here at the national museum we preserve and share a collection of national treasures on behalf of the american people to demonstrate the power of american history, to help us make sense of the past and shape a more humane future. we are working to bring the nation together around those fundamental american ideals and ideas by freedom, opportunity and democracy that join us as a people. mrs. trump, we are grateful to you for entrusting us with this magnificent gown. and we ensure you it will be cared for in the same spirit and with the same attention as all of our national treasures. in just a few hours when the gallery reopens to the public, the nation and the world will share this moment forever. it is now my pleasure to introduce the 13th secretary of the smith sewngsonian dr. david skorten, a first generation american, cardiologist, flutist, university leader, champion of the arts and humanities and an advocate for the most important issues of our time. secretary skorten. >> thank you, john. thanks, everyone for joining us. mrs. trump, again, thank you very much for donating this a

to the iranian nation, the great nation, the wise nation, it is important for me after the speech that was heard from the current president of the united states to make a number of points to our nation. in trump's speech, and his policy, only bad-mouthing and baseless accusations were made against the iranian nation. he has nothing else to say. i invite the president of the united states to better read history books and the geography and as well as the international commitments as well as respect and international ethics. apparently he has nothing to know that the u.s. government -- that more than 50 years ago have a coup to bring back to power the leadership in iran. it is the same power that use money and pressure and agents to an elected legal government in iran. apparently, he has forgotten that the resistance of the iranian nation for democracy and theislamic republic, country that did throw most of it support to this dictatorship in iran was the united states. president trump has forgotten the fact that after the victory of the islamic revolution and at the end of the day the rev

to our special series on new nationalism that as we've seen a global rise in popular populist movements is funny if a charge has been on the road meeting people who although they want different things are united by one goal to put their nation first of funnies travels have taken her across the world to russia and the netherlands to france and scotland of the united states and also to india and turkey and for the last leg of the series funny is now in air build the capital of the kurdistan region in iraq there are concerns there that the dream of kurdish independence could bring even more turmoil to a very volatile region let's go right to funny she is in erbil standing by for us for with more on this story funny if you can hear us tell us what you've been hearing there as you've been talking to people what if you have been finding out about the rise of nationalism in this region. so we have basic came here with one main question just how different is this form of nationalism compared to other countries that i've been to that you just mentioned because iraq is not a state which would lik

zachary tudor, from the national homeland security at idaho national laboratory. dr. dunkin earl is with us, president and chief technology officer for quibetech incorporated and the last member of the panel is dr. daniel rydell the new ceo of contact services inc. delight to have each of you. mr. inhofe, if you would please lead off. >> thank you, chairman murkowski, ranking member >> thank you, chairman murkowski, ranking member cantwell and members of the committee. my name is carl inhofe, i lead the research at washington state. for more than two decades pnl supported resilience for utilities across the nation. i also chair the laboratory consortium, a team of four national laboratories including oakridge that supports the initiative along with 100 partners from academia and industry. i would like to offer two points for the cyber resilience of the nation's cyber system. point one, sharing with doe has significantly improved our national grid cyber readiness. we must continue to advance in scope, speed, industry inclusion for full situational awareness of operatio

services minister on her the dance and national security strategy. -- defense and national security. you can see her remarks starting at 10:00 on c-span2. >> i want you to stretch your imagination. open your eyes. that's how fast it happens. in a blink. >> executive director of paralyzed veterans of america talks about his own paralysis and his work to help paralyzed veterans. a this is what i see from patient's perspective. you have to empathize. that's what will make it the ideal provider for veterans. --sunday night at an lock on 8:00 on q&a. former president george w. bush called out russia or cyber attacks during the election. freedom, spoke about security, and leadership. he went on to denounce bullying and politics and is about to mean minutes. president bush: thank you all. thank you. ok, padilla gracias. so, i painted ramon. i wish you were still standing here. it's a face only a mother could love -- no, it's a fabulous face. [laughter] i love you, ramon. thank you very much for being here. and, grace jo, thank you for your testimony. and big tim. i got to know tim as a resu

