Migrants try to get into britain we begin in syria where another front line in the war is emerging. Two groups that have been fighting on the same side against i. S. I. L. Are battling each other. The al nusra front, which is Syrias Al Qaeda affiliate attacked the headquarters of a group called the vision 30. The armed group says it kidnapped a group of division 30 fighters and its commander on thursday. Division 30 fighters were trained to build a moderate force to fight i. S. I. L. On friday there were reports that the u. S. Responded with air strikes against al nusra front. Division 30 fighters called on al nusra front to stop spilling the blood of muslims the iry commander went to sir iry commander went to i. S. I. L. Safe passage was granted to fight i. S. I. L. And the security of the people. We are shocked by this attack by our fighters. Rumours that we are american agents are not true. Our fighters are syrians, fighting i. S. I. L. And the Syrian Regime for the security of the
Mr. Chairman secretary mattis im a new congressman and i have to tell you i am surprised but we have across the globe and i quickly became the captain of a 335 ship me. With that to future Defense Strategy might change or evolves . And dont want to put words in your routes. So sowetos major conflicts simultaneously so do you envision and i know your crystal ball may not be perfect but what about that aspect changing over time . The enemy or our adversary that is like what he uses with that unpredictable phenomenon that they deal with that is called war. That is why you have to be prepared for that is everything about the of military that has a shock absorber and then to be more than one adversary and in one arena if they have mischief in mind they will take advantage and then to be more proposed over one thing. But if somebody asked you with that billion dollar reduction with the shipbuilding accounted. I did not understand your answer would you mind repeating it . But it reduced that
Year 2018 budget requests. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee. We welcome chairman dunford ba back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing is, how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring both the external threats on the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the last two years that our country faces more serious complex pretty challenges now than we have ever faced before. The hearings and briefings we held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The ministration budget request of 306 billion for base requirements a 6 above the 17 an active level and 3 above the last obama proposal. Its also 37 billion below what this committee assess last fall was needed and about 58 million below the fy 12 gates budget which was independently validated by the bipartisan National Defense panel. The issue is not about numbers. Its about what those n
Does this prompt any concern to have those close banking ties between the two countries. Maybe on the last question, one more thing where we need to strengthen is better common chain within nato. That it means that what weaker decision preparation and decision taking in nato. It means some more responsibilities to nato commander to make decisions in a case of any aggression. But speaking about banks, yes, some banks belong to russian investors but these banks are working accordingly to european regulations and we dont see any problems because our bank market is divided between we can say between two parts. Its swedish and postsoviet. Its russia and ukraine and we have also u. S. Investors in one bank. It means that three key investors in the bank sector but all is working accordingly to e. U. Regulations so maybe time for time we have some problems with some suspicious transfers of monies through our banks but our appropriate institutions follow that and all the time its controlling su
Hope the fbi has guardrails and how they will pursue investigations that do not target based on drug trafficker. What is a result, in 2021 we had over 100,000 drug overdoses and fentanyl crossing the border at 70 was about 70 of the 100,000. Thanks to the open borders, drug traffickers are poisoning our streets and killing our children. And they are trafficking innocent victims with reckless abandon. This administration is failing mr. Chairman could i have a minute to have a discussion with the fbi director. Of course. We just heard a half hour ago about how you have to leave it 1 30 when he announces meeting and he said we will have seven minute first rounds, three minutes second rounds, ive got seven people on my side of the aisle wanting their additional three minutes. Is there any reason we could not accommodate them for 21 minutes . Or whatever democrats want second rounds four. President i senator i have a flight im supposed to hightail it to after here i thought we would end it