and sits on the committee on foreign affairs in parliament this a new report thank you for joining us we just heard from joshua wang there saying this is a matter for the western world this is important to pay attention he has called for the u.s. to issue sanctions on china so what would germany do is germany prepared to issue sanctions for example. couldn't agree more with just wrong it's obvious that we just cannot sit down and watch international law being brought in by the chinese government and it's obvious that the implementation of the national security legislation would exactly bring this so it's obvious that the european countries have to come together as soon as possible to talk about consequences this could be a lot of different consequences which should hopefully should. put pressure on china to step back from it from this measure if we do not if just it will be just to do nothing and do not show any reactions consequence going to be that there is no stop sign for china and the next stop would be other places that they could try to break the international laws that is t

house foreign affairs committee says president trump may have fired a government watchdog because hewas investigating an arms sale to saudi arabia eliot engel says he asked the state department inspector general steve linnik to investigate donald trump's decision to declare an emergency to clear the way for an 8000000000 dollar sale trump announced his plans to remove linnik on friday night mike hanna joins us live now from the white house mike what else do we know about the story. well this goes back to may last year when president trump introduced a state of emergency in a bid to circumvent congress following suggestions from president trump of an 8000000000 dollar arms bill now congress was deeply opposed to this for a number of reasons saudi arabia's human rights record the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi so there was bipartisan opposition in congress to this president trump to pass a state of emergency there by bypassing congress the letter to congress was written by the secretary of state mike pompei are now at the time the house foreign affairs committee asked for an inve

on the a threat as president trumpeted being posed by iran at that time the house committee on foreign affairs asked for further information they then spot 2 of this investigation by the. inspector general of the state department now what we understand now from a statement to the chair of the foreign relations committee is that the inspector general had in fact being about to produce the result of his investigation into this arm still and into president trump's attempts to circumvent congress the house has now asked the administration to provide all information you could relating to the firing off the inspector general this is an issue that's not going to go away and certainly eliot engel statement now is creating a great disturbance within congress remembering to bed at the time this was a bipartisan issue there were many republicans within congress who will also appalled at president trump's decision to bypass congressional oversight in the saudi arabian arms do you think that that is my candidate live from the white house . the f.b.i. says it has found evidence that a saudi cadet wasn't con

smith, embers of the foreign affairs committee, mr. suozzi, who has een a champion, as i say, on religious freedom throughout the world. and i want to further close by commending mr. mcgovern, again, being relendless and persistent in terms of shining a right light on human rights violations throughout the world and especially in china. that, madam chair, i urge an aye vote and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from texas. mr. mccaul: madam speaker, i have no additional speakers, so i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. sherman: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. suozzi the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. suozzi: thank you, madam speaker, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. ranking member, congressman smith, thank you for your good work and partnership on this issue. thank you to chairman mcgovern and speaker pelosi for her leadership on all issues human righ

my work on the foreign services separately, -- foreign affairs committee, and my background as an intelligenceicer, i former c.i.a. officer. am a the recognition of the challenges or threats that come from a foreign country dominating technological development is one i am keenly attuned to, and acutely aware of. so it is my focus on internet from a rural development perspective and a development perspective and my focus on , national security threats and challenges from a foreign affairs perspective that, while i am not on energy and commerce, this is an area of significant interest for me. peter: to help us delve into those issues, our guest host this afternoon is emily birnbaum of the hill publication. emily: you are talking about foreign threats and the threat of another nation dominating in this space of enormous technological innovation, so can you talk specifically about huawei and vte are dominating the race toward 5g according to experts? where these companies a concern and what do you think is the best strategies to stave off the growing influence? rep. spanberger: the bill we passed

>> guest: i sit on the foreign affairs committee and agriculture community. for me broadband technology is ready much a place where both of those committees touch. when we are looking towards the future precision agriculture or technologies and precision agricultural tools that are allowing our farmers and producers to monitor their crops, to ensure the safety and security of their animals, particularly our dairies, to use fertilizer, depending on rainfall, dependent on other triggers, the use of 5g technology as we expect it to continue to develop will be incredibly important. notably within many of our rural communities that could be benefiting from precision agriculture technologies there's no internet. it's not an issue of 5g technology. it's an issue of lack of access completely. i have been focused on access to broadband and internet issues within the agricultural sector, within our rural communities and that is part of my portfolio. separately my work on the foreign affairs committee and by background as an intelligence officer, i'm a former cia office

