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Bradley salzman testified that a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Forces committee. Live coverage here on cspan three. Your parents, randy and belinda salts men who are watching from home, im sure. And i know theyre very proud of her nomination. Recognizing the increasing importance of the space to maine and the growing threats to our critical space assets by china and Russia Congress established the space for us in the fiscal year, 2020 National Defense offers a shun act. The first ...

This, 95 to 100 , with great reason. Mr. Cooper. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I admire you, gentlemen, for your service to the nation and your work particularly since you are having to operate an irrational budget environment. Almost none of your predecessors have ever had to do that. When we have a house of representatives that refuses to even open discussions with the senate on a budget for america. Our media environment, many folks back home are unaware of this. Theyre mad at congress in general....

War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio...

To enhance this comprehensive Intelligence Driven program to detect previously unknown terrorists had and their facilitators. For example research and analysis identified by a lawenforcement agency suspected of being a syrian foreign fighter revealed the identity of a new suspect which provided previously unknown information and expanded our intelligence framework. As a foreign fighter threat grows cv he works in Close Partnership with federal Law Enforcement counterterrorism intelligence commun...

Judge heaphy. Mr. Bachus im appearing as a conference witness and i can only speak on issues on which the conference has taken a position and its not taken a position on the mansaray. As you know the commission focuses on penalties and not the elements of the crime so we have not taken a position either. Im sure it wont come as a surprise to mr. Chairman that most of our clients are not facing regulatory misdemeanors. [laughter] im sitting here asking these questions and kind of the elephant in ...

Cspan q a. Next, the confirmation hearing for three senior military nominees im a Northern Command, the Afghanistan International Security Assistance force, and u. S. Special Operations Command. They took questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Topics included Border Security in the ongoing situation in iraq and syria. This is just under 2. 5 hours. [inaudible conversations] , laud[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The Committee Meets today to consider the no...

Ironically, this president , president obama, has put even greater pressure on the Intelligence Community. Ben rhodes, whos the president s chief spokesperson in the National Security area, recently said this was about a week ago that at that time there was no need to attack isil in syria, and the reason was that they didnt have clear indications and warning yet this was a week ago that isil was going to pose a direct, imminent threat to the homeland, but ben rhodes insisted that if we did get t...

He is known for his work in peace and conflict studies. Hes director of the duke program, an american grant strategy. From june 2005 to july 2007, feaver was on leave to be the strategic adviser for planning at the white house where his responsibilities included National Security strategy, regional strategy review, and other political military issues. Hes written widely on such matters as National Security, military civil relations, and the military cost of war. It will focus on the larger polit...

I know he would want to jump in on that. Same question to you, ac rc mix and operational nature of the army reserve . Well, theres an extremely strong argument for the fact that were concerned right now about whether or not were going to assume risk by reducing the size our armed forces, and i think the counterpoint to that argument is by increasing your capability in the reserve component, you mitigate that isk significantly. Many of the skills we need are in the reserve components, and in some...

Officials testify on National Security agency Surveillance Programs followed by a hearing onthe washington shooting the shooting at the Washington Naval yard. Next, the house intelligence onmittee hearing testimony the National Security Agency Intelligence programs in the u. S. And abroad. Witnesses included National Intelligence Agency Director James Clapper and Homeland Security department officials. This hearing is twoandahalf hours. I remind all guests that i will only accept civil the koran...