Which has been a future of its National Security policy for decades. Secretary mattis, general dunford, discovery, congress, the American People and our men and women in uniform hold you in the highest regard. We have confidence in your leadership, your integrity and your judgment but in light of the experience of the last 16 years what should give us congress the this new strategy for afghanistan will be different . To answer that central question this committee in particular deserves a lot more detailed information from the president and from you not just at todays hearing but in the days, weeks and months ahead. Thank you, mister chairman. I would like to join you in welcoming secretary mattis in general shaheen dunford. Donald trump announced the president would stay the course in afghanistan continuing missions of counterterrorism and Capacity Building to a short history mixed groups never again use afghanistan as a base to attack the United States. In february general john nichol
The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. Senator corker in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because hen the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6 00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, therell be no spoking before the second vote. Then if we could hustle bam. I know general mattis has a meeting hed like to attend and others want to complete our work in an appropriate way. With that, id like to thank
Mf should not have time restrictions or be geographically constrained. This hearing is just over three hours. Stop endless war. Stop endless war. Stop endless war. [inaudible] [indiscernible] Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues. We have a number of people in the audience. Some of whom sometimes like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. In the past, when there have been interruptions, on occasion i have been able to have people be arrested but we have stopped that. Please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because then the process continues, being arrested is unpleasant. I would hate to see you go through that process. We have a chance for two votes today. Which is unfortunate. What we have talked before about doing is adjourning the hearing seven minutes until 6 00, everyone rushing down of voting on the tail end of the first vote and the beginning of the second book. There will be no speaking befor
And where was the San Jose Police department . The Police Watched and did little else. Listen to these accounts of the violence against the Trump Supporters. I was walking out with our trump sign, he grabbed my sign and started following me, saying i was a racist you literally didnt say anything to provoke them . I was, like, yeah, trump, trump. It was my bad. Followed me, spit on me i got hit with a traffic cone, got hit with a bottle of water, got punched several times, got kicked in the ass once, literally kicked in the ass. And then somebody ran into the back of my knees, dislocated my right knee, and thats why im sitting down talking to you. Lou the man who shot the video of the men being sucker punched today told my colleague, stuart varney, that the San Jose Police did nothing to stop the violence, nothing to help those assaulted by the mob. When this man in the yellow shirt was coming out, there were several officers who did not intervene when the crowd started rushing at him,
And where was the San Jose Police department . The Police Watched and did little else. Listen to these accounts of the violence against the Trump Supporters. I was walking out with our trump sign, he grabbed my sign and started following me, saying i was a racist you literally didnt say anything to provoke them . I was, like, yeah, trump, trump. It was my bad. Followed me, spit on me i got hit with a traffic cone, got hit with a bottle of water, got punched several times, got kicked in the ass once, literally kicked in the ass. And then somebody ran into the back of my knees, dislocated my right knee, and thats why im sitting down talking to you. Lou the man who shot the video of the men being sucker punched today told my colleague, stuart varney, that the San Jose Police did nothing to stop the violence, nothing to help those assaulted by the mob. When this man in the yellow shirt was coming out, there were several officers who did not intervene when the crowd started rushing at him,