Efforts in afghanistan. We will come to order. All members will have five days to submit statements to the record. Notice, we are here today to examine the lessons from americas war in afghanistan. , welcome general sopko to the Foreign Affairs committee. I look forward to learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Learning the lessons of afghanistan, but also getting some input to what we should do in the future. Afghanistanes in over the last six years have 10. Aged roughly we mourn those deaths and take them seriously. Compared to the other ,onflicts we are engaged in compared to the training deaths we suffer in our military, we cannot have the exhaustion of 10 years ago blind us to what is the operation now, and what is its cost. I know the chairman has an opening statement, but i will ,ecognize the Ranking Member then i will recognize our witness for his opening statement, and hopefully by then we will hear the chairmans st
Smith is theglas author the book the forgotten job, the story of how the United States saved the soviet union from ruin. How did you come across these . It was luck. I was asked to go through the man huffs things before after they died. In the last room i went into i found these cardboard boxes and open them up and there i found these color slides, thousands of them literally, as well as these canisters of film. The first when i picked up had had written on it, stalins funeral. I started to shake i was so excited. What were you thinking . Dr. Smith i do not think this to be real, what i was seeing. I had to have it digitized because it was 60 millimeter film which i did not have a projector. I had to wait several weeks until it was finished. When i saw it i knew was a big historical discovery. The film is silent so you will walk us through it to explain what we are looking at. First, martin man half was an avid photographer. Dr. Smith this is in the spring of 1953 and he has standing o
Perhaps we shouldnt have. I think the days of occupying nations and reconstruction with the hope that jeffersonian democracy is going to plant seeds and roots, it may have been naive. Its a very primitive country, afghanistan. Ive been there many times. So my question, as i advise the president on syria, a residual force to protect the homeland, i dont think we can afford to stay in these countries forever and occupy them forever. I think the most important thing we can do is to have a residual force of some sort to take out terrorist threats to the homeland in a counterterrorism mission. Maybe we lost sight of what our mission was in the first place, and so i guess and i know youre not here to report on policy, per se, but id like your comments on dha, and to that end, what programs have been most effective at counterterrorism in that mission . Congressman, i think thats an excellent question, and i can bring you up to the line to policy. And i leave the policy for you. You have to re
Of a glistening San Francisco skyline. Doerun is tracking the storm. That shot looking at Treasure Island is about to get some rain on it. I want to stop it on the last image. There is your organized line a better rain that is sweeping across the bay area. It has been bringing moderate rain into much of the north bay over the cast of the last 30 minutes. You can see the drive over to 116 into one country. If we follow this to the south, i want you to see the band sitting at the city right there. This is all going from the southwest up to the northeast and progressively moving east as it does that. Plan on the rain to pick up in intensity for the city. That will work its way across the east bay. We will stay in a good band of rain overnight. I will be back with what that means for tomorrow coming up. Back to you. This just in. That suspect accused of running over the barber in antioch last week is in custody. She just turned herself in. Tonight Ruby Delgadillo accompanied by her lawyer
Reauthorization act of 2018. In this portion of the hearing, Committee Members hear testimony from deputy faa administrator, among others. From september this runs about 3 1 2 hours. Good morning. I want to thank the witnesses for joining the hearing on the implementation of faa authorization act of 2018. One year ago this committee wrote comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation to raise the bar on aviation safety, improve the flying experience for the flying public, better prepare and diversify the aviation workforce and foster innovation in the usair space. Todays hearing is a critical milestone in the subcommittees oversight work to ensure the timely implementation of the law in accordance with our intent and to address new challenges. Although the faa has made some progress on fulfilling the laws directives, ongoing implementation delays threaten the important work needed to advance u. S. Aviation and aerospace and maintain our global leadership. Our first panel of witnesses are dan el