that your office and your staff provide such materials to the committee when requested? i will. and five, do you agree to inform and fully brief to the fullest extent possible all members of the committee of intelligence activities and covert action rather than only the chair and the vice chairman? i do. thank you very much. we ll now proceed to your opening statement, miss haspel. the floor is yours. thank you, mr. chairman. chairman burr, vice chairman warner and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i want to thank senators chambliss and bahy for the kind words and support and take a moment to recognize a few guests who have come today, including principle deputy director of national intelligence and my good friend
airbase in japan where we believe the plane carrying those detainees has landed at least momentarily. bill neely is live for us in the region. and, bill, talk us through some of the international you re in london actually but talk us through some of the international fallout for example the south koreans talking about this, celebrating the release of these detainees. reporter: yes, they say it s good news as far as the summit is concerned, another confidence-building measure like we ve seen really since kim jong-un s new year s speech. south korea is also calling for the release of six of its citizens who are being held in north korean jails. and, of course, japan zblrs bill, i know i just tossed to you and i apps i have to interrupt you because back at home gina haspel has begun her opening statements. we want to listen in to that. the kind words and spup it would like to take just a moment to recognize a few guests who have come today, including
feeling pretty good about what happened last night. he thinks that the military did a terrific job while one cruise missile fell into the sea, 59 of the 59 remaining hit their marks and he is facing praising the military to his staff and his friends that they performed marvelously here. and he s happy to see you in the most part with the international reaction is, he does know there are a couple of numbers in congress saying he should ve come today, but he feels like he s an absolute firm ground here because as he pointed out last night this was a matter of urgent national security for the united states because i m told the president believes that if bashar al-assad was able to do this and not suffer some consequent support this, that would normalize, at least in the area of the world, the use of chemical weapons and therefore might come back to bite the united states at one point if somebody decided, well, if bashar al-assad can use weber chemical weapons, will use the weapons.
would ask this of him. let kim go. but if you have to put someone in jail i volunteer to go. let me go. lock me up. if you think that s how freedom is best served. because, folks, i am willing to spend the next eight years in the white house leading this country but i want you to know i m willing to spend the next eight years in jail but i m not willing to spend one day under the tyranny of people who believe they can take our freedom and conscience away. [ applause ] we have all come today for the purpose of seeing kim davis free. earlier today, a judge has at
him. let kim go. but if you have to put someone in jail, i volunteer to go. let me go. lock me up if you think that s how freedom is best served because, folks, i am willing to spend the next eight years in the white house leading this country but i want you to know, i m willing to spend the next eight years in jail but i m not willing to spend one day under the tyranny of people who believe they can take our freedom and conscience away. we have all come today for the purpose of seeing kim davis free. earlier today, a judge has at