vietor: it's cliche to say israel is in a tough neighborhood.o think that that fact is underscored by the fact that the head of isis, mr. baghdadi, was killed two days ago. and the special forces who were part that have operation, the intelligence community, the trump administration all deserve credit for taking him off the battlefield, but that doesn't mean our syria policy isn't completely incoherent. we pulled out. we are back in. we are ditching the kurds. we are securing oil fields. it's hard to keep track of. when you think about israel's security, i imagine that a secure syria is a key piece of that puzzle. what do you make of trump's syria policy today? knowing that projecting what troop levels would be a year from now is not really a realistic thought experiment, how would you think about the presence of u.s. troops in syria in the region to try to deal with isis and keep it stable? secretary castro: yeah. it's already been said a million times it doesn't need to be said anymore that the president has been so erratic, it has been a disa

vietor: you would make rudy giuliani your secretary of state. secretary castro, secretary castro, thank you so much for all the work you did. secretary castro: thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. sit ncicap.org] >> federal trade commission commissioners rebecca slaughter and christine wilson talk about the agency's priorities and some of the privacy concerns with new technologies. that's live at the brookings institution in washington, d.c. today at 2:00 p.m. eastern. n c-span2. host: our newsmakers program, the ranking member of the house administration committee, thanks for coming by. rep. davis: thanks for having me. host: joining me with the question is tim starks and judy that covers congress for "the hill." where are we as far as security than in 2016? rep. davis: when we were charged of the 115th congress, we worked in a bipartisan way to invest $400 million into our election secu

first, i want to thank you maxwell, and commissioner vietor for taking time to come out to the site recently and look at the headworks construction site and see the complexity of the project on the site constraints associated with also commissioner caen was there. thank you for visiting the site. in the last update to the commission, we provided you an overview of the process which is also known as construction manager general contractor they can inform the design and address the risk early on. we also had cost estimating process and evaluation during the various design milestones. having cmgc on board early on can inform the project of an industry trends. we explained that in this bill, which we typically used to do. the risk may not be identified or addressed until the construction is underway leading to contracted downtime in the middle of the construction, or expensive change orders. we also highlighted the benefits of cmgc, during the last meeting when we were here. how construction and design can overlap in cmgc. some example of headworks, we would not have been able to start construct