. >> national security adviser h.r. mcmaster spoke about the administration's strategy to protect the homeland from global threats. he also briefly took questions including one about the niger attack that left four u.s. soldiers dead. >> good afternoon. please be seated. >> welcome back. i'm the chairman of ftd's center on sanctions and elicit finance. if you were here this morning, ways privilege tobd able to sit down with director pompeo for what i thought was a really interesting conversation. i hope did you as well. bear in mind that we are not just the people in this room. great good looking crowd, by the way. but we're being live streamed. so we need to be on our best behavior. i hlt honor and privilege of introducing this afternoon's session. kudos to fdd and cliff may and the whole team for asem am blg this discussion with two of the most important if not the most important figures in national security. certainly with now the national security adviser hr mcmaster with us this afternoon. so a real honor and privi

zachary tudor, from the national homeland security at idaho national laboratory. dr. dunkin earl is with us, president and chief technology officer for quibetech incorporated and the last member of the panel is dr. daniel rydell the new ceo of contact services inc. delight to have each of you. mr. inhofe, if you would please lead off. >> thank you, chairman murkowski, ranking member cantwell and members of the committee. my name is carl inhofe, i lead the research at washington state. for more than two decades pnl supported resilience for utilities across the nation. i also chair the laboratory consortium, a team of four national laboratories including oakridge that supports the initiative along with 100 partners from academia and industry. i would like to offer two points for the cyber resilience of the nation's cyber system. point one, sharing with doe has significantly improved our national grid cyber readiness. we must continue to advance in scope, speed, industry inclusion for full situational awareness of operational control systems as well as utility enterprise

s national security division, mr. demers additionally completed a detailed as counsel to the deputy attorney general. following his tenure at d.o.j., john joined the boeing company, are we served as vice president for international affairs, the vice president and assistant general counsel for global law affairs, the chief counsel fournettework and space systems and currently as the vice president and assistant general counsel for regulatory and government law. john's also currently an adjunct professor at georgetown university law certainty. john, you're being asked to lead the justice department's division responsible for our national security related investigations during a period of significant debate about what authorities and tools are lawful and appropriate. as you know the committee recently reported out a bill that would renew fisa's title seven authorities for eight years with additional privacy productions fosh -- protections for u.s. persons. i'm hopeful that this bill will pass the senate and ultimately be

of national security law podcast which is mixed up with crossfire and the national security news. we have one hour. into 40be divided minutes of discussion with panelists and 20 minutes of discussion with you. so as you are sitting there reacting, there are topics will not get to because of limits of time, you can i will remind you at the time >> i will remind you to keep your comments brief, or keep the questions brief. lastly, please silence your phones but don't necessarily put them away. we will be thrilled if you would join the conversation online, on , and i will trust you are not checking your email, you're just commenting and reacting to what we have said. that return you to our fabulous panelists. representativeh , representing my hometown of san antonio, the 20th district. he went on to harvard law and after a successful run in private rectus injured the texas legislature and now he's serving on the house select committee on intelligence and the house foreign affairs committee. great to have you here in austin. dr. -- dr. kathleen hicks, senior vice president for the sen

distinguished guests, welcome to the national museum of american history on the national mall of the united states. this museum has been collecting gowns for the first ladies collection for more than a century. it is, and remains, one of the most popular exhibitions. on behalf of the smithsonian, i want to thank you for your generosity in allowing us to add to this collection. again, my thanks and admiration to you, mr. pierre, for the collaborating on the design of this beautiful gallon. since its opening in 1964, this museum has embodied the smithsonian's dedication to american history. we told the story through the words and actions of people both famous and obscure. , we inspire students through educational programs that reach them in our museums, their homes, and classrooms across the nation. objects and artifacts help put that history into sharp focus. this gown is the height of fashion, something that pleases us aesthetically with its beauty, craftsmanship, and elegance. the aesthetics that drive artistic endeavor captive us. -- captivate us. it is a uniquely human response. d

god bless our great state, and god bless our nation, the greatest nation on earth, and with that, i am very privileged thehonored to introduce first lady and the president of the united states. i personally want to thank them on behalf of all of the people of nevada for taking the time to come out here and provide us their support and their comfort and everything else that they're going to bring to us, so with that, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce the president of our great nation, donald trump. thank you. [applause] president trump: thank you very much, governor. we really appreciate that, and i tell you, the people of nevada and the extraordinary city have shown the world their incredible character and courage and resolve. a very, very is special place. atm honored to be here today the las vegas metropolitan police department in the company of heroes. thank you to our police, our firefighters, and to our first responders, and, of course, to the sheriff. an incredible job you have done. mayor. hello, mayor. [laughter] president trump: senator heller: -- senator heller.

