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Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Im hari sreenivasan. We begin in greece, where we see the st...

Libya was among the two Foreign Relations that testified before the senate Foreign Relations committee adhering on the ongoing civil conflict in libya and what role the us and its allies could take. Senator ben cardin, the senator drinking cardmember, who criticized President Trump for his assessment last week that there was no role for the us to play in the ongoing libyan conflict. Todays hearing will examine the crisis in libya. Id like to thank our witnesses for appearing before the committee...

Morning for washington journal. The house of representatives convenes for legislative business at 2 00 p. M. To consider several bills, including one dealing with the Homeland Security to consolidate their headquarters. Discuss workers who had been fired and preventing the iris preventing paying bonuses to their employees. The senate will continue working on a bill for the federal aviation. You can see the house live right here on cspan. New yorks president ial primary is tomorrow. Donald trump ...

Rep. Jordan the only thing worse than not doing the budget is spending more money. You have to look at this in thereal world context of debt just hit 19 trillion. Cbo reported six risk of this weeks ago this years shortfall, this years annual deficit will be 105 billion higher than expected. Within that context, we said look, maybe we should not spend 30 billion more. Maybe we should actually at least hold the line on spending to start to deal with the fiscal mess we are in. After all, every sin...

Worse than not doing the budget is spending more money. You have to look at this in the real world context of the debt just hit 19 trillion. Cbo reported six weeks ago this years shortfall, this years annual deficit will be 105 billion higher than expected. Within that context, we said look, maybe we should not spend 30 billion more. Maybe we should actually at least hold the line on spending to start to deal with the fiscal mess we are in. After all, every singlefamily, every single government,...

Deposit rates was discussed at the meeting. Mcdonalds up sharply in the premarket. The first increase in two years before all day breakfast. The company now getting a down grade from a key supporter. 3 m and caterpillar, mixed results, disappointing quarters respectively. We will find out how cats ceo explained things to the guys on squawk. Shares from mcdonalds, better than expected Third Quarter results. Comps up for the first time in two years. They see across the board growth in comps in the...

Further. You said that you found out in october that your attorneys met with the state department i believe it was in august. Now, from that time you said you turned over everything and that your lawyers went through this, and i believe it was in november after finding out in october that they had reviewed all these in two years . But your attorneys you must he some of the fastest reading attorneys in the world to go through that. I know youve got a group of them setting behind you but how many ...

Benghazi met with that man within 48 hours before the attack . I know nothing about any meeting with him. Ambassador stevens on the day he was killed sent a cable about his meeting with mr. Hamid. Are you aware of that cable . No, im not. He said they, referring to mr. Hamid, they wanted an introductory meeting, they asked us what we needed to bring security to benghazi. So your officials were meeting with this man on the ground in benghazi, libya, discussing security, two days before that. But ...

The rest, tomorrow at noon on cspan. The first part of the hearing is about 4. 5 hours. Representative gowdy good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair notes the presence of a quorum. Good morning. Welcome, madam secretary. Welcome to each of you. This is a public hearing of the benghazi select committee. Just a couple of quick administrative matters before we start. Madam secretary, there are predetermined breaks, but i want to make it absolutely clear we can take a break for any...