The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
things are going to happen if the political climate does not change. the statement coming in his first interview since the raid on his florida compound last week. the former president telling fox news digital he will do whatever can he to help. also tonight the justice department wants to prevent the unsealing of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant request. it says the fact that this investigation, quote, implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation. and exacerbates the potential for harm. if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly. there is also a reference in the doj filing to federal rule 6 e. that signifies a grand jury. experts look at this say it may be a part of a concern trying to protect the identity of a witness or witnesses who are assisting in this. and perhaps other investigations. all of this comes as congressional republicans are pressing hard for addition
policies we saw happen in american history. what continues to be shameful there has been no resignation, no firings, still no one has been held accountable for the 13 dead americans. no one is held accountable for the fact that isis corzine at this moment has a footprint in every province in afghanistan. we learned two weeks ago that al-qaeda senior leadership was living in safe haven just a mere few blocks from the vacant u.s. embassy. we know in march that the pentagon said that it was possible within a year that terrorists would be able to plot attacks against the united states from the soil in afghanistan. we know that girls don t go to school. we know that 97% of the country is on the poverty line. it is an epic disaster that happened in afghanistan. it s on this president s watch. and he will live with that shame hung around his neck throughout history. bret: you know, has been painful, juan, congressman mike waltz tweeted out this weekend the older brother of one of the 13 kil