[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come back to order. I will now begin a period of fiveminute questions when the i want to ask you both about the questions you are asked by my colleagues in the minority. First if i could ask you ms. Williams and colonel vindm vindman, you are asked a series of questions for the Ranking Member of the outset, were you aware of the fact and then there was a recitation of information about burisma, the bidens, is it fair to say you have no firsthand knowledge of any of the matters asked . That is correct. That is correct. Ms. Williams you are also asked a series of questions about the schedule and if he couldve made then operation and was a president traveling in the trip to canada, lets be clear about something. The president you were instructed had told the Vice President not to go before you freeze even knew the date of the inauguration . Is that correct. That is correct. At the time he was told not to go, there was
Weve already been directed to use that model. We now have to go to the court to access the data. Is the government no longer collecting located . The data continues to be provided to us. Now to access the data we have to go to the court to get permission to access the data. Why continue to gather the data is both administration and the and i dont think this is the best approach to . Guess im confused because i dont think ive heard the president or the di said access to the data is not a value. I think what ive heard is the question gets to be who should hold the data it the president directed in his remarks will continue to implement the program right now while Congress Works to how well make longterm changes. We will do that on a 90 day interval. So every 90 days we have to go back and ask for continued permission. One last comment. I know amount of time. If the administration believes, and understand that they do, that the better model is to go to a paradigm where Companies Hold onto
An element, a memoir. Colonel mansoor is a professor at ohio state. He was executive officer to general petraeus. He has a ph. D and holds the Raymond Mason chair and military history at ohio state. Happy to have you. After colonel mansoor to this presentation we will have joel rayburn, a long front of the American Foundation who was sort of produced some responses to what colonel mansoor says. Is writing an opera study of the iraq war for the u. S. Army. Hes also studying for his ph. D at texas a m university. We are really pleased that both of you here so welcome to both of you. Colonel mansoor will give his presentation at the podium now. Thank you. Thank you, peter, for that kind introduction, and thank you all for coming today. I really appreciate the new America Foundation sponsoring this talk. I was not going to write this book. I retired from military in 2008, and although i knew that the restored to be told, i was going to let it take some time to digest and develop. And i was
Political years, president ial election years, we have ever seen and may ever see in our lifetime. Its absolutely unbelievable. You have Bernie Sanders, a socialist who joined the Democratic Party for the purpose of running for president , whos giving Hillary Clinton whos been active at this business now for at least 24 years, the run of her life. Hes going to win another victory tonight. On the republican side, everybody who represented the old orders gone. You have as the two major contenders ted cruz who a year ago was the most disliked member of the u. S. Senate and now may be their only hope to stop the other guy donald trump who nobody would have thought a year ago would be where he is and then tonight wisconsin i think gave ted cruz an enormous victory. We should not underestimate how big of a victory this is for ted cruz. Id agree with that and also add this. The two times that ted cruz really needed a win, i would argue the first state, iowa, he needed that state, he got it. H
Political years, president ial election years, we have ever seen and may ever see in our lifetime. Its absolutely unbelievable. You have Bernie Sanders, a socialist who joined the Democratic Party for the purpose of running for president , whos giving Hillary Clinton whos been active at this business now for at least 24 years, the run of her life. Hes going to win another victory tonight. On the republican side, everybody who represented the old orders gone. You have as the two major contenders ted cruz who a year ago was the most disliked member of the u. S. Senate and now may be their only hope to stop the other guy donald trump who nobody would have thought a year ago would be where he is and then tonight wisconsin i think gave ted cruz an enormous victory. We should not underestimate how big of a victory this is for ted cruz. Id agree with that and also add this. The two times that ted cruz really needed a win, i would argue the first state, iowa, he needed that state, he got it. H