the distinct sense that president biden was just about decided on who he s going to nominate for this opening. jake, lemt s do a deeper dive on the hill, democrats on the senate judiciary committee absolutely do not want this to drag out. they want it done by early april. what s the latest you re hearing about a time line and any pressure coming from the hill? well, there s pressure in that senate democrats want biden to move quickly. he doesn t have much opportunity, as josh notes, to move that quickly considering the end of the month is one week from today. so if he s going to meet his deadline, he needs to make this pick many the next seven days. the average, you know, time to confirm a nominee is 40 days. there are a lot of things that could go wrong or that could go sideways or that could delay it. there s a lot of document production that s owed to capitol hill, both republicans and democrats, in that time period. so they ll have to stem on the
and reinvigoration of community support for democracy and its norms and values. and that s really where the disease is, is at the local and community level. that s where it has to be directed, plemt-style commitments to educaing people and working with communities to restore this, because all the talk about ath the global level isn t going to really help change the way that voters support rising political violence or continue to look the other way around voter suppression if issues or even support them or storm the capitol. all the things that ordinary citizens have done over the last year and year-plus are the root of the problem in the end. cynthia, there s one other uncomfortable fact, though. many of these people that participated in the insurrection, that are following the lead of the former president, they swear they re trying to defend democracy. we have a propaganda problem.
and taliban that didn t even include the afghan government? i old like to introduce the agreement for the record. without objection. even the best fighting force may give in if they have no confidence in their leadership. third, the lightning collapse may show we wanted things for afghan that es that afghan leadership did not want for themselves. we celebrated gains in plemt and women s education and assumed afghans would fight to preserve those gains rather than allow the taliban to take over. in other words, we thought we knew what afghans wanted, what they feared, and what they would fight for. our belief well intentioned incredibly naive. we can t get one-third of americans to take the covid vaccine or accept the results of a presidential election. do we think we can transform the culture of another nation? to each of our witnesses when we return in the second round, i will ask you this question why do you believe the afghan military and civilian government
0 thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary, i don t mean to interrupt you but my time is elapsing. so this gets to the overestimation that i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces. you re expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army a
the majority, conducted depositions. but don t take my word for it. here is then chairman of the house oversight committee trey gowdy all the way back in 2018. public hearings are a circus, that s why i don t like to do them. i don t do many of them. i mean, it s a freak show. the private interviews are much more constructive. in fact, in 2015 when republican congressman darrell issa went into a private deposition for the benghazi committee, a committee issa was not a member of, gowdy escorted him out. why attack the private depositions that were sucht a key part of how republicans conducted oversight? perhaps because of what they tell jamie gangel, from the top dplemt in ukraine the testimony was so damning it s, quote, reverberating throughout the halls of congress. sunlen serfaty kicks off our