Social media, now please welcome our host mike allen. Good morning. [applause] good morning. Thank you very much for your Early Morning to all of you who are here and welcome our remote audience. Welcome our friends from cspan. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank the Hewlett Foundation for making this possible bring some california vibe from my native state on the socal but we are very happy to have them here and for those of you for joining us electronically, the axios event team has pulled off a bipartisan breakfast. Theres not a lot of meals in d. C. That a bipartisan, but we have french toast roles that have cream cheese with raspberry dipping sauce. Summoned with sony i should call it freedom toast. Take your pick whether it is french toast for freedom toast. The overnight oats are layered with strawberries and blueberries, just like i make at home. Also red and blue. Thats the bipartisan breakfast, and we appreciate those here who made it possible. So a few, hop on axios. C
Form including islamist terrorism. What we try tried to do in this committee is through this hearing process layout a reality. I come from a manufacturing background. Salt a lot of problems. The only way to solve a problem is first admit you have one properly define it, properly describe it, gather the information and admit to the reality. There is no way anybody can deny we have a problem worldwide in terms of extremism and violence. We witness it just a few hours ago on a practice field for a Charity Baseball event. Let me acknowledge first of all our prayers are with those victims, congressman scalise, the staff member and the two members of the capitol Hill Security team that were worded and even having been wounded they continue to to return fire and prevented a far greater tragedy. The appreciation we owe to the men and women in Public Safety that every day they step out of the threshold of their door they literally put their lives on the line. They demonstrated it again this mor
Visitors to the hill. We have a few of them here today with us. Thank you for all the work that you do. We thank you. Now turning our attention to the hearing, we are joined by the 14th administrator of the epa scott pruitt. Congratulations on your confirmation. You have joined a distinguished group. We look forward to hearing your vision and working with you to provide the resources necessary to lead an agency. We are also joined by holly greaves. I believe this is your first time testifying before the subcommittee as well. Welcome to both of you. Before we dive into the specifics, administrator pruitt, you have a tough job here today. 54 billion for nondefense spending to defense side of the ledger. Those are tough lines to meet. And many tough choices were necessary in order to meet those targets. Earlier this morning i along with Ranking Member, miss mccollum and other members discussed the Defense Budget at the hearing with secretary mattis that conversation further underscored th
Most cars keeping it under the 40 miles an hour limit. Even at these speeds step in front of a car and you dont stand much of a chance. Have you ever had any close calls . No. Reporter keep it that way. Reporter you werent hearing things he says he has seen cars flying by more than 100 miles an hour just another reason this stretch continues to be one of the deadliest in the nation. Thank you, brad. Heres something you dont hear often. In pennsylvania, the u. S. Geological survey says a 2. 3 magnitude earthquake can it lehigh coun lancaster county. Theres a sizic zone in lancaster county. One to two quakes per decade. This rare but definitely not heard of and of course, lucy mentioned about 5 00 a magnitude 2. 3 which is a weak quake, but many people felt, it felt in millersville, pretty much throughout the state, when you look at this area as a whole wire talking about one to two per decade, there has been serious damage since the past 75 year, a weak earthquake once again no damage r
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