[cheers and applause] john kasich when you went to college in the 1970s you appreciated a peaceful protest every once and a while. Yeah. You do. First of all, when you are in the arena, and you are struggling and leave your family to go on the campaign trail and deliver a message to america because you believe that you are the best qualified person to be president of the United States and you put it on the line, i want this crowd here tonight to give a great response to a very great, talented and fine United States senator, marco rubio for the effort he has done. [applause] john kasich tonight we arrived in cleveland. We went to a restaurant. We thought we could sneak in and grab a quick meal. When we walked through the restaurant, people started to cheer. My reaction, please dont do that because youre going to make me cry. But to have people believe in you and to believe that you can bring people together and strengthen our country, i have to thank the people of the great state of ohi
Press. We put together the coalition for court transparency. It was a single issue group with five or six clients. I was a part of a Consulting Firm in d. C. , and the issue was ending the broadcast media in the federal judiciary. From the federal level to the Supreme Court, we had 20 different groups together, and pressed various different forms as lobbying, media, it going on tv, programs like this, trying to get cameras in the Supreme Court. After doing a number of events like cspan, i realized it wasnt just the issue of a lack of broadcast media inside the courtroom that made the Supreme Court very opaque. It wasnt just the cameras issue. It was the fact that they dont follow the same ethics rules as every other federal judge, the fact that they serve for life where as most other democracies there is a term limit. They dont put information online. They dont say when justice cane is speaking in massachusetts or in georgia. He wasnt as this one issue, but a whole host of issues that
And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
This subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. Iraq, syria and afghanistan. Historically in a broader context, what are the lessons . Is it always hard . Are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control . Are there lessons we can apply more broadly to Different Countries and our efforts to improve their Security Forces . We cant do everything ourselves. So nebraskas gsomebodys got t there helping us do it. Were trying to work with others. You just heard somebody today mention poland. We have allies of different capabilities. How well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities . I think this is a big, very important question. So is the hearing going to be oversight or education . Both. So were going to have close the roundtable, were going to have outside experts, were going to have administration witnesses at different events. So its try to understand, but its also hone in on what were doing now and is it working
Democratic forces could be a partner, to which you could send ammunition . Col. Warren i saw some press reporting about the Syrian Democratic coalition. Know who the members of the coalition are. Is, if different ethnic groups are coalescing around this common enemy called isil, that is a good thing. I dont have details on this newly formedoup or umbrella organization. Was only announced i guess publicly yesterday. I dont know. What i do know is anytime subgroups coalesce around this isil, andmy called seek to defeat this common enemy called isil, this is a good thing. As every leader in the u. S. Government has said, we will talk with anyone to fight i saw isil. I am from the washington examiner. What is going to happen to the u. S. Troops that were doing the training of the Syrian Rebels . Will they now be doing a couple days of training for the leaders or will they be reassigned . Col. Warren that is still to be determined. Many of those forces are continuing. There is one final cla