[indiscernible conversations] President Biden good afternoon, everybody. I know the press has had a long session with the team here about what we are going to be talking about today and this afternoon. ,let me just start by saying i cannot tell you how much i appreciate the three people standing next to me here for what they agreed to do to help. Particularly my best buddy, john kerry. Asking a former secretary of state to come back and do this, i know it has been a big ask. It is my fault. I was going to blame kamala as well. Vice president harris why not . [laughter] President Biden i dont think anybody knows more about the issue. And the damage that has been done by some of the executive orders from the Previous Administration. We will get to it. Today is climate day at the white house, jobs day at the whe house. We are talking about about american innovation, products, labor. We are talking about the health of our families, cleaner water, cleaner air, and the health of our communit
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Our goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications for the positions that youve respectfully been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written responses which you all will have. As youll see, mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university. He was commissioned as an infantry officer, he has a masters in National Security studies and a graduate of the Naval College of staff. Began his military career as a infantry man in the army and served in the district of col n Columbia National guard. He served with the fifth special forces group. He participated in combat operations in afghanistan and iraq. Upon retiring from the army in 2014, he worked as a defense contractor before serving as the special assistant to the president and senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security council. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for special operations and for combat
Americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to today by your television provider. The Senate Intelligence committee met to consider the nomination of Christopher Miller to be the director of the National Counterterrorism center in peter to be the general counsel to the office of the director of National Intelligence. The two nominees were asked about Russian Election interference, interrogation tactics, the fisa application process and whistleblower protections. They were also questioned related to the recent deployment of federal Law Enforcement agents in u. S. Cities experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional