Massachusetts. To, ae mayflower fullscale reproduction of the original ship. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv today on cspan3. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker warned lawmakers that the recent announcement by the Trump Administration to withdraw troops from the country would give up leverage their. Members of the Armed Services committee asked him and others about the drawdown, relations with nato, and advice for the Incoming Biden Administration. This is 2. 5 hours. Call the committee to order. Call the committee to order. Our full Committee Hearing today is on the u. S. Military mission in afghanistan and the implications to the Peace Process on u. S. Involvement. We are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. Remote. We also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. So we are its the first time weve been back for a full committee meeting, house Armed Services committee since the covid outbreak so i urg
Today as the u. S. Military mission in afghanistan and the implications to the Peace Process on u. S. Involvement. We are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. We also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. So we are its the first time weve bee back for a full comttee meeting, House Armed Services mmittee since the covid outbreak so i urge all of you participating and watching be patient as we work out the bugs and give everybody the chance to say what they need to say and run the committee in an orderly fashion. Before we start the basic rules and outline of how were doing the hearing. And i welcome those joining us remotely and those members are reminded they must be visible onscreen within the Software Platform, joining the establi established meeting and remaining a quorum and they must use the video platform during the proceeding unless they experience connectivity prlem. If a perso remotely have issues, the staff will help you get reco
We are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. Remote. We also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. So we are its the first time weve been back for a full committee meeting, House Armed Services committee since the covid outbreak so i urge all of you participating and watching be patient as we work out the bugs and give everybody the chance to say what they need to say and run the committee in an orderly fashion. Before we start the basic rules and outline of how were doing the hearing. And i welcome those joining us remotely and those members are reminded they must be visible onscreen within the Software Platform, joining the establi established meeting and remaining a quorum and they must use the video platform during the proceeding unless they experience connectivity problem. If a person remotely have issues, the staff will help you get recorrected. Video of remotely, will be visible on television and the video feed. Members remotely will
Discuss this and more im joined by my guest bundys and a slow he is an associate professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as the author of russias geo Economic Strategy for a greater eurasia and in budapest we have George Samuel he is author of bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia right gentlemen crosswalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok lets go to also 1st theres a lot of discussion about trumps decision to move i think what 12000 troops out of germany and the way the the the theme is is that coming out of the white house germany is not paying its nato bills but that im not satisfied with that explanation oh by the way its bipartisan its a bad idea everyone knowing i know everyone that knows me watching this program i think nato should be dissolved completely but nonetheless and you know the top line story here is misplaced this is about a fraught relationship that germany has had with in nato w
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