The screen and we will try to address everybodys questions near the end of the program but if we dont get your exact question, we apologize. I have a feeling there would be lots of questions today. It is my pleasure to introduce todays speakers. First Maya Rockeymoore cummings is a a former chair of the Maryland Democratic party and wife of the late congressman Elijah Cummings. In were better than this congressman cummings details the moment of which is life the prepared in two oh President Trump accountable for his actions while in office. His final words are a called action for us all to remain rooted in the politics of optimism and enact change in any way we can. Moderate to nice conversation is april ryan, cnn political analyst, bureau chief for american urban rear network and author most recently of under fire. Reporting from the frontlines of the trump white house. Please welcome my in april to p p life. Hi, ladies. Thank you. How are you doing . Everyone, thank you for joining.
Of place de la republique, in the center of paris, candles light up the square in remembrance of the attack victims. Im Randall Pinkston, it is 2am in paris. Here is what we now know. The french president promised vengeance after the paris attacks. French forces are escalating air strikes against i. S. I. L. In syria. An international mann under under way for a suspect questioned by police, hours after the attack, and let go. President obama ordered all flags at half mast in honour of the 129 victims of the paris attacks. John terrett is in washington with more in response to the massacre. How much of an escalation does this represent . Well, good evening. Welcome to you. You have to remember that the french hitherto this point have been part of a 16nation coalition, they are leading the offensive against i. S. I. L. In syria. And i think the french tend to say what they mean, and mean what they say. You saw that on friday when the president Francis Hollande came out and said in no Unc
Expansion of isis in the middle east. After that remarks by the israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Next a look at u. S. Strategy against isis. Thursday david cohen, the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and Financial Intelligence outlined his agencys work to attach the terror groups Funding Sources. This hearing of the House Financial Services committee is three hours. The committee will come to order. The chair will declare a recess at any time. Before we begin, if you think you are in a strange room, you are. We did not change the portraits, as i have announced previously to the committee. Our hearing room, i think, is the last hearing room in the raburn building to receive a sound upgrade and other modifications to make the room ada compliant. As a reminder to all members, we will be a no maddic tribe between now and theoretically the end of march. We hope that doesnt mean midw midwmid midmay. And we will take whatever Committee Room our friends will allow us to have.
Finishing up the inheritance here when Michael First joined as a fellow and you know, at the end of the day, he would come by either my office or his office and his endless curiosity for for how this would play out, his love of the wonderfully ambiguous nature of dealing with the iranian. The questions of whether or not the specifics of the deal led to a much greater political kind of reconciliation, a subject that my great colleague, mark, will take up in a moment. He was also wonderfully into the weeds. And wonderfully competitive in that way that somebodys whos been a reporter all his life can be. When i r reported in the book after i wrote after i had done the inter hans than the United States had been involved in a lengthy cyber saab technology, that was really the first use of a cyber weapon by the United States against another state, i think michael was probably the first person who called me the day they ran the excerpt in the paper. And his mind had moved three chess steps out
Chemical weapons use. The group is tremendously destabilizing force across large swaths of iraq and syria and the brutal campaigns have approximately u drawn the condemnation appropriately drawn of the broader International Community. In addition to the horrific massacres, kidnappings and decapitations, officials believe that isil is one of the Richest Terrorist Groups to ever exist with estimated assets in access of 1 billion. Unlike most other terrorist groups, which tend to rely heavily on foreign sponsors, isil generally raises funds internally limiting available to the Treasury Department to cut them off. From the formal Financial System regardless. The ability to sanction and block assets remains vital to ensure that over the long run the United States and our allies can shut down any funds that are tied to elicit oil sales, extortion and kidnapping for ransom. As we make progress in curtailing isiss internal funding schemes, it may be forced to rely more heavily on types of fund