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Opioid epidemic. After that, a border oversight hearing. Yesterday the United Nations called for the lift on the u. S. Embargo against cuba. Several Defense Department nominees testified at conformation hearing earlier. Well hear from mark esper asked about Army Readiness and Sexual Assaults in the military. The Senate Armed Services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. Good morning. Senate Armed Service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. Esper for secretary of the army. Personnel of red naez. Joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And gu...

Service, has been tested. Routinely theyve proven their courage, skill and determination. The burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. Given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the armys First Priority. Weve made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. But the army still does nautd plan to return to full Spectrum Readiness until 2021 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to con...

Book, inside job, how government insiders subvert the Public Interest. His book looks at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about national decline, they often look outside government, add special Interest Groups that try to coop governments for their own benefit. However, mark takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline. Com from inside government, from government insiders. It may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harms that come fro outside government. We are looking forward to hearing from him today. The way we ...

Pelley we begin tonight with breaking news. This evening, President Trump fired the director of the f. B. I. James comey was leading the investigation into whether associates of mr. Trump colluded with the russian government to influence the u. S. President ial election. Late today, in an oddly worded letter in which the president declares his own innocence, mr. Trump told comey that he has concluded that comey is not able to effectively lead the bureau. Comey, who is well known for integrity, was appointed by president obama, and had about another six years to go on a 10year appointment. Rece...

Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our douglas and Sarah Allison auditorium. We welcome those who are joining us on our heritage. Org website as well as cspan this morning. For those in house wed ask kurtd si that our cell phones and other mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. And for all those can watching on line or on television, youre welcome to send questions or kmentsds vp comments tnt, simply emailing heritage. Org. Hosting today is ted vroman. Hes our senior researcher. He studies those relationships as well as u. S. British relations with europe and the Eu...