Spending. We do expect the chamber to recess in about 30 minutes so lawmakers can attend a Memorial Service at the capitol for maryland congressman Elijah Cummings who died last week. His funeral will be in baltimore. Now to live coverage on cspan2. The reverend black will lead us in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Precious lord, spirit of light and life, your mercies endure forever. Guide our lawmakers through the turbulent waters of division and pessimism to your safe harbor of unity and hope. Keep their hearts clean, their spirits courageous, and their minds clear. Bless our nation with your continued presence, as you empower our senators to be servants for peace and freedom in this world of human need. And, lord, we again thank you for the life and legacy of representative Elijah Cummings. We pray in your great name, amen. The presiding officer please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, on
Mr. Jeffrey is accompanied by Deputy Assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, matthew palmar. President trump announced the u. S. Would lift sanctions on turkey. Since they agreed to cease combat operations in Northern Syria. This is 3 hours 15 minutes. Committee will come to order. Without objection, will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material. We meet today to examine President Trumps decision to withdrawal from Northern Syria. Clearing the way for turkey to attack americas Syrian Kurdish partners. Its a decision i view as zab disastrous. To our witnesses, welcome to the Foreign Affairs committee. Welcome to members of the public and press and thank you to our friends from cspan who are broadcasting this important proceeding. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This committee has a long tradition of bipartisanship. We work on that every day. I think were the most Bipartisan Committee in congress. The main reason is that members on
An assault brigade, it was renamed, by the way, because, including western partners, they suddenly began to show interest in the fact that certain names are called by nazi names units on the territory of ukraine, what symbols, emblems they are used when conducting combat operations against russia, what crosses appear on armored vehicles, what greetings they dont give, and so on, and yes, they really refused to go under the clock, its not a fact, of course, that they wont end up there, the point here is this the army is not entirely maybe they will ask you, although if you put a lot of pressure on the third assault, maybe the machine guns will turn in the other direction, its a rather slippery situation here, but its interesting that the current commanderinchief was called general kotel, thats where it all goes, what hours is that may find himself in such a difficult situation, including with the participation of that same azov, everything is possible, because syrsky, he, well, thoughtl
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Good afternoon everyone. My name is alex cooley, director of the Harriman Institute here at columbia university. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, david phillips, who is the director of the program on peace building and rights at Columbia Institute for the study of human rights for a talk about his new book, an uncertain ally turkey under erdogans dictatorship. David has long experience in both academic and policy settings. He has been advisor to three president s and the state department. He is also as a Senior Advisor to United Nations office for the coronation of humanitarian affairs. In his own scholarship he has written on numerous topics but books on iraq, a book on turkish armenian reconciliation and of course years of practice in various levels of track two as well as formal diplomacy. So the way were going to proceed to date is ill engage in some discussion with david over the key arguments in parts of the book, then we will open it up to questions and answe