I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important
A question from adrian holeman question pretty obvious will donald trump be eventually removed from office go ahead when as we go into the new year the impeachment saga continues go ahead marcus. Personally i find it very difficult to believe it or that donald trump will be removed from office i think that republicans are very unlikely so for his impeachment its more likely if anything donald trump could resign well none the less i think the whole trunk will go into the twentys when see as president s i think he finds the nov 28th once the president ial election and i believe. A little late in the american. Dream him down to impeach him will fail you know you get to ok i think thats a given here and its going to be in peril as he interesting question more up your alley here is mccrone the french president realigning with your regime interesting question well i dont think so i think we shouldnt be reading too much into he is statement about the brain death of need toll so dont take the
Hello and welcome to cross talk or all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle on this edition of 3 questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. Across talking fan mail im joined by my guest robert bridge hes an r. T. Website writer we also have dimitri he is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos hes the editor of politics 1st magazine or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us were not going to be able to answer them all but ill get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus 1st of this year ok we have a question from adrian home in question pretty obvious will donald trump be eventually removed from office go ahead well as we go into the new year the impeachment saga continues go ahead marcus. Personally i find it very difficult to belie
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important
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,