From other countrys militaries. Its about two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning. And, maam, im honored to be able to moderate you this morning, so as she just mentioned, were going to be talking about secretary james new book. Ive read it, ive listened to it. Its absolutely amazing. I will tell you today, thats what were going to talk about. So, maam, first and foremost, just to kind of break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story. Well, throughout my life, and as you heard, be i have been at this business of our National Security for actually closer to 40 years. Time goes by since that bio was written. Ive been always a civilian and i have worked in congress. Ive been in the pentagon for several tours and ive been in private industry. Always working on defense issues. As i was making my way up and trying to figure out my career next moves through the ups and downs of life, i would always look up to the people above me and
I think if they take a little bit of a deep breath and what the rule says and what it does, they will see that we follow their call to reduce the uncertainty that was in the system by providing the rule itself. Not just for help that the economy economy and the businesses and manufacturing and agriculture to do Service Tourism and recreation to depend on the clean water to do their job. These are all streamline opportunities. All of the certainty that this will provide a. They have a better direction for they dont have to talk to the federal government if they are not polluting or contaminating the stream or the wetland that is important to protect. The Clean Power Plant is an opportunity for the United States to show significant leadership. I begin talking about the repurposes Global Action is not only necessary to protect Public Health and the economy and national safety. But to get the benefit and the opportunity to move forward on climate. Its proposed by the clean power will cut C
History of the negotiation has been in the u. S. Concessions. Starting with the interim deal itself that was traded by the iranians for the permanent concessions by the u. S. The u. S. A great sunset clause meaning that this would only be a temporary agreement and it exceeded the right to enrich and it recognized iran as a Threshold Nuclear Power can and it did that as the first step. And then it returned to that concession from the u. S. , its got a agreement to temporarily reduce the pace of the advance of the program into just for the life of the negotiation at that point. So, thats just one example. You know all of the other ones that have been mentioned. The secure facility and on and on. When the allies look at this, it is troubling enough to see the terms of the agreement that result. But the capitulation is equally unnerving. But it makes them wonder if they are in a pinch with respect to iran will the United States be there at their side . To watch the united United States Uni
Application instead will now have managed access and a dispute resolution mechanism that will allow iran to delay inspections of suspect sites and permit russia and china to obstruct action in the Security Council. Fac and sanctions relief and the so called snapback provisions that the administration wants emphasized as a guard against iranian cheating have been shown to be more words than substance. The president has talked about a huge signing bonus sums it up to 150 billion, and moscow has been very direct. There will be no automatic reimposition of sanctions. I could go on but let me just say that i long to conclude ago that the only real barrier to an agreement is the willingness of iran to take yes for an into the yes the iranian will agree to certain conditions such as not building buildings that they had never intended to build. Instead of no enrichment, they can operate five or 6000 centrifuges under the agreement but to also be allowed to maintain and storage thousands of oth
Good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on u. S. Strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. Before i proceed, id like to remind our witnesses this committees rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and id like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. The tragic loss last week of Master Sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 combat deployments reminds us of the high stakes of our mission in the middle east and how grateful we are to americans serving there. We need a strategy worthy of those who carry it out and, unfortunately, we dont have that. Whats worse it appears the administration has not even defined the problem correctly. A policy of isil first fails to understand that eye significant for all of the threat it poses is actually a symptom of another power thats now raging across the middle east. The epicenter