Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important
Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac in broad terms, our military strategy in the middle east is part of an interagency, International Effort to sustain a conditionsbased approach designed to defeat violent extremism, two, to prevent regional dominance by iran, and, three, to ensure our allies and partners. Thank you for your support to our men and women in uniform. I appreciate the opportunity to appear here today and look forward to your questions. Thank you, gentlemen. We now move into the questions. Our two witnesses have a hard stop at noon, which means im going to be more aggressive about enforcing the fiveminute clock. Make sure we can get to as many members as possible. Im not going to ask questions. I will yield to mrs. Davis for the first set of questions, five minutes. Thanks. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And thank you to both of you, dr. Esper, and dr. Milley for joining us. I appreciate your statement and i wonder if you will just perhaps in a more refined fashion,
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
Club versus trump. Proceed. Nice to see you again. Thank you, chief judge thomas. May it please the court on behalf of the defendants. With me is karen hekker from the department of defense, general counsel. This case is about an internal transfer of funds among dods accounts and the internal transfer itself didnt harm plaintiffs, in fact, they dont contend otherwise, they contend that their interests were harmed by the subsequent downstream use of funds from the construction at border barriers and roads. But the transfer itself was authorized by a provision in the dod precipitations act, and that provision was not designed to protect the kinds of interest that the plaintiffs here assert, the kinds of recreational aesthetic and Environmental Concerns that theyve raised. The zone of interest requirement, which is a universal requirement, whether theyve whether theyre seeking refew under the apa or under an equitable it applies in any event and asks the court to determine whether those k