we will bring to order the senate of armed services committee. we receive testimony on global challenges in the national security strategies to meet those threats. it is my honor to welcome our distinguished witnesses. farmers secretaries of state henry kissinger and george schulz, and the former deputy secretary of state richard armitage. your careers of service have been unbelievable and great, we are so honored to have you folks here. i want to begin by reading a brief welcome from our chairman mccain, who regretfully is unable to be here for today s hearing. i am quoting him now. with the rising global challenges and increasingly complex and competitive strategic environment, america needs leadership, wisdom, and experience that only statesman of this stature can provide. this committee and this nation thank you for your service and we are grateful for your continued voices of reason during these troubling times. we look to you for the lessons of history as we all see
mature at all for in. the number of. health care centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there in one of the health centers the other day the one family came in with their baby is a two month old baby they wanted a vaccinated there was vaccine there was everything there and stars who are seeing over one hundred children a day were able to vaccinate this child but those families have to walk far i also saw the baby unit there were nine incubate has six of which which were filled with premature babies who would not have survived unless those incubate as with their it s a wide area wide level of levels of devastation families have to walk enormous distances to be able to get the health care what we re saying is that the cumulative health care that is required of any child anywhere else in the world is not available yet in mosul. and more than half a year since its liberation the city remains strewn with corpses and warning you may find
it s concerned it s been such an emotional roller coaster of ours and for these athletes the real saw grafter months weeks years of preparation they had this glimmer of hope last week with the cast the solution that they could go to the games represent their flag their country there have them at cetera now though that s been overturned there are still legal routes appeals they could go down but of course the opening ceremony has now just finished the games are about to begin whatever legal options are available they simply won t have time now to budge them here s some reactions from those athletes many of whom were hoping to even make a debut at their first winter olympics i was hoping that cas would rule in our favor right now i don t know what to do i m disappointed but of course i won t give up on sport i ve still got a lot ahead of me i will compete and win medals for my country. until the very end we were hoping the decision would go in our favor now i feel sadness and s
saying that there was insufficient evidence that those russian athletes had been doping this was the original cast in twenty cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that s an anti-doping rule violation it was committed concerned it s been such an emotional rollercoaster of ours and for these athletes the real saw grafter months weeks years of preparation they had this glimmer of hope last week with the cast the solution that they could go to the games represent their flag their country their of them and cetera. that s been overturned there are still legal routes appeals they could go down but of course the opening ceremony has now just finished the games are about to begin whatever legal options are available they simply won t have time now to budget for them here somewhere actions from those athletes many of whom were hoping to even make a debut at their first winter olympics i have no words. i was hoping that cas would rule in our favor right
because he is a foreign affairs consultant and analyst all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate kevin let me go to you first in washington you know i read the report quite thoroughly i was quite stunned as i said in the in the introduction i ll reach of my three takeaways here the report exaggerates exaggerates perceived threats to the u.s. number two it fuses conventional and nuclear war and pushes for the development of low yield nucular weapons i mean that s quite stunning if you look at the history of arms control and by the way it s going to cost about one point three trillion dollars what were your takeaways from the report kevin in washington. well i think your title for the show is very apt i mean dan ellsberg in his new book the doomsday machine confessions of a nuclear war planner said at the time that dr strangelove was released in the theaters in the early one nine hundred sixty s. that it was no