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Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu of Torrance shared his views on Syria, North Korea, Steve Bannon and Russia during an interview with Eyewitness News on Wednesday.
The colonel in the Air Force Reserves and member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs said President Donald Trump should clearly define what the American role in Syria will be moving forward.
President Trump has signed an executive order removing his chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, from a key national security post.
The move also restores the director of national intelligence, CIA director, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to full participation on the National Security Council's principals committee, the panel that Bannon previously had a seat on.
According to a report issued by the United Nations on March 27, Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen's Houthi rebels has resulted in what is quickly becoming a humanitarian catastrophe, with nearly 7 million people at risk of famine and more than 14 million people without access to medical care. According to the World Health Organization, 7,719 people have been killed and 42,922 have been injured since the start of the conflict in March 2015.
Lawmakers who pushed former President Barack Obama to curb support for a Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen's civil war are gearing up to battle President Trump on expanding U.S. involvement.
Several reports this week said Trump is considering providing assistance for an offensive on a key port held by rebels in Yemen and has already increased intelligence sharing and logistics support.
In the packed auditorium at the Creative Artists Agency, a vortex of entertainment-industry power and current progressive political woe, comedian Kathy Griffin, tiny, insistently red-tressed, erupts in full-throttle rasp at the man in the boxy gray suit as he finishes up onstage.
"I saw you on the Joy Reid show on MSNBC," Griffin says, coming up from the audience to address Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat speaking at the CAA Foundation's Take Action Day. "You're giving us hope!"
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are calling on the FCC to take "swift action" on a known cellphone security flaw.
"It is clear that industry self-regulation isn't working when it comes to telecommunications cybersecurity," Wyden and Lieu wrote in a letter they cosigned, on Tuesday.
As if you didn't have other things to worry about, add "think about the threat of nuclear war" to your to-do list.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Thursday called for a "total and complete shutdown" on legislation advancing President Trump's agenda in light of reports of possible coordination between his campaign and Moscow.
A Homeland Security pilot program designed to monitor a specific kind of mobile hacking may have discovered consistent attacks around the country. But a source with knowledge of the program says it is too early to make that determination.
The program, dubbed Overwatch, is managed by Homeland Security using the contractor ESD America and is designed to detect what's known as Signalling System 7 (SS7) hacking.
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Ted Lieu have asked the Department of Homeland Security if wireless carriers have done enough to monitor and report surveillance exploits on their networks.