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My name is andrew hunter. Im a senior fellow here at the center for strategic and International Studies and the International Security program and director of our Defense Industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call defense trade or the cooperation of defense acquisition that we do with our allies and partners. Im going to introduce our panel, and maybe kick off the question and answer session with this group when were ready for that. Our panel is divided into two folks who are presenting and two discussants who will speak to the presentation...

Good morning, everyone. Im director of turkey studies at middle east institute. Im very happy to welcome you all to our eighth annual conference on turkey. Each year as we convene this conference we fine keen interest in turkish matters. 2017 was very dramatic and a difficult year for turkey for its neighbors and allies including the United States. So we appreciate if you are making time to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speaker, is a leading voice on Turkish Affairs in Foreign Affairs of the german parliament. She will provide a firsthand report on the challenges facing ankara and ber...

Slowly on the floor of the senate, slower than most places. Thank you again for coming and thank you so much for your input. Senator young, you had some follow up. I want to thank you the ambassadors again for their presence id like to turn to discussing the importance of cyber terrorism in our fight against our cyber warfare, that is in fighting against terrorism. Would you agree, first of all, that our nations cyb cyber activities are increasingly important as we carry out the fight against isis, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and other terrorist sectors . Absolutely, senator. Okay. Do yo...

Also on the calendar, this years state of the Union Address from President Trump before a joint session of congress. As always, you can watch the house live on cspan and see the senate on our companion network cspan 2. Next testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposed banning bump stock and similar devices. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislation. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays heari...

M there maybe some rain starting ashore. There is a sharp edge of the snow but it is not moving this way. It is moving this way. It is creeping and not going to move very fast, you can see it is a fairly narrow zone and the future cast shows it moving slowly to the east, maybe starting to rain in parts of philadelphia area, getting the streets wet. As we go towards the morning rush, temperatures going down a little bit and we get more in the way of snow, a little bit darker blue indicating at least enough snow to be causing some slick spots especially on untreated surfaces. Our meteorologist, ...