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Or second us a tweet at comments. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Now on efforts to combat isis in iraq and syria. Deputy mckirk testified before the House Foreign Affairs committee about the obama administrations strategy and efforts to build a more Effective National government in iraq. This is two hours and ten minutes. This hearing will come to order, i will ask those in the audience to take their skates at this time. This morning we welcome back ambassador mcgirk who was one of t...

Review board report to upgrade security for personnel at highthreat posts. Has this been done . Not according to the facts ive heard. So, in fact, the department has yet to comply with benghazi arb recommendation 11, correct . We believe benghazi arb 11 intended for there to be Marine Security guards at all high threat posts. So i want to hear you say yes, that is correct. Thank you very much. Ive got 24 22 seconds left. I did want to touch a little bit on the local guard force. Real quick, mr. ...

Partners to combat the greatest risk to Border Security National Security and public safety. And ygn ultimately the articles answer those big three questions. Why we changed how we changed and how to answer whether were winning or not. With that ill turn itb j n back over to stephanie. Thank you. Thank you both. Im going to exercise the moderators prerogative and ask each of our guests one question first before opening it up to the floor. The first question i have is for chief fisher, and that i...

To talk about the campaign at the secretarys level how that is meshing what were doingnl . at the portsv we want to make morrow bust in the future. So help us t wout. If i, qcould turn e ÷ robert to follow up on that r2cquestion. Robert, youre in a unique position having been on the hill now for a while and i wont put you in an awkward position into what politicians will do in the coming congress but in terms am what you would Like Congress to focus on from a Border Security issue from a risk b...

Or down, we were winning. We had no other way to explain it. This isnt to suggest we werent seceding intermission. Border patrol had to have consistent and reliable data. Not simply data on what we were catching, we also had to report data on what we were not catching and the unknown. Today the Border Patrol does not describe the borders as controlled or uncontrolled. Instead it uses a variety of indicators, capability assessments, commander judgment to assign areas of risk category of high, med...

Host the Bloodiest Day was yesterday so far in the tensions between the israeli army and hamas forces. Later today, were focusing on Foreign Policy with an event we are covering at 2 00 eastern time, the middle east policies of, and next, our focus is a rock. We are going to take it to the atlantic counselor for live coverage. On the threatsg between iraq and syria, also known as isis, and it will analyze u. S. Policy in the middle east. This figures will include the iraqi master to the u. S. An...

We developed a preliminary set of risk indicators to analyze elements of risk along our border and evaluate the progress we were making amin relation to our goals. Before 2012 if you asked a Border Patrol agent if we were winning, he would say absolutely, and he would point to the number of arrests and seizures to show you that. Regardless of whether they went up or down, we were winning. We had no other way to explain it. This isnt to suggest we werent seceding in our mission, we just had no wa...

85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can sta...

And that was hed asked you about mindless austerity, mindless sequestration cuts, ndless which was both in your written testimony and your spoken testimony. Do you really mindean mindless or was that a misspeak . What i mean by that is we sspea should look to make smart cuts hould in programs that arent working. It doesnt say smart. It says mindless. The implication of mindless is that it t applies a kind of across the board one size fits all approach to cutting spending as opposed to what i thi...

Government spending is something that does not guilty gel with real life. In other words all of these government expenditures in some of the graphs that we show today are because were not taking their money so therefore, that e kwatquates to Government Spending where in real life does not taking somebodys money equate to spending again, the credible credibility gap, i think increases when statements like that are made. By the way, if thats the case, i think that what . Our gdp is what . 17 trill...