Partners. Seattle city club enhances voter access. Thank you to the Washington State coalition, aarp washington. To preserve social distancing, moderators are seated in the main studio, the candidates are elsewhere in the building. This debate will be moderated by political reporters. Good evening from the tvw studios in olympia and all of you watching. Candidates in our for governor, income and, jay inslee, and the Republican Police chief. Affirmative you can hear us from the city of . Yes. , we want to let viewers know they are upstairs from us in the studio. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed. No members of the production crew are in the room. They were not allowed to bring in notes, cell phones or computers. It is just them. The candidates have screens where they can see each other. They can see the moderators. I will go over the format. It is somewhat different from last weeks president ial debate. We will be with Opening Statements, questions will be asked of both candidates,
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
That countrys president rouhani. So the war in afghanistan continues. We remember, of course, how it began. Soon after the terrorist asack taxeses of september 11th attacks of september 11th, 18 years ago. President bush used a bullhorn to tell the world that the people who brought down the twin towers would be hearing from america soon, and sure enough, the campaign was launched. Since the First American troops hit the ground in october of that year, more than 2,000 have been killed is and thousands more wounded. In addition, more than a thousand allied soldiers supporting the u. S. Led effort have per riched as well. So has the longest war in American History produced the desired results . In other words, is the direct military action in afghanistan as part of the overall war on terrorism actually making america safer or not . Plus, what does it mean that one of the biggest hawks in the Trump Administration has gone . Well, here to talk about that is retired Army Lieutenant general d
Rouhani. So the war in afghanistan continues. We remember, of course, how it began. Soon after the terrorist asack taxeses of september 11th attacks of september 11th, 18 years ago. President bush used a bullhorn to tell the world that the people who brought down the twin towers would be hearing from america soon, and sure enough, the campaign was launched. Since the First American troops hit the ground in october of that year, more than 2,000 have been killed is and thousands more wounded. In addition, more than a thousand allied soldiers supporting the u. S. Led effort have per riched as well. So has the longest war in American History produced the desired results . In other words, is the direct military action in afghanistan as part of the overall war on terrorism actually making america safer or not . Plus, what does it mean that one of the biggest hawks in the Trump Administration has gone . Well, here to talk about that is retired Army Lieutenant general douglas lute. He served a
Rouhani. So the war in afghanistan continues. We remember, of course, how it began. Soon after the terrorist asack taxeses of september 11th attacks of september 11th, 18 years ago. President bush used a bullhorn to tell the world that the people who brought down the twin towers would be hearing from america soon, and sure enough, the campaign was launched. Since the First American troops hit the ground in october of that year, more than 2,000 have been killed is and thousands more wounded. In addition, more than a thousand allied soldiers supporting the u. S. Led effort have per riched as well. So has the longest war in American History produced the desired results . In other words, is the direct military action in afghanistan as part of the overall war on terrorism actually making america safer or not . Plus, what does it mean that one of the biggest hawks in the Trump Administration has gone . Well, here to talk about that is retired Army Lieutenant general douglas lute. He served a