our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood. being an american involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility. we become the heirs of thomas jefferson by accepting the ideal of human dignity found in the declaration of independence. we become the heirs of james madison by understanding the genius and values of the u.s. constitution. we become the heiress of martin luther king jr. by recognizing one another not by the color of their scam, but by the content of their character. this means that people of every race, religion, and ethnicity can be fully and equally american. it means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. [applause] and if means the very identity of our nation depends on the passing of civic ideals to the next generation. we need a renewed emphasis on civic learning and schools, and our young people need positive role models. bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone -- provides permission for cruelty and bigotry and comp

welcome toed guests, the smithsonian's national museum of american history on the national mall of the united states. this museum has been collecting downs for the first lady's collection for more than a century and remains one of the most popular exhibitions in the smithsonian. on behalf of the smithsonian, i want to thank you again mrs. trump, for your generosity and allowing us to add to this collection. in my admiration to you for collaborating on the design of this down. in 1964, thising museum has embodied the dedication to telling america's story to millions of national and international visitors every year. we tell that story through the words and actions of people, both famous and obscure. we inspire students through educational programs that reach them in our museums and in their homes in classrooms across the nation. artifacts help with that history in focus and context. this down as the height of fashion, something that pleases us aesthetically with its beauty and craftsmanship and elegance. the aesthetics that drive artistic endeavor also captivate us. it is a uniquely hum

doesn't seem there's as much importance in national pride and things like national anthem, it has been marginalized to some extent. you feel that way? >> yes. i would like to go back to the basics where it is common practice. hopefully the youth goes that way. jillian: your friends and coworkers in the picture with you. who were your friends or coworkers in the picture with you? >> james greg's. jillian: how long have you known each other? do you do this all the time? >> i have known danny for eight years and james i have known six months. rob: we appreciate you coming on this morning. thank you very much. be safe up there. 46 minutes after the hour, check what is coming up on "fox and friends". jillian: what is coming up today? >> wide-ranging interview with the president of the united states, talk about tax reform, he is dangerously close to naming a new hhs secretary. listen. >> i was talking to kellyanne conway, seems your close. >> we are more than close, won't so you the name yet because we are more than close. it will be a fantastic nomination. rob: we will see that quickly and

mammals leader aung sun suu cheney has called for national unity in an address to the nation on the red refugee crisis so she is under massive international pressure of the un among others accuse the country's army of a string of human rights abuses against the muslim minority she says she's ready to talk to bangladesh about returning some of the heart a million were him who fled violence in a kind state. then radiation angle you know he did we are now negotiating with the government of bangladesh on the matter of accepting those who are now in bangladesh since our independence we have twice successfully negotiated with bangladesh on the issue based on the successful traditions we are now negotiating for time. has more from the m.r. . well for the bulk of the speech and science it she announced that they want to start rehabilitating bringing humanitarian aid assistance and rebuilding state where the conflict that military operations against the road is taking place but also perhaps the strangest part of the speech is that she called on donations from the public to help with that in ende

leeds are national effort to safeguard and enhance the resilience of our nation's physical and cyber infrastructure helping federal agencies and when requested the private sector hardened their networks and respond to cybersecurity incidents. nppd partners with critical infrastructure owners and operators and other homeland security enterprise stakeholders to offer a wide variety of cybersecurity capabilities such as system assessments, response and mitigation support and the ability to hunt for malicious cyber activity. this collaborative approach to mitigating cyber incidence is meant to privatize meeting the needs of dhs as partners and is consistent with the growing recognition among government academic and corporate leaders that cybersecurity is increasingly interdependent across sectors and much -- must be a core aspect of all risk management strategies. this committee has been working hard to ensure that nppd and dhs in its entirety has the necessary authorization and organization it needs to combat growing cyber threats. dhs needs a strong and sharp workforce and an efficient

some national police and to spain's largest banks put out. we must not allow a red to attain to a nuclear weapons president trump gives his strongest hint that the u.s. will drop its support of the iran nuclear deal. plus two years after the polls deadly earthquake survivors face fresh challenges newly built. the united nations' annual report on children in conflict strongly criticized both sides in the war in yemen places saudi arabia and its allies on the list of countries that kill and maim children in conflicts at the same time though the un's annual report admits the coalition has taken action to improve child protection mike hanna has more from the un the report focuses on children in conflict across the globe in countries ranging from afghanistan to colombia to syria mali myanmar and all the list itself showing how widespread the problem is of children caught up in all recruited to action. there were three thousand five hundred twelve child casualties in afghanistan alone the highest recorded in one country and in yemen a total of one

absolutely there's a difference nationalism is when they start mandating you to stand for the flag nationalisms when i vetoed this what i was governor they tried to make the pledge of allegiance in public schools mandatory i vetoed it in a second you can't mandate patriotism pay to. it to some comes from within an individual patriotism is something that's done out of the goodness of your heart not the fact you're ordered to do it that's not patriotism patriotism comes because you want to do something for the public good and it's your thoughts nobody's making you do it and you're not standing up there looking for rob arrives after you do it that spade to be a tism patriotism is that these people that stand up and salute the flag and rah rah let's go to war while they never go to war their kids never go to war all these millionaires want you to be patriotic but notice and i'll say this again in my six years in the united states navy i never met one millionaire serving his country not a war and i didn't read meet any rich people in the military who had set their wealth aside and said i'm going to

