this is what we try to do on the foreign affairs committee. this is why our committee is constantly counted as the most bipartisan in the house of representatives. when i was ranking member and chairman ed the royce, we worked together. now with myself as chairman, we are still doing that. humanitarian assistance as i mentioned before, cutting off private sales of arms and crime control materials, at the same time making it clear u.s. military intervention in venezuela must be off table and the trump administration must follow the law and come to congress if it intends to use force. people do not realize that venezuela is twice the size of iraq. twice the size. people tend to think it is smaller and therefore any kind of military operation, misguided as it might be, would not be difficult. it would be extremely difficult. continued states must to stand with the venezuelan people through multilateral institutions like the oas and the united nations. i do think sanctions could be useful, but they should be designed and implemented in a harmhat do

he is chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and also a member of the house energy and commerce committee. he is the founder and cochair of the house oil and national security caucus, and he is also a founder of the argentine caucus and a big supporter of argentina as well as all of the countries of the hemisphere. through his outstanding leadership as foreign affairs committee chair, congressman engle has championed a foreign policy for the hemisphere that is rooted in the core american values of democracy, human rights, and rule of law. chairman engle has projected these values in common nation with governments of this hemisphere with the aim of improving the lives of millions of people in the region. among his achievements, he is promoted good governments and central, travel to el salvador to endorse the role u.s. assistance can play in combating corruption and strengthening oversight, and he has led congressional stands for democracy in venezuela, having recently visited the colombian-venezuelan border to find out how american aid can help the fight there. many of his values

not had these changes this is the representative weaker journalist who is addressing that foreign affairs committee we are expecting. fiance to be up next but for now just we are standing by to take that testimony from the us house foreign affairs committee special hearing on the dangers of reporting on human rights to stay with us. excusing. it serves. no it's the 2nd last day of campaigning for the 7th and final leg of india's parliamentary elections the election commission or the campaigning in the west state of west bank will be wrapped up a day early after violence at a rally on cheese day when 100 people are eligible to vote over a 6 week period across the country the last trains is on sunday may 19th prime minister narendra modi is hoping for a 2nd term. ok let's say i had back to the states assigned as a donald trump as a base and failed his new plans for the u.s. immigration system is expected to give preference education and work related skills instead of family ties let's listen in full spring day in the rose garden to unveil our plan to create a fair modern and lawful system of immigrat

this is what we try to do in the foreign affairs committee. that is why we are touted as the most bipartisan committee in the u.s. house of representatives. years, we worked together. chairman, welf as were doing that as well. important we are working together. humanitarian assistance, as i ills,oned before, three b cutting off private sales of arms. it is clear u.s. military intervention must be off the table and the trumpet ministry should must follow the law and come to congress if it intends to use force. people don't realize geographically, venezuela is twice the size of iraq. they tend to think it is smaller and therefore any kind of military operation, misguided as it might be, it wouldn't be so difficult. it would be extremely difficult. it is a big country. the u.s. must continue to stand with the venezuelan people through multilateral institutions. i do think sanctions can be useful, but they can -- must be designed in a weight that does not harm the people. let's be clear. innocent people are suffering today because of the policies

minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on foreign affairs and 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on energy and commerce. the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, and the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, will each control 30 minutes. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, and the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, will each control 15 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. engel. mr. engel: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: mr. chairman, i rise in strong support of h.r. 9, the climate action now act. i shouldn't have to persuade anyone in this chamber that we need to seek action on climate change. look at the news. we see the consequences of inaction. natural disasters, famine, instability, human suffering, the time for action to avoid the worst effects of climate change is rapidly closing. we must demonstrate to the rest of the world and to future generations that we're stil

