telling our team and what the chair of the committee is saying about the timeline for cooperation. we are live on the hill with what investigators want to know from these lawmakers. and what happens if they don t comply? and also on the hill, the senate is trying to give final approval today on that massive aid package to ukraine. but appearing to get hung up at least for now. while overseas the war prompting a change to a global alliance. a new european nation announcing they re joining nato following russia s invasion. we re talking with a member of the armed services committee and a military veteran, congresswoman mikie sherrill is here live. and good afternoon. i m garrett haake in washington in for hallie jackson. i ve got the perfect team for our top story today. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. jaime sherman is punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. and we re joined by jackie alemane, a congressional investigations reporter for the wash
To get assad out of power. We also need a knew aumf giving the president what he needs to defend isis. Turn to ukraine, its fighting again intensifies, we cannot take our eye off the ball. Ukraines top priority should be rooting out corruption and reform, we need to support these efforts, we need to work with ukraine. We need to be a partner of ukraine, a stronger, more prosperous ukraine stands a better chance of turning putin back. Speaking of putin, we need to let him know we will never acquiese to his position on crimea. Any talk of sanctions relief for russia is premature, so long as ukraine doesnt control its own eastern border. We must do more to counter russian propaganda, we feel very strong about the fact that people in the russian language sometimes only hear on the air what putin wants them to hear. They get a very unbalanced view. We need to move in there and make sure they get a balanced view. Let me applaud president obama for what hes done over the last year. We should
The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
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They have had issues with with other prisons but not parliament. Do you see a commitment by president ghani and abdallah to do things differently than karzai that give you optimism in we continue to partner . Sir, without a doubt. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, general campbell and thank you to all that serve under you for really hard stuff that they are doing every day. Ill be looking forward to the investigation over the tragedy of the Doctors Without Borders hit as it develops. Corruption continues to be a major, major challenge in afghanistan. I know that ghani made this a focus of his campaign when he ran to lead the government in afghanistan. But i noticed the New York Times reporting last week that corruption hraeudz a role in the talibans recent success in kunduz saying they were ex extorting money from the locals. They were being, in fact, hit up by the folks that we have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to train. And and obviously thats unacceptab