i see mr. haley approaching. mr. haley, welcome. >> good afternoon. mad dam -- madame chair, board members. i'm here to is you to adopt a resolution that memorializes your leadership in a very important topic and is the topic of zero emissions. i would remind the board that under your vision and leadership we currently operate the electric fleet, just under 300 vehicles in north america. over the last five years we have retired and replaced some 600 diesel buses with hybrid buses that resulted this some 5.4 million gallons of fuel savings or will result over the life of the vehicles. so these are good steps as we move down that. currently the expectations are far greater and you have urged us to go further and faster if that's possible in moving towards zero emissions. so i'm pleased to say that what we have em bodied in the resolutions is a series of steps that will be taken immediately which will try accomplish at this goal. at the same time i would recommend that in north america there's 5,000 transit buses priced on an annual basis. there's curren

mr. cox: how about nikki haley giving them hell at the united nations? pplause] gorsuch how about neil standing for constitutional principles on the u.s. supreme court? [applause] mr. cox: as great as those patriots are -- and they are truly great -- there is one who stands out among the rest. our next speaker is a prime example of what all americans should ascribe to be, someone who stands on faith and hands-on principle. -- and stands on its will. he stands on the blessings of liberty that are every american's birthright. we are honored to have been here today. join me in welcoming the vice president of the united states of america, mike pence. [applause] vice president pence: well, nra., and are a -- thank you, chris, for that kind introduction. he knows me well enough that i prefer introductions to be a little bit shorter. i'm a christian, a conservative, and a republican in that order, and i'm a card-carrying member of the nra. [applause] two waynedent pence: love pr, governor abbott, distinguished members of of congress, and all of my fellow america

. >> and i'd like to ask our director of transit, john haley, to come forward, to direct one of his employees. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon. we want to try to outnumber everyone. thomas edison is not only known for having a rest area on the new jersey turn pike named after him but also for the invention of the light bulb which many people believe led to a cut down of one to three hours a night for many of us. well, in transit, we have many opportunities to be up in the middle of the night and receive phone calls on various things. today, i want to ask you to honor someone who not only responded to a call in the middle of the night to take care of an urgent problem, which allowed us to provide service to a significant portion of our riders, think the 38 route for one, but also day in and day out in a leadership role, her work has been recognized by our riders consistently, and the surveys in the last cup will of years as our marks for clean vehicles has improved. so on the night of march 30th, i received a phone call sometime around 2:30 in the morning, saying that our flynn division, which has a

mr. speaker, yesterday an emergency session of the u.n. security council, ambassador nikki haley spoke truthfully about the terrific hamas terrorist attacks in gaza. over many years by tunnel and firebombs, using human shields financed by iran. ambassador haley explained, as the president said the location of our embassy has no bearing on the boundaries of israeli sovereignty in jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders. it does not undermine the prospects for peace in any way. the hamas terrorist organizations have been insighting violence for years long before the united states decided to move our embacy. this is what's endangering the people of gaza. make no mistake. hamas is pleased with the results of yesterday. the real story i saw in the jerusalem post is promises made, promises kept. not the fake news of hamas sympathizers. in addition, last night at the willard i was grateful-to-teand the interinitial republican institute dinner led by president daniel 2009ing where ambassador nikki haley was honored with secretary james mattis to received the freedom award n conc

mr. booker, i need to see you or ambassador haley, i need to see you, whoever the next candidate is.e a problem instead of accuse people, that's how we had to approach it. ainsley: he's talking about the spying and ms-13. last week he called ms-13 gang members animals. democrats were up in arms about that. he was talking about nancy pelosi's comments. she wants to raise taxes, she doesn't want border security and calling the gang, members, basically children of god and we need to look at them with dignity. the president says he disagrees with that. listen to this. >> just the other day nancy pelosi came out in favor of ms-13. that's the first time i've heard that. she wants them to be treated with respect as do other democrats. that's not going to be happening. we are not going to release violent criminals into our country. steve: people don't want violent crime false in the country. that's what it's all about. what's interesting, though, i was reading on wabc, channel 7 here, web page said there's going to be protest because they'll be claiming that the president's xenophobia and ra

haley calls a sham. we cannot allow maduro to patrol his quote unquote victory on may twentieth as a validation of his role it will be nothing of the sort as long as mr o. stops a credible independent observer mission we know the results will be fraudulent the systematic oppression of the venezuelan people has become an active threat to the entire region for the safety and the security of all peoples in latin america it is time for madeira to go. president trump's pick to lead the cia jeana house bill is in for a grilling on the senate begins a confirmation hearing on weapons today asked will spend thirty three years at the cia but many are questioning her judgment when she worked for the clandestine service article a no from washington if you can't follow. jim haskell has spent days on capitol hill trying to charm senators in private before she answers their questions in public wednesday it will be a unique scene for the first time a person who was directly connected to torturing people under oath and answering questions president donald trump took to twitter to defend his nominee claiming she will always be tough on terror highlighting the fact tha

haley. >> yes. >> we all identified the challenge and working to try to find the tools. >> i look forward. >> brad snyder of illinois. >> thank you, mr. secretary. thank you for joining us here today. i appreciate your offer for coffee, and i look forward to having that opportunity. >> it's not the best coffee, but it's coffee. >> i'm not a critic. but i would like to focus on limited time i have on iran's activity in the middle east and russian interference in the u.s. election. you had a list of four priorities. one of those was in the southwest iran's advance. in the past year iran's advance has solidified to substantial bases and troops. i'm concerned by iran's presence in syria and equally concerned and troubled by the administration's lack of a strategy to ensure that iran is not able to maintain a permanent foot hold in the country. as we have seen in months, iran is provoking in conflict and building a presence inside syria. i previously wrote to secretary tillerson about my concerns and have yet to receive an adequate response. i'd like to know specifically what the administration is doing to prevent iran from expanding its

haley. >> yes. >> we all identified the challenge and are working to try to find the tools. >> i look forward to working with you. >> brad schneider of illinois. >> thank you, mr. secretary. thank you for joining us here today. i appreciate your offer for coffee and i look forward to having that opportunity. >> not the best skoecoffee, buts coffee. >> i'm not a critic. i would like to focus my limited time i have on iran's malign activities in the middle east and russia's interference in the u.s. election. earlier when talking about syria you had a list of four priorities. last among those four was in the southwestern iran's advance. in in the past year iran's advance has solidified into substantial bases and troops. i'm extremely concerned about their continuing and presence in syria and disturbed by the administration's lack of a strategy to ensure they are not able to maintain a permanent foot hood in the country. iran is intent on building a permanent presence inside syria. i previously wrote secretary tillerson about my concerns and have yet to receive an adequate response. what specifically is the administration doing to counter iran's influence in syria