We are going to hopefully move pretty quickly through Opening Statements because were going to be called to the floor before too long for a long series of votes, and i really want to hear our witnesses. You know, the American People often skeptical of what is dash of what this government do for them, and i am just, i feel so proud and so lucky to be on the subcommittee because the kinds of things were talking about today are about saving lives. Were actually going to make a difference in the lives of every day americans. I appreciate so much our witnesses for being here today. Were going to consider seven bills that a protecting consumers, and yes, saving lives. This subcommittees vice chair, for example, tony cardenas, introduced the safe sleep act of 2019 which would ban inclined sleep products. You know, i wrote to the chairman of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, chairman burkle, and people asking to recall this rock and play which gracefully she did. But there are other inc
States have a good offensive policy. I think it was admiral rogers not that long ago within the last few months said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ed a inad infinitum in classified settings for the entire 10 years i was on the intelligence community. We could never get consensus to move to the next place what that cyber offensive is. As a personal note i saw the administration say they will make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. Candidly, im not too excited about whats going to be. We havent crossed that threshold to bring everybody in this room to deal with this problem. Long answer to your question i dont believe they can go extra territorial to what they perceive is a threat at that point. Thank you so much. Thank you if we can give a hand to the speaks. You can see how we can take many hours talking about that. We will roll into the next panel capa
So first up is the honorable juan zarate. My good friend. First ever assistant secretary of the finance. He served as Deputy Assistant to the president and deputy combatting terrorism. His phenomenal book treasuries war discovers the new economic era of war far. So thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks to all of you for coming. This is a wonderful turnout and wonderful event. I want to thank the hudson institute. Mark dube wits. Thank you for shepherding the authors in the production of this very important piece of work i think. I would commend all of you in the room and those watching online to pick it up and to read it. The contribution, at least from the other authors are incredibly important. And im honored to be here today, especially with steve and mike to discuss these issues. I want to thank sam, too. Because she gave me an opportunity to write more about some of the details i explored at the tail end of my that i think are critical as we look forward. I want to discuss with y
Okay. It is a small reprocessing facility and we wont play that game. So i dont want to be reassuring because when i talk to a Nuclear Engineer and they tell me that Nuclear Plant is perfectly safe i get nervous. There are things that can go wrong. There are things that iran could try. But we have spent years to negotiate this agreement to make sure if they try, we will catch them. And the chairman and people know this very well, the framework for north korea was four pages long. The agreement that george w. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and john bolton negotiated with the North Koreans in 2005 for denuclearization with no provisions at all was five pages long. The treaty of mosque ow between bush and putin was three pages long. Had no verification provisions and got 71 votes in the senate, all right. This is over 100 pages long. It is like no other nonproliferation agreement ever negotiated and signed. It pails only in compare an to the most detailed arms agreements with the soviet union a
Credibility and accountability and will tip to do so. Do you have another question. Im going to make a quick note on that. And see if dan agrees. Afghanistan is going from a fairly corrupt patronage system to a system which will be professional, transparent and noncorrupt. That is a long hard road to travel. And if president ghani moves too fast he will break his politics. And he will cause so many groups to be disgruntled with him and organize against him. So we have to be patient and recognize that this kind of transition is very difficult. Hes got to be on that road he has to be convincing of the afghan people, but we have to give him a little slack. Because if he moves too fast and breaks his politics and we lose the government, then we lose the possibility of moving to a professional, transparent and nonrupt system and go back to the old afghanistan and that is not good for anybody. Sorry. And i absolutely concur with that. And i guess finally the last question on reconciliation a