Foreign nationals to donate to american political races. Mcauliffe says the chinese billionaire had a green card. Fbi and u. S. Department of justice also examining if there is overlap while mcauliffe was at the Clinton Foundation. Now on the clinton connection, heres mcauliffes comments. I think we travel the same circles. I have traveled the globe with president clinton and we have a lot of the same friends. Those that give to the Clinton Foundation have been friends of mine years and years. We friendship together. Deirdre one thing we want to clearly note, there is no allegation that the Clinton Foundation did anything improper according to officials. This probe focuses on mcauliffe and campaign donations. My guest has done a lot of research on the subject. He is the author of clinton cash. He is senior editoratlarge at breitbart news. Peter schweitzer with me now. Welcome, peter, were glad youre here. You led an explosive investigation into the foundation. What was the Biggest Surp
Come under attack by the russians. That is clear. Secretary carter absolutely true. But they have been placed in areas which for many reasons have not been subject to aerial attacks. Secretary carter they are fighting isil. The russians are not. Even though they said they were. But the go back. Let me go back. It has shifted to train individual units to the i sil fight to providing some training to the leader and then some support. This is another aspect of approach which i would like to clarify. Individualaders, but enablers pride people with Technical Skills that can go in to the deployed units and provide those skills. Is that still being done . Secretary carter that is so part of the approach. The big differences rather than trying to form brandnew units we are identifying units already fighting isil, providing them equipment and as you pointed out, after vetting their leadership, providing them with selected abilities that help enablementge our from the air. The program is able to
Good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on u. S. Strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. Before i proceed, id like to remind our witnesses this committees rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and id like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. The tragic loss last week of Master Sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 combat deployments reminds us of the high stakes of our mission in the middle east and how grateful we are to americans serving there. We need a strategy worthy of those who carry it out and, unfortunately, we dont have that. Whats worse it appears the administration has not even defined the problem correctly. A policy of isil first fails to understand that eye significant for all of the threat it poses is actually a symptom of another power thats now raging across the middle east. The epicenter
There is no military solution to this problem. That is misleading. The real problem is will achieve nothing. Changing those conditions is what the administration is consistently failed to do. Instead it is assumed our nation could withdraw from the middle east and avoid the conflict. On those occasions where the administration has felt compelled to respond after the use of chemical weapons or with the rise of isil, and now amid the ii, the administration has address the symptoms of the problem rather than the problem itself and made that problem worse. There no clearer example than this than the syrian train and equip program. The fighters can only fight isil, not assaults forces which have slaughtered more syrians then isil has. The Administration Made no commitment until only recently to provide these forces with any meaningful military support was they returned to syria. After millions of dollars and months of effort the Program Failed to come to the department original expectations
Mr. Mccain none of the moderate of forces have come under attack from russia . Secretary carter not in our title x program. Mr. Mccain that is fascinating. Secretary carter let me be clear, chairman, the russians attackde assad do moderate forces. One of the reasons why the russian approach is so mr. Mccain are we going to train these young people . Of a going to send them into syria to fight . Are going to protect them . Anyone we send in an train, we are going to protect from russian air attacks. Secretary carter we have an obligation to do that and we have made that clear right from the beginning. Mr. Mccain we havent done it. We havent done it. I promise you the have. You will have to correct the record. And formerronius secretary kade, and now we understand secretary clinton, have all stated that they think we should stop the barrel bombing and that we should train and equip. Zones should have nofly or aircraft exclusionary zones. As complicated as it is, we were able to do northe