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you sit on the foreign affairs committee.e committee, a committee that should be all over china whether it's the coronavirus or what's going on in the south china sea, threats to us, our supply chain, our allies, and they're not holding hearings, they're not interested at all because nancy pelosi is focused on power. if removing a president and electing joe biden president. again, your combat veteran, i want to ask your question. would you be comfortable if joe biden was commander-in-chief under the circumstances given what you've seen and heard from joe biden and his close relationship with the chinese government? >> i wouldn't feel comfortable with joe biden as the president for one very basic question that none of his handlers has answered yet, if joe biden was elected president, then who would be the president? obviously it wouldn't be joe biden. who would be running our government, whether it's foreign affairs or domestic policy, i wouldn't feel comfortable and joe biden vintage 2020 isn't the same joe biden of anyone's

state department continues to deliver on behalf of the american people. >> what about the house foreign affairs committee? sec. pompeo: thank you all. everybody have a great day and a wonderful memorial day weekend, too. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. thursday morning, the project on government oversight director will join us to discuss the role of inspectors general in government and president trump's firing of multiple ig's. and how americans should modify their behavior as covid-19 restrictions are lifted. he sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. at our live look coverage thursday. on c-span, the senate judiciary committee meets at 10:00 a.m. eastern to consider subpoena authorization for documents and witnesses related to the committee's investigation of the pfizer process and the 2016 russia probe. on c-span two, the senate is back to debate and vote on the nomination of john ratcliffe to be the next director of national intelligence. >>

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firing, i read the letter you sent to president trump asking for an explanation that the house foreign affairs chair is launching a probe into this. you said the firing looks like it's retaliation. that can be unlawful. what would happen, then? >> well, the fact is that the president should acknowledge why we even have inspectors general. this followed watergate, to have transparency, accountability, to fight waste, fraud, abuse in our governmental actions. while the law -- the president is correct in saying he can fire anyone he wants, when it comes to inspectors general, he has a responsibility to inform congress first. but it is also essential when he says he has lost my confidence to tell us why he has lost this is the fourth inspector general that the president has lost confidence in, so to speak, and it's a pattern that i think is unhealthy for a democracy. >> he has now said publicly, the president, that he doesn't know anything about this person, that he was asked to do this by the secretary of state and that when he heard he was appointed by president obama that seemed to be reason en

spanberger: i sit on the foreign affairs committee and agriculture committee. and for me, broadband technology is a place where both committees touch. so when we are looking at the future of precision agricultural technologies and precision agricultural tools that allow our farmers and producers to monitor their crops, to ensure the security of their animals, particularly our dairies, to use fertilizer dependent on rainfall, the pendant on other triggers, the use of 5g technology will be incredibly important. many of our rural communities that could be benefiting from precision agricultural technology have no internet. it is an issue of lack of access completely. so i have a focus on access to broadband and internet issues within the agricultural sector in our rural communities. that is part of my portfolio and focus on the agricultural committee. my work on the foreign services committee, my background is as an intelligence officer, former c.i.a. officer. the recognition of the challenges or threats that come from a foreign country dominating technological dev

to do to your country well i remember him he he was on bus when i was sworn in as minister of foreign affairs and for doing for a year we were. working trying to work together with him but i must say that i had to call him several times and i even conveyed him once to the minister of foreign affairs because he was the interfering in internal affairs he was a very biased boss of the diplomat his friends of terrorists of the opposition in venezuela the radical position of low balled up as well on top of that and he was always trying to help them and when there was even this political riots and demonstrations in 2014 etc he was trying to help the opposition in their strategy of regime change with the united states so his not a man who is a friend of the venezuelan people he's a friend of the venezuelan opposition of the venezuelan private corporations that want to take power here again we have cause invite him on this program he would no doubt refute being a friend of terrorists but then so would boris johnson refute that one is linked to terrorists what did it make you feel when you saw that on

he also sits on the parliament's foreign affairs committee he told the w. it's time for europe to act obvious that we just cannot sit down and watch international law being broken by the chinese government and it's obvious that the implementation of the national security legislation would exactly bring this so it's obvious that the european countries have to come together as soon as possible to talk about consequences this could be a lot of different consequences which should hopefully should. put pressure on china to step back from from this measure if we do not if just we just do nothing and do not show any reactions the consequence going to be that there is no stop sign for china and the next stop would be other places they they could try to break the international law because the south china sea which is already a battlefield for international aegis lation it could be taiwan and we just cannot afford it and then watch them doing all of the things we are now saying. that he united states where demonstrations and looting have shaken the city of minneapoli