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house gavel back in to consider three bills from the foreign affairs committee. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] or votes objected to under clause 6, rule 20. the house will resume questions on postponed proceedings at a later time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. sires: mr. speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2002 the taiwan assurance act of 2019. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2002 a bill to foster security in taiwan and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. sir ress and the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, each will control 20 minutes, the chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey. mr. sires: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and includ

levin: i yield 30 seconds to the distinguished chair of the foreign affairs committee, mr. engel. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i thank the gentleman for yielding to me and want to gladly say on behalf of the foreign affairs committee and also the energy and commerce committee we support this amendment. it is a very good amendment and important amendment, and i want to thank the gentleman for working with the committees on this amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. levin: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. shimkus: mr. chairman, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. levin: i yield one minute to the gentleman from minnesota, mr. phillips. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. for one minute. mr. phillips: thank you, mr. levin. mr. chair, i rise in support of representative levin's amendment and h.r. 9, the climate action now act. i know when

lack of respect for the oversight role that congress is supposed to play and i serve on the foreign affairs committee and agriculture committee and we have members of the administration come before us regularly and we haven't yet seen this level of disrespect. so, i think it does speak to when there is an issue related to the president, why is it that at that point in time the members of the administration don't come forward and engage with congress, as so many other members would you support holdig don mcgahn in contempt? >> i do think this is deeply troubling. >> you mentioned you were running out of another briefing. i believe from john brennan and wendy sherman related to iran. are you correct on that? >> i was on a foreign affairs committee and we were talking about russia. i did attend the other briefing this morning. >> did you see anything in that briefing? regarding threats from iran? >> the point of the briefing we attended was a bit of level setting. many members of congress who don't have a background in national security. i am a former intelligence officer and certainly many military vet

well today we're going to see a meeting of the foreign affairs committee in the european union that means that all 28 foreign ministers all of the member states are going to be there in brussels also federica mockery who is the high representative for foreign affairs of the e.u. basically the e.u. foreign minister also going to be in the same room so he's going for a chat with them about iran they had been having this meeting anyway they were all set up to talk about libya and what was going folding in that country and how to try and find a solution to the issues there that's all got off the table because my pompei is coming in the focus is turning to iran others will be here all day with a busy agenda so we'll see julian they how and if we manage to arrange a meeting he's always welcome obviously but that i'm not precise planted at the moment as we continue to fully support the nuclear deal with iran as full implementation it has been and continues to be for us a key element of nonproliferation company physician at the global event in the event so we'll continue to support it as much as

on all of the regardless of party to recognize the outrage of omar being the prestigious foreign affairs committeer is an anti-semite. that is the issue. ilhan omar must go! ilhan omar moscow! everybody -- >> ilhan omar must go! >> laura: a couple hundred people members of the coalition to get ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the coalition packed part of times square today. they were protesting congress one omar's blatant anti-semitism against the greatest ally among other things. harris, one of those speakers, rabbi, rabbi sparrow, great to see you. this was interesting, in new york city where people think, well, anything that would seem to be slightly more conservative, no one would show up. pretty interesting and a big crowd considering you are in manhattan and bill de blasio. >> first of all, thank you for this issue. we started this about two months ago when we went to speaker pelosi's office and we had a sit in and we said, why are you allowing ilhan omar to sit on the highly sensitive and important house foreign affairs committee? we've continued with this and we have thi

house foreign affairs committee is pushing for an end to the blockade on qatar to help contain what it describes as the threats posed by iran. and donald trump has accused china of breaking in his words the deal on the eve of more talks aimed at resolving their trade disputes he has promised more tariffs on chinese goods starting this friday if the negotiations don't produce an agreements. chinese telecom giant huawei says it will apply to postpone extradition proceedings against its chief financial officer mung one joe she appeared in courts in canada on wednesday one was arrested in vancouver last year on charges of violating u.s. trade sanctions with iran the u.s. accuses mung and huawei of committing bank frauds wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. u.s. house district. holds its only general william bar in contempt as it escalates the democrats' legal battle with the trumpet ministration over access to robot russia reports barr has refused to submit sent on with that subversion of the special counsel's findings president trump has asserted since executive privilege