our nation's core values. all of it really fuels such policies. tragically the answers to that question appears to be a combination of nativism, fake facts and perhaps even a little bigotry, drawing from arguments made by anti immigrant organizations designated by the southern poverty law center with hate groups to white nationalists. the administration has proposed a refugee assimilation test which evokes such measures as the movement fueled 1924 immigration act. like the act the refugee policies are equally inexcusable. in closing i urge our witnesses today to examine these policies unflinchingly to assess how they endanger our values, our economy and national security. i look forward to your testimony and yield back. >>> mr. chairman, may i be granted unanimous consent to place into the record statements from the hebrew immigrant aid society the international assistance project refugee service truth world services and a letter to acting secretary and director lloyd from over 100 organizations including the

trump and national security. i'm happy to say this panel is sponsored by the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texas. geene evans. sponsors, but they do not get to choose the questions. way, i'm out of the your host and moderator, professor bobby chesney. onnd the cofounder of a blog national security law issues and the national security law is crossfire in reaction to the weekly national security news. we have one hour that will be divided amongst 40 minutes of discussion with our panelists, and 20 minutes of discussion with you. i will ask and remind you at the time when the microphones go out. please keep the comments brief. let's keep them as questions. silence your funds, but do not put them away. we would be thrilled if you join the conversation online, on #thriftfest17. withanelists, i will start representative castro, representing -- [applause] chesney: representing san antonio. after a successful run in private practice, he entered the texas -- where he had five terms, and now he is in wa

of the national security is not important, it is what the national security council does. if you look at the range of issues that the president has to do with every single day, just the 70's sent i've been gone, i know they deal with twice as many issues. means you organize yourself. you have to have that kind of knowledge. you have combined the national security council under --was severely underfunded. the only way to fight it was to .et detail ease stephen and i talked about this. on my watch, the national security council was roughly two year, and after the first they went back to their agencies and you had to rebuild it. the national security council -- i franklyanized don't care about the size as long as it does what it needs to do. big issues on the problems of multiple agency departments. it is no longer just the defense department. it is treasury, commerce, it is everything. if you are going to run an that will be the ringmaster, you have to have adequate size. you have to have them on a permanent basis. think we should have had two thirds. that is the national se

joyce and national city council. however, from an operational perspective i think the department of homeland security and imi will as undersecretary have the direction and authorities i need to move out. the question is whether i have -- >> are winning or losing? >> this is a battle there's going to be going on for many years. we are still can't get our arms around it. this is not speak repeat my question. i would winning or losing? >> it's hard to assess whether we are winning or losing i was a we're fighting this battle every day, working with the private sector. it is a complex apartment and i look for to working with congress speedy to you know for eight years with and trying to get a policy, for eight years we've been trying to get a strategy, for eight years we've been trying to get something besides this convoluted chart? did you know that? >> yes, sir. i've been in my role for eight weeks. i understand your frustration. i share your frustration. i think we have a lot of work to do, and i think this is going t

we passed the national defense operation acts by it voted 89-9. a the demonstration there were wanting bipartisan belief that the budget control act level defense spending is inadequate and be unacceptable. let me be clear. there is no tca level defense budget that would be sufficient to provide our military with what they need to fit fill current missions and prepare for future threats. for those of us who've been paying attention you heard the of the steady decline of our military. time and again, time and again our senior military defense leaders have sounded theit alarm about the dangers of the budget control act spending caps. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are highest military officer jennifer -- general dunford has warned if we continue on the current path and that quote within five years we will lose our ability to protect power on how we defend the homeland advanced u.s. interest and meet our alliance commitments. make no mistake about it. what that means america's military advantage iser degrade. without the ability to protect

and mars later on his call for national unity and an address to the nation. refugee crisis she's under increasing international pressure over her failure to condemn the army for alleged abuses against the run more than half a million rand to have escaped to bangladesh since the crackdown began in late august so she says holding talks with bangladesh about returning summer handed to me and more. we are now negotiating with the government on the matter of accepting those who are now in bangladesh since our independence we have twice successfully negotiated with bangladesh on the issue based on the success which editions we are now negotiating for the time. more from me and mark. well for the bulk of the speech and science it she announced that they want to start rehabilitating bringing humanitarian aid assistance and rebuilding and state where the conflicts that military operations against the road is taking place but also perhaps the strangest part of the speech is that she called on donations from the public to help with that in endeavor basically calling on

