Approval. In the senate it is being cosponsored by senators. Let me also say that i am also pleased that the house leadership has committed to andng that a similar bill the repeal of another bill are coming up for votes and i look forward to working with them to getting our legislation passed in the senate. When i look back upon american two mosti remember the significant foreignpolicy mistakes our country made in the modern era. And those were the war in be at phnom and the war in iraq. Clear, we were led into both of those wars by a series of lies. Vietnamlt, the war in cost us 59,000 american deaths and many others came home wounded in body and spirit. In fact, a whole generation, my generation was devastated by that war. Vietnam, laos,in and cambodia are almost incalculable, they run into the millions of people. In 2002 and 2003 in terms of iraq, we were told over and over again that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction, that he was working with al qaeda, and that we need
And codirector of the iran america project. The country that was friendly to the United States. The leadership in around feels rather strengthened by the show even though some of it was clearly orchestrated either regime. It was fueled and fanned by the shown but people have remarkable grief in favor of this general. People in syria and lebanon he may have been the institute grade or of a lot of instigator of a lot of mayhem. The regime feels strengthened. The iranian opponents of this regime , its probably the biggest demonstration against this regime ever in 40 years. The regime had to kill upwards of 1000 people, 10,000 people. They felt very threatened. Now i think they feel strengthened by this show of the now that the democrats have pulled their punch. My sense is that the demonstrations will come back, they are the results of rather remarkably bad economic situations, corruption, and cronyism. But so far right now, the regime is more powerful than it was 10 days ago. That mean,
Impeachment. He also defended the administrations briefing to lawmakers about the situation with iran, including the killing of general qassem soleimani. Rep. Mccarthy good morning, chet. Good morning, everybody else. [laughter] he just corrects me every time. All right. Were on our first week back in session of a new year and the majority in this house is really only focused on two things. First, stalling of their self described urgent impeachment, and secondly, blaming america for irans escalation. Now, lets first talk about the impeachment. We could sit and read and listen to lawmakers in Speaker Pelosis own party have no idea what shes doing. Senator feinstein, the senator from california, my senator, and Speaker Pelosis senator, but shes even more, shes the hometown senator for nancy pelosi. She said, the longer it goes on, the less urgent it becomes. So if its serious and urgent, send them over. If it is not, dont send it over. Chairman adam smith, Speaker Pelosis own chairman on
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Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to the brookings institution. Before i begin my remarks, i would just like to say on behalf of the institution that we are thinking every moment about the challenges that australia is facing, with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way, and they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen, president of the brookings institution. We are very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. We are very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. He is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the Defense Department and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate and after