party and he sits on the foreign affairs committee. i think we have a clear position that you undertow is a legitimate interim president of venezuela in accordance with the constitution of venezuela. we call on everyone involved to refrain from while and seek a peaceful solutions to a national dialogue and a democratic transition that can only be resolved through a fair and free elections and to enable that and to make that possible i think. moderate has to step aside i think there were rumors of us from the base he was already. plotting he said refused to cuba not clear how. realistic that scenario is but it's clear that neither the majority i do at the moment can we can secure the full support of the of thier authorities in venezuela so that statement may continue for quite a while. but it would have been a strongly supportive of all the countries in the reaching the lima group working together for a peaceful transition in the country we should never forget that there's a refugee crisis was more than ten percent more than three milli

is currently the ranking member on the house foreign affairs committee. before that, we work with congressman mccaul for many years when he was the chairman of the homeland security committee. think he is a great public servant. before that, he was deputy attorney general. he was a graduate from harvard university. he served as a federal prosecutor. he really has dedicated his life to public service. he is a creative, innovative are so manythere issues going on of the world -- there were so many issues to cover the universe. to have them here to have a discussion will be great. i promise you i will keep the discussion short and try to get as much time with you guys asking questions. have your questions ready. we met this to be an open format to understand what his priorities are and how he is thinking about it. nable.s jv ve he is back from a trip to romania. he is a retired f-16 pilot. he is one of our key defense analysts. what is great about getting our defense guys into some foreign policy stuff is day bring with them some strong military knowledge and

house foreign affairs committee on the dangers of reporting on human rights the journalist her husband was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october turkish authorities say his killing was ordered by the saudi crown prince but the u.s. government says it's no direct evidence. pulled out from the sit in the side of a significant and what's most important here is that within that official mission in the embassy on october 2nd it wasn't just jamal that was killed it was also the values that the u.s. represents they got murdered as well. mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. so. also seemed quite disappointed with the performance of the u.s. president. very disappointed indeed she pointed out that after her fiance was murdered the u.s. president said that this was an outrageous unacceptable act but then she points out that throughout all the months nothing has been done and that she says is why she's decided to come to washington now to highlight the case of a murdered fiance and to highlight the fact that nothing has yet been done about it from the u.s. point of v

house foreign affairs committee is pushing for an end to the blockade on qatar to help contain what it describes as the threats posed by iran. the vice presidents of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has been arrested after some bronco is being prosecuted for high treason along with six other national assembly members opened last week's attempts to remove president nicolas maduro from power. sudan's opposition leaders are threatening to launch a a nationwide civil disobedience movements after accusing the military council of delaying the transfer of power to civilians the military leaders saw a warning about holding elections in. six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition. the latest from khartoum. deadlock and threats of escalation marked one is these talks between the opposition and the transitional military council in khartoum along with the forces of the declaration of change the military had invited dozens of other political parties to the talks they have all presented ideas to get sudan out of the crisis. we received one hundred seventy seve

house foreign affairs committee on the dangers of reporting on human rights or. she was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october. the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen says it will investigate the possibility of an accidental airstrike in santa or to several civilians were killed the strikes in the yemeni capital left 6 members of one family dead the kurdish and says it launched precision strikes targeting hoofy military positions that residential neighborhoods also hit. egypt's military says it's killed 47 gunmen in raids across north and central sinai hundreds of explosive devices and other weapons have been seized and more than 150 people arrested 5 soldiers were also killed in the offensive egypt has been fighting armed groups in the region for several years. sudanese opposition groups say the military's decision to suspend talks on a transfer of power is regrettable talks are perspiring for 72 hours after gunfire broke out at the main protest site in the capital on wednesday the military destroyed that misfired in khartoum as unsuitable for r

