Mr. Jeffrey is accompanied by Deputy Assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, matthew palmar. President trump announced the u. S. Would lift sanctions on turkey. Since they agreed to cease combat operations in Northern Syria. This is 3 hours 15 minutes. Committee will come to order. Without objection, will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material. We meet today to examine President Trumps decision to withdrawal from Northern Syria. Clearing the way for turkey to attack americas Syrian Kurdish partners. Its a decision i view as zab disastrous. To our witnesses, welcome to the Foreign Affairs committee. Welcome to members of the public and press and thank you to our friends from cspan who are broadcasting this important proceeding. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This committee has a long tradition of bipartisanship. We work on that every day. I think were the most Bipartisan Committee in congress. The main reason is that members on
Welcome. I want to thank you for joining us today. I am cliff may, fdd founder and president and we are pleased to have you here today joining us this event, cohosted with the center for new american security. To mark the release of Michael Gordon excellent new book degrade destroy. Because michael has had exceptional access to top u. S. Officials and military commanders and because of his extraordinary firsthand reporting from battlefields hes produced a must read book on this historic conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fdd while he was working on the book and we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Are all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase all major booksellers, online info that you here in person in the back of the room at the conclusion of todaysen events. Michael gordon currently serves as as a National Security correspondent for the wall street journal. In addition to his latest book he is the coauthor