Smith. And maryland, the president trying to handle growing threats in the pacific. A new Military Exercise Program to Counter China and north koreas ambitions. John and during the announcement, one reporter squeezed in a question about National Security concerns over the president s son. Listen here. Administration view this investigation as legitimate and the administration concerns that Hunter Bidens ties to china pose a National Security issue . I dont have any comment on that. John the white house shutting down that line of inquiry, trying to focus on the task at hand. Jacqui heinrich is live at camp david, with the podium behind her, the leaders will soon appear. Its significant to note just how interesting it is you are going to have these three leaders appearing on the same stage together. Two years ago the deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman had to appear solo on a Stage Following a trilateral event with the two countries and u. S. , the Japanese Foreign minister objected
Nazi attack in canada, the scandal surrounding the ukrainian ss soldier does not subside. So, donetsk is again under massive artillery fire from the Ukrainian Armed forces. Behind over the past few hours , about one and a half dozen shells have been fired at the city. Some of them are cluster ones, which are especially dangerous for civilians. Shelling of other cities in donbass does not stop. Ukrainian militants mainly use ammunition that they receive from nato countries. By this hour , one injured civilian was known several residential buildings were damaged. All this is not left unanswered by russian artillerymen. They play a special role in the arrtemov direction, where the enemy has been trying to actively attack in recent days unsuccessfully. The defense there is held by an Airborne Forces unit, these footage shows how paratroopers, using optical reconnaissance equipment , discovered detachments of ukrainian militants who were preparing for an offensive, but all of them. Did not
This morning we have a hearing the preparedness and response capabilities we will hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response hhs and the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response for health at cdc and dr. Gottlieb commissioner of the fda. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second tuesday january 23. Senator murray and i each have been openingng statements or any opening remarks they may haverk after that we will introduce our panel and hear their testimony then each minute member has up to five minutes for any remarks or questions. First welcome to the chairman for giving me the opportunity to have this hearing that discusses the topic critical to National Security and has seen many years of bipartisan work in this committee and congress. We have developed strength in the name work with and other Nuclear Threats with the potential to jeopardize the health of all americans. This created a framework as we have
Three days. So it could be 24 days or as short as 13 days. Would it be permissible to address the snap back aspect . At the discretion of the chairman. Youre next. I will take my time and ask quickly to respond to the question. Thank you. I just wanted to speak to one of the premises behind your question. First, i absolutely agree that the more likely scenario we see is small breach is a testing, sticking a toe across the line. And what we need to do then is hit iran in a proportionate way show them that has consequences. Otherwise were asking for larger breaches. And we have to be very serious about that. We have been very clear with our partners we will be serious about that. But there is a premise that ive heard circulating that after the initial sanctions relief iran can somehow immunize itself to further pressure. Therefore it wont care about snap back. That is simply not the case. Irans foreign reserves cant be put in a vault or a mattress in iran in the form of gold or bills. Th
The same conclusion appeared in this time to pick a side, stop supporting hamas dared us to iran, we need the maximum sanction, the maximum enforcement of Nuclear Restrictions than the maximum international support. One way to justify additional sanctions is to renounce the nuclear deal, doing that would cause europe not to support distinction in many in the world would even say iwan was free to reopen it Nuclear Program without inspections or restrictions. Fortunately, the world is based, is blessed with an almost, beyond possible use Natural Resources and that is our supply of people coming from tehran. We can impose the maximum sanction without even mentioning the iran deal and then we will have european support as we point to almost 500,000 dead serious civilians, a direct responsibility of tehran as we point to the terrorism around the world, as we point to how they treat their own people and the execution of those of the lgbt communique. There is no shortage of reasons to support