but the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee which oversees the state department calling the firing outrageous alex marquardt cnn washington. >>there's a quick live look outside our camera the market arrow showing us a pretty calm looking start to this monday morning though it is wet out there. we have some overnight showers to deal with and that's making the roads a bit slick this morning. reports of sun, minor flooding here and there and a few spinouts as well so be real careful on the roads this morning. and we're back at 4.45 as more cities begin to partially reopen a lot of people might be considering summer trips. >>but officials at lake tahoe are still warning visitors to stay away. we have christensen most to explain. >>these marina employees are happy to be back on the job after the tahoe regional planning agency announced a phased in approach to boating on lake tahoe, if you have an intact inspection seal then you'll be able to launch during the first phase of the program. >>and then later on we'll be able to invite boats fr

. >> engel is the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs. he claimed len interest noc was fired after investigating pike pompeo. they condemned his firing with this tweet. the firings of multiple inspectors general is unprecedented. it chills the independents essential to their purpose. it is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the balance of fire. cnn picks up the story. >> reporter: in the trump administration, it is the watchdogs who are being watched closely for suspicion and disdain, now being dismissed at a growing pace. friday night, with no warning, the inspector general for the state department was suddenly fired. president donald trump informing the house speaker in a letter it is vital that i have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general that is no longer the case with this instekt spector general. the state inspector general was charged with oversight, keeping watch for any wrongdoing and reporting it. according to democratic chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, lynnnoc lau

but what can you, chairman engel of the house foreign affairs committee, what can you really do abouthat other than have some sort of investigation? the president if he wants to fire these guys, he can do it, right? >> he can. which is why i am looking at legislation to strengthen the role of inperspective generals across the board. if at the end of the day we can have someone fired without cause, with impunity, then we have totally eliminated a check and balance on this or any future administration. and that's not acceptable. that's the reason that congress created inspector generals in the first place, to make sure that the department, in this case the state department, is being honest and truthful and pursuing the cause of the american people. and when they lack that independence, when they are fired with impunity for no cause whatsoever, you can say at any time that you've lost faith in an inspector general. you lose faith in them when they seem to be, you know, getting very close to something that's problematic for you. >> senator menendez, thanks very much for joining us. we'll

the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and the top democrat on the senate foreign affairsmittee said exclusively this weekend that it is their understanding that secretary pompeo asked for the inspector general to be fired because the inspector general was investigating him personally. that guy's investigating me, all right, well that guy's got to be fired. right? that is just about as bad as it gets in terms of bad governance, right? no. no, it's just scratching the surface. it gets much worse. hold that thought. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. i'll start... oh, do you want to go first? no, no i don't...you go. i was just going to say on slide 7, talking about bundling and saving...umm... jamie, you're cutting out. sorry i'm late! hey, whoever's doing that, can you go on mute? oh, my bad! i was just saying there's a typo on slide 7. bundle home & auto for big discosnouts. i think that's supposed to say discounts. you sure about that? hey, can you guys see me? a

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coming up friday morning, house foreign affairs committee member florida republican congressman ted yoho discusses u.s. relations with china during the covid-19 pandemic and tensions regarding hong kong. -- talks about his organization's efforts on behalf of workers directly affected by the pandemic. and dr. marshall bloom, associate director for scientific management at the nih rocky mount laboratories on the investigations of infectious diseases. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. president trump announced an executive order for social media companies and user content posted on their platforms. here are his remarks. president greatest earl speeche you know what is going on as well as anybody, it's not good. a small handful of powerful monopolies

they really intended the senate to serve as a council on foreign affairs. they intended the senate to be active participants in the process of diplomacy, and so this picture that i put up here for you to see is of federal hall in new york city, and from washington's -- when he first learned office he intended to use these options that the constitution laid out for him. he went to federal hall. he visited with the senate and requested their advice, and it went very badly. he was expecting immediate answers. he wanted their opinions, and the senators that he wanted to act like legislators. they wanted to refer the issue to a committee. they wanted to debate it and discuss it in private, and asked him to come back the next week. that really frustrated washington. he got really angry and sort of urban legend is that he swore on the way out that it would never again return. and i'm not sure if that is actually true that he said that but he never went back to the senate for advice. regardless of what he said, he certainly meant it. so that was what option that he

