5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The committee on foreign affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of committee at any point and all members will have to submit statements, Exchange Material and questions for the record. Subject to the list of limitation of the rules, to insert something is a directive, please have your Staff Email the previously mentioned Address Or Contact committee staff. As a reminder to all members, please keep your Video Function on at all times. Even when you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting end on meeting themselves. Consistent with house rules, we will only mute members as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate background noise. We are now waiting to bring up the secretary. I am here, mr. Chairman. I am here. Before i make my opening remarks , mr. Secretary, thank you number one for being here. This is important given this topic into the importance of this topic into this committees constituti
The committee on foreign affairs will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any point and all members will have five day to submit statements. Extraneous material and questions for the record. Subject to the list of limitations of the rules, to insert into something into the record please have your Staff Email the previously mentioned Address Or Contact full committee staff. As as a reminder to all member, please keep your Video Function on at all times, even when youre not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. Consistent with house Rules Staff will only muted members as appropriate when theyre not under recognitionen to eliminate background noise. [inaudible] we are now waiting up the secretary. I am here, mr. Chairman. I am here. Before i make my opening remarks , mr. Secretary, thank you number one for being here. This is important given this topic into the importance of this to
Members for five minutes. It is for the purpose of questioning our witness. I recognized by seniority alternating between democrats and republicans. I will be strict in enforcing the five minute time limit for questions. I do not want members to ask questions for five minutes and then not leave the secondary time to respond. When addressing her question, keep in mind that the five minutes is for questions and answers. I will start by recognizing myself. You mentioned an area of concern i know is shared by all. The status of american citizens, great hard green card holders and those who are to be evacuated. Can you tell us how many of them remain in the country and it is our plan to facilitate their evacuation . Thank you. As of the end of last week, we had about 100 american citizens in afghanistan who had told us they wish to leave the country. I want to emphasize this is a snapshot in time. It is a moving picture. Stepping back, to know precisely at any given moment in time how many
The committee on foreign affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of committee at any point and all members will have to submit statements, Exchange Material and questions for the record. Subject to the list of limitation of the rules, to insert something is a directive, please have your Staff Email the previously mentioned Address Or Contact committee staff. As a reminder to all members, please keep your Video Function on at all times. Even when you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting end on meeting themselves. Consistent with house rules, we will only mute members as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate background noise. We are now waiting to bring up the secretary. I am here, mr. Chairman. I am here. Before i make my opening remarks , mr. Secretary, thank you number one for being here. This is important given this topic into the importance of this topic into this committees constitutional responsibi
Associates including a Saudi Arabian Diplomat And Government employee were in contact with the planes Hijackers and had other complexes to other Terrorist Plots against our country but the report claims it shows no clear evidence that the saudi government itself was directly complicit in the attacks but you know the families of 9 11 victims, they dont buy a word of that. Alex hogan live here in new York City with the latest. Alex. Reporter hi, eric. The White House releasing this formerly classified Report Yesterday Afternoon two decades after 9 11. Familiar his of the victims said that unless the administration declared and declassified the information, they didnt want President Biden commemorating the events commemorating those killed in terror attacks. Biden did so by executive order. Loved ones and Family Members who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia thanking the president , releasing a statement saying in part it provides a blueprint for how alqaida o