large-scale mobilization then and are not ready now vadym skibytskyi deputy head of the general directorate of intelligencef the ministry of defense of ukraine, ihor romanenko, a military expert , a retired lieutenant general, is in direct contact with us and is already playing good morning we congratulate you, we hope that the buttons will work, we hope for your opinion, here are these problems with mobilization that vadym skibytskyi talks about . i don't want to be prepared, but i don't see any other way to achieve at least some meager victories . we know that in a year, the strategic tasks that he formulated personally before the start of this war have not been achieved, and therefore during the speech to he needs to formulate and explain to his deep-seated people what is happening and where they have come and reached on this path a year ago, considering that they also know that we expect the reinforcement of armored vehicles that was announced, and this and armored vehicles and tanks separately from training is already happening in the near future sometimes, let's say in the month of march, all this du

instead , it is planned that his position will be replaced by a wing of budanov, a general who currently heads the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine, although the arkhamian said that all this will take place a little later because rammstein is ahead and this is a very important important meeting that should take place on february 14 and before that there is no need to touch varshikov how do you assess the activity of varshikov and in the context of what is happening, does the ministry of defense of ukraine need to resort to personnel changes now, well, it is obvious that there are two problems, one problem. i believe that the ministry of defense did not work effectively in terms of communication in the situation when there were accusations in corruption a-a i think that it was necessary to show less emotionality and more er, nevertheless, to provide the relevant structures with the opportunity to deal with those processes that are corrupt, the second problem is that really no preventive measures were taken to prevent those corruptions, obviously corrupt practices that were admitted , in any ca

stations of the temporarily occupied peninsula, after which the head of the main intelligence directorate of ukraine , major generalylo budanov, addressed the residents of the donbas autonomous republic of crimea and all southern ukrainians, let us return home, we will find every traitor. to ukraine, even if they were not hiding today as a patriot, the time is right, the time has come, wait, we are going, we tried to lie on the bottom, it did not work, the security service exposed two enemy accomplices in an estuary of donetsk region the perpetrators turned out to be former officials of ukrzaliznytsia. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the men voluntarily supported the aggressor and then joined the occupation administration . one of the collaborators headed the dorozhne electromechanical workshops, the other became his subordinate and performed the functions of the chief engineer. personnel of weapons and ammunition to the eastern front, for this they coordinated the work in the hotbed areas and after the release of the ilovaisk estuary, the traitors tried to avoid justice. however, they were detained by

into a ton of his weapons. few people are more aware of this in the tenant general jack shanahan as director of the pentagon joint artificial intelligence center. it was jack's job to make sure the u. s. military was taking a i seriously. now retired. he can speak more freely. is there anything about the coming age of i autonomous weapons that keeps you up a night. the idea of weapons being released off of autonomy systems that do not have a human in decision making process anywhere. no commander, i ever know would be satisfied with an autonomy weapon system that was making life and that's decisions without a human involved somewhere. what i'm concerned about does every country do the same thing? if, if, if not, then we're in a, i race to the bottom. there are plenty of people who are scared of this mckena robot feature, and they want to put a break on the development of a i to, you sympathize it all with them. so i think what we're not going to see immediately is anybody to say we just flat out band the system. we don't know enough about them . there's not enough support to be able to band them. i think we all are trying to understand

meeting, which will take place in the near future, and the head of the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense, major generall budanov, will be appointed in his place. this was decided at a meeting of the faction, saying that wartime requires the military at the head of the defense department , chaotic and priceless shelling of kherson has intensified recently, the occupiers are trying to intimidate the local population and are hitting densely populated areas and the center towns are killed by russian shells almost every day, the history of kherson residents who survive under the constant whistling of enemy shells further in the report vitaly bakumenka this is a private sector on the outskirts of kherson sometime in the first night a russian hail fell here locals are repairing the roof of a house that was damaged by the blast wave and shell debris bang bang where i'm looking out the window and here i am on the first floor you're looking out the window i'm thinking what's up there but you know how a bengal fire burns yes, it's like that, it's bright, it's bright, and it's not the first time locals say that a

