Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac in broad terms, our military strategy in the middle east is part of an interagency, International Effort to sustain a conditionsbased approach designed to defeat violent extremism, two, to prevent regional dominance by iran, and, three, to ensure our allies and partners. Thank you for your support to our men and women in uniform. I appreciate the opportunity to appear here today and look forward to your questions. Thank you, gentlemen. We now move into the questions. Our two witnesses have a hard stop at noon, which means im going to be more aggressive about enforcing the fiveminute clock. Make sure we can get to as many members as possible. Im not going to ask questions. I will yield to mrs. Davis for the first set of questions, five minutes. Thanks. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And thank you to both of you, dr. Esper, and dr. Milley for joining us. I appreciate your statement and i wonder if you will just perhaps in a more refined fashion,
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.
There is a Silver Lining for beijing in the sense it releases some of the pressure. Protesters do not have to go to the street, they can vote . Bill it does. Carrie lam has said she will work with those newly elected Council Members and listen to their points of view and take that into account when she is carrying out her policies. One of the easy steps to take at this point would be to go forward with independent inquiry into some of the police action. That is something even probeijing supporters in hong kong have started calling for. That will be one easy way to show she has heard this message that the election has delivered. Capitalou mentioned the of the United States response to hong kong. Legislation went through congress and President Trump was saying he might sign it and might not. Where is it, exactly . Bill the president has 10 days to decide whether he wants to sign it or veto it. 4,hink that expires december the middle of next week or so. If he does not sign it, it becomes
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