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
Everyone as state that was part of that. Im glad that you reinforced as my conversations have the renewed commitment, the strength that is there with our Trans Clan at this time allies going forward on our mission not just in a region but worldwide to our Counter Terrorism efforts. So i must say this. This is a period of reassessment i think as we go forward. We have some lessons learned,embarking on a new mission, trying to do the best in that area and so many fronts. Theres one relationship that has always troubled me. Our relationship with pakistan. You know, pakistan played an active and by so many accounts a negative role in afghan affairs for decades. Not just recently but for decades. From the very beginning, they helped branding the name taliban. By 2005 when the taliban was reconstituting in east and South Afghanistan and importantly across the border in pakistan and pakistans isi, enter service intelligence agency, the Haqqani Network and even recently when the taliban took o