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I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow america...

Values, the kurds themselves, are the largest minority population in the world. Without a country themselves. Therefore, the same question would be posed for them. Not sure it would be long. The message the Committee Received from the government is that they desperately need equipment, what is the government response for that . Can i throw it back at you and ask what specifically they requested . Machine guns, we saw that. They wanted armored vehicles, things like that to assist them. Request to the uk government at that time . The defense secretary visited recently, and certainly, as has been...

Washington journal continues. Host we are back with congressman walter jones, republican of North Carolina from the Armed Services committee. What is your assessment of the isis strategy so far . Is it working . Guest let me say that one of the worst mistakes i made since i have been in congress was too vote to pass the aumf, authorization of military force, to give president bush the authority to go into iraq. Host in 2002 . Isst yes, maam, the reason we have a constitutional responsibility and i do not think we should commit our young men and women to war unless we debated on the floor of th...

The department of Homeland Security to get us to march. That is, in my judgment, a very bad idea for Homeland Security. Because, during that period of a c. R. We cannot engage in new starts. Weve got some Homeland Security priorities that need to be funded now. For example, were back in a president ial election cycle. I cannot hire new secret Service Agents until i get an appropriations bill passed by this congress. Not another c. R. For a couple of months. I cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention capability in texas with another c. R. That gets me to march. I need the help of congress...

I want to thank the panelists. I think it was an interesting discussion, and look forward to having many more today. Thank you very much. And were live on capitol hill this thursday morning as this wednesday morning as the House Select Committee on benghazi will hear testimony on the 2012 attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Greg starr will appear before the committee again today. And in testimony last september for the same committee he encouraged law enforcements to give the state department extra funding to increase embassy security. Now, also testifying today we expect to hear...