All right. Hearing will come to order. Welcome, everyone. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on u. S. Policy in iraq. I thank our witness for appearing today. Before recognizing myself for the purpose of making an Opening Statement, i would like to take the opportunity to recognize and thank the members of our committee who served in iraq. Were grateful for your service and your input today is going to be invaluable. I will now ill make an Opening Statement and turn it over to the Ranking Member. Also before i begin on my comments here, i would like to take a moment to express my condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed in pensacola last friday, the three sailers dedicated their lives were taken from us far too soon. And we need answers about the shooter and how this happened. Certainly at this point, the president and all of us must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with the United States investigation so we can understa
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David i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i had a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] [inaudible dialogue] david general, thank you very much for coming. Pleasure. Thanks. Great to be with you. Now, you served our country very honorably for quite a while in government. Were gonna talk about that. But now youre in something that i consider a higher calling of mankind, private equity. [all laugh] how do you compare being in the military and leading troops to private equity . Well, im not sure i would agree wholeheartedly with that. Although i feel very privileged to be in the private equity business and also to be active in academia, in speaking, with startups and so forth. I think its pretty hard to top the extraordinary privilege of serving ones country in uniform, particularly if youre leading our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines in combat. Youre very famous for staying in shape. Now, you told me this morning you alread
A historic handshake between north and south korea but the u. S. Is keeping its distance prices averted the u. S. Government is open for business off to another shutdown most americans probably slept through and egypt launches a massive military operation that she says is targeting terrorists in sinai. And im tatiana phantasm doha with all of the sport will have more from enclitic the court of arbitration for sport rejected the last minute appeals of forty seven russian athletes and coaches who were bidding to be allowed to compete and more later. The Winter Olympics have officially opened in the south korean city of young chang with a spectacular fireworks display thousands turned out in freezing temperatures to attend the one that hes hoped will bring helped bring about a diplomatic for of relations between north and south korea for now it looks like the ice has been broken with whats being described as an historic handshake between south koreas leader in and kenya jiang the sister o
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