of the government, mr. mykhailo mishusny, there is even a document that was released today by the general directorate intelligence the document establishes that the founder of the organization will be pjsc gazpromnafta with a stake in the authorized capital of the organization of 70%, and private security, the organization will become a center of with a share of 30 when creating an organization, the government refers to the law on the safety of facilities of the fuel and energy complex, which states that an enterprise in the industry can be granted the right to establish a private security organization. of companies, it is on them that the russian leadership will now bet on at this moment uh-uh will similar organizations be created so they will work gas uh-uh about this company about this we first heard about the private military company from gazprom, if i remember correctly, at the end of may, the beginning of june, well, in any case, somewhere at the beginning of summer, we definitely heard about them for the first time, that it would be created, and it's just very strange that they they rocked for so long, obv

the senate intelligence committee just a couple hours ago sent another letter to attorney general merrick garland and the director oftelligence frustrated in a bipartisan manner that they can't view the biden and trump classified documents. senators warner and rubio to attorney general garland wrote as of this writing, neither of you meaning garland and haynes have complied with the requests. our jurisdiction is clear as is our responsibility. the white house is in damage control mode with a new chief of staff jeff zients at the helm. ron klain is out as of yesterday. a spokesman said the theme of the investigation is cooperation. while the white house is cooperating with law enforcement, not media. i reach out every day and nobody is talking about this investigation. neil, also the "wall street journal" first reporting that fbi agents are negotiating with the legal team of former vice president mike pence to search his home in indiana and also high school office. last week he told fox news that he has and will continue to be cooperative. that will be a consensual search. a minimum amount of classified documents wer

created everything possible so that a-a the main directorate of intelligence did not become as a descendant of a-a the game of the russian a in general built from scratch and the time of creation of the military-diplomatic academy officers were recruited exclusively from the armed forces of ukraine young guys who you got the necessary preparation and further, already in our base, ukrainian intelligence was developing, and today it has achieved more success than, let's say, it was possible to imagine precisely due to the fact that there were only correctly selected personnel, but at the basis of the creation of the main the principle of both professionalism and patriotism was laid down in management. and let's say this, the implementation of really state-like things and the understanding that how to protect the state while still continuing the topic related to the beginning of hostilities in their active phase was such a strange interview of the former prime minister minister of israel natalebene but where did he talk about the fact that at the beginning of the war, putin promised him not to kill volodymyr zelenskyi, and then bennett

session, which will take place in the near future at his the head of the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense, major generaludanov, will be appointed to the place. this was decided at a meeting of the faction, saying that wartime requires military personnel at the head of the defense another sanction step against the terrorist state of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi implemented the decision of the national security and defense council regarding sanctions against the nuclear industry of the russian federation, a list of 200 legal entities subject to a 50-year term restriction was published on the president's website , including its subsidiaries companies, a number of institutes, factories, as well as a russian joint-stock company operating the organization of the zaporizhzhya npp use the nuclear industry as one of the elements of external expansion to put pressure on other states to the creation of corresponding threats to the sovereignty of other states, all this is reason enough that in the fifth year russia was under global sanctions, we are working on this with our partners, meanwhile , mor

general directorate of the savak agents organization. and gosh shah of iran was being trained by the american intelligence agency, england and the zionist regime, which networks they had contacted , they arrested the record of parviz sabeti, as described by the torturers of savak. said the shah's order was to beat around the corner. this order had been given by tavi. as a result, everyone was brought to the joint committee and tortured, even if he had read a declaration. one of his famous crimes was the torture of saidi on the 11th of khordad 49. he was arrested by savak agents after ten on the day of torture, tabeti mentions it as a specialized arm. he was martyred . what time did he escape to jail at the end of bakhtiar's government? he is an iranian-israeli american living in the state of florida . he appeared and claimed that the people of iran deserve it they don't have democracy. in yesterday's anti-revolutionary rally in los angeles , you didn't give shahdeh the slogan of democracy. the streets are gathering, bank sokhnan met with a wide reception, but on several occasions , clashes occurred among the crowd, which even azadi did

