And targeting the suppliers bringing misery across the country. This is not a glamorous lifestyle. This is horrendous and violent. And if you get into it, its very hard to get out of it. Distant sirens good morning, everyone. Chatter its 4am. 150 officers from kent and two other Police Forces are taking part in an operation codenamed zeal. Part of a huge operation, this one. Hopefully, well protect some vulnerable people, bring in some drug dealers. So were going to an address in dartford today as part of a big operation. Over a0 warrants being executed over the next day or so, targeting County Line Drug Dealers in kent. A county line is a drug dealing network, often with a city based dealer distributing Illegal Drugs to smaller towns. Fighting it needs a joined up approach. Most of the county lines were dealing with come out of london, so were leading a three force operation here today. Its us, the met and british transport police. County lines gangs sell their drugs through phone dea
More from the Mccain Institute. Senator chris murphy, representative Michael Mccall and retired general john allen talk about around nuclear deal. Ryan cook, former us envoy for iran. And im very pleased to be invited by the Mccain Institute. Two moderate discussion with a very distinguished panel. I want to thank mister miss cindy mccain and the Mccain Institute for their leadership for organizing todays discussion. Id like to make brief introductions and then we will get right into the questions. We have three guests i think are known globally. Certainly in the United States. Senator chris murphy from connecticut who was served in the house for threeterms served for eight years and the connecticut general assembly. We have representative Michael Mccall, congressman from texas. With distinction as the republican leader on the house or in affairs committee. We also have general ouallen who is the president of the Brookings Institute hes a retired Us Marine Corps or star general. A form
This is part of a recent Mccain Institute forum. Ryan hoke, former u. S. Special envoy to iran and i am pleased to be invited by the Mccain Institute to moderate a discussion with distinguished panelists. I want to thank ms. Cindy mccain in the Mccain Institute for their thought leadership. And organizing the discussion. We have three guests that i think are known globally. Senator chris murphy from connecticut, he served in the house for three terms, eight years in the connecticut general assembly, we have representative michael mccaul, congressman from texas with distinction, a republican leader on the House Foreign Affairs committee and we have general allen who is president of the brookings institute, retired u. S. Marine corps four star general, former commander of the Nato International assistant board and u. S. Forces in afghanistan. I want to begin by asking a question to senator murphy. Senator you have been a supporter of President Bidens early steps to reverse course on iran
All right. We now welcome our second panel, Major General donna martin, commanding general of the u. S. Army investigator command. Brigadier general bullard, and mr. Omar lopez, director of naval criminal investigative services. We welcome you all. Youll each have an opportunity to provide a statement for five minutes and then we will accept your other comments as written comments. And we thank you all for being here. Major general martin, would you like to begin . Good afternoon, chairwoman speier, Ranking Member banks and distinguished members of the subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Im here to discuss the cripple investigation command known as cid, mission, structure, ongoing initiatives and our efforts to address the findings and recommendations of the ft. Hood independent review committee. I serve the United States army in two capacities, as the Provost Marshall general of the army and commanding general of cid. As the Provost Marshall general
And lasted about two and a half months. Lets go ahead and dive right into it. Lets start with a little bit of background. As she recall from last time, about june or july of 1944 there was a high powered meeting in honolulu, of all places, that involved president roosevelt, admirals and general mcarthur. They had quite a discussion about where to go next. The decision was they made that finally to go to iwo jima and allow mcarthur to continue in advance in the philippines as well. A couple of months later, a couple of places later, the navy brass meets in seattle, you have the admirals again and they hash things out. Once again there is a disagreement. The disagreement is centered on where to go to next as far as the Central Pacific is concerned. He was all in favor to going all the way to formosa, thought that would be logical place to go. With remembering the conversation that they had before was in favor of iwo jima. It is tough to see but iwo jima is right here, this little star, t