[no audio] [no audio] waiting for the start of a discussion between the relations of u. S. Lebanon with former investor david hale. Live coverage on cspan. Good morning come on the president of the United States institute of peace which is a Public Institution established by the u. S. Congress in 1984. We are a national, nonpartisan institution thats dedicated to helping prevent and mitigate violent conflict abroad. Its really an honor and a pleasure this morning to host a conversation with ambassador david hale on his new book. American diplomacy toward lebanon, lessons in Foreign Policy and the middle east. When you hear the catchphrase seasoned diplomat thats used to describe someone with deep experience, navigating the labyrinth he and political shows and complex negotiations in in distant lands, the name that first comes to mind is ambassador david hale. The ambassador is a Career Foreign Service officer and started in 1985. His postings have taken him from north africa and the pe
Good morning and welcome. Im the president of the United States institute of peace. Were a Public Institution that was established by the u. S. Congress in 1984. Were a national nonpartisan institution thats dedicated to helping prevent and mitigate violent conflict abroad. Its really an honor and a pleasure this morning to host a conversation with ambassador david hale on his new book. American diplomacy toward lebanon. Lessons in Foreign Policy and the middle east. When you hear the catch phrase seasoned diplomat thats used to describe someone with deep experience navigating the complex negotiations in distant lands, the name that first comes to mind is ambassador david hale. The ambassador a Career Foreign Service officer. He started in 1985. This is the e u. S. Foreign service. Ambassador hale has been the ambassador to pakistan, lebanon and jordan. As well as a special envoy for middle east peace. More recently, Ambassador Haley served as the under secretary of state for political
[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America
Have been woken up by the rain last night. We had a damp weekend, but when is it going to dry out . Drew is here with the forecast. Good morning. It is monday, october 23rd. Monday night football, its on abc7 and we are counting down the coverage throughout the morning at the bottom of your screen as you can see. Yes, we have that going on and we want to know what is the weather going to be like today. Yes. So were drying out this morning, but its creating areas of dense fog. So outside we go to the exploratorium camera. Heres a live look across the city. We have the cloud cover breaking down. But as this front moves out of the region, it will bring about some areas of dense fog. This morning in the north bay. So we do have a dense fog advisory in effect until 10 a. M. For the valleys of the north bay. We were expecting this this morning as we have that moisture from that front yesterday and the clearing skies, it is condensing into fog right now. Were down to a quarter of a mile. Visi
More than a thousand libraries, 160 childrens schools, 77 museums, an impressive range of work that is going on in new russian regions are already producing results, as the minister of culture reported to the president , as Olga Lyubimova said, the federal theaters and Exhibition Centers provide patronage support, everyone meets together at allrussian educational seminars, the first one was held in august. When we started working in four regions there were two cinema halls, now we are working as it is and there are older generation guys and young people, it was decided that it was possible to watch any kind of cinema at all. There were two cinema halls, two cinema halls for four regions, and now in the new regions there are 51 cinema halls, of course. It is very important for us that young people and the older generation have the opportunity to come to the same films, which are now showing in all regions, the rest, we are coping with this together, discussing premieres, some people lik