homeland defense, there is lieutenant general douglas sims of the joint chiefs of staff, general glen van herk, morgan myrrh, deputy director of national intelligence and shawn kirkpatrick at the department of defense, according to our colleague frank thorp. a lot of this comes back to the simple question, what is congress going to do about it. gary peters who chairs the homeland security committee in the senate, said there will be probing questions of senators, he's gotten high interest from his constituents wanting to know what is going on here. the white house hasn't said a whole lot, other than to say they have no indication these are extraterrestrials or aliens. that's not satisfying to a lot of senators. and jon tester, the chair of the appropriations subcommittee for defense who controls the pentagon's purse strings, said there will be hearings going forward. >> thank you so much. guys, we're going right now to that news conference and that is where secretary austin, chairman milley are talking about this very issue. let's take a listen. >> -- first shot missed, second shot hit. so, the most important thing for the american military is to pr

members of the senate intelligence committee normally review classified documents and sent a stern letter to the director of national intelligence, avril haines, and attorney generalarland last week. they wrote as of this writing neither of you have complied with these the requests citing the department of justice's ongoing investigation of both matters. our jurisdiction is clear as are our responsibilities. listen. >> when the shoe was on the other foot and i was part of an investigation into russian involvement in potentially in the trump campaign, you know, there was a special prosecutor, bob mueller. we still got access to documents, and we looked at those. >> we have an absolute right to review these documents, to make an informed judgment about what, if any, national security implications it may have had. >> reporter: a little bipartisan agreement right there. sources familiar tell fox news it's really up to the special counsel jack smith investigating the trump document case and robert hur investigating the biden document case to make a decision the on whether senators should be able to come in and view the documents in person. a source tells fox news the o

of the general staff paid for everything. it was the prototype of the structure, which is now called in russia the main intelligence directoratethe groups of the zhizhalsky expedition. science aside, they were raids by a detachment of operational intelligence into the depths of the theater of operations. three four officers as many soldiers translator five or six. escort cossacks went, in fact, to nowhere for two or three years, and the rules of conduct were worked out. reconnaissance exits have survived in the spetsnaz game to this day. many come to us with weapons and use in the family there was one valuable relic i have taken away. i can't give. just show me you said you'd return the pipe. residential's expedition was, of course, also a political task to achieve the strengthening of russia's influence in central asia, including in china , mongolia or tibet. russia needed predictable and benevolent neighbors. indeed , at this very time, but already annexed territory in russian turkestan , a grandiose construction was unfolding from 1867 to 1882, russia invests in the region.

service of ukraine, the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine and the foreign intelligence service. we will have a great and, i hope, interesting conversation with the generalutenant valery kondratyuk, and the general . i welcome you to the espresso channel. glory to ukraine , serhiy. greetings to all viewers. thank you found time for our conversation, i have many different questions for you, you will choose the depth of the answers depending on whether it is appropriate or not inappropriate to say some things, and first i will ask you if you are really the only person in ukraine who headed these three structures at different times in particular, the counterintelligence department, the main directorate of intelligence and the foreign intelligence service, because i actually think that these are different structures. and actually, it is difficult to find someone else who really was in these three positions, unequivocally in those positions, or is it true and this is true, serhiy, but in reality it is not the holding of the post that is important . and what is important was managed to do at this time in these positions to protect the state and based on counte

application of artificial intelligence in industries and organizations is on the agenda of knowledge bases . there are 14 textbooks from the academic year. the future of the director general of the textbook authoring office said the book the elementary course and eight books in the first and second high school courses will have minor and general changes, religious books, sociology, cultural identity, family population , there will be changes , there will be changes in the books of physics, chemistry, and ninth grade biology, and the improvement of the activities and organization of the content of the books in terms of adding documents of the spy nest we will make changes related to the documents of the spy nest in social studies books and books related to the subject in the second secondary school and enrich it by adding topics with media literacy content and multimedia content discussions. according to mr. bagheri, all textbooks will be equipped with smart passwords from the next academic year and students can learn the course material in a practical and workshop manner . the slow production of this product is an imported item , and annually livestock farmers consume 800

reported that the cult minister of defense oleksiy reznikov is about to be replaced by 37-year-old major general kirill budanov, head of the main intelligence directorateorruption scandal related to the theft in the purchase of food for the ukrainian army. the head of the ministry of defense dismissed one of the high-ranking officials of the department and accepted the resignation of one of his subordinates. it was an attempt to extinguish a fire that had flared up associated with public outrage over corruption kickbacks in soldier's food reznikov said he was ready to resign if volodymyr zelensky demanded it, according to david arahania reznikov can head the ministry of strategic industries of ukraine and thus way to maintain contacts with western allies. well , that is, for him, which means that he was stealing there. he needs to be given an even more corrupt ministry where he can steal more more i'm sorry just to make you understand insanity today. the situation in ukraine is that reznikov is a professional swindler, he used to be engaged in renting out housing through certain legal constructions. here he is today the minister of defense, no matter h

