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Doctor Robert Redfield as director for the center of Disease Control and prevention he with others give a response before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Members have covered coronavirus spreads and whether china is cooperating with un officials. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members h...

[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime ...

Member for his longtime friend ship and partnership in this issue. Also want to thank the members of the cdc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously, this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on coronavirus, and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background as a physician, but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for Sacramento C...

Iranian students storm the American Embassy in tehran. Everybody thinks it will be an overnight affair, but it will not. Narrator this is the story of a traumatic crisis that lasted 444 days and ended in january 1981, a personal drama about 51 american men and two american women. We will be with you, hopefully, as soon as we can. Narrator their crime was being associated with the u. S. Embassy in tehran, the punishment was total incarceration. This will be an inside view, with exclusive iranian ...

States working along side croatia bosnia and serbia crafted a setment to end the fighting and keep the peace in the balkans in the wake of the devastating wars of the 1990s. The framework has been imperfect, bd a path forward for bosnia and for the entire region. This legislation calls attention to the difficulties facing bosnia as it seeks to join the e. U. It calls for needed reforms to ensure that all the peoe of bosnia can have a voice in their government. Neither p in the region are inevita...

Good afternoon, everyone. Just a few items to pass along at the top and then well get right to your questions. As some of you may be aware, the department of defense released a statement earlier today regarding support to the department of Homeland Security, which ill reiterate here from the podium at the request of the department of Homeland Security secretary austin approved a temporary department of defense increase of an additional 1500 military personnel to supplement us customs and Border ...

Look behind the scenes of the george w. Bush white house with president ial scholars of the university of virginias Miller Center who also edited the book 43 inside the george w. Bush presidency. Exploring the american story, watch American History tv saturdays on cspan2 and find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime at cspan. Org history. Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General pat lighter talked about deploying activeduty u. S. Troops to the u. S. Mexico border ahead...

An hour and 45 minutes. [indistinct conversations] good morning. In congress, and your recognize, my friend. Mr. Hill chairman mast, thank you. First, let me start out before i do opening comments and welcome our families and provide introductions for the family members who are here on this very tough, emotional day for them. And a quarter, her husband ryan is a humanitarian aid worker who has been imprisoned in afghanistan since 2022. He is the father of three kids and has been away for 600 day...

An hour and 45 minutes. [indistinct conversations] good morning. In congress, and your recognize, my friend. Mr. Hill chairman mast, thank you. First, let me start out before i do opening comments and welcome our families and provide introductions for the family members who are here on this very tough, emotional day for them. And a quarter, her husband ryan is a humanitarian aid worker who has been imprisoned in afghanistan since 2022. He is the father of three kids and has been away for 600 day...

Good morning. ]. Good morning. I want to thank you for taking the time to join us today. I want to thank my colleagues for paying attention to this important issue as well. I am going to defer any remarks from myself other than to say it is an important issue to speak about and keep in the face of everybody americans detained abroad. It is something that we pay vigilant attention to, the chairman, and i am going to yield to my colleague and friend mr. French hill who did all of the heavy lifting...