Investigator, whether abaaoud was in the are apartment, where the gun fight lasted several hours. The prosecutor believed he was but there was so much damage from the explosions inside the apartment right now, they have not been able to identify positively the bodies inside. [ gunfire ] french leaders have spoken of a war with those who carried out last fridays massacre. Today in the northern paris suburb of st. Denis, it sounded as one. The french authorities believed that abaaoud was september of carrying out attacks in the interest of Islamic State, this witness received on the 16th of november, and with great caution, we verified all the data particularly telephones and bank accounts. 4 30 a. M. , police fail when they try to blow the door open. The gunmen inside are alerted. The gun battle is on. In the first one hour 15 minutes, 5,000 rounds are fired. A female suicide bomber believed, say french media, to be the cousin eve of abaaoud, bs herself up. Others detained. Someone aske
Done against the band organization in pakistan. I to be very honest, i would not agree with that the assessment for the simple reason that why we launched the operation in the north which was a huge success, simultaneously, we also launched operations against various coming up live next, a hearing on u. S. pakistan relays. Richard olson will testify this morning before the House Foreign Affairs committee. This is live coverage on cspan3. And maybe some of the other members will be able to as well. So this hearing is on the future of u. S. pakistan relations. The committee has repeatedly urged pakistan to take meaningful action against key islamist terrorist groups operating within its territory. Pakistan which is now home to the worlds Fastest Growing Nuclear Weapons program has remained a fount of radical islamist thought. It was no surprise that one of the San Bernardino attackers Tashfeen Malik studied at a Pakistani School spreading a particularly fundamentalist message. After more
Disagree with benjamin netanyahu, i do not question for an instant the basis of his concern or that of any israeli. But i am also convinced, as is president obama, our Senior Defense and military leaders and even many former Israeli Military and intelligence officials that this agreement puts us on the right path to prevent iran from ever getting a Nuclear Weapon. The people of israel will be safer with a steel and the same is true for the people throughout the region. That, we areensure also taking specific and farreaching steps to coordinate with our friends from the gulf states. President obama hosted their leaders at camp david earlier this year. Lastited with them in doha month. And this week, we will visit kim so hon from saudi arabia to washington. There they are alarmed by Irans Nuclear program. We must and we will respond on both fronts. We will make certain that i ran lives up to its commitments under the Nuclear Agreement and we will continue strengthening our security partn
Saying how delighted i am to have made my very first trip out of europe, as the very first also european commissioner for immigration, here in the United States of america. Europe and the United States are longstanding allies and partners. We share the same fundamental values. Freedom. Peace. Democracy. Our joint meeting here yesterday and today is another concrete example of how together we can be more effective in upholding and defending our common values. Needless to say, the relations between the European Union and the United States in the justice and the Home Affairs Area reflect the strategic character of our partnership. Not surprisingly, our meeting this morning with attorney general eric holder and his team was very successful. Very positive. Very friendly. And very productive. I also had a very fruitful meeting yesterday with the Homeland Security secretary, jeh johnson, which helped make the days meeting very a success. Today, as was said before, we discussed the future of t
Are pose a high risk for terrorist financing, or perhaps the weak spot may be with the other federal regulators, that the other federal regulators arent focussing and emphasizing on whether or not these banks are in compliance with the counterterrorist financing regulations under the bsa. But it seems to me its unacceptable, two banks, if you look at the actual orders issued, only two banks where i could find references in those orders to threats regarding terrorists claims. Yes, sir. In that light as we look at our partners throughout the world, we have relationships with him, many of whom we give tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid, its always of concern to me of how we are not honored by our relationships with our partners and particularly in this situation thats so critical for the National Security and for theirs as well. To what extent, what would you advise us as a congress in Going Forward and how we could put greater pressure on these respective countries an