everything possible so that a-a the main directorate of intelligence did not become a descendant of a-a the game of russian a was built from scratch in generalnd it was there at that time when the military-diplomatic academy was created, officers were recruited exclusively from the armed forces of ukraine, young guys who received the necessary training, and then ukrainian intelligence developed in our base on the basis of a-a, and today it has achieved more success than, well, let's say this could be imagined precisely due to the fact that there were only properly selected personnel, but at the basis of the creation of the head office was laid the principle of both professionalism and patriotism. associated with the beginning of hostilities in their active phase, there was such a strange interview of the former prime minister of israel with the taliban. and where he talked about the fact that at the beginning of the war, putin promised him not to kill volodymyr zelenskyi, and more on that later informed zelenskyi and actually that this was agreed with the governments of the usa, germany and france, although several assassination attempts on

they do not have the information that the head of the main intelligence directorate of ukraine has, they do not have the information that the head of the generalff has. not interesting, if we had listened to their estimates, we should have died according to their estimates, but there was no need to provide walls, and not at all, and no weapons at all, because we should have died because of that. so, in march, i was sitting on the zhytomyr highway and reading the instructions for in love 2 minutes ahead of the arrival of russian tanks against the fact that we did not have time to prepare properly because there was little in common, therefore experts should not be trusted, we should not be listened to , our authorities and our military should be trusted, what tasks are there enough well effective according to the plan, so that we understand that their predictions are coming true. if we talk about what and where. maybe realists are not talking about some terrible putin . there is something else, if war has its own laws , mathematics, the number is now 330,000, at the same time as in our country, january became the most effective month in terms of

intelligence community and i appreciate your willingness to do that today. guidance and expertise will be incredibly important. now to introduce our panelists we have general davis who's director of the intelligence agency and commander of security assistance force, afghanistan and commander of u.s. central command and surge in iraq. he's a partner at kkr and chairman of the kkr global institute. dr. heather wilson is a former member of congress and served as 24th secretary of the air force and 11th president at university of texas el paso. general retired phillip breedlove is the former commander of u.s. command and allied commander in europe, which is one of the coolest in the military supreme deputy deck torr and national deputy director of geospatial industry and possessions of cis. thank you all for being here. we look forward to your observation today and we're all familiar with this committee and our charge. we're going to be done to prove cohesions and the work to be proved and there's a few questions about a blip. the ranking members. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to begin by holding these and the panel rather than the hearing but one of my complaints about the cong

of the u. s. as top spies and military generals with ties of defense contractors end up as intelligence analysts on various news channels when they retire. for example, former c, i a director john brennan became embassies senior national security and intelligence analysts se, se, connecticut with what you're going to say. and former c i a director michael hayden became a national security analyst for c and n a. how much does this compromise what the public is told about war? what else? what that stake? well, it depends what you think the purpose of the functions that really is in times of war, in our military society. their function pretty much is true. so the public on the need from war weapons and the need to intervene in this country are media is ultimately controlled by major corporations like general electric, ah, for a long time. and joe, many other conglomerates basically themselves recognize for consist of big business. and as i say, war is good business for the media and joe, for the administration, even when it's failing. so hoof sure. i'm answering your question. it's natural for them to hire these people if their message is to get propaganda out, who better to

offensive by february 24, according to the general directorate ukrainian intelligence in the coming weeks, the invaders plan to intensify their efforts in the east of ukraine, primarily their goal is to achieve at least some tactical success there, the muscovites are also faced with a lack of high-precision weapons, and despite this, the invaders continue their missile terror against the civilian population , while the attackers used more than 80% of the high-precision missiles. meanwhile, on fresh cotton was delivered to belgorod region, there is also governor vyacheslav glatkov reported on the shelling of the city of shebekino, according to him, three people were injured, all the victims the men recorded three hits on the territory of the industrial enterprise, there is destruction in one of the buildings, the windows are broken, one projectile also flew into the stop, several cars were damaged, it is already traditional for the official to blame the attack on the armed forces of ukraine, the first batch of swedish anti-aircraft guns l7 and l70 from lithuania and ammunition for them has already arrived on the territory of ukraine , the minister o