about issues pertaining to their department or the president can consult and advise the senate on foreign affairs. this had a very different meaning back in 1787 where the delegates of the constitutional convention first crafted this clause it really intended the senate to serve as a council on foreign affairs and the intent of the senate to be active participants in the process of diplomacy. this picture i put up here for you to see is of federal hall in new york city and from washington's first when he went into office he intended to use these two options that the constitution laid out for him. he went to federal hall and visited with the senate requested their advice and it went very badly. he was expecting immediate answers and he wanted their opinions and the senators wanted to act like legislators. they wanted to refer the issue to committee and they wanted to debate it and discuss it in private and they asked him to come back the next week. that frustrated washington and he got angry. urban legend is that he swore on the way out that he would never again return and i'm not sure if that is

globally how do you get others an interesting article foreign affairs and to basically say with otherlike-minded countries and essentially say we will possibly introduce to those in need certain climate standards to incentivize them to do it. and then you'll never have that agreed to. and even if the goals were met as ambitious you now need to think about workarounds what is it we do with like-minded relevant countries to put us on a trajectory to deal with climate one that isn't opposed to us but you have to accept the fact some climate change even if we got our act together a lot more climate change is baked into the cake so doing this around the world in terms people are encouraged to live in the mechanicals and so forth you have a prepare the country for climate change it's as a pandemic what are the keywords to think about it is resilience they will come out as. and with pandemics. how do we build and rebilling on --dash the zillions and then still continue. >> and to keep at the tradition we and on time now to be entirely skeptical you can answer a question in less than a minute

diplomatic path being taken by the sudanese government we've seen the sudanese for ministry of foreign affairs some in the sharia say if you're in charge a to to to condemn the violence that happened on may 26th and may 28th now we've heard from the military spokesperson yesterday that one army officer was killed and several others were wounded and that civilians were also wounded in the clashes between if you pm militias which they say were backed by the if you put in a military and that they basically crossed into sudanese soil into sudanese territories and attacked stations that were manned by the sudanese military so it looks like at the moment the situation is turning from a military confrontation to diplomatic conference confrontation but this is not the 1st time that such clashes are happening we've seen this happening in february and in march and in april we've seen the 2 sides meeting we've seen the head of the chief of staff of the military and the chief of staff of sudanese military meeting here in her tomb to talk about the issue of border security now the ministry of foreign affai

german and french stocks are on the back foot this morning spain's minister of foreign affairs tellsc in an exclusive interview that they need answers she said that transparency from beijing is needed. >> the way we should proceed for mutually satisfying outcome as to be for the benefit for both sides. for china and in our case for spain very clearly >> the u.s. hit back after blaming china of releasing the virus was a wuhan lab. >> china is lashing back state media released this cartoon lamb puning u.s. accusations as ridiculous. >> officials believe the virus is not man made or altered but have not ruled out it could have looked from a chinese facility last week, china's executive vice minister speaking >> translator: we need to protect science and keep away from conspiracy theories >> this is an unusual move as president trump intensified criticism today. >> what happened should never ever have happened china should have informed us that they had a problem. >> president trump's opponents charge he's trying to devert blame. early on, he praised china >> according to u.s. intelligen

that the german parliament has been subject to cyber attack and that was a big wake up call the foreign affairs committee chair offered this assessment and vital stop is indeed it's another strong indication that russia is actively seeks to undermine germany's democratic institutions and that this is directed from the top to its own civil that it's not does i mean we need to understand that this is happening and address it head on a much easier to fit in the russian embassy in berlin has not yet responded to the arrest warrant. in the united states hundreds of asian murder hornets have turned up in washington states they can give you a nasty sting and they are not sweet to honey bees. it's only 2 inches long and has a sting that can kill the asian giant hornet has made its 1st appearance in the u.s. and it has officials worried. so what makes a big change or s is that people don't want to look for them and it is a ground nesting species so if you were to encounter a mast on binocs do you know you could be stung several times in a big hurry and several stings is enough to kill a human it's respo

the ambassador to france, the abbasid or to sweden, the spokesperson of the ministry of foreign affairsing, they all have been peddling either very rawoverups or propaganda. china is hurting itself by this approach. see it china should not as an insult or attack if they are called upon to provide transparency. i think this is a justified request from the international community. we are in this pandemic together. why should not all the attainable knowledge be shared transparently? the same request for also being asked of our own governments. president trump, who wants to deflect from his own failings, cannot evade also giving transparent answers. annie: we will get to that in second. are you saying you do not believe the who? the who has always said china has been open with them. who has been changing a little bit, if i have follow them carefully enough over the last week's -- followed them carefully enough over the last weeks. oh -- who has expressed hope that there would be international inquiry in which they would participate. vonnie: everybody wants to get to the bottom of the origin

