It would limit our ability to train, advise and assist, yes, sir. Okay. Mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Can you talk to us in general about the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan and the various groups that are involved there . I guess related to that is the conversation about reconciliation talks between the taliban and afghan government. First of all, what hopes do you have for that . Second of all, no matter what comes out of that, there will always be groups on both sides of the border that arent part of it. Whats sort of your tell us a little bit about the groups who might be involved, who might be reconcilable who we might still have to fight and how the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan factors into those negotiations . Thanks for the question. As you know, very conflicted between pakistan and afghanistan. I do try to maintain ties with pakistan. I talk to general sharif probably once a week. I try to get to pakistan once a month. We really work hard t
Mechanized unit capability. These guys have got multiple rocket launch systems and a regular resupply of ammunition coming from iran. These guys have got kurds forces come partcompartmented intelligence within their headquarters that are linking them to the kurds force Drone Operations overhead. Iranian air support potentially or iraqi air support thats being facilitied by the iranians in some ways. Theyre wellarmed networked into the ministry of interior and some of the other key Iraqi Security headquarters. Theyre transnational, linked to other aspects of the axis of resistance. So this is not these are people who will undermine your strategic independence going forward. Luckily, bringing us around to the solution at the end i think a lot of the moderate shiite leadership in iraq recognize that, whether theyre in the political sphere, whether theyre military men or whether theyre in the religious sphere. Iraqi military does not like militia. It never did. It doesnt like, i think, hav
Cost. When federal money is involved state governments do not spend their money as efficiently. Host we are out of time. Chris edwards with the cato institute. Robert with the brookings institute. Thank you. That does it for todays washington journal. We will be that you tomorrow morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] president gets briefed by german chancellor Angela Merkel about a scheduled summit wednesday to try to revive a peace plan for easter ukraine. Germany, france, russia and ukraine will take part. They will talk with reporters. Among the issues, Army Fighters opposing russian backed separatists. Live coverage starts at 11 40. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine . We are taking your comments. Here are a couple of the more than 300 comments. Sue says putin is taking advantage of a weak adminis
But we also believe we are not doing them a disservice. We are doing them a service. They may be sometimes uncomfortable with what we say, but all of us are pushing in the same direction and that is for the betterment of the people of the country concerned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] we are looking for them to have the full protections the law provides for. Thank you. Just one last question. What do you think of the escalation . Thank you very much for that question. The office which i lead has a Monitoring Mission in ukraine that has been in place really almost since the crisis. Since the crisis began in the eastern part of the country. We have periodic reports we make available to the international community, and yes we discuss ukraine with a large number of countries. Nationally it is of great concern to the international community. This is a very serious crisis. And we have seen, of course even though we have, all of us have cause for further complianc
You mentioned this earlier, but i think another issue for this generation is the barrier to entry for running for office or participating in the elected political life. And you know, from my experience this generation looks at life differently than others, so running for office or the hill may not be the best way to participate in service. I would be interested to hear what you have to say. What are the Biggest Barriers to participate in politics and why are young people not doing it more . People in Political Office often times today we look at them bickering over things that they dont think matter that the issues are affecting us or doing something without Climate Change making sure they have healthcare for all. This is an issue that young people are are interested in but then we dont see that happening in congress. We dont hear about corporate interest or the revolving door happening between the big finance Financial Firms and the u. S. Government. And we think why would i want to b