bremer. we would like to suggest you make your remarks brief because you will be getting a lot of questions during the process of this. so we'll start with you, try to keep our brief and mr. abend, you're recognized for your opening statement. >> good morning, mr. chairman, ranking member reed and distinguished members of the committee and their staff. i am grateful and deeply humbled to be before you today for consideration of my nomination to be inspector general of the department of defense. i would like to thank the president for his nomination and for my incredible family, i has std by me ever since. she inspires me every day. my amazing children and its core. my long-time friends and mentors ken and john who over decades have selflessly given themselves to me. if confirmed i will have the high honor and privilege of serving alongside 73 other federals inspectors general and 1600 extraordinarily skilled professionals of the department of defense office of inspector general. it is a huge

bremer. >> chairman inhofe, ranking member read and distinguished members of this committee. it is an honor to appear before you today as the president's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for special operations in low intensity conflict with i want to thank the president and the department of defense for this opportunity. if confirmed it will be my highest professional honor to again serve alongside the most capable and honorable fighting force in the world. i would like to begin by recognizing my amazing wife, brooke, and son, will, who are watching from a location nearby. their unconditional love and support makes us all possible. to my son if i am confirmed the long hours and time apart will be the hardest on you and for that i thank you. i could not be more proud. i would like to thank my brother, steve, sister, tammy and my extended family and countless friends and neighbors and mentors who counsel and support throughout my career has been invaluable. most of all, i would like t

louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. we thank everyone for being here today. briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that they're nominated for. mr. abend, you're presently the southeastern adviser to the u.s. customs and border protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the inspector general offices for the federal housing finance agency and the u.s. department of housing and urban development. you've been former secret service agent with -- in the winter of the 2015 council of inspector general award for excellence. mr. hansell, you are currently an associate director of the boston consulting group in its north american public sector,

fault line at the center of intense sectarian violence in 1902 a hindu nationalist mob raised the bar bremer mosque and i you know the incident triggered religious riots that left over 2000 people dead most of the muslims. hindus believe ram one of their major deedes was born at the site and claimed the mosque was built on a temple there. this case has been going on for 71 years but now finally the divine moment has arrived and everyone is very happy to be able to witness this temple for lord where extatic. modi's b j p had long been rallying for the construction of a temple on the site after a lengthy legal battle india's supreme court awarded the disputed a yogi a law to hindus in november of last year the verdict caused disappointment among india's muslim community but many have since come to terms with the decision. to import the muslim community has accepted the verdict and we want to help with the construction of the temple and when he. does muslims will be able to build a new mosque on a nearby plot but prominent muslim leaders feared the new temple could have bold new hindu nationali

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all of us with their service and worthy of the esteem of all new yorkers, now therefore jimmy van bremer, majority leader of the new york city council gratefully honored giselle burgess for her outstanding service and enduring contributions to the community. expectations were now in writing, giselle gave herself two weeks to find volunteers and to recruit more girls. so giselle, tell us what happened next. >> i remember going back to the office recruiting volunteers, recruiting girls, i got home that day, i had a complete blue uniform on and i had permission in the hallway and i remember the first buyer sitting up and i thought what are you doing, and putting up flyers with girls and volunteers and they said you cannot put anything on the wall and i was i got permission i spoke with the person in the supervisor and they said it's fine so you can call the supervisor to confirm, i'm standing in the hallway with my papers waiting and then i'm like you can go ahead and i remember every single floor, took the elevator and on each elevator there is two elevators, i'm getting off all floors and

on senator tim kaine asked thursday, bremer about the allegations. nationalsned saudi and other nations as well, but i have no knowledge of that. >> until today, you had not been aware that an allegation had been made that a country does company on which you sit as a inector had been involved training sallies who were participants in the murdeder of jamal khashoggi. >> i do not t have any recognitn of that -- recollection of that. amy: meanwhilelea former top saudi intelligence official exiled in canada said in a lawsuit filed thursday that crown prince mohammed bin salman sent a hit squad to toronto to hunt him down and kill him. the 106-page complaint was filed by saad aljabri in u.s. civil court. it claims prince bin salman tried to hide his corrupt busisiness deaealings by orderig aljabri'i's assassination. president trump has issued two sweeping executive orders thatat would ban n the use o of the che ,wnedd apps s tikt and we chat citing national security reasons. or than 100,000 people have downloaded tiktok and we chat is widely used for chin

this is something that came from the people not so young people who lived with their parents and one bremer the social network is broken there are no jobs there is a pandemic people criticize us they want to beat us but they should come and see how we live and treat us like human beings difficulties are everywhere in argentina these days millions are finding it difficult to survive they are proof of the enormous challenges that argentina is facing. there is a war and this. plenty more ahead on the news all including protests demanding the release of a golfer in russia's south east of turning into a nationwide movement against the government. and the digital era is here to stay but some communities are refusing to use contact with payment of a cash about buy. and in sport rinaldo gets his hands on another trophy and he will be here with that story. calls for the israeli prime minister to step down are growing louder for a 3rd week in a row thousands of demonstrators have gathered outside benjamin netanyahu official residence demanding his resignation it's the largest protest in israel for a

go this is something that came from the people not so young people live with their parents or one bremer the social network is broken there are no jobs there is a pandemic people criticize us to want to beat us but they should come and see how we live and treat us like human beings difficulties are everywhere in argentina these days millions are finding it difficult to survive they are proof of the enormous challenges that argentina is facing. there is a war and. but more head on the news are including rounded up and tried in jail the indian government is criticised for cracking down on dissent by arresting rights activists. and we look at the legacy of the man who spearheaded the restoration of the stronghold of ana. in sports christiana rinaldo gets his hands on another trophy and he will be here with that story. the son of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been issued with a restraining order after he published the personal information of protest leaders yaya netanyahu has been banned from tweeting about the activists who are calling for his father's resignation for a 3rd