i don't think i have to prepare very much. >> in his seven hours with the house foreign affairs committeee "value system." the "washington post" reports, when asked to describe trump's values, tillerson said "i cannot." that reporting in the "washington post" by john hudson and josh dawsey not surprisin y ly got a response from the president today on twitter of course. the president tweeted "rex tillerson a man who is dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared and equipped to be secretary of state made up a story, he got fired, that i was outprepared by vladimir putin at a meeting in hamburg, germany. i don't think putin would agree. look at how the u.s. is doing!" we have no response yet to that tweet from rex tillerson, but we have every right to imagine that his private reaction is something along the lines of what he said while he was serving as donald trump's secretary of state after donald trump left a meeting one day at the pentagon. rex tillerson was reported on this network at that time and then later in bob woodward's book to have offered what for him was a complete description of

house foreign affairs committee on the dangers of reporting on human rights. at least 6 civilians are being killed by ass trucks in the yemeni capital sana'a a saudi u.a.e. coalition says it launched persuasion attacks on military positions. $150.00 civilians have been killed in northwest syria during a 3 week russian backed government offensive targeting the opposition the violence is putting a strain on a ceasefire struck by turkey and russia last year and that's testing their relationship so i know how to report from beirut in neighboring lebanon. people's lives have been destroyed while their neighborhoods are reduced to rubble. schools mosques and hospitals have been hit. for 3 weeks syrian and russian jets haven't left the skies over northwest syria opposition controlled villages across southern and northern. provinces have been targeted like about us enough and there's a minimum amount that the majority of the people flocked to areas further north many were injured and killed in the bombing of arsenal is now a ghost town empty of its residents. it's the

the us house foreign affairs committee is pushing for an end to the blockade of qatar to help contain what it describes as the threat posed by iran. and catherine the u.a.e. are facing off with the international court of justice other accuses the emirates all discrimination after it expelled or kothari citizens. let's get more now on our top story and a closer look at exactly what e.u. nations committed to in the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal iranian banks were allowed to open new broad as an e.u. member states funds could be transferred between e.u. and iranian people and organizations without authorization and e.u. member states to provide financial support for trade with iran e.u. nations agreed to import and transport iranian crude oil and petroleum products and provide equipment and training for the sector they also committed to allowing iranian cargo flights access to e.u. airports and to stopping the inspection and seizure of cargo that was no longer banned under the deal wholesale scott is the iran professor of international business and international affairs at george wash

proclaiming american policy needs "her," perspective of a foreigner that is what member of house foreign affairs committees. she also told star tribune, time for a green new deal style over hall of u.s. foreign policy. and that would just be perfect for geniuses like omar. and aoc, and talib, don't you think? you know, fresh outlook. joining us, "new york post" columnist, fox business contributor, great american, michael goodwin. this is just stunning to watch bill crystal, whatever you call him. that was tortures reasoning. it was pathetic. >> well, you point out, he had no comment that we can recall when john kerr deit, anit -- jon kerry did it and biden. obama has criticized president trump abroad, and hillary clinton has. lou: obama has criticized america abroad. >> but nothing was said double standards. >> what kind of conservative is bill crystal? what would you -- would be the other adjective. >> former. >> give him another pulitzer. turn to the radical dimms omar with her now foreign perspective. is she supposed to have been naturalized? now an american, proud of this country? now she wants to ret

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so far, we don't have one from the foreign affairs committee. but five of the six committees of jurisdiction have the potential for subpoenas. they haven't all should subpoenas. but that's where we see some of that activity. as you probably know in the articles of impeachment for president nixon, article 3 was that he ignored the subpoenas of congress, that he did not honor the subpoenas. this is very, very serious. but my judgment will spring from the judgment of our committee chairs. and in terms of -- i'm looking at mr. nadler's statement, in the close of his statement today relating to the attorney general he said history will judge us on how we face this challenge. we will be held accountable one way or the other. if he he, barr, does not provide this committee with the information it demnds and respect it deserves, mr. barr's moment of accountability will come soon enough. and i think that applies. reporter: [indiscernible question] ms. pelosi: the committees are trying to make accommodations in terms of receiving the unredacted mueller rep

