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Understand that its not inappropriate for the united states of america to reassure a competitor or enemy were got going to attack them, we dont have any escalation out of control, right? we definitely need those answers. when i talked to this person of what mark es pechlt r is thinking, this all started in october, we dont want a flash point. >> youre talking about secretary esper. did this person have anything to say about general milley? >> this was d.o.d. i dont know about that but they confi...

This as is standard practice. there has been no denial from the pentagon or from milleys office. i want to read you part of the statement that mill weys spokesman put out yesterday. this is colonel dave butler. he says, milleys calls with the chinese and others in october and january were in keeping with these duties and responsibilities, conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability. all calls from the chairman to his counterparts, including those reported so in the book, are s...

Of china and the indo-pacific region is causing all of us, the international community, not just the united states to make sure were focussed appropriately on that behavior and on making sure, as i mention in my opening statement that we are all not only committed but helping to further what we call a free and open indo-pacific. >> defense minister said the situation in indo-pacific was deter deteriorating. does u.s. dod agree with that? >> we share the concerns that the minister has. >> we have...

Return to d.c. he said hes in mara lag bow and might not come back. he comes back for january 6th and after bannon says it was the moment of reckoning. how much blame do you think bannon bears for what happened that day? >> well, you know, erin, this whole book and all the revelations youve been covering here in the last half an hour are just stunning. ultimately, the guy who has to bear the blunrunt of this is dod trump and those who cooperated with him, shame on them. thats why im in support o...

Your notification that you intended to restart foreign assistance is deeply, deeply concerning. i suspect theres other members of this committee that are going to speak to that. thats going to be heavy lift for you. on this security front, the united states spent over $80 billion on afghan security forces. many of these funds bypassed the oversight of the state department and this committee. we now see the consequences of a department of defense that operating security cooperation on its own. th...

Attaches against other people. >> mr. secretary, in the weeks before the fall of kabul, i was on the phone with very high ranking officials at state, dod white house trying to save live. we had americans that couldnt get out. we had interpreters that couldnt get through the perimeter of the taliban. they are left behind. they will be executed. they do have a bulls eye on their back. we had four buses of afghan girls, organs at the american university school of music that sat there for 17 hours w...

Blinken and how much he puts down everything he got wrong from minute one. this is from march of this year, on tony blinken said well responsibly end the conflict. didnt do that. remove our troops from harms way. didnt do that. to insure that afghanistan can never again become a haven for terrorists which of course it is more of a haven than it was before. he said nothing honest and truthful and straight forward. continuing to this day, harris, because there are still americans, there are still ...

Well know, is to defend this country. and i take that very, very seriously. and were going to stay focussed on that, whether it is a threat from national terrorists, whether its a threat from, you know, somewhere else, a near peer competitor, our job is to make sure that we keep the homeland safe and we protect our interests around the globe. >> how do the authorities balance those foreign threats with the very real domestic threats that the american people are facing right now? >> well, wolf, t...

To allow humanitarian assistance to get the people who so desperately needed. that will be the basis upon which we engage in any taliban led government whether its the interim government whether its the interim government or one named in the days and weeks ahead. i government or one named in the days and weeks ahead.— and weeks ahead. i now yield for questions- _ and weeks ahead. i now yield for questions- mr — and weeks ahead. i now yield for questions. mr secretary, - and weeks ahead. i no...

Equipment that was left behind incluing in the hands of the afghan forces that fell to the taliban according to my colleagues at dod will be inoperable or will soon be maintained inoperable. its not good of strategic value to threaten us or their neighbors or given the taliban uniforms and guns and some other equipment that is now in their hands. >> i now recognize representative chris smith of new jersey, the ranking member of the subcommittee of african global ball health and alliance for five...