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Partners to combat the greatest risk to Border Security National Security and public safety. And ygn ultimately the articles answer those big three questions. Why we changed how we changed and how to answer whether were winning or not. With that ill turn itb j n back over to stephanie. Thank you. Thank you both. Im going to exercise the moderators prerogative and ask each of our guests one question first before opening it up to the floor. The first question i have is for chief fisher, and that i...

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Capital gain, youre going to end Chuck Grassley up with much higher, generate. And indeed, thats whats happened when president clinton came in. Capital gains went back in and the rates went to 39 . And seems to me that theres a lot more coherence in a bill with a lower rate that treats capital and labor the same. Thank you, senator. Thank you, both, for coming. I want to start with something you both touched on in your opening statement, but to get more specific, and so ill start with with senat...

Respond to cyberattacks, just as we do in other con texts. These are hard and very complicated issues, but im confident that working together government, industry, advocacy groups, the public, and the congress, our networks can be safer, are privacy protected and our future more secure. I look forward to tackling these threats with all of you. Thanks very much. [applause] im going ask you a few questions and then well open it to a conversation from this room and from the overflow room. I hope so...

[ technical difficulties ] its by no means over yet. There is still that streettostreet, housetohouse fighting that needs to happen. Its not a conventional battle. Its more like guerrilla war fair. Yeah its a war of attrition. Isil is very good at putting snipers in placeses. But the iraqis seem to be very confident. If the iraqi army are able to push isil out of tikrit what happens next . You talk about the people of tikrit being very angry at the shia dominated government in baghdad. We have s...

Partners and adversary that the United States government has come together to address a serious challenge. We all took an oath to protect the nation in its interests. But to do so we must work together. I know everyone here takes the threat of isil seriously and president obama and everyone at this table does as well. We encourage a serious debate. But i urge you to pass the president s aomf because it provides the Necessary Authority and flexibility to wage our current campaign, and it will dem...

Do a Night Mission in syria or iraq, they come under the cover of darkness or get actionable intelligence does that two star have the ableility to execute that kind of a mission . Being cautious about operational security, what i would say congressman is that the chain of command has been empowered by the chairman to make the appropriate recommendations to carry out the strategy. So, when secretary kerry was here, he, one of my colleagues, mr. Grayson, was trying to interpret whether or not the ...

Her tenure as secretary of state. She complied with the laws, admitting she deleted nearly 30,000 personal emails. Your thoughts on all of that is warning. You can also send an email journal cspan. Org. Phone lines are open. I want to show you how the former secretary of state began the News Conference in new york yesterday. Heres what you have to say. [video clip] when i got to work as secretary date, i opted for convenience to use my personal email account which was allowed by the state depart...

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Come together to address a serious challenge. We all took an oath to protect the nation and its interests but to do so we must Work Together. I know everyone on this Committee Takes the isil threat seriously. Everyone at this table does as well. We encourage a serious debate. I ask you to pass the president s amf because it provides the authority and flex wage and recurrent campaign and because it will demonstrate to our men and women in uniform that all of us stand behind them. Thank you, mr. C...