I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
Morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and i wro
Was a great introduction from an earlier panel so for me this is a real honor and a personal privilege to introduce our gas ambassador throughout her career she has really represented the best of the values that we promote at the womens foreignpolicy group. We all know her from her public life in the Clinton Administration seat she served as one of the youngest secretary of state ever. And in the national then the National Security advisor. In her terrific new book. She gives a clear eyed insight into these and other top National Security moments. Susan was in the room at the table and the product crosshairs of a mobile not justn policy discussion but hert justn personal story which is just as fascinating and captivating as the situation room. She sums it up best to share what i have learned along the way the importance of doing your best picking yourself up and dusting yourself off and driving down the court to maintain grace under fire. That susan. [applause]. There is no one better
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The new pickup truck that could change the Auto Industry and what went wrong during the big reveal. And more than just a win. The postme ancemt th got this Football Team so excited. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with a possible new time line for the impeachment investigation after two weeks of testimony on capitol hill. As democrats move forward, abc news has learned talks are under way concerning a likely impeachment trial in the senate. The last scheduled hearing in the house featured blunt accounts from two career diplomats who are frustrated by the administrations campaign to pressure ukraine. One of them delivered a stark warning about russia and how its already targeting the 2020 election. Abcs Elizabeth Hur joins us with the new details. Elizabeth, good morning. Reporter kenneth and janai, good morning. After nearly 40 hours of public hearings, democrats say they are preparing to move forward and republicans are conceding a trial cannot be avo