joyce and the national security counsel. i and my role have the direction and authorities i need to move out. now the question is whether -- >> are we winning or losing? >> sir, this is a battle that's going to be going on for many years. >> repeat my question. are we winning or losing? >> sir, it's hard to assess. i would say we're fighting this battle every day. it's a complex environment and i look forward to working with the congress. >> do you know that for eight years we've been trying to get a policy, for eight years we've been trying to get a strategy, for eight years we've been trying to get something besides this convoluted chart? you know that? >> yes, sir. i've been in my role for eight weeks. i understand your frustration. i share your frustration. i think we have a lot of work to do and this is going to require the executive branch and the congress working together to continue understanding exactly how we need to address the threat. >> well, when the coordinator doesn't show up for a hearing, that's not an enco

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the house today approved the 2018 budget resolution, the measure instructed the relevant committees to work on tax reform efforts. president trump tweeting the response to today's vote, big news, the budget just passed. the president will be speaking shortly at the white house on the opioid crisis, he's expected to declare it a national emergency. we'll have live coverage when it begins. in the meantime a look at the opioid issue from today's "washington journal." rogers in in his 19th term in the house and represents the kentucky district and is co-chair on the caucus of prescription drug abuse. later today president trump will make a much-anticipated speech on opiod abuse about the epidemic in the united states. what are you expecting to hear from him in this speech? guest: i expect him to reiterate what he said more than two months ago. opiod declared the epidemic a national emergency. i susp

were made against the iranian nation. he has nothing else to say. i invite the president of the better read to history books and the gee oggra f i and as well as the international commitments as -- as respect and ethics international ethics. a pattern that he has nothing to --w that the u.s. government that more than 50 years ago have accrued to bring back to power the leadership in iran. it's the same power that used urn and pressure and agents to topple an elected illegal government in iran. parently, he has forgotten at the resistance of the iranian nation for democracy and that did the country throw most of its support was the united states. president trump has forgotten the fact that after the victory of the islamic revolution and at the end of the day the revolution the plot by the nited states was another coup. osk, one more time, they tried they tried to repeat it. they have forgotten the fact since the 1980's and it was the united states that backed the invaders. they forgot the fact that when iran was being bomb

-- capitalist nation. the new deal was new because it transformed the relationship between the federal government and the american people. hopkins' ideas can be heard in a speech he gave to grinnell on what we call income inequality. 78 years later it still has resonance. the government is the last stronghold of democracy, and it deserves to be honored. don't treat it as something to sneer at. treated as something that belongs to you -- treat it as something that belongs to you. we have got to find a way in which every person in it shares in the national income in such a way that poverty in america is abolished. end witheal did not the beginning of economic recovery for the beginning of hostilities in europe and japan. new dealers like hopkins just refocused their efforts to bring help to those suffering from totalitarianism. he liver -- never lost the assumptions that underwent his new deal work. wrote,l 1941, hopkins can be order of hitler conclusively defeated by the new order of democracy, which is the

this epidemic is a national ealth emergency. unlike many of us, we've seen and what we've seen in our lifetimes, nobody has seen anything like what's going on now. as americans, we cannot allow this to continue. it is time to liberate our communities from this scourge. of drug addiction. never been this way. we can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. we can do it. [applause] that is why, effective today, my administration is officially declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency under federal law. and why i am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis. this marks a critical step in confronting the extraordinary hallenge that we face. as part of this emergency response, we will announce a new policy to overcome a restrictive 1970's era rule that prevents states from providing care at certain treatment facilities with more than 16 beds for those suffering from drug addiction. [applause] a number of states have reached out to us asking fo

we're trying to amplify that message nationally so there is broad recognition it is a national security problem. that it is bipartisan or non- partisan and goes across all structures. we have to wake up. at one time we thought we were invulnerable, it turns out we are vulnerable. >> go ahead. >> go ahead. >> hello. reuters. the last question on the topic is broader, more systemic vulnerabilities. recently notified hackers. -- by russian it is come out that a couple states said that is not true. what you told us was not in our election systems but maybe department or labor or something was scanned or one or two others. so i am wondering if the issue of how we run elections in america, the united states is on sort of this state, federal relationship if that is a specific vulnerability in your view that makes the united makes itre -- that more difficult to address these problems because of those tensions specifically. dhs has said it is trying to work more with the states, the states have said they are trying to work more but there is still a lot of tension in the room when they tried to d

