We will get started. My name is andrew wilder, i am the vice resident. I am delighted to welcome you to the important and timely event. As many of you know, we were founded 35 years ago by members of congress as an independent and nonpartisan national institute, charged with the mission of preventing, mitigating and resolving violent conflict. Todays topic is near and dear to you sip. We have had an office since 2002 and worked closely with the government, Civil Society organization and others to address underlying causes of instability and violence. Support to the process is a top priority. We have dedicated considerable effort over the last two years to some research, dialogue, skill building and policy analysis, both in washington and afghanistan and. Throughout our efforts, we have held fast to the conviction that were a Peace Process to be sustainable, it must be inclusive. We recently held a workshop in istanbul with top women negotiators from afghanistan who had mostly participa
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
We will get started. My name is andrew wilder, i am the vice resident. I am delighted to welcome you to the important and timely event. As many of you know, we were founded 35 years ago by members of congress as an independent and nonpartisan national institute, charged with the mission of preventing, mitigating and resolving violent conflict. Todays topic is near and dear to you sip. We have had an office since 2002 and worked closely with the government, Civil Society organization and others to address underlying causes of instability and violence. Support to the process is a top priority. We have dedicated considerable effort over the last two years to some research, dialogue, skill building and policy analysis, both in washington and afghanistan and. Throughout our efforts, we have held fast to the conviction that were a Peace Process to be sustainable, it must be inclusive. We recently held a workshop in istanbul with top women negotiators from afghanistan who had mostly participa
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Guess what . Thats what we wanted you to see. And that was, randy, february. Did we miss things . You bet we did. Welcome to march. Im brooke baldwin. Jared kushner, his job as one of President Trumps senior advisers means his privy to the most sensitive and classified secrets in the u. S. Kushner received that clearance despite the concerns of intel officials and on the orders of his fatherinlaw. That is according to the New York Times today which reports the President Trump ignored the warnings and demanded the top secret clearance be given any way. The report adds trumps former chiefofstaff john kelly and others were bothered so much by the whole thing that they actually wrote an internal memo about it at the time. But in recent weeks, both the president and his daughter ivanka, who keep in mind is jareds wife, have denied there was any influence from the top. Did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule Security Officials . The career veterans . No, i do