U. S. Defense officials after nine months of training and equipping Syrian Rebels to fight eyes as they have only four or five rebels on the battlefield with a few dozen more on the way. Here the chair the of the Senate Armed Services committee is john mccain, the Ranking Member zachary. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets to receive testimony on the United States strategy of military operations counter Islamic State of iraq or isil. I want to thank the witnesses under secretary wormuth and general austin for appearing before us today and their continued service to our nation. Its been one year since president obama spoke to the nation about the threat posed by isil and increased to u. S. Military operations against us. Many of us believe the goal of the present laid out quote to degrade and ultimately destroy isil is right. Many of us agree the military strategy that seeks to empower local horses and i dashed to combat isil. With training equipment assistance in their power one
Lessig. A conversation with carter and a discussion of Health Topics from around the world. Saturday night at 11, former vp Dick Cheney Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Deputy Assistant of state on their book exceptional which looks at form policy. On cspan three, saturday starting at noon, we are live from georgia for a commemoration a commemoration of the 13000 Union Soldiers whod died during the civil war and the Confederate Military prison camp questions will be taken before and after the ceremony by phone, facebook and twitter. Sunday out for on real america, Pope John Paul ii as they address the United Nations. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Next u. S. Ambassador to the un, samantha power. She talked about the upcoming meeting in the General Assembly later this month. She answered questions about russes support of the assad regime. This is just under one hour. Today we have samantha power. This is her first visit with our dining club. Many of her predecessors have b
Believe in july, they we have the right strategy in place. On implementing the strategy. Interagency effort, across all of the departments that are involved. Secretary carter and secretary kerry have been meeting together with their senior staff to in tor and identify issues the campaign and theyre meeting foreign to focus on fighters. They are responsible for two of effort inside the strategy, denying isil safe i would like to speak the ly to those areas. Coalition has removed some of its key leaders in iraq and syria. Regained of them and partners have taken the key border town, which of isils key lines of communication and supply and pressure on its stro stronghold. When we have credible Ground Forces and support them with our air power, isil can suffer. We are working hard to build the capacity of our forces on the ground. Six trained more than brigades and provided training 13,000 personnel. We have more in the pipeline. As secretary carter said, in iraqi raining for the army has
Overarching legislation that will be rigorously enforced and provide action when a company is trying to boost the environment. Mr. Harper talks a good game on International Trade deals. He has done everything in his power to stop the authorities that exist under the north American Free trade agreement from even measuring the pollution going into the environment in canada. That is his track record. We will enforce overarching sustainable the moment legislation. We will apply it fairly and equally to everyone and canadians will know we are going to stop leaving this massive ecological debt on the backs of future generations. You asked about are costing. Not only will he move forward on pricing carbon and ensuring that we are reducing Greenhouse Gases in the responsible way, but the haseral party invested 20 billion in greener infrastructure. That is floodplains immigration in calgary and investing in clean jobs and making sure were moving toward nubile energies. We need to get our resour
More recently to retake tikrit as well as other successful engagements. On the political front, prime Prime Minister abadi continues to demonstrate the resolve necessary to confront isil and hes striving to manage what is a very difficult Political Landscape in baghdad. In syria, weve seen some opportunities emerge that we didnt envision a year ago, particularly in the northern part of the country where syrian kurds working with syrian arabs has successfully pressured isil along the turkish border. Over a year ago, the president outlined a whole strategy to degrade and ultimately defeat isil and he emphasized it would be a multiyear campaign. When secretary carter was here outlined a whole strategy to in july he outlined the nine lines of effort that comprise our strategy so i wont go over them in detail but i will emphasize that it will take more than the military campaign to be successful. We also need to dry up isils finances. We need to stop the flow of foreign fighters into iraq a