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
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
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley 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 when 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.
That is for me intelligence perspective indisputable. As the commander in chief and the individual who has executive responsibility to protect the country, it is deeply concerning that the president legitimately does not believe that assessment. The gentleman yelled back. The young lady from arizona. Thank you mr. Chairman. I would like to yield how much time he would like. A few minutes. I do appreciate them admitting he did not know what was going on. I appreciate you saying that. You were given by having to go to the fiveminute rounds. I want to give you a moment. Thats in the context my statement. They have exceeded their constitutional powers. If you believe starting the war was unconstitutional, that is on impeachable offense. My statement applied to all the past president s and not just this one. The particular one only referred to this one. My point is that Congress Needs to move beyond partisanship. Members all take it. On the scope of executive privilege. Singling out one sta
Recognized. Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the witnesses. I thank you to the witnesses for being here today. I want to bring up a little bit. Read from the Mueller Report how the russians used misinformation to penetrate our political system and also show discord here in the United States in the 2016 campaign. On page 33 of the report, it states that among the u. S. Leaders of Public Opinion targeted by the Internet Research agency, the arm of the russian intelligence, there were various members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign. The affiliates promoted dozens of tweets and of the political content created by the ira. Post from the controlled twitter account were cited or retreated by multiple officials including donald trump junior. These included allegations of voter fraud. As well as allegations they have mishandled classified information. It was retreated by donald trump junior. On september 19, 2017, president trumps personal account responded to a from the controlled account. Toba