remind you that the ministry, more precisely, the main directorate of intelligence, it is still subordinated to the ministry directly and not to the general bohdan objectively seemed to be the only one who could become a minister that he would then have to go into the reserve, because the military is not appointed in our country, only civilians, let me remind you of the half-thorax general when he left the reserve and then became a minister. therefore, they obviously calculated that he would go into the reserve a little early it seems to me that even budanov, who knows a lot about the ministry, but it would take him a few months to get into the operational management of the ministry, it is a very complicated machination in terms of the number of deputy ministers. in my opinion, this is the largest ministry in ukraine and they are very stratified. where is each department on its own? now let's move on to topics like these between ukraine and russia, which is important because the conversation is about the fact that now in russia they are actively, very actively, i don't know if they are using 3d printers or something well and i am speaking

as the director of national intelligence i put out a statement saying that biden laptop was not part of a russian disinformation campaign, based base conversation with 10 attorney general bill barr and christopher wray who had hunter biden a laptop and knew it was real, those are pretty important witnesses that any investigation would have to get over. i don't think that perry mason could help hunter biden on this one. trey: speaking of perry mason, you have the head of the national intelligence and head of fbi saying it was not russian disinformation but adam schiff saying it may be. become ta your old days on -- back to your old dayses on house judiciary committee, they are asking for information about a memo promulgated by merrick lar land g garland that some people read to be a -- parents. why would they want that information. >> you are giving me credit. we were together in july of 2016 when hillary clinton gave testimony, and three days later who jim comey declined to prosecute hillary clinton, based on that testimony, you and i pressed for the origins of when the decision of made, we learned this jim comey had written a memo clearing hillary clinton two months b

director of communications at the u.s. office of national intelligence. also with us is cnn military analyst and retired army major generales "spider" marks. shawn, to you, this new cnn reporting that the balloon contained the sophisticated technology that allowed them to monitor u.s. communications seems very significant. the path that the balloon took took it over several u.s. military bases. was the objective here to collect intelligence, signals intelligence on those bases? >> well, abby, look, there's no doubt that the reason this balloon was in u.s. airspace was to collect intelligence. we will learn more about the exact nature of the intelligence that they were trying to collect as we dive in more to what we find. but it's important for meme to know that even as this balloon traversed over the united states, you know, our national security weren't standing still. there would have been a couple of things that would have been done that were important. the first thing, we would have taken a hard look at the path of this balloon moving over the united states and look at what was in that path. everything we could possib

let's discuss this with the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. a retired u.s. air force lieutenant general. he is a cnn national security analyst as well. thanks for joining us. the pentagon says they have no details yet on this object'sing or ---ing or begins. how do you narrow down who was behind this? >> i think the first suspect on the list of suspects would be china. it's possible it could be russian, for example. maybe it was a weather package. again, we don't know that. i think the obvious foreign suspects would be china and russia. >> the administration says the object was about the size of a small car and couldn't mon yo maneuver on its own. what does that tell you about the capabilities of this object? >> well, i suspect it's less than the balloon sensor suite. i'm speculating here. i would think it sounds as though it was less sophisticated. a smaller payload. didn't have the guidance. whoever the owner of this object is, had not made the investment in resources and technology that it appears was made in the case of the chinese balloon. >> when you look, general, at the vastly d

of the major newspapers in the united states that that's happening. then there comes a time when the complaint alleges this happens in which the attorney general, the director of the fbi, the director of national intelligence, and the white house chief of staff meet with the officials of the ngo and tell them that they are assisting isis. that would satisfy knowledge. those are obviously extreme facts and it would be appropriate in assessing these cases to consider the kinds of circumstances that ngos would face. i think that it's very relevant to the state of mind issue. our view is the state of mind is highly culpable. when i use the language, i forgot to use it earlier, of willful blindness. there is a factual dispute about what's happening. our contention is that the policy was not to look at all. in the brief of the concerned women for america there is an extraordinary quote from twitter that was made three months after two americans were executed i -- by isis. when asked why twitter was not taking down isis materials the comment was, well, one man' is --man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. >> i think if a charitable organization had that knowledge and attitude they should be held liable.

