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Is allowing anyone to purchase a firearm who is prohibited under current law or regulations. I want that to be very clear. I want it to be very clear right after the bat so that no one misinterprets this as some effort to let people own firearms who would normally be prohibited. This legislation is needed because a very disturbing trend has occurred in the past decade share the glory with someoneade else and we think theres good in legislation and every piece of legislation has hat the Veterans ...

Extended period to get. I call this joint hearing of the power Projection Forces of the House Armed Services committee to order. We are here in honor and memory of the 7 uss fitzgerald sailors, shiancoe douglas, xavia martin, hsubien and the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Jacob drake, Timothy Echols, john, cory ingram, abraham lopez, Kenneth Smith and logan palmer. And we are very grateful that today we have miss rachel. Miss echols, we send our deepest sympathies and profound sorrow for your l...

I call this joint hearing of the subcommittee of the house of Armed Services committee to order. We are here in honor of memory of the seven uss fitzgerald. Enate sailors and the 10 uss John S Mccain sailors. We are very grateful we have a mother here with us today. We send to you our give his sympathies and profound sorrow for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want to welcome our members to todays hearing. Recognizeespecially that we have with us the committee ch...

We are very grateful we have a mother here with us today. We send to you our give his sympathies and profound sorr for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want welcome our members to todays hearing. I want tespecially recognize that we have with us the committee chairman, donald mac thornberry. He has been the leader of our ongoing effortto mitigate our military Readiness Challenges and i want to thank him for his leadership and for being here today to heaabout the ...

Now well hear from senator jack reed, Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee. He sat down with abc news chief washington correspondent Jonathan Karl for a look at president trumps foreign policy. From the council on foreign relations, this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations]. All right. I think were ready to start. Thank you all for being here. Welcome to the council on foreign relations. Welcome to our guest, senator jack reed, Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee. Fro...

I think were ready to start. Thank you all for being here. Welcome to the council on foreign relations. Welcome to our guest, senator jack reed, Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee. From the great state of rhode island. Im jonathan karl, chief White House Correspondent for abc news. I will be presiding asking questions for first half hour and then take questions from all of you for second half hour. This is an on the record meeting. In fact i also want to welcome those cfr Members Aro...

[indistinct conversation] announcer Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking member jack reed of rhode island discussed for policy on friday. He spoke with abc news chief washington correspondent at the council of foreign relations. This is an hour. I think it is ready to start. Thank you all for being here. Welcome to the council on foreign relations. A warm welcome to our senator jack reed, Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee. He is from the great state of rhode island. I will be pre...

I think were ready to start. Thank you all for being here. Welcome to the council on foreign relations. Welcome to our guest, senator jack reed, Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee. From the great state of rhode island. Im jonathan karl, chief White House Correspondent for abc news. I will be presiding asking questions for first half hour and then take questions from all of you for second half hour. This is an on the record meeting. In fact i also want to welcome those cfr Members Aro...

Of betsy devos. We know at least two republican senators intend to vote against the nominee, meaning that Vice President mike pence would need to come to capitol hill to cast the tiebreaking vote and that would be the first time that Vice President broke a tie in a cabinet confirmation. President trump tweeted about the devos nomination earlier today saying, senate dems protest keep the failed status quo. Betsy devos is a reformer. She will be a great education secretary for our kids. That Senat...

Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned ...