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Later, the president of college and Young Democrats of iowa on the candidates and issues in campaign 2020. As always, we take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal twitter. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for august 12. We want to hear from you. Some type ofaccept compromise when it comes to potential new Gun Legislation passing the house and senate and being signed by the president. Some type ofsals have compromise...

Let me call the hearing to order. Good morning. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of general c. Q. Brown. General, congratulations and thank you for stepping forward to lead at this critical time. I would like to welcome your wife and thank your son sean and ross. I would like to thank the current chairman milley. He has served this nation honorably and led the joint chiefs with skill and vision. We are grateful for his service and congratulate. You are well qualified to serve...

You see police cars, a fire truck. We know at least one person was injured. So far police have not arrested anyone in this cay. Well keep you updated. Also tonight, nowhere to go. Take a look at the thousands of containers just sitting in puerto rico tonight. They are filled with supplies for the victims of Hurricane Maria but are not getting to those in need. Tonight rr two very different views of how the relief effort is going. A member of the Trump Administration said it was, quote, under con...

Oil has been rising for two weeks. Lets get an update on what making headlines. Vladimir putin is condemning the u. S. Strike against syria, calling it and asked of aggression against the sovereign state. 59 cruise missiles were fired at a syrian airfield after accusing a syria of using chemical weapons. Tonight i ordered a target military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. Rush is promising to help beef up air defenses. The kremlin says only 23 of the m...

Yourself plenty of time to do plenty of followup space and the roads may still be wet even though it may not look that way. Well of course keep you up to date on what we see here. For now, well see things back inside. The contractor responsible for this ditch right here that swallowed several cars in cleveland on tuesday is speaking out. Multiple cars drove right into the hole and a video captured a man wearing their uniform buying beer oth nobody answered my complaints, and as a result, we had ...

Sir, there is capability with countries in the region but no countries have come forward and volunteered to put boots on the ground in iraq. Thank you sir. Well, good luck to you, and again, i appreciate your determination and resolve. I hope youre as successful as you believe youll be. We will be successful, sir. Thank you mr. Chairman. And thank all of you for all your efforts. General votell, id like to talk about one other issue for just a minute. That is i want to thank you for your top dow...

Do you believe the army can buy back force with oka funds . Do i not, senator. Do you believe the navy can work with shipping in funds . No, maam. I just. Im not saying we come to this as democrats because we have engaged in gimmickry also. I know the chairman wants to face this head on. I know its a challenge in the environment. We have obviously not met the challenge with the bucket as its currently configured. I wanted to specifically ask you, general austria austin, there has been a determin...

Involved. Can you help make that happen . Because the concern is the body abaddy a lot of folks are from the previous administration. And youve had extraordinary experience in the an bar area and can you help to identify the key sunni moderate leaders to make them part of this and is that what is going to you look and say we think were going to get it right this time and how do you think this turns out . Sir, to answer both of your questions, we are encouraged and we continue to encourage the le...

These things take time because we work with indigenous forces. We are using Iraqi Security forces to conduct the ground operations. As you pointed out, we have also said that you cannot do this with just power alone, and has to be a complement of fires and maneuver forces on the ground. Our approach is to generate those forces by training and equipping Iraqi Security forces. We are as we have halted isils advance into iraq we started the business of training and equipping new Iraqi Security forc...

Any member the panel who chooses to answer. Is this a Technology Question . Mr. Coons that does suggest a first answer. Mr. Gates its exciting what well be able to do over the next decade. Id say were just at the very start of that. In the case of ebola, we werent able to track movements as well as we would have liked to. Having in place the ability to look at the data and make sure we werent violating peoples privacy wasnt set up. I think now that weve, in a delayed way, looked at that day that...