[inaudible conversations] call the committee to we call the committeeal to order the full Committee Hearing a Us Military Mission in afghanistan and the implications for the Peace Process with us involvement. We are doing this hearing was some members present in some members remote also to witnesses are remote so this is the first time we have been back for a full Committee Meeting since the covid outbreak i urge all of you participating and watching to make sure we work out the bug before we start our read the basic rules and outlines how we do this hearing i welcome the members joining us today to establish and maintain a quorum to participate and vote. Experience connectivity problem. If a person remotely have issues, the staff will help you get recorrected. Video of remotely, will be visible on television and the video feed. Members remotely will be asked to mute when not speaki. If they want to speak recognize verbally. Unmu their microphone pyre to speaking. Members should aware
Brennan distinguished leadership series. The first member of the series was general james mattis who was here two months ago. Jack brennan was the first wofriend of nixon a veteran witn the white house returned with president nixon, retired from the marines rather than leave his side so we thought we would name it and then we had a distinguished professional jack continues to serve and we are glad so many of you are here. If you are in or what you stand and allow us to think you. [applause] our guest is admiral James Stavridis, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1976. He went on to a 37 year career and some extraordinary media stations along the way including as the Combatant Commander of the u. S. Central command, Southern Command from 20 of six to 2009, and of course as the nato allied Supreme Commander. He earned his phd and masters of arts from the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy which he subsequently went on to leave after his retirement from the navy. Admiral James Stavridi
Ortiz is the 1th u. S. Serviceman killed in afghanistan this year the 16th. Secretary pompeo joins us today along with former secretary of defense james mattis, who led u. S. Troops fighting the taliban in afghanistan after 9 11. Well also hear from delaware bs Battleground Tracker shows one candidate making important well have the surprising results, and well have analysis on all the news. T dts all aheae nation. nr good morning an welcome to face the nation. Just days before the 18th an verse of the attacks against america on 9 11, President Trump tweets out a bombshell. He invited taliban leaders to camp david this weekend for a summit withfghanistans president ashraf ghani. Then President Trump abruptly called off the diplomacy, just days after u. S. Officials had said a Peace Agreement was imminent. Negotiations had been ongoing for nearly a year between the u. S. And the taliban to get that Insurgent Group tort thl woul allow the u. S. To withdraw troops. A senior afghan official
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