Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important
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Now on bbc news, hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, great pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december declared that the us had w