it came through mutual associates. not something for the pack to go out and audit high profile portrayed. >> beckle said in the interview that we just heard, he told me that you told him you raised close to a million. we looked at your fec filing this week. accounts for been a fifth, and $90,000 - you had to give back $50,000, someone that donated it was not eligible. what's the discrepancy between the $50,000, $90,000 and the million you told me about. >> the gights are definition of what you constitute in your hands. you have cash donations, in-kind donations and pledges. they are different. they want to see a few things happen. >> got it. now, inside contributions like what we are doing, they gave us an opportunity, come in, get a disappoint, venue, get a discount on the flies and campaign materials. we had people that were a little more money. we returned them, because they didn't meet the standards of accept. >> i'm clear on this now. >> when you get impatient for mr beckle, obviously you are not on the stairway,

this is not something i approached them, they approached me, through mutual associates, it was not something it was an endeavor for our fact to go out and target high profile people to dupe them as the article had portrayed. >> let me ask you this. beckel said in the interview we just heard he told me you told him you have raised close to $1 million. we just looked at your sec filing, accounting for 90,000 of that i understand you had to give about 50,000 somebody who necessitated it wasn't eligible to donate. what is the discrepancies between 50 and 90,000 and the million beckel said you told him about? >> there's a difference between a pledge and the actual contribution you have in the coffers many you have pledges, in kind donations. pledges are totally different, that's in the millions but they want to see too few things happen prior to weighing in. in kind contributions they liked what we were doing and they gave us an opportunity to come in get a discount at the venue, get a discount on supplies and campaign materials. and obviously we had some people that were a little bit more genero

iran was directly responsible for the argentinian israeli mutual association jewish community center bombing in buenos aires, argentina, which murdered 85 and wounded 300. the amia attack remains the deadly attack -- deadliest terrorist attack in argentina's history. ninegentine court declared people fugitives from justice in their country for their role in the bombing. the iranian backed branch of hezbollah detonated a massive bomb in front of khobar towers a u.s. military housing complex in saudi arabia. the terrorist attack murdered 19 ouricans and wounded 372 of service men and women. the attackers detonated a parked truck laid within the equivalent of between 3,000 and 8,000 pounds of explosives in the khobar towers parking lot. it sheared the face off an eight story structured -- structure hat housed u.s. personnel. iran undermined u.s. operations by supplying weapons, its own advisors and iranian proxy advisors to multiple resident group, both sunni and shia, which targeted coalition forces. for the u.s., concern revolved around iran's role in arming and assisting the shiite m

sexual minorities particularly and religious minorities have mutually reenforceable claims against larger society. there are some issues associated with human identity that are so vital that no government should touch it. no regulation should touch it. so much for civility when it comes to matters of the human identity. the government should protect them and not invade them. religious liberty is the ability to live according to our deeply held convictions and conscioour conscious. it's become the trend if your group doesn't agree with larger society for whatever reason, you should not be allowed on campus. that is wrong. it tears the fabric of american society and of freedom when groups are not allowed on campus when someone's view is so held so repulsive that it is not allowed in society. >> let me take a step back. i think i heard -- i think there's a lot of what kristina said, but i want to start with the college campus and tie it up to a broader point. i think the specific issue that kristina was alluding to was that many colleges will recognize student groups, which gives you access to certain resources and whatnot, the scho

personal while promoting our london long standing and mutually beneficial relationship with mexico. i yield back. >> i would like to associate my self with your comments about some of our colleagues, mr. villa as well as mr. claire who is here and joining us on the stand, even those these two gentlemen are not on the committee we have a traditional of asking uu -- unanimous conset they be allowed to participate. without objection so ordered. we appreciate the perspective of these gentlemen who live in great proximity to what we are talking about and we appreciate their passion on the issue and their care for the loved ones there. appreciate their perspective and glad they are joining us today. we will recognize our first panel of witnesses. i will hold the record open for five legislative days for any members who would like to submit a written state. gregory starr is here, assistant secretary for the bureau of security at the united states department of state. ambassador moser is the director of overseas building operation at the department of state and has a long history at the state department. we appreciate your service a

personal while promoting our london long standing and mutually beneficial relationship with mexico. i yield back. >> i would like to associate my self with your comments about some of our colleagues, mr. villa as well as mr. claire who is here and joining us on the stand, even those these two gentlemen are not on the committee we have a traditional of asking uu -- unanimous conset they be allowed to participate. without objection so ordered. we appreciate the perspective of these gentlemen who live in great proximity to what we are talking about and we appreciate their passion on the issue and their care for the loved ones there. appreciate their perspective and glad they are joining us today. we will recognize our first panel of witnesses. i will hold the record open for five legislative days for any members who would like to submit a written state. gregory starr is here, assistant secretary for the bureau of security at the united states department of state. ambassador moser is the director of overseas building operation at the department of state and has a long history at the state department. we appreciate your service a

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mutually beneficial relationship with mexico. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. chairman: thank you to the gentleman. i would like to associateth your comments about some of our colleagues. he is here and joining us on the stand. my understanding is congressman velow. we have had a tradition of allowing, and asking unanimous consent for people to sit in on the hearings. colleagues that our are allowed to fully participate in the hearing today. without objection, so ordered. we appreciate the perspective from these two gentlemen. they have great proximity to the issues we will be discussing today. ,hey have been invaluable to me and provide a good balanced perspective. they care for the loved ones in that area. i appreciate their perspective. our first panel of witnesses. i would like to hold the record open for five legislative days for any who would like to submit a written statement. we are joined by gregory stars. he is the secretary for the diplomatic security. he is the principal director of for the bureau. he has a long history with the state department. we appreciate your service and thank you for joining us here today

mutually beneficial relationship with mexico. and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. mr. chaffetz: i thank the gentleman. i would like to associate myself with your comments about some of our colleagues, mr. vela, as well as mr. cuellar, who is here and joining us on the stand. my understanding is that congressman vela would also like to participate today. even though these two gentlemen are not our our committee, we had a tradition of allowing and asking unanimous consent to allow these people to sit on our hearings. so i ask unanimous consent that congressman vela and congressman henry square yar to participate in these hearings. without objection, so ordered. we appreciate the respect from these two gentlemen. they live in great proximity to the issues of the things we are going to be talking about today and they have been invaluable to me and providing a good, i think, balanced effective and i appreciate their passion on this issue and the care for their loved ones that are there in that area and appreciate their perspective. will now recognize our first panel of witnesses but i'd like to tell members that i will hold the rec