Immediate compupport cspan as a public service. Along with these other Television Providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm testified on President Bidens 2025 budget request for her agency before house energy and commerce subcommittee. She also discusses u. S. Liquid natural gas exports, appliance efficiency standards, and electric vehicle supply chains. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] the Subcommittee Energy climate and security will now come to order and id like to take a moment to welcome our newest member to the subcommittee congressman rick allen from georgia welcome to the subcommittee. The chair will not recognize himself or five minute Opening Statement. Welcome to todays hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities. We will examine the departments fy 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the Committee Secretary granholm. The department
Fall of cygon. Uh, what do you make of this comparison between whats happening in cable and saigon in 1975 . I mean, you put them side by side, there it does appear to be a just comparison. But there was a difference. As us President Joe Biden says, fortunately, during the incidents in kabul, unlike what happened in sygan, no one got into a helicopter from the roof. Rooftop of the embassy, before the exit, all of the documents were burnt. On. Told stories are usually more important than those that have been revealed. It rarely happens that someone can get access to classified documents, and when the confidential documents are disposed, its like they never existed. But is there a way for the public to find out about the truth. Maybe the media are the only way. A media outlet reveals secrets, depending on the degree of its independence. In 2019, the Washington Post published a part of the secret documents on the us presence in afghanistan. The documents were known as the afghanistan pape
Of its independence. In 2019, the Washington Post published a part of the secret documents on the us presence in afghanistan. The documents were known as the afghanistan papers. A curious journalist at the Washington Post. Craig. Whitlock, a person who had been investigating afghanistan for a while and had been gathering documents. He published several thousand pages of documents, including interviews with scores of us generals and diplomats on security issues, but how did whitlock manage to do that . 2,00 pages of documents of of interviews that had been kept under wraps for number of years in which people who were in charge of the war admitted that. Uh the strategy was a mess, that they misled the american public. This important event happened after he got to know special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction segar, an organization that was established by the us congress in 2008 to inspect the reconstruction in afghanistan. General john sapco is the head and special inspec
In terms of capability, theres going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the United States from afghanistan, getting out of the us embassy in afghanistan from the rooftop, what does that exactly mean . August 13th, 2021, the us embassy in coble, transferring us staff and officials with helicopter. The fall of cobble was like the incident that happened 46 years ago in the us embassy in vietnam, the incident that was known as the fall of cygon uh, what do you make of this compare . Between whats happening in cable and saigon in 1975, i mean you put them side by side, there it does appear to be a just comparison, but there was a difference, as us President Joe Biden says, fortunately, during the incidents in kabul, unlike what happened in simon, no one got into a helicopter from the rooftop of the embassy, before the exit, all of the documents were burnt. Untold stories are usually more important than those that have been revealed, i
The telethon, but we still remember very well what the ukrainian media market was like, the extremely large and harmful influence the socalled oligarchs had on the editorial policy of many channels, and we perfectly understand that this cannot be allowed in any case, so against the background of such Serious Problems in information. Field in the information market, in the media market, in general i am afraid that today we will not be able to get such ideal and Beautiful Solutions in order to achieve these two goals and to allow the free, fairly Free Development of the media and to prevent a situation where, through these media, our enemy begins to seriously influence again. The information policy of the state and the formation of this information field, so lets, lets still, its good that this discussion is going on, and lets not bend the peacock, so to speak, as our partners have repeatedly assessed the state of the media in ukraine, which exists, paid attention to the fact that even i