[inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i want to call the meeting to order . Sure. You want me to introduce you . No. I think were going to start now. Thanks for all of you for coming. My name is jonathan landi, National Security and intelligence correspondent for Mcclatchy Newspapers for another week 1 2. And, again, thank you for coming. To the release of this new report sets out recommended pathway for the Kurdistan Regional government to take to what many believe is inevitable independence from iraq, for iraqikurdistan. The full report is on the web. I think you guys have got the executive summary. The report was prepared by a Task Force Organized by the program on peacebuilding and rights of Columbia Universitys institute for the study of human rights. The task force chair, to my immediate right is ambassador nancy soderberg. Her Foreign Policy resume is extensive
Benghazi met with that man within 48 hours before the attack . I know nothing about any meeting with him. Ambassador stevens on the day he was killed sent a cable about his meeting with mr. Hamid. Are you aware of that cable . No, im not. He said they, referring to mr. Hamid, they wanted an introductory meeting, they asked us what we needed to bring security to benghazi. So your officials were meeting with this man on the ground in benghazi, libya, discussing security, two days before that. But in august of that same year, the United States government had said that this very man was, quote, a young rebel leader who allegedly fought in iraq under the flag of al qaeda. Were you aware that our folks were either wittingly or unwittingly meeting with al qaeda on the ground in benghazi, libya, just hours before the attack . I know nothing about this, congressman. I think thats deeply disturbing. I think the fact that your team was meeting im sorry. Which team is this . We dont know exactly w
The rest, tomorrow at noon on cspan. The first part of the hearing is about 4. 5 hours. Representative gowdy good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair notes the presence of a quorum. Good morning. Welcome, madam secretary. Welcome to each of you. This is a public hearing of the benghazi select committee. Just a couple of quick administrative matters before we start. Madam secretary, there are predetermined breaks, but i want to make it absolutely clear we can take a break for any reason or for no reason. If you or anyone, just simply alert me, then we will take a break and it can be for any reason or for no reason. To our guests, we are happy to have you here. The witness deserves to hear the questions and the members deserve to hear the answers. So proper decorum must be observed at all times no reaction to questions or answers, no disruptions. Some committees take an incremental approach to decorum. I do not. This is your one and only notice. Madam secretary, the Rank
Host already 90 postings on our facebook page. You can also send us an email. Those numbers came out on friday. Touted in the papers on monday. A review of them if you missed them, it was 200 9000 jobs added in july, but because of a multitude of things, the Unemployment Rate ticking up a little bit to 6. 2 . Taking a look of the jobs numbers created, it showed that 200,000 jobs were created. The president used that as the subject of his weekly radio address as he talked about the economy and how it affects the middle class. [video clip] inover 200,000 new jobs july, on top of 300,000 new jobs in june. Adding 200,000 jobs each month, which has not happened since 1997. All told businesses have created 9. 9 billion jobs over the last six months. Because of your hard work and comemination america has farther and faster than almost any other advanced company on earth. The economy is clearly getting stronger. Things are clearly getting better. The decisions that we make now are to keep thin
Different and new. I think it is useful but not absolutely essential to the overall relationship. Just getting the Team Together on the american side, which hampered its first few months, but i would not myself think that this was critical to the issue of inking forward. I think that has to be done to some degree by the Prime Minister and the president. They have little time together, so it is very much something that needs to be included in the regular meetings at the foreign secretary level and then at the theor official level, like political director and others in the foreign office. You have this overview of the overall relationship. Well, that takes me rather neatly onto my next point, which is that sometimes we make a mistake in this country in seeing american foreignpolicy as being monolithic, because you have a number of sources. You have got the white house, that you mentioned. You have got the state department. You have got the senate, the Foreign Relations committee. C, and