Coming. I know you had nothing else to do today. Been a busy it has monday already. Did something happen i do not know about . Sec. Pompeo all is well, im here. You became our secretary state in april of 2018. Youre happy with the job . Is it as much fun as he thought it was going to be a sec. Pompeo everyday. Been the most significant Foreign Policy issues of concern for you . What you think are the Biggest Challenges to our country and the Foreign Policy area . Sec. Pompeo i get asked these questions about rank ordering the challenges. You made that is not an original question . Importanto it is an question. About priorities and resources and how you allocate time, and how do you think about the problems. For me, the first house when i toe in, 16 or 17 months ago the state department after having been the cia director was to make sure the state department is ready in the moment of crisis. So i made i spent time i spent time making sure my team must prepare. What happens when somethin
where every senator stands. republicans unanimously voted to criminalize abortion in more than half the states in america in just a few weeks. democrats filed to stop the alito court from turning the clock back on women s health by a century. let s be very clear about the consequences of this ruling when it becomes final. it will immediately criminalize abortion in many states. it will allow republicans to pass a law criminalizing abortion in all 50 states. it will throw out the constitutional right to privacy, a right upon which marriage and choice and many other civil rights depend. and it will put government and governments in control of women s bodies for millions and millions of people across america. this is a terrifying prospect. it s no secret that people have been considering what would happen if and when this far-right supreme court would throw out roe. less than a month ago i was talking about the end of roe and the danger of griswold v. connecticut. however, it is
say we all scary? does that say we all must fight this tooth and nail. and now republicans in louisiana are pushing a bill that could throw women and their health care providers in prison for life. for life! this is the america that senate republicans have made possible. an america where women in many statements could be forced to follow states could be foysed to follow forced to follow through on their pregnancies, where abortion could be eliminated in more than half the states in the country, an america where many states provide zero exceptions for something as evil as rape or incest. these laws could put women and girls in serious danger, and none of this is theoretical anymore. it s written into, into the veracity of the laws that have been passed by the hard right at the state level, and we know more are coming. all of this i bring to the peat of my there to madam president, last week a draft opinion was leaked out of the supreme court, which never happens, lit
And information sharing vital to dismantling criminal organizations. I would like to welcome the subcommittee and appreciate the witnesses for being here today. The chair recognizes himself for Opening Statement for which ill deliver mr. Kings Opening Statement. Law enforcement officers use many weapons to fight terrorism and crime on our streets. Some of these weapons such as badges, guns and squad cars are easy to see. They are the hallmarks of police work. Other weapons, however, that are harder to identify, but every bit as vital. Among these less visible weapons, access to timely and Accurate Information is oftentimes difference between a successful investigation and unsolved crime. In todays threat environment much of the information needed it generated overseas. This is particularly true when it comes to combatting complex Transnational Criminal Organizations that threaten our safety here at home. These sophisticated criminal enterprises do not stop at borders. Instead, they ext
I am a fan of this director and worked on the transition. Mr. Director, welcome. Its great to see you again. It all worked out. Thank you. The director is a soldier, lawyer, entrepreneur, congressman and is doing great work at the cia. I think what we want to do today with those joining in the audience and why extremist talk about the issues not just in the newspaper but some of the newspapers for the director of the cia and the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the media and you have to not only deal with the facts of how we are thinking about the National Security five, ten, 15 or 20 years now so we need to talk about some of those issues. There is a sense of dislocation in the world and that power itself is a shifting including the role of nonstate actors. Theres lots going on in the world so lets get into it. Mr. Director, the president gave his speech on october 13 reshaping u. S. Policy on iran to. Is iran in violation or what is the animating principle behind the