I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin which welcoming our witnesses, s i want to call the hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming our witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of this committee. General milley, this be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here instead of it. You are the ultimate professional. You are somebody who has been very good for me and i think that i can say for the whole committee. You are a straight shooter and youve done a good job. I appreciate that. I just hope the senate will be able to find, since to confirm your successor so that the department is not forced to rely on an interim placeholder for your position. It is simply too important. This is an unprecedented and definite hold that has frozen over 60 nominations. Its going to affect more than 650 by the end of the year. The people on this committee know what the threats are in this world. We need to be a
I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin which welcoming our witnesses, s i want to call the hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming our witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of this committee. General milley, this be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here instead of it. You are the ultimate professional. You are somebody who has been very good for me and i think that i can say for the whole committee. You are a straight shooter and youve done a good job. I appreciate that. I just hope the senate will be able to find, since to confirm your successor so that the department is not forced to rely on an interim placeholder for your position. It is simply too important. This is an unprecedented and definite hold that has frozen over 60 nominations. Its going to affect more than 650 by the end of the year. The people on this committee know what the threats are in this world. We need to be a
I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin which welcoming our witnesses, s i want to call the hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming our witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of this committee. General milley, this be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here instead of it. You are the ultimate professional. You are somebody who has been very good for me and i think that i can say for the whole committee. You are a straight shooter and youve done a good job. I appreciate that. I just hope the senate will be able to find, since to confirm your successor so that the department is not forced to rely on an interim placeholder for your position. It is simply too important. This is an unprecedented and definite hold that has frozen over 60 nominations. Its going to affect more than 650 by the end of the year. The people on this committee know what the threats are in this world. We need to be a
I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin which welcoming our witnesses, s i want to call the hearing to order. Good morning. I want to begin by welcoming our witnesses. We appreciate your willingness to be in front of this committee. General milley, this be your last appearance before the subcommittee. I want to go off script here instead of it. You are the ultimate professional. You are somebody who has been very good for me and i think that i can say for the whole committee. You are a straight shooter and youve done a good job. I appreciate that. I just hope the senate will be able to find, since to confirm your successor so that the department is not forced to rely on an interim placeholder for your position. It is simply too important. This is an unprecedented and definite hold that has frozen over 60 nominations. Its going to affect more than 650 by the end of the year. The people on this committee know what the threats are in this world. We need to be a
And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha