And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
This subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. Iraq, syria and afghanistan. Historically in a broader context, what are the lessons . Is it always hard . Are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control . Are there lessons we can apply more broadly to Different Countries and our efforts to improve their Security Forces . We cant do everything ourselves. So nebraskas gsomebodys got t there helping us do it. Were trying to work with others. You just heard somebody today mention poland. We have allies of different capabilities. How well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities . I think this is a big, very important question. So is the hearing going to be oversight or education . Both. So were going to have close the roundtable, were going to have outside experts, were going to have administration witnesses at different events. So its try to understand, but its also hone in on what were doing now and is it working
Democratic forces could be a partner, to which you could send ammunition . Col. Warren i saw some press reporting about the Syrian Democratic coalition. Know who the members of the coalition are. Is, if different ethnic groups are coalescing around this common enemy called isil, that is a good thing. I dont have details on this newly formedoup or umbrella organization. Was only announced i guess publicly yesterday. I dont know. What i do know is anytime subgroups coalesce around this isil, andmy called seek to defeat this common enemy called isil, this is a good thing. As every leader in the u. S. Government has said, we will talk with anyone to fight i saw isil. I am from the washington examiner. What is going to happen to the u. S. Troops that were doing the training of the Syrian Rebels . Will they now be doing a couple days of training for the leaders or will they be reassigned . Col. Warren that is still to be determined. Many of those forces are continuing. There is one final cla
The European Central banks in physic and not fix the economy on its own but ready to take more steps to help. Here is ecb president mario draghi. It is necessary to further longss risks of too periods of inflation. The governing council is unanimous in using additional instruments within its mandate. One of those unconventional measures is buying government bonds. That is something that has not been mentioned before, at least not officially. His comments come less of three weeks before the next ecb forecast, which is likely to show weaker outlook for growth and inflation. In jerusalem, and attack described as the deadliest in years. Palestinians armed with guns, knives, and axes killed four israelis in a synagogue. At least six more people were wounded. Police still be two attackers. Jimmy netanyahu says the country will respond with an iron fist. Toyota unveiled a new car that emits only water vapor. It is toyotas bid to compete with teslas electric car. Only a few hundred will be sol
Because there were not looking for evidence of a legislative intent to create a right to judicial review. Your position is thats already there under the apa. Unless there is evidence of a judicial intent, of a congressional intention to preclude judicial review . Thats exactly right. Thats the presumption created by the apa. The way that your honor articulated it is the way the Supreme Court has articulated it time and again. Thats the governments burden to show by clear and convincing evidence that congress intended to preclude our claims, not our burden to demonstrate that congress intended to create them. If i may, ill move on to the merits of our statutory claim. As i said before, our first claim is that section 215 simply does not apply to call records. In the same statute that congress enacted section 215, in 2001, it added a provision to the stored Communications Act prohibiting the government from acquiring phone records. It created i exceptions to that prohibition. But section