Law enforcement following the militarys involvement in recent protests around the country. They were asked about alleged russian bounties against u. S. Troops, and the debate over military bases named after confederate soldiers. Military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification for maintaining a coram participating, and voting. We will not be
Committee on alleged russian bounties for u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Announcer defense secretary mark esper and general mark toley were on capitol hill testify on defense department. They were also asked about alleged russian bounties over u. S. Troops and military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification for maintaining a coram participati
Compass and more im joined by my guests are there to clue in toronto he is a social commentator and editor and being libertarian and in chattanooga we cross it anthony ryan logan is a conservative political commentator i generally rules and think that means you can jump in and want and i always appreciate it ok and you let me go to you 1st did you notice i saw these images over the last few days of people being forced to take the knee and apologizing for their skin color or their ancestry or oh i dont know what particular groups they were blocked by its matter of their groups it doesnt matter to me i think just that gesture in itself should be an affront to all of us i mean when i see those kind of images i think oh maoist china and the red guard and i think of becoming a rouge i think oh stalinist trials where people have selfcriticism i find it quite horrifying and i think were going in the wrong direction in the country we should value all lives and no one should apologize for what
Compass and more im joined by my guests are there in toronto he is a social commentator and editor and being libertarian and in chattanooga we crossed it Anthony Bryan loeb and is a conservative political commentator i generally rules and think that means you can jump and you want and i always appreciate it ok anthony let me go to you 1st did you know as i saw these images over the last few days of people being forced to take the knee and apologizing for their skin color or their ancestry or oh i dont know what particular groups they were black lives matter or other groups it doesnt matter to me i think just that gesture in itself should be an affront to all of us i mean when i see those kind of images i think oh maoist china and the red guard and i think of the camaro rouge i think oh stalinist trials where people have selfcriticism i find it quite storify and i think were going in the wrong direction in the country we should value all lives and no one should apologize for what they l
Allowed to persist you know when arthur i mean when you take a knee and when everyone has a right to do that theres no law against making it even when i think of it that the gesture is to to genuflect to a Greater Authority someone that you may respect immensely for something theyve done or to god ok but to a random person or someone you do not know and its more of a threats and because theres consequences are built into it if you do not behave appropriately i mean this tells me i mean everyone knows im a conservative i mean this is a ball god were creating a false ideology to worship and this is a cult like behavior and not only am i its our values that made me art then we get out there on the one to have ok all right ok. You know its interesting that you bring up the cult like behavior and the almost religious aspect of this because one of the things thats been coming to my attention recently definitely the last few months but actually snippets of it over the last few years actually