House will be in order. This year cspan celebrates 45 years of covering Congress Like no other. Since 1979 weve been your primary source for capitol hill. Providing balance unfiltered coverage of government. Taking you to where the policies debated and decided all with the support of americas cable companies. Cspan what 45 years and counting, powered by cable. Now to talk about oversight of the u. S. Military aid to ukraine, is the Inspector General of the Defense Department robert, rob thanks for reading in. Good morning it is a pleasure to be here. So lets just start if you can explain the role of an Inspector General for the Defense Department. B sure. Happy to Inspector General all over the federal government, theres 75 of them within the Statutory Group under the Inspector General act and basically, t we do independent oversight over the programs, operations and personnel of the department and agencies we oversee. So basically that means two types of thing. One problematic so adut
Look quite attractive if there, of course , when the civil war ends, the country will unite and eventually it will be possible to conduct some kind of activity, but the chinese are trying to create a position there in advance. We forgot about this topic of the death of russian peacekeepers during the karabakh operation, and this is a very important topic, russia has always reacted very nervously to such things, now even an official statement has not been made, yes, and that is why i think that this precisely in the context of the agreements that took place, that is, the russians really need it, they really need it, and they do not want to quarrel, and they will swallow the cases and simply pretend that Nothing Happened , that is, it looks like this. By the way, i wanted to ask what the meetings that were held in the presidency of zelensky hmm what happened in todays meeting with the head of the sudanese general and spoke absolutely frankly that they talked about wagner, it was said off
Did not change anything, it must be said well, so far, yes, so far, that is what we think. I think that you had some conversations with positively contribute, but there were no conversations with the opponents, there were no conversations with the democrats, er, there were just with the democrats although it was not necessary to burn the representatives, take me off the topic, but the main thing is that the opponents are precisely among this group, which influences the majority of their leader, when they voted for him, in principle, they hung him in this state, so he no longer makes these decisions himself, but his statements well, they are quite sharp, actually. And why did it happen . Well, because i consider it a diplomatic underdevelopment, it was not possible to make a proposal for the second speech in nine months before the two chambers of the congress , uh, expecting a negative answer. But at least agree that it would not become public this is not a lack of work, in fact, it is
Good to see all of you again and i last saw you i think june one for the announcement of the 11th president ial drawdown package. As we have made clear, we are committed to continued Security Assistance for ukraine as they stand up to russias unprovoked invasion. President biden directed the 18th drawdown of an additional 1 billion in weapons and equipment from the department of defense inventories. This the largest single drawdown of u. S. Arms and equipment utilizing this authority to date stop it provides a significant amount of additional ammunition, weapons and equipment, the types of with the ukrainian people are using effectively to defend their country stop the capabilities this package include the following, additional ammunition for highend mobility rocket systems , 75,000 rounds of 155 millimeter artillery, 2100 20 millimeter systems and 20,000 rounds of associated mortar ammunition coming munitions for National Advanced surface to air systems, 1000 javelin systems and hundr
Joining us now is dr. Colin kah who will openl with a statement which highlights the next round of Security Assistance for you rain under the president ial drawdown authority. We will then open it up to the room and the phones for q and a. We will do our best to get around the room today. Dr. Kahl good afternoon, its good to see all of you again and i last saw you i think june one for the announcement of the 11th president ial drawdown package. As we have made clear, we are committed to continued Security Assistance for ukraine as they stand up to russias unprovoked invasion. President biden directed the 18th drawdown of an additional 1 billion in weapons and equipment from the department of defense inventories. This the largest single drawdown of u. S. Arms and equipment utilizing this authority to date stop it provides a significant amount of additional ammunition, weapons and equipment, the types of with the ukrainian people are using effectively to defend their country stop the cap