Department of defense has not been forth coming and it would be helpful for me to collar file for you and what we hope to find out in the ongoing investigation. Secretary mattis is in asia. Our soldiers are operating in niger to build the capacity of local forces to defeat violent extremism. As we have seen many times groups like isis and al qaeda pose a threat to the American People and their allies, they are a global threat to fighters and resources and seek to operate where they can exploit weaknesses in local government. If you think of those enablers as connective tissues, or strategy is to cut that tissue and deal with the challenges within the countries and region. We can be proud of our progress today, our work is not done even with the fall of mosul and raqqa and tonight im going to welcome representatives from 75 Different Countries to improve the effectiveness of our network to defeat terrorism. Well focus on improving information sharing between to detect between nations to
Social media platforms. Cspanso watch washington journal. Join the discussion. Next, we take you to a conference focusing on fighting violent extremism. We will hear from steve bannon, leon panetta, former cia director and retired army general David Petraeus and arkansas senator tom cotton. Altogether, they speak for about two hours and 45 minutes. [applause] if you belong to the left of the political persuasion, you might say this is appropriate because the forces of darkness are a peer. You have a different perspective, you would say there is some sort of illumination on thelight of this stage in absence of site. We have a full day today. We have heard many voices. We have had several speakers, we have had several banners. We have heard from republicans, democrats, senior retired officials, generals, two x cia director ors and so, the last we thought, was an exile talking to an insurgent. [applause] i dont think i need to , heoduce mr. Steve bannon is the former white house strategis