we responded in a likewise because took e's a proud nation we are a sovereign nation. you know we're seeing it you know this decision is to be reversed to kenya now where demonstrations have been banned in the central beds business districts of three cities including nairobi mombasa and chris so more this as a crisis deepens in kenya talks are being held on the future of the repeat presidential election which is due later this month philip net is a lecturer and political communications expert at the university of eldoret he says the main opposition leader who withdrew from the race later this month now faces a difficult decision on whether to run or not. right not being snow just good to see trisha. it's a good investment in letting the same behavior fit into forms in the form. of just fighting the b.c. you know i think it's not a. very good thing up to the show because not of the out of the seven. stocks i've been i don't. get a lot of good but it isn't that the does exist. and it's just that it's really going to try to be right know. this because. on the other would

there is also a lesson for our nation. we are all made in god's image and america cannot fulfill its destiny if we limit any person's dreams because of how one is born. we are all part of the fabric of this nation, and we hope our greatness will be defined by our goodness. there is another lesson, just as our ancestors in history do not define our values, in the same sense the victories, sacrificially won by the little rock nine do not guarantee equal opportunity or freedom from discrimination for this generation or the next. whether it is revisiting the lessons of history or sounding the alarm about current dangers , we must be constant and educating the present generation about tolerance, forgiveness and equal treatment. finally, i want to thank the four -- fourine andring the pain --for during the pain. there is no other word to describe your experience 60 years ago but we are grateful as , a state and the nation for the difference you made for all of us. arkansas claims you as pioneers, heroes and examples to follow. t

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. the house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2316. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar bill 207, h.r. 2316, a to amend the mineral leasing act and the energy policy act of 1992 to repeal provisions relating only to the allegheny .ational forest the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, and the gentleman from virginia, mr. mceachin, each will control 20 minutes. the chair rec

the other area in terms of national guard, we do track national guard cyber capability development, training capabilities, how they fit into the cyber mission force. the one area we do have a little bit of a challenge with is understate statuunde under state status. we definitely recognize the critical importance of having that common ability across many different fronts to define those things. >> i appreciate that. that's good to understand that now and get those worked out, those details and discrepancies. mr. smith, how about you? >> on our technical side, we tend to be on the job with that routinely. so most of the people are out there currently actively engaged in incidents, incident responses and following up on threat investigations. we submit a significant amount of effort in enhancing those, particularly at a much higher level on the cyber technical side. in addition to that we've taken steps to significantly elevate the entire work force in the digital domain. we've created on the job training which allows non-cyber personnel to be taken offline from investigating other matters to

god bless our great state, and god bless our nation, the greatest nation on earth, and with that, i am very privileged and honored to introduce the first lady and the president of the united states. i personally want to thank them on behalf of all of the people of nevada for taking the time to come out here and provide us their support and their comfort and everything else that they're going to bring to us, so with that, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce the president of our great nation, donald trump. thank you. [applause] president trump: thank you very much, governor. we really appreciate that, and i tell you, the people of nevada and the extraordinary city have shown the world their incredible character and courage and resolve. nevada really is a very, very special place. i am honored to be here today at the las vegas metropolitan police department in the company of heroes. thank you to our police, our firefighters, and to our first responders, and, of course, to the sheriff. an incredible job you have done. mayor. hello, mayor. [laughter] president trump: senator hel

[laughter] and the national security. my bad. i am happy to do say this is from the lbj school of public affairs. [applause] try am duty bound to remind our sponsors but they don't get to choose i asked the answers offered. i am a the moderator and the co-founder of the of leading source for commentaryal for a national security issues and a podcast that is to the weekly national security news. we have one hour divided into 40 minutes of discussion and then as you sit there and listen there will be a pocket we cannot get to and i will remind you that please keep the comments brief actually keep it as a question so as much as you can talk as possible. sine id to your phones but don't put them away we would be thrilled if you ted joined the conversation so i will introduce the of fabulous panel starting with the representative castro. [applause] from my home town of the 20th district a stanford grad after a successful run analysis of washington with the select committee on intelligence it is great to have you here. >> senior vice pr

the nation's -- a nation's budget reflects its priority bus the g.o.p. budget continues to push the wrong ones, catering to the wealthy and the special interests. the g.o.p. likes to say a rising tide lifts every boat but only if every vessel is sea worthy. the g.o.p. budget leaves too many americans in dinghies, rubber rafts and row boats that will be capsized. it includes $5.4 trillion slashed from education programs, $2 trillion cut from medicaid and medicare. billion eliminated from investments to education, research and infrastructure that will prevent us from competing globally. the g.o.p. budget would devastate our economy. by balancing the budget on the backs of students, workers, seniors, the disabled and vulnerable communities in maryland and across our country. and for what? to provide tax cuts to the top 1%? people who make at least $900,000 every year? in stark contrast, the c.b.c. would create a fairer tax code and provide investments in our community. it would boost the g.d.p. by $321 billion. i too serve on the house armed services commit

what is nationalism matter? is setting aside these landscapes to keep the symbolic scenery pretty and powerful and not messed up the way niagara got messed up with all of these little shops and trinkets. -- it isngly, the idea a little hard to see, this map. the pink outline here is more or less, a little smaller than the current yosemite national park. the part in green is the original reservation set aside, signed by lincoln in 1864. as you can see hopefully from that map, all that was protected -- the original protected area is very small. just the valley and the view shed of the valley. if you are standing on the valley floor looking up at the granite walls, the boundary of the protected area is the top of those walls. we don't care about the ecosystem, we don't care about the forest, we don't care about the overall mountains and large landscape. what we are protecting is the view. by making it into a public parks, a government owned park, or member this was all public land to begin with, part of the public

s 16 of the national laboratories, they -- 16 other national laboratories, that are spread out in remote places around the world other country, provide scientific and technical breakthroughs to meet our national security and energy security needs from securing our electric grid to advancing storage technologies. does we examine the management priorities today build on the work i've asked , vice chairman barton to undertake with you to look at what a 21st century energy department should look like, we should keep in mind the benefits of the interconnected nature of the department's missions that these nations across the enterprise can be expensive and difficult to manage. so it is the responsibility of the secretary and this committee and congress to ensure the department is appropriately aligned to perform these nations -- missions and a cost-effective manner and to the maximum benefit of the text there. as chairman upton is indicated the energy threats today are not the same as the threats from the 1970s but there remain significant. -- taxpayer. the opportunities do as well. this commi

ambassador to you to the united nations as well as your case x. prime minister david cameron believe that u.n. peacekeeping mission want to help solve the conflict but actually will just freeze it. and if you look at for instance northern cyprus it's recognized only by turkey it has been existing for half a century like that do you think the same thing can happen to ukraine. there's always a risk of that there are a few missions that have been. deployed for years without solution you mentioned cyprus one could mention western sahara i think that is something to be to be avoided but i prefer. a cold conflict than a hot war and so i think for the people in ukraine who are suffering from the conflict having a deescalation of violence would be a net benefit i think at the moment there are deep divisions in europe in the understanding of what european security should be and so i think the fundamental resolution of the conflict is probably in the immediate future very hard to to achieve but in the meantime making a difference in the lives of the poor pe

there's no retreat beyond the national pike. the national pike is cut in the jackknife will be closed. going to be the last stand for rosecrans army. closing, but it hasn't stopped closing. rosecrans needs time. he needs time to coalesces on the national pike. he needs time to organize the men as they come back and replenish them to bring up the reinforcements that are arriving increasingly. even for the engineer brigade in position. he needs time to build that line. how is he going to buy it? he makes the cold-blooded decision to sacrifice the regular core of his army. thearmy of the potomac -- army of the cumberland has a 1400 strong regular brigade, 15th, 16th, 18, 19 united states of injuries, also on active duty today. the slightly sunken road as a makeshift earthwork with a little behind it started with artillery. and as russo begins to fall back, confederates pushing to the open field. sheridan and negley's division is the anchor, right at the hinge. they have to retreat. sheridan's boys are almost completely out of ammun

national parks and one top of national park this was a national park for forty years you know school world heritage site for twenty. very days it was a fight small economy but davis if i recall supplied many of the caribbean islands we produce. a pretty. not very developed but certainly very pristine and beautiful island when the eye of the hurricane hit your island what was the moment when you said this is going to be really bad i think from the moment my roof gone. i said to myself and the. sense of what's up to friends indicating that when we wake up in the morning we're going to see a country device state of. the. fellas it's of do we really the hurricanes today's island for which in four to five hours moving very very slowly so the moment my roof went away i felt that we're going to have serious destruction and. i was pretty good that would be true. but i had to face reality. so leave it and put an experience in the station of i felt the country would have been devastated. after the storm passed the next day when the sun came out and you were able to get out on the streets and s

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what is nationalism matter? in part, is setting aside these landscapes to keep the symbolic scenery pretty and powerful and not messed up the way niagara got messed up with all of these little shops and trinkets. interestingly, the idea -- it is a little hard to see, this map. the pink outline here is more or less, a little smaller than the current yosemite national park. the part in green is the original reservation set aside, signed by lincoln in 1864. as you can see hopefully from that map, all that was protected -- the original protected area is very small. just the valley and the view shed of the valley. if you are standing on the valley floor looking up at the granite walls, the boundary of the protected area is the top of those walls. we don't care about the ecosystem, we don't care about the forest, we don't care about the overall mountains and large landscape. what we are protecting is the view. by making it into a public parks, a government owned park, all this land was all public land to begin with, p