behalf of the foreign affairs committee and energy and commerce committee, we support it. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. bost: i thank the gentleman for supporting the amendment. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from illinois. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 14 printed in house report 116-42. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? ms. meng: yes, madam chair, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 14 printed in house report 116-42 offered by ms. meng of new york. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 329, the gentlewoman from new york, ms. meng, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. ms. meng: thank you, madam chair. my amendment adds language that recognizes the fundamen

at noon, congressman michael mccaul, lead republican on the foreign affairs committee, talks about foreign policy at the heritage foundation. on c-span3, how climate in the arctic is affecting infrastructure. >> in about an hour, we will talk to georgia representative about the effort to pass a $2 trillion infrastructure package. later, wisconsin representative mark pocan on today's health debate. a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. >> we cherish the open door that we want to create for our country, but a big proportion of must come innts through merit and skill. >> good morning. we will begin with your reaction to president trump's immigration proposal. if you support it, (202) 748-8000. if you oppose it, (202) 748-8001 . if you are a green card holder, (202) 748-8002. you can also go to twitter or poster comments on faceboo

house foreign affairs committee is pushing for an end to the blockade on qatar to help contain what it describes as the threats posed by iran and donald trump has accused china of breaking in his words the deal on the eve of more talks aimed at resolving their trade disputes he's promised more tariffs on chinese goods starting this friday if the negotiations don't produce an agreement. for the vice president of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly edgar's on brando has been arrested opposition leader one quite all revealed news on social media some brown was being prosecuted for high treason following last week's attempt to remove presidents nicolas maduro from. her so he's a bull has there's some seats from caracas. on wednesday evening the vice president of the national assembly every out of some but i know started sending messages out that he was going to be detained by intelligence services he was outside the headquarters of his political party he was inside a car and because he did not want to leave it the car intelligence services brought a tow truck in order to ta

house foreign affairs committee on the dangers of reporting on human rights. was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october turkish authorities say his killing was ordered by the saudi crown prince that u.s. government says there's no direct evidence. got to. get at least to learn tonight this murder was a great brutality that took in the last 7 months nothing was done to legal proceedings in saudi arabia not transparent we still do not know why he was killed we don't know where his body is the u.s. should bring sanctions against saudi arabia and all journalists detained there should be free. mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. she seems quite disappointed of the promise of the u.s. president. was very disappointed indeed a teacher making very clear that she had expected by this time there would have been some consequences for those who ordered the murder of her fiance pointing out too that she simply doesn't know what happened to this time not even where his body is also very sad words about being in washington without him a visit th

republicanaul, ranking member of the foreign affairs committee of the house of representatives. exclusive interview with robert jackson of the sec. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: you are watching "balance of power" on bloomberg television. i'm david westin reporting from washington. time for a bloomberg exclusive. a conference underway in las vegas, and erik schatzker is standing by with the top -- u.s. regulator. >> we have robert jackson, fcc commissioner out to las vegas -- fcc commissioner, out -- sec commissioner, out to las vegas. you dissented with elon musk and his twitter use. what made you break publicly with your colleagues? haset's be clear, the sec done great work on a very bizarre set of facts. that was a tweet last year we quickly turned around into a settlement that i thought made a lot of sense. here is my fundamental problem of what happened. whatever you think of that settlement, mr. musk sign it. when you do that, he has to be held to the deal that he struck. there was subsequent activity that we all felt and we brought a contempt motion, that he did not follow

