welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
Fostered and supported a corrupt die for National Security reasons. That fostered a culture of corruption guy for National Security ppurposes. That fostered a culture of corruption. It is one of the most rich countries in minerals and resources. There is a lot potential there for a positive relationship with the u. S. Think you, i yield back. Mr. Affleck, i think you have raised a central issue, the lack of security among the population. Right now we are relying upon congolese government to provide as security. In afghanistan, weve got a questionable partner in the karzai government. That has been difficult. We have a less than credible partner in the congolese government. In afghanistan, we have gone through these stabilization operations as an alternative way to provide security at the local level with the villages, communities, whereby we have been providing some arms and training to the local population there so that they can provide their own security. Obviously, the karzai govern
Mr. Herger i thank my good friend. How wonderful it is to be able to sit here and listen to all these incredibly warm remarks from people who, like myself, know and love jay pearson. And theres a reason for that. Jay, youre one of the best of the best. And i think, its hard to believe that 26 years comes and goes so very, very quickly, but it was 26 years ago when i first came here. And of course, you come here and youre excited and you come here with a dream, because of our great country and preserve our constitution, but, boy, theres a lot to learn. Theres a lot of hall ways to figure out. There are a lot of procedures to try to figure out how to work our way through. And jay, you were always there. You were there to a guy like myself that i could come up to on the q t and asked jay, what could do next . What is this vote on . When is the procedures coming up next . And no matter what the question, jay pearson had the correct answer in a way that even a freshman or one that was new l
Presidency. The chairman of the joint chiefs taking 50 minutes of reporter questions about the niger ambush. Dramatically changing the timeline of the fire fight that left four american soldiers killed by isis fighters. General Joseph Dunford saying a full hour passed with the fire fight raging before u. S. Troops called for air support and then it took another full hour for that help to arrive. It has been 19 days since the ambu ambush. This is the first time a member of the Trump Administration has taken questions. And general dunford acknowledged the nation deserves answers. We owe the families as much information as we can find out about what happened. And we owe the American People an explanation of what their men and women were doing at this particular time. And when i say that, i mean men and women in harms way anywhere in the world. They should know what the mission is, what were trying to accomplish when were there. So those are all fair questions, in my judgment. While dunfor
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