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so does that mean that uk funding does not go to the groups in afghanistan it needed? quite ossibl afghanistan it needed? quite possibly and afghanistan it needed? quite possibly and probably - afghanistan it needed? quite possibly and probably and - afghanistan it needed? (iii its: possibly and probably and the afghanistan it needed? (iei its: possibly and probably and the irony, of course, is that when the incoming coalition government came in in 2010 actually we shifted away from doing government to government support because, often, that government support was not well spent and actually, the aid programme had pivoted to humanitarian agencies to what they were doing for ordinary people in a country irrespective of the differences we had with the government sol the differences we had with the government so i do think there were challenges and from my perspective i think it was a step backwards to reduce and come back from the knot .7% of gdp commitments and reduce that to not .5%.
he is threatening to punish them for participating in the committee. if he goes ahead and strips them from the committee assignments, do you expect speaker pelosi would reinstate that? i suspect she will. i know penancy pelosi very well. if there is a patriot, she is one. not a summer patriot or sunshine patriot. a real patriot who stands by this country irrespective of what the conditions might be. what wie see here is kevin mccarthy and others being what thomas payne called sunshine patriots. they are all for things going their way. the moment a challenge is come, they retreat behind the shadow of donald trump in this instance. in otther instances, they find others to stay away from the truth. i want to ask you while i
the call. i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen, and i was worried about the implications for the u.s. government s support of ukraine. i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained. this would all undermine u.s. national security. following the call i, again, reported my concerns to nsc s lead counsel. vindman also delivering an implicit rebuke of the misconduct he witnessed saying this, i am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our kcountry irrespective of party or politics. for over 20 years as an active duty united states military officer and diplomat, i have served this country in a nonpartisan manner and have done so with the utmost respect and professionalism for both
an interview offered up his own assessment, his own grade. he gave himself an a for his achievements but only a c or a c plus. i m a former teacher. you give the grade in private. you don t discuss it in front of anybody. i m not goid to grade the president. i m going to wait for the president to put forth an agenda in the country irrespective of what he s done thus far. it s been him reacting on his own emotions and things that he s been seeing and tweeting about. rather than laying out a roadmap