Raqaa who has been at the forefront of the issue and Jack Goldsmith senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford which means he has to decent educational institutions covered. And jay and its always great to see jane. We see jane in the cnn green room but also the field as well. Senator kaine i wonder if i can begin with you. This is an issue that splits both parties and you see the president now oddly presenting pursuing aumf as an olive branch to their site but knowing there some gop that might be more forwardleaning that members of his own party. I wonder in the current environment if we can look at this issue as one where theres a potential for bipartisan agreement, to give some definition whether before or ideally as you say during the lameduck session but perhaps after as well. I look at the split in both parties not as a negative but as a positive. So many things up on the hill get divided into partisan camps and this clearly is not partisan. Im Foreign Relations committe
Also less known about you also is the work youve done in academia. While you were an adjunct at the Richmond Law School or whether you were at the Columbia Law School as a Senior Research scholar. This is it a row fou profoundly fascinating career and i think when you were sworn in, i couldnt improve on the word, a proven leader and faithful advocate for the American People. And with that welcome, thank you for being here. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you so much. And hang you, ladies and gentlemen. I dont know if i got the short straw or the long straw getting the friday afternoon key note event. I will try to be brief and then id love to have a conversation with you about whatever youd like to talk about. And ill just avoid anything i dont want to talk about. What i thought i would do is give he yyou a sketch of where e the fbi and where i see myself on the things i need to focus on at the close of 12 months in this wonderful job. I have eight years and 52 weeks left on
The chair now recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina, mr. Wilson. On sunday both the fbi and the department of Homeland Security issued warnings to American Military personnel within the United States regarding possible threats from isil. Sadly, this comes after Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson announced, quote, that the president would have no credible information that isis is planning to attack the homeland of the United States, he said this in new york city in front of the council on foreign relations. This incredible statement by secretary johnson, preceded his unconstitutional review of illegal aliens, as a member of this committee as well as chairman of the ampled Services Subcommittee on personnel, im grateful to promote the wellbeing of members and their subcommittee on personnel, im grateful to promote the wellbeing of members and their subcommittee on personnel, im grateful to promote the wellbeing of members and their subcommittee on personnel, im grateful to pr
Youre part of the isis army you belong in prison until this war against islamic extremism is over. Thats what Security Council resolution 2178 says. I hope your chart, youll add to your chart a list of those countries that have told us that we do not think we should criminalize those of our citizens and residents who went to isis, joined the army but say they didnt actually kill anybody. Also an issue, sir, of being able to prove in a court of law this kind of activity. Thats fine. People on the ground in syria to come to a courtroom to testify. So, again, i think our partners use different tools depending on what they know about a particular individual in the case. Thats all i could say. Chair recognizes the gentlelady from florida. Thank you so much, mr. Chairman. Isils reach into the United States has been documented. We also know that isil is known to be tech savvy, as weve discussed, used social media tools to its advantage to help recruit foreign fighters to its cause and weve se
I would hope we have another round we can get into sort of what has worked because i am troubled sometimes by some of the conversation were having when they return to a given country what do we do . It almost sounds like deprogramming from a cult and i dont think thats going to work given the numbers. And so i would be interested in hearing from both of our witnesses about are there examples of things that have worked in a preventing people from going and unfortunately if we fail on that, helping to reintegrate them in a genuine successful way when and if they come back. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I know my time super. Chair recognizes is gentleman from california, colonel cook. Thank you, mr. Chair. Ambassador, i wanted to ask you about the role of hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in terms of perhaps facilitating the information on people recruitment and some of the smuggling activities, if you had any insight at all from a diplomatic standpoint. Specifically i do not, sir, no. No perso