And i would like to thank Maggie Garnet who originally invited me just to visit Notre Dame. I am very, very fond of maggie. And her parents. Before i get to my prepared remarks, some years ago Justice Scalia told me that i should get out on the road and fly the flag. Well, he tended to be more of an extrovert than i am. I am quite content not to get out on the road. But when professor asked me too talk a bit about the declaration actually when i heard he wanted me too do that , my bride and i, virginia, we were rving in theg mountains of North Carolina tennessee. We noticed something there when i was thinking about and before i started preparing remarks. The large number of flags of people who w still believe in the ideal of this country and in an environment when there isis so much criticism, antagonism and actually people with disdain for the very same. It was very interesting to be with regular people for three weeks. [laughter] and that is one of the reasons we have been rving advo
Declined Faith Talk tough and to me via about potential violence on russia. Continue to call that violence and the countries elections to the say, do you rush house of parliament as the countries far east . Say 3 of the vice. Ah, youre watching the news on seeing who national Hello And Welcome to the program. The you on kind of knowledge last month to try and strike and have got to stop killed 10 civilians including 7 children and not a single terrorist. Washington had initially claimed this trial was necessary to prevent an talk on Campbell Airport in the final days before american military withdrawal. While reports have now merged the c, i had a should a warning to the u. S. Military. In the immediate run after the tragedy saying the civilians including children, were likely in the area. I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. Moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died wer
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Theyre good to have with us just turn data sunday the 19th of september. Im calling bray off the international. Weve got your best Election Coverage and the week stop stories for you. First, the u. S. Secretary of State And Georgia to day grinning. And congress this week over last month, hasty pull out from afghanistan. And that was followed on friday by the military submission that it had mistakenly killed 10 civilians in a drone strike just before the withdrawal ended. Lets go live to cobble now and catch up with our senior correspondent, i guess the high, the morale, the troops of Government America got in trouble from over clearly. Can you just talk us through whats been happening over the past few days . Well this is been a week of reckoning for the biden administration with multiple congressional hearings. There are now i would like to say multiple as well. 6, just democrat lead inquiries into all the failures of the afghan war and withdrawal. What american one to know, and again
Ok, here we go, you hear me . The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. The view from the Chair Seat looks a little different, and that is by design. Hearings should elicit thoughtful discussion and yet most hearings are structured to do just the opposite. Members sit in rows divided by party with senior members sitting above their juniorcollege. We look at each other in profile or even worse, staring out the back of each others heads, which i have two concerns about. One, its not the best way to have dialogue, and two, i am thinning in the back. I know you smell what im cooking. Witnesses who are there to share their expertise are often seated below us, even though they know more than we do on these issues, and a lot of interesting exchanges get cut short because of the five minute rule. There is no flow to the discussion because members are running back and forth between multiple hearings and jump between one topic and a