The law. Think about mosaic law coming down, being infused within the reeks, transferred also to the romans, roman law ruled over the world. As you remember, the high priest said to jesus, did you really say those things . Did you really preach those things . And jesus said to the high priest as the jews were watching, ask them. They were there. They can tell you. That was, mr. Speaker, the assertion by jesus that he had a right to face his accusers. That principle remains today in our law that we have a right to face our accusers. And when he said ask them, they were there, they can tell you, hes facing his accusers and demanding they testify against him rather than make allegations behind his back. And what happened when jesus said that, they believed and the high priest believed that jesus answer was inns atlanta and the guard insulant and the guard struck jesus. If i speak wrongly you must prove the wrong. If i speak rightly, why do you punish me . He asserted his right to be innoc
East envoy dennis ross. Are here to talk about serious and the civil war there. It is no question that both our morals and Strategic Interests are engaged there. Is very different, the stakes are very high. I find myself in agreement with youryou are saying in statement. When we look at egypt, we know that egypt is perhaps the most important arab country. It is always one that affects the rest of the region. Politically, culturally it has been a trendsetter. When we look at the events of the arab awakening, they might have begun in tunisia but it was the events of career square which captured the imagination of the world. WhichcareeTahrir Square captured the imagination of the world. It is an unsettling situation, to say the least. At a minimum, we have seen unelected leader removed, but i think when we look at the selected leader that was removed, we have to understand that the intervention by the military is an intervention that was very much backed by a very large segment of the egy
Inconsistent. Can you tell us in your judgment whether or not first of all the is our mission succeeding in afghanistan, first of all, but secondly, can you tell us about the capabilities of the Afghan Security forces and whether they are on track for where we expected them to be at this point in the campaign with a little over 20 months to go until the end of the i. C. F. Mission. Thank you, chairman. Ill defer. I thought i would start with general madison. Did i say you, admiral . Im sorry. Chairman, our mission is succeeding. The Afghan Campaign is on track. It is obviously a combination of progress and violence but i would say when it comes down to the ansf, the Afghan National Security Forces, they are proving themselves capable. Obviously; when we were looking at the drawdown numbers, there was a certain amount of forecasting that the Afghan Forces would be capable. Let me give you some statistics to take this beyond simply my evaluation. Since the first of january we have lost f
Secular Advent Calendar of president ial scandals. This a good day to have a former highlevel National Security official to give you some perspective. President trump has only been in office, like, 2 1 2 years. Hes now looking for his fourth National Security adviser who i think if he finds that person will actually be the fifth person to whom he has offered the job. But today was, like, a banner day for all of them all at once. Start with the first one. President trumps first National Security adviser mike flynn, he spent today in federal court where he learned of his new probable sentencing date. The date on which he will find out if hes going to jail after he pled guilty to a felony for lying to federal investigators about his secret contacts with the russian government. Now, today was sort of a good news bad news day for mike flynn. Starting with the bad news, it just maybe this is just me, it does seem to me kind of ominous that the likely sentencing date he got today in court is
President ial scandals. This a good day to have a former highlevel National Security official to give you some perspective. President trump has only been in office, like, 2 1 2 years. Hes now looking for his fourth National Security adviser who i think if he finds that person will actually be the fifth person to whom he has offered the job. But today was, like, a banner day for all of them all at once. Start with the first one. President trumps first National Security adviser mike flynn, he spent today in federal court where he learned of his new probable sentencing date. The date on which he will find out if hes going to jail after he pled guilty to a felony for lying to federal investigators about his secret contacts with the russian government. Now, today was sort of a good news bad news day for mike flynn. Starting with the bad news, it just maybe this is just me, it does seem to me kind of ominous that the likely sentencing date he got today in court is december 18th. If that in f