three weeks ago when he called on this same day three weeks ago to talk to me about my wife passing on this same day. and elijah was a personal friend. he and his wife mya and my wife emily, the four of us were very, very close. i will miss him dearly. well, i think his leadership will live on and the example that he set reaching across the aisle the way that he spoke clearly, plainly, honestly always. and a consummate gentleman. he indeed will be missed. congressman jim clyburn. we are sorry for the loss of your friend. the country is sorry for the loss and we thank you for taking time to talk to us about so many issues happening today on capitol hill and around the world. thank you, congressman. thank you so much for having me. and of course, one of those issues remains the situation with the temporary five-day cease fire.
doctor. who wants that? but beyond that, what i m seeing is the tension that we often see in washington between doing things right. that is, making your boss happy, getting yourself in line for promotions, sucking up, which is another way of putting it. and doing the right thing. what we see displayed in front of us is a man who is doing things right by his personal ambitions to agree to a rogue operation with the president of the united states. and fellow colleagues of mine from the foreign service who did the right thing. who who denied their boss s injunction not to testify and went up to the hill nonetheless. i will also point out that the entire impeachment process and investigation began not with the congress but with the civil service national intelligence whistle-blower.
who doesn t need any more syrian refugees and can t handle the ones they have. what you re saying is far from it. no, as a matter of fact, there is going to be more chaos. it ll be more fragmented. i we, the united states, got absolutely nothing in return for what we for the bargain and turkey got absolutely everything. they got an establishment. and that s what you just heard from mitt romney. his frustration. i mean, the president, as we said, is saying this is an amazing outcome. this is a win. this is a success. let me play for you a little bit of what he said in texas just a short time ago. i just want to thank and congratulate the president erdogan. he s a friend of mine and i m glad we didn t have a problem because, frankly, he s a heldl f a leader. he s a tough man. he s a strong man and he did the right thing and i really appreciate it and i will appreciate it in the future. said that about putin, too, you remember? hell of a leader. and by the way, they have n
committee chairman and ranking member. just three weeks ago, our sub committee held hearings to receive an extensive analysis that the conditions and the way forward in syria. it was presented to us by the syria study group. a bipartisan congressionally mandated condition. and to trprovide recommendation for american strategy going forward. so far as i m aware, the administration made no effort to contact those who attended that hearing or to speak with the syria study group to be able to understand the content in their extensive published report. i ask whether it is the position of the administration that the united states senate, a body of 100 people representing both political parties, is to be entirely absent from decisions of the magnitude just taken in syria. now, some argue that we should not have been in syria in the
position never changed his person. he lived ced in the same house, served the same people. so even as he rose to be the chairperson in oversight, he was the same elijah cummings fighting for the same things, havingin a balance of strength d humility at the same time. and it st very rare to see tho ingredients in one personality. but that s who o he was. and he is truly missed because he s trulyss special because he had a way of challenging you without belittling you even though they were opposed to him. you tweeted a photo of the two of you together back in 2015. you called him the embodiment. what a great picture. tell us about your experience with him. well, i had an experience that s actually a little lighter. so, i was in the capitol a day or two after the death of freddy