Media, National Security and intelligence. This is an hour and a half. Without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. Before i begin, i want to go through the usual housekeeping matters. First, todays session will be conducted entirely on an unclassified basis. All participants should refrain from discussing any classified information. The committee is conducting the virtual hearing in compliance with House Resolution 965 and regulations for the committee proceedings. Its being broadcast live on the committees website. Because the threat posed by the pandemic is ongoing we will do this remotely to ensure the safety of the witnesses, members, staff and public. While we wish we could return to all standard inperson events, health and safety particles dictate we find alternate means of carrying out our obligations. Okay. So, let me remind members of a few remote procedures. First, consistent with the regulations the committee will keep microphones on mute. Members are respons
The holiday period. Federal reserve chairman Jerome Powell says the central bank will maintain its efforts to support the flow of as americans hunker down from the spokevirus pandemic, he on the nbc today show. We are not going to run out of ammunition. That doesnt happen. ,e set Interest Rates in time what we think is giving the economy the right level of support. If we raised Interest Rates more, it would have been higher than we thought and Economic Growth would have been slower. It would not have mattered in the end. We are always setting our Interest Rates at the level we think is appropriate. Carowell says mortgages and loans are among the areas that the fed can step in. Global news 24 hours a day, on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in armorhan 120 countries, ritika gupta. This is bloomberg. I am ritika gupta. This is numbered. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 5 00 p. M. In london, and want to click a. M. In hong kong. In
Efforts in afghanistan. We will come to order. All members will have five days to submit statements to the record. Notice, we are here today to examine the lessons from americas war in afghanistan. , welcome general sopko to the Foreign Affairs committee. I look forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans st
Whatsoever. They made the argument that it makes sense to try the case and then consider documents. They made no argument that the white make sense to have trial without witnesses are and why, because its indefensible. Its indefensible. No trial in america has ever been conducted like that, and so you would nothing about it. And that should be the most telling thing about councils argument. They had no defense of the mcconnell resolution because there is done. They couldnt defend on the basis of president , they couldnt defend on the base of history, based on the constitution, they couldnt defend at all. So what did they say . First they made the representation that the house is claiming there is a such thing as executive privilege. Thats nonsense. No one here has ever suggested theres no such thing as executive privilege but the interesting thing here is they have never claimed executive privilege. Not once during the house investigation did ever say that a single document was privile
[inaudible convens] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come back to order. The gentleman from montana. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us and i hope you didnt sever too much anxiety taking that Community Back to washington. A little bit of ptsd with the. One of the things i like to paraphrase is dwight eisenhower, listen from disinformation of information from of my colleagues on the other side. Dwight eisenhower said it looks easy when you live 1000 miles away from a cornfield that is exactly the problem in this body on a daily basis. Too many people are making decisions about Land Management in our part of the world they are not familiar with at all and unfortunately we have people making those decisions such as a director who was a known collaborator with ecoterrorist and secretary of interior who will provide documents and lobbying efforts that certainly doesnt help matters. Sadly to hold his hearing so that we, the people impacted the most by it can get Accura