what he saw was a vision of loveliness in a f
It isa it is a messy start to our saturday morning. A combination of rain, sleet and snow sweeping its way steadily east but into the afternoon, sunny spells and scattered showers. All the details from me throughout the morning. Morning, its saturday the 16th of january. Our top story all travel corridors into the uk will be closed from monday, the Prime Minister has announced. The change means anyone travelling to the uk will need proof of a negative covid test. Theyll also need to isolate on arrival for at least five days. Charlotte wright reports. Another measure to tighten up travel. This week saw passengers from south america and portugal banned from flying into the uk to stop the spread of a new covid strain from brazil. But the government says it may be difficult to predict where new variance might come from and so further action is needed. To come from and so further action is needed. ,. ,. , come from and so further action is needed. ,. ,. , needed. To protect us against the r
Desperately needed. We were happy to do that. I think the record the record will stay open for 14 days for questions and comments. I want to thank the full panel here, especially mayor nevarre, via teleconference. Youre here, which is good. We appreciate that. Especially because youre dealing with a real live issue on the ground. We thank the panel here and thank you for your written testimony, theres a lot of suggestions that you placed in there that will examine. This committee that deals with emergency disaster first responders, fema and others, this is an important issue and i have a feeling as you described very well, mr. Hubbard, that the summer is just beginning and were already seeing a lot of issues. Thank you all very much. The meeting is adjourned and record will be open for 14 days. Thank you. On the next washington journal well focus on president obamas threecountry, fourday trip to europe. Our guest is stephen szabo. And well mark the 70th anniversary of dday from the wor
India says transgender people deserve a category of thaw own. And how asias air pollution would be to blame for wild weather thousands [ technical difficulties ] government buildings for days while they set up roadblocks, to stop Ukrainian Special forces from entering. Ukrainian soldiers and military vehicles have gathered now near the town. Our correspondent is there, and joins us live. Kim, what can you see . Reporter you can see here behind me there are about seven armored personnel carriers, to the right of me there are about seven bus loads of ukrainian soldiers waiting in the winds. And there are the tracking vehicles for the apcs that are behind me. Im about 30 kill meters north, in the northern donetsk region. This is the start of the antiterrorism operation as the interim president calls it they are not saying anything to anyone at this stage. But earlier today the interim president did say the antiterrorism party is starting in the area, and he said it would be a gradual expa
Institutions subcommittee will get underway with a hearing that will look at the impact of high student Loan Interest rates and debt and the impact on the economy. Among those testifying today, the Financial Aid director a washington dc teacher will testify and others as well. At the subcommittees chairman will introduce legislation that would allow individuals without Student Loans to refinance at a lower Interest Rate being offered to new borrowers. This comes as fox business reports the numbers are startling. 1. 11 trillion in Student Loans outstanding. Of two toulon hearings we are covering today on the cspan network. The Senate Budget Committee Debt and you can call that getting underway right about now online at cspan. Org. Thank you all for joining us. One decade ago, we begin to see the warning signs of problems in the housing market. A few years later, we watched accommodation of wall street greed and attentive regulators inattentive regulators helping to destroy our economy.