then the national security advisor hr mcmaster will talk about the history and impact of the national security council. he will be joined by some of his predecessors including henry kissinger. live at 5:30 p.m. "the new york times" have been reporting on the epa and rules in dealing with a mission. the trumpet ministration has announced it will take four steps to repeal the clean up our planet was created under the obama administration but aim to curb emissions from power plan plants. the time is writing that it exacerbates a bitter fight over future us efforts to tackle global warming. epa secretary scott pruitt says his predecessors have departed from the norm when they came up with a plan which would have pushed states away from coal in towards other sources of energy that produced fewer carbon emissions. proposedis signing a rule to rollback that plan. you can read more online at "the new york times" and here is a closer look at the future of the clean powerplant from today's washington journal. >> joining us now to talk about this action. she serves as their deputy editor. >> thi

all around here catala ns are singing their national anthem, the national anthem they now believe belongs to their independent republic, separate from the spanish state. there are so many questions. what will the spanish government now do? but for now, this crowd just wants to celebrate. it's a long time we are waiting for this moment, we deserve this. lam crying! are you happy? very, very. but anxiety soon spread amongst all the euphoria as the "what next" began to weigh heavy on people's minds. a catalan republic had been declared, but not in everyone‘s name. many here don't want independence. just around the corner we found this man waving a spanish flag. translation: i'm not happy, i'm not represented, the catalan people as a whole didn't vote. translation: it's disastrous, the result of an extended manipulation which does not reflect the will of the catalan people. but nothing today was going to stop the catalan president savouring his moment in history. from the catalan parliament he spoke of his emotions, but also of his conviction that declaring catalan independence was the righ

to negotiate with america or other european nations. you may think it's only the authorities that can collect your personal data around compiled terrorist watch lists but the case of all journalists highlights that there are other entities doing this sometimes causing big problems but every day people now imagine that suddenly your bank account is closed and you cannot pay your bills and then in is also the mystery not knowing why or what's wrong with me why why are they closing down my account and not only my personal accounts my family accounts and my business accounts all of them were closed. now the activists you just saw speaking now as tommy was mistakenly designated as a terrorist by the database world check which is run by reuters it's a subscription only service providing various files on individuals databases popular with banks as well as the u.k. police so he told us he was shocked when he learned that he'd been placed on a list of terrorists for three other distress because this is not even the united nations it's not our go

first, to the nation, beyond ourselves, our parties. we felt that clarion call to duty and you extended it and turned everyone around. you said, what greater cause could we hope to serve than helping america to be strong, aspiring, an international beacon and the right to freedom and justice. what greater cause. that is what it has always been for four decades. i have benefited from having john mccain as a confidant, counselor, and friend. we have benefited from his unwavering surface. i -- to paraphrase ernest hemingway -- we grow stronger in all of our broken parts. john, you have been broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger. what you do not really understand, in my opinion, is how much courage you give the rest of us. it matters. so, with your powerful words in our ears, a life of tireless work to secure the blessings of liberty to the people the world over, it is my great pleasure to present you with the 2018 the dirty metal. ladies and gentlemen, jeffrey rosen. -- the 2018 liberty medal. ladi

the regional and national police have become politicized. because spanish society is now dangerously siding with some security forces and against others. i think. is how you seem to be thinking about it but if you're not ok my father is in the national police and i felt helpless because i saw people turn radical in iran and that's why i kept on messing with the national police. i know a lot of national police and they're good people who don't have the right to live here. but some say the nazis that's going too far with. the not now that parliament is suspended alba has lunch with other catalan m.p.'s to discuss their relations with madrid wasn't the fault is that they were told they were. really doesn't have any life that they just want to resign and to go back to where we were acceptable we are not our way we're before. to say. something. because. europe. doesn't say. nothing. that will be that the future of you know because of the basic principles of the european union. distorted. but the principles of the european union are also claimed b

again, and so are other nations. they are starting to respect the united states of america again, and i appreciate that, and i want to thank the leaders of pakistan for what they have been doing. [applause] in this administration, we will call evil by its name. [cheers and applause] we stand with our friends and allies. we forge new partnerships in pursuit of peace. and we take decisive action against those who would threaten our people with harm. [applause] and we will be decisive because we know that the first duty of government is to serve its citizens. we are defending our borders, protecting our workers, and enforcing our laws. you see it every single day that you haven't seen it in many, many years. if you have seen it at all. [applause] in protecting america's interests abroad, we will always support our cherished friend and partner, the state of israel. [cheers and applause] we will confront the dangers that imperil our nation, our allies, and the world, including the threat of radical islamic terrorism. [che