we have a foreign affairs committee member who may breathe some fire tonight, the democrat is also on the committee that has set monday as the new deadline for the full mueller report. what happens to the a.g. if it doesn't happen. >>> and let's get after it was supposed to be our thing, now it's just becoming a thing. >> chris cuomo, let's get after it. >> how did that happen? the story behind the wackiest appearance of my life. only in america, kids, let's get after it. >> the president of the united states was asked if he confronted the man who was actively trying to interfere in our democracy like right now. here's his answer. >> we didn't discuss that. really we didn't discuss it. >> now, more troubling may be what they did say to each other. we have congressman david sis lee knee, member of the democratic leadership on the foreign affairs and judiciary committees. great guest for tonight, thank you for making it happen. if people knew the communications chaos that has been going on and yet it all worked out, thank the lord. it's good to have you. >> great to be with you. >> so y

on the heels of reports that tillerson briefed the house foreign affairs committee about his time indministration, the president tweeted a man who is dumb as a rock and on totally ill prepared and irl ilequipped that i was outprepared by vladimir putin and a meeting in hamburg, germany. i don't think putin would agree. president trump had a very different opinion of the former exxon-mobil ceo. >> some people didn't like rex because he got along with leaders of the world. you have to understand, that's a good thing. that's a good thing, not a bad thing. he is respected all over the world and i think he is going to go down as one of the great, great secretaries. >> rex is a good man. i like rex a lot. i appreciate his commitment and his service. >> stay tuned after the break to find out what ruffled the president's feathers today. you are watching "hardball." s fy you are watching "hardball." get it! get that butterfly! you know those butterflies aren't actually in the room? hey, that baker lady's on tv again. she's not a baker. she wears that apron to sell insurance. nobody knows why.

house foreign affairs committee is pushing for gulf countries to work together to contain what he describes as the threats posed by iran and its angles says this can't happen all saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt maintain their almost two you don't qatar united states and gulf partners share economic opportunities anti-terrorism concerns and can be working together to counter with threat posed by iran for this to happen a unified gulf is essential but so far we have not seen unfortunately enough progress to end the guitar blockade. it is in all party's interest to end this blockade so that we can work together to counter the real threats in the region at the very least gulf country should allow qatar overfly rights. the vice president of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has been arrested it goes on brando is being prosecuted for high treason along with six other national assembly members following last week's attempt to remove president nicolas maduro from power so risible has this update from caracas. on wednesday evening the vice president of the national assemb

joining us now, congressman castro, texas, he's a democratic member of the intelligence and foreign affairs committees, congressman, thank you so much for joining us. let's get to the white house counsel. he says that the demands by your colleagues on the house judiciary committee are, quote, outside the constitutional authority of the legislative branch of the u.s. government. how do you respond to that? >> yeah, that's not the case at all. congress has a right to conduct oversight and to investigate these matters and what you have is an administration that's stonewalling in every single way that it can and jerry nadler is right that the president is trying to act like a king, as though nobody can investigate anything that his administration does, and ultimately, the congress is going to have to go to court, the house of representatives is going to have to go to court, probably, to enforce these subpoenas. >> do you support the judiciary committee chairman's threat to fine people for not complying with their subpoenas, even up to the attorney general, bill barr. >> well, yeah, i think that it's impor

connell: congressman from the foreign affairs committee later on the show. we're watching google's parent alphabet ending the day down 2%. the company announcing plans to give users more control how long it holds on to personal information, things like location history. let's go to gerri willis from the floor of the new york stock exchange. >> connell. there is trouble in techland. google's second day of poor performance. they lost 60 billion in market cap after reporting the slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years. 90% of the company's revenues. worst single day selloff in seven years for the company. lyft also lower today. we'll show you that stock price as well. it is down from an all-time high of get this, $88.60 as i looked at it, 58.75. the company today lost a lawsuit challenging new york city's minimum wage for drivers at 1.22 dollars. lyft says formula they use to calculate is unfair which uber is big rival. it comes public friday. that is a big deal and biggest ipo in year and some time. it is said to be oversubscribed. this company had to

