Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
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
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members have five days to visit made statements and questions for the record subject to the limitation of the rules. Ambassador wells and ms. Friedman, welcome to the members of the public and the press as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan here as well. We need this mornings of the committee conduct oversight of the administrations policy towards afghanistan and iran 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 and the fighting in afghanistan do and do. Congress needs to know what the potential deal looks like and members need the chance to ask questions and offer views and in the last few weeks, weve seen the reconciliation process go off the rails in a spectacular fashion area to be learned from a president ial message that the administration was planning to host the caliban at camp davi
The meeting will come to order. What were going to do is have our Opening Statements of senator reid and myself and then well recognize dr. Wilson. We thank you for being here today. We welcome your family who is here and friends who can be introduced at the time you are recognized for your Opening Statement. Boring seven or eight questions you have to respond to first. Have you here to laws and regulations on conflict of interest . Yes, sir. Do you agree if confirmed to appear and testify before request before this committee . Yes, sir. Do you agree to provide documents including copies of electronic forms of communications in a timely manner when requested by a duly constituted committee or to consult with the Committee Regarding the basis of any good faith denial or delay in such documents . Yes, sir. Gen. Hyten yes, sir. Do you agree when asked to give your personal views even if those differ from the administration in power . Gen. Hyten i do, sir. Will you ensure that your staff c
Joint chiefs of staff. We thank you for being here today and we welcome your family here and friends, doctor hyten, they can be introduced at the time youre recognized for your Opening Statement. We have our boring questions you have to respond to first. Have you adhered to the laws and regulations governing the conflict of interest. Do you agree if confirmed to testify before this committee . Guesser. Do you agree to provide a documenting for the electronic forms of communication in a timely manner when requested by the duly constituted committee or to consult with the Committee Regarding the basis of any goodfaith denial or delay in such documents . Yes, sir. Do you agree to give your personal views even if they are different from the administration in power . Will you ensure that your staff complies with deadlines for requesting the communications including questions for the record in the hearings . We will. Will you cooperate in providinproviding successes ands in response to the c