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Sort of protect that recovery and stay that course by keeping this consistency here. its also a name thats probably not going to get a lot of opposition in the senate, though who knows. everything seems to be able to create some opposition in the senate from republicans. but powell has had bipartisan support in the past. so he is someone that should be able to withstand a confirmation process. he is not necessarily the number one pick by the more progressive wing of the democratic party, who wan...

So this meeting was part of his confirmation process. what do you believe should be the outcome of this? >> i was so happy to get the support of president simpson and really it feels like the senate as a whole. i think the outcome should be that his nomination is withdrawn. i dont want this man serving as surgeon general. he is the surgeon general until his confirmation, which could either take place this session, which doesnt begin until january, or even next year, which doesnt begin until marc...

In place. where is this headed, and how important do you think a supreme court ruling will be in ultimately determining the bigger future of this law? >> yeah, i absolutely think that the supreme court needs to, obviously, revisit the more broad law and not the more limited ruling that they made. because its unfair. it goes against the tradition of the court. i know that when the last three supreme court justices spoke and testified when they were going through their confirmation process, they s...

These reforms should be the one to do it. they keep saying, if any of these reforms are going to take place it really should come were the court itself, something that the justices themselves embrace. now, of course, the justices havent wanted to change anything. if they wanted to, they could have done it by now. so i am not expecting sweeping recommendations coming out of this today. certainly, we dont know, but i think at most perhaps there might be recommendations to change the way the confir...

Saying, the problem with american politics is that one of the parties is crazy. that is provably true. when youre dealing with crazy, you dont know whats going to happen. you never know whats going to happen. >> and the consequences of this one are real, and they are serious, and it will affect people at home and in their pocketbook. i appreciate youre covering it tonight. have yourself a good show tonight lawrence. >> thank you. ali thank you. back in the, day when i was running the staff proce...

Different orders. do you feel you had the opportunity to make your alleged vice very clear? >> i do, chairman. as ive said before, i always keep my advice to the president confidential, but i am very much satisfied that we had a thorough policy review and i believe that all of the parties had an opportunity to provide input and that input was received. >> thank you very much. senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it was two weeks ago that we had a closed, classified hearing. we had general miller...

Different quarters. do you feel that you have the opportunity to make your advice very clear? >> i do, chairman. and as ive said before, i always keep my advice to the president confidential. but i am very much satisfied that we had a thorough policy review and i believe that all of the parties had an opportunity to provide input and that input was received. >> thank you very much. senator inhofe? >> thank you, mr. chairman. it was two weeks ago that we had a closed, classified hearing. we had g...

And he refused advice from many different quarters. do you feel that you had the opportunity to make your advice very clear? >> i do, chairman. as ive said before, i always keep my advice to the president confidential but i am very much satisfied that we had a thorough policy review and i believe that all of the parties had an opportunity to provide input and that input was received. >> thank you very much. senator inhoff. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it was two weeks ago that we had a closed cla...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agree...