spent seven hours, seven hours on the hill with a bipartisan group, members of the house foreign affairs committeeealing with president trump in these meetings that lawmakers have wanted to get the notes on. in particular trump's meetings with vladimir putin. so what comes out of this meeting we just get a small taste of the kinds of things that tillerson shared. of course, you know, not only some of these lawmakers but members of the public would love to get those transcripts or at least the notes of what happened in these meetings. the white house and the state department have been the opposite of forthcoming on these meetings, in particular, again, with vladimir putin. so this is one way that they were able to -- you know, tillerson being in these meetings, this was one way that they were able to at least get a sense of what went on in there. >> but you're saying as well that tillerson said that jared kushner did not consult with the state department prior and that he, his naivety, put him at risk of being outmaneuvered as well. not just the president but one of his senior advisers who he has p

we'll talk about that and much more with congressman adam kinzinger of the foreign affairs committee. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the president and tiger woods, they have a pretty long history. >> they certainly do, wolf. and this is going to be quite an event. we see the president come out here in just a few moments with the golf champion, tiger woods. he just won the masters last month, and typically, with these presidential medal of freedoms, wolf, as you know, they're typically handed out and issued to notable figures after a career of achievements, at the end of their careers. typically for these recipients. tiger woods, it seems the president was so excited about mr. woods winning the masters tournament last month that he decided in a tweet to issue this presidential medal of freedom, so we'll see that taking place in just a few moments. one thing we should note, "the new york times" did a story about this just in the last 24 hours, asked the white house to essentially defend w

house foreign affairs committee is pushing for gulf countries to work together to contain what it describes as the threat posed by iran the chairman alyea to engels says this can't happen while saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt maintain their nearly two year blockade on cutters and catherine the u.a.e. are facing off of the international court of justice cut that was accusing the emirates of discrimination after it expelled all qatari citizens from its territory on the basis of national origin the u.s. house judiciary committee has voted to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress that escalates the democrats' legal battle with a troubling ministration of access to robert miller's russia report barr has refused to submit an unproductive version of the special counsel's findings president trump has a to as has asserted executive privilege of the reporter shielding it from public view voters in south africa are waiting to hear the outcome of presidential and parliamentary elections the governing african national congress is expected to when but by a smaller margin af

house of representatives when it comes to all things foreign policy as the head of the intelligence committee the armed services committee the foreign affairs committee and basically they sent this letter to secretary of state might pump a 0 and said the report you sent us is not up to snuff so basically congress has there's a lot of the state department has to give this report to congress well what these leaders are saying is they've taken now what was previously unclassified information about iran put it in the classified section and that they didn't give them enough information in the past reports have been $40.00 to $50.00 to $60.00 pages the unclassified versions of that this one is only 12 and they say that they're politicizing the intelligence community which is something that is not supposed to be done in washington so they're giving the secretary of state may 23rd to answer their questions as to how this report came about at the same time they do expect briefings both democrats republicans on capitol hill are saying with all of these moves trying to take a tougher stance with iran we need to know the intelligence the gang of 8 the

for more on that briefing, i spoke earlier with democrat susan wild, who is on the foreign affairs committeet did the secreta state tell you about the threat from iran rep. wild: we just had a i did not find it to be anymore illuminating, frankly, than what i read in news accounts. but e administration and the secretary of state seemed to feel that there is still an ongoing that from iran that has accelerated. there was some discussion about whether it hasecreased just a ttle bit in recent days. laura: but after these days of really bellicose rhetoric from both the u.s. and iran, how neconcare you personally about the tensions? rep. wild: i am very concerned. n't like aggressiveor rh. i think that diplomacy and more important in this case, careful military strategy, is very, very important. i don't think that rhetoric serves any good purpose at all. laura: the.s. has withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal and now it is pursuing this campaign of maximum pressure on could that work in bringing them to the negotiating table? rep. wild: i don't know that iran will come to the negotiating table, bu