that the german parliament has been subject to cyber attack and that was a big wake up call the foreign affairs committee chair offered this assessment and vital stock is indeed it's another strong indication that russia actively seeks to undermine germany's democratic institutions and that this is directed from the top it's you know it's evil that it's hard we need to understand that this is happening and address it head on a much easier to the russian embassy in berlin has not yet responded to the arrest warrant. and we are joined by investigative journalist florian flatter you just saw him there in that report welcome to you florian it make you so much for joining us how did investigators link dimitri body to this cyber attack. the investigators of the german federal police collected pieces of evidence linking mr body into several cyber attacks which occurred in recent years they went through all the data that they found in connection with the attack on the german parliament they monitored servers they analyzed the malware that was used by the attackers and in addition there was also informa

at the beginning of this assembly at also at -- the statements coming out of the ministry of foreign affairs, seems like beijing is on board thatthis new resolution has been proposed d by austrtra. -- it promotes cooperation. why are they on board with this comparar to the ininitial propol from a australia w which demandn inquiry y into the origins of te virus? first, it doesn't t make specifications about the origin of the virus, just tasks for a comprehensive, independent and -- independent i inquiry into te pandemic response. are askining for an inquiry that will be led by an independent committee within the committee that belongs toto the world health ororganization. it works well withth beijing. the speech does show how beijing is on a defensnsive position, having to justify having to counter axtxt position, narrative that says china's response left a lot to be desired. >> the taiwan n issue will not e discussed, specificalally whethr or not to give the island the statusus at the who. the island has been excluded sincnce 201717, why was thiss ququestion rsed agagn? >> taiwan was exclude

we are going to bring it foreign affairs journalist. welcome back to our program. $2 billion.you make of that announcement, first of all? let's begin there. >> it sounded like she sings being first reparations, but obviously it would be inadequate. the trillions of dollars of economic damage, 90,000 deaths, 300,000 deaths worldwide and counting. i think xi jinping was trying to blend calls for an investigation. i actually don't think it's going to work. >> bill: how come? >> because the truth eventually will. beijing is very powerful, which is no decision-making body for the world health organization, and it could very well block calls for a real investigation, which 116 countries, including the u.s., are making. the truth always emerges. it leaks out. chinese people are going to be talking about a pure chinese officials. also, we can see a lot and confer a lot from what has actually occurred, so i think china knows that it is going to be trouble, and as president trump said a couple days ago, this is going to look ugly. >> bill: let's see if the money goes out, first of all.

but the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee calling the firing outrageous. alex marquardt, cnn, washington. >>> protesters rallied in south georgia, demanding just physical for ahmaud arbery. they also want accountability for two local district attorneys who failed to file charges in the shooting that took place in february. a rally was held in front of the glynn county courthouse, followed by a march through the streets of brunswick. some demonstrators drove more than four hours from atlanta at. barack obama mentioned the case as part of his speech. >> a disease like this spotlights the inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country. we see it in the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on our communities. just as we see it when a black man goes for a jog and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he doesn't submit to their questioning. >> our martin savage is in glynn county and has more on what the demonstrators want and why. >> reporter: several hund

as you mentioned after the president sent that letter house foreign affairs chairman, a democrat saidthat he had learned that the inspector general had opened an investigation into secretary of state mike pompeo and a democratic source claimed to cnn that involved allegations that pompeo had used improperly a political appointee to do favors, personal favors for him and his wife. now the state department and the inspector general's office did not confirm that investigation, the source close to linick said they were. not aware of that kind of investigation being opened. it's still unclear at what stage that investigation if it was opened had reached before the president took this step. this is not the only watchdog that the president has removed. as you mentioned he removed the intelligence community inspector general and the acting inspector general at the pentagon. the latter he viewed as a hold over from the obama administration. that's what sources told cnn at the time. the former was seen as a retaliatory move related to impeachment and linick didn't play a major role in the impea

