This was the europe of 1941. The nazi blitzkrieg had overwhelmed france, holland, belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining death and destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective, to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their bloody conquest of china. Only one of the worlds major powers was still not at war. The United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941, and the statue of liberty towered serenely over new york harbor. As if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon in new york, Early Morning in hawaii. And another great harbor where American Warships were at dockside or anchored. Planes with cold engines stood idle at nearby hickam field, when suddenly, without warning [ sound of explosions ] [ sounds of plane engines an
You episodes four through eight. They cover u. S. Involvement and world war ii, from the pearl harbor attack through the surrender of japan. Each of these is about 30 minutes. They originally aired on the u. S. Army big pitcher television series. This was the europe of 1941. Nazi blitz, had overwhelm fronts, holland belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective to defeat an opposing british army and dominate fall north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their conflict with china. Only one of the worlds major powers, was still not at war. The United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941. The statue of liberty towered certainly over the new york harbor. As if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon york Early Morning and why, and anoth
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
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,
And meeting with angry democrats. Engaged in nothing. And an agreement to push out the kurds hailed by the president. Great day for the kurds. Its really a great day for civil ag civilization. What we have done to the kurds will have a blood stain in history. And now here who ran syria policy for trump. And also the signature race. To have a plan for everything except this. Ill talk to maher buttigieg who had his aggressive debate yet. Join me for insight are dan balz, danielle plet ka, and Joshua Johnson of the daily b. We welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, longest running show in history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. This week we saw President Trump test the limit of his presidency gambling how much the public, the party and the world can stand at home. How much the public is ill with go to believe. Shortly after the staff said yes held back aid as part of quid pea q2, he had to revise his remarks saying there absolutel