Catch washington today for a fastpaced group work for stories of the day. Listen to cspan any time, tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer next, testimony on the origins of covid19 with the former director of National Intelligence, john radcliffe, he testified before the House Committee on the pandemic with other government officials. They talk about the intelligence gathered by the u. S. And the roadblocks to the investigations. The hearing is 2. 5 hours. Next testimony on the origins of covid 19 with former director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. He testified before the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic with other government officials. We talk about intelligence gathered by the us and roadblocks to those investigations. The hearing is 21 2 hours. The select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic will come to order. Welcome everyone. With objection the chair may declare recess at any time for the committee on oversight an
Good morning to everyone assembled here and those watching online and tuned into cspan one. We are delighted to be able to host this one hour session today and the release of the review. We are doing this today under the auspices of the csi says csis special thanks to my colleagues at csis. Special thanks to the csis Production Team putting this together. From dod, special thanks to jennifer nicholson. There has been a lot of support from dod in putting this together. The biodefense posture review a few minutes ago, we published here csis at csis, my colleague and i published a critical questions piece on the release of the bpr. Week my colleague and i also released a piece and it began by impacting unpacking many factors that feeds the pessimism that they will be little sustained against future path again eight pathogenic threats. And makes the case that there is reason for optimism and hope based on several factors, survey work that shows strong support for active American Government
Chairman, the house now has a task force on countering the cartels and its chair talked a little bit about some examples of what a umf might do. What we want according to this individual is to get mexico to ask for military support such as Close Air Support while they are prosecuting may target, which is exactly what happened earlier this year. This is getting back to this idea of mexico is in a civil war or an insurgency or something. But they just do not understand it or will not fight hard enough. I mentioned before this idea of insurgency, counterinsurgency, stability operations. I remember during the battle days in iraq and afghanistan thinking at least 7000 miles away. A terrible thing for us to be doing, but at least it is really far away. But the idea that you would import an insurgency and stick it on your border in your largest trading partner seems to me the height of imprudence. There is this idea of living in an alternate reality. There have been shootouts using military e
Inaugurated the global war on terrorism but we will replace it with a mexico au mf and you just thought, is this progress . What do you make of this . There is a sense that maybe we went bananas there for a while but how about a mexican invasion . There is the fatigue of big wars, tens of thousands of troops deployed to iraq and afghanistan but most americans are, for better or for worse, a nerd to a small footprint, small drone strike. What they are contemplating is use of that which is a few missile strikes, performative and symbolic missile strikes against drug labs in mexico. We are putting the war back on the war of drugs. There is a real downside even if these were pin strikes. There are many downsides to attacking cartel and damaging our relationship with mexico. I think it does reflect where the conversations i dont think many are serious. That said, this does normalize them and make it more likely that they future president may act on them. I want to read a quote here from the
In the United States. Theres also an important people to people dimension to the relationship so i think the last figure i saw was 70,000 americans living and working in saudi arabia. At least 30,000 saudi students in the United States. This is a multidimensional relationship that only continues to grow and deepen over the years. In continuing to grow and to deepen going forward. Host a lot more to say but we are out of time. A spokesperson for the embassy of saudi arabia thanks so much for joining us. That is it for todays washington journal we are back again tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Eastern. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms. Washington, d. C. May 8, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable michael cloud to ac