the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and the top democrat on senate foreign relationsmittee now is asking the trump administration to hand over all records on his dismissal by this friday. here's speaker of the house nancy pelosi. >> the president has the right to fire any federal employee, but the fact is, if it looks like it's in retaliation for something that the ig, the inspector general, is doing, that could be unlawful. >> harris: jason, this fit so neatly into your wheelhouse as former chairman of the oversight committee. notwithstanding the fact that he can fire anything he wants, even at the police as that. there is no information out here that fox news is confirmed, so i just want to do that. house democrats have discovered that fired ig has done micah completed an investigation into secretary pompeo's widely concise decision to go around congress with an emergency declaration to approve billions of dollars in arms sales to saudi arabia last year. that's aids to the foreign affairs committee, and that's what they are telling our rich edson. first, your reacti

this will have an impact on the roles going forward. >> we have the chairman of the house foreign affairsommittee eliot engel saying opening up an investigation on secretary of state mike pompeo by linick. at this point, the president said he lost confidence in him. does there need to be more explanation given for the reasoning for this? >> most certainly. president trump plays the confidence card whenever he removes an official without actual justifiable cause. i've read the inspector general information. no where does it say igs are my way or the highway. the confidence should be associated with the ig performing his or her roles or responsibilities under the statute. not whether they do their job in line with the president's personal pet projects. >> samantha vinograd, glad to have you with us. >> thanks, stay with us. >>> new york state will be reopened in some way by monday. so, let's check in on georgia. you'll remember it was one of the early states to ease restrictions. cnn's samantha chen has been going over. >> yes, i'm in lenox station, some of them have reopened, some have not

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but the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee which oversees the state department calling the firing outrageous. that was alex marquardt reporting for us tonight from washington d c. >>today president trump fired back at former president barack obama after his predecessor. >>said leaders in the current administration, where it even quote pretending to be in charge should amid the coronavirus pandemic when asked about president obama's comments president trump had this to say. >>but he wasn't confident residents that's all i can say >>that was all since leaving office president obama has largely avoided weighing in on politics are how he thinks president trump is doing, but recently the former president has become more outspoken. in part due to the coronavirus pandemic. >>ford says it will provide coronavirus testing for workers who show symptoms of covid-19 the automaker announced that plan saturday ahead of reopening some of its factories on monday. ford says that will provide the test to symptomatic workers in michigan, kentucky. mis

house foreign affairs committee chairman asked him to profile him, accusing him of a "phony emergency declaration" so he could send weapons to saudi arabia. he was also investigating whether pompeo required staff to handle personal errands and walk his 5-year-old dog sherman, who appears often on the secretary's social media accounts. the president defended pompeo. >> maybe he's negotiating with kim jong un, okay, about nuclear weapons, so that he could say please, could you walk my dog? >> the president can't handle the truth and will not tolerate oversight of his administration. >> president trump wrote to house speaker nancy pelosi that he lacked "fullest confidence." republican iowa senator chuck grassley's as a general of confidence is not sufficient to fire an ig, and wrote to the president to ask for answers about the dismissal by june 1st. he gre drew the ire of those col or clinton. opening investigations without merit when she was secretary of state. cooperating with the impeachment investigation. secretary pompeo told "the washington post" that he asked the president to rem

but the anger is growing among democrats with the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee whichs the state department calling the firing outrageous alex marquardt cnn washington. >>and our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic will always be there for you on our website at kron 4 dot com. the latest headlines. they are found right there on the front pages we updated minute by minute with the latest information coming into our newsroom. so make sure you check it off and throughout the day. we'll be bac home. it's not just where we live. it's where we make a life. this memorial day, and every day, we honor those who gave everything to keep our home safe. lowes. home unites us. >>im 56 in kron 4 continues to salute the class of 2020 highlighting a different senior and today, it is lauren campbell yet lauren is graduating from summit high school out in el serino she says she'll be a tent attending azusa pacific university in southern california where she plans to pursue a major. >>in graphic design, so congratulations to lauren and tall you are graduating classmates and all the gradu

foreign affairs chief committed that brussels has been a little naive about china. i am heartened by this newfound realism. the free nations of the world are starting to understand china doesn't share those democratic values we hold dear and that this matters to the entire world. there is no true win-win with a communist regime unless you get to the fair terms, and the reciprocity in the phase one trade deal. now countries have a chance to further insist on what is right for their people. nations toall on all support taiwan's participation as an observer at the world health assembly and other relevant venues. directorll on who general to invite taiwan to observe, as he has the power to do, and as his predecessors have done on multiple occasions. turning to the subject of those who are trying to do good around the world, today the united states is committing $130 million in global health and refugee assistance, bringing our total to more than $900 million. more than 120 countries. congress has provided $2.4 billion in total. this new tranche of funding provides more