look at the office of director of national intelligence, they define things like what low confidence level means. i don't know if most of the public is aware, low confidence generally in the analysis is scant, questionable, fr fragmented or that a solid analytic conclusion cannot be inferred from the information or that the i.c. organization has significant problems with the information sources. when you hear that definition of "low confidence" and this is what we've been touting over the last 36 hours as released how much confidence does that give you that it changes anything. >> that's the importance, the definition of low confidence because there was low confidence from four agencies from the intelligence community on the other side of this argument that it was naturally occurring and transferred from a human. alina, let me come back to you, if this is actually at some point the intelligence community is can reach the point of high confidence that it was a lab leak, then what? what's the consequence? what does it mean? >> well, the i.c. agency, has moderate confidence and that's the fbi. the assessment is moderate confidence that this started in a lab. i don't t

reported that the cult minister of defense oleksiy reznikov is about to be replaced by 37-year-old major general kirill budanov, head of the main intelligence directorate ukrainian army. the head of the ministry of defense dismissed one of the high-ranking officials of the department and accepted the resignation of one of his subordinates. it was an attempt to extinguish a fire that had flared up associated with public outrage over corruption kickbacks in soldier's food reznikov said he was ready to resign if volodymyr zelensky demanded it, according to david arahania reznikov can head the ministry of strategic industries of ukraine and thus way to maintain contacts with western allies. to say that this cult minister, and of defense, of course, did not serve in the army for a single day. uh, doing what he's like as a lawyer. eh, hmm handled the seizure of property. basically , the correct ministry of defense was engaged in the usual way, dealing mainly with kickbacks, there and so on. well , they decided to transfer it to more capacious corruption, i would say the industry is connected with the military industrial complex. uh, ukraine in general, of co

president dmitry peskov said about the battle of stalingrad that our younger generation should devote more time to history, and said the director of the foreign intelligenceed meeting of the expert council for the development of historical education under the minority sciences . a decision has already been made that russian universities will increase the number of hours of history study. the image of the unconquered city on the volga of stalingrad will forever remain a symbol the stamina and courage of our people are a strong spiritual support in the face of any external threats and challenges in the face of any enemies, in whatever blocs and international sects they unite. i am deeply convinced that the thousand-year history of russia, an integral part of which is the victory at stalingrad, is our common heritage, our common heritage moscow will definitely respond to the expulsion of russian diplomats from austria, this is how our foreign ministry reacted. after vienna declared persona non grata two employees of the russian embassy and two members of the permanent mission to the un, they must leave the shelling by february 8, let me remind you that last

general operational situation and the likely nature of the enemy's actions in the near future , the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhnyi and the head of the main intelligence directorateylo budanov also at the station examined the condition of the defense forces of what we talked about with ammunition and equipment. the training of ukrainian servicemen abroad, in particular the needs of the armed forces in terms of numbers and specialties , the meeting was attended by members of the government, heads of law enforcement agencies and law enforcement agencies . well, the italian intelligence reported some rather important things. in particular, he is trying to use the period of forced stagnation to restart the activities of the russian military industrial complex which feels the impact of western sanctions , the italian newspaper la stampa writes about this, publishing the annual report of italian intelligence for parliament cites for the russians an operational pause is necessary for recovery and preparation for a long war. moscow is trying to use this period of relative stagnation to restart the activities of the russian military-industrial complex, which is beginning

general context and what is happening now and what is obviously meant by our main intelligence directorate is that today there is active training going well , in fact, we are competing to get ahead of the russians who the first will be able to prepare to gather resources for an offensive operation. will they be the first or will we be the first and what we see from the russians and this is obviously what the band means is that the russian forces, especially in the eastern direction, where they have no logistics with a concentration of personnel the composition of manpower and, accordingly, firepower, they have fewer problems with this than in the south. they are trying to e-e point directions where they are pressing, as we saw it there in the bakhmut direction, in ugledar soledar and so on. they are trying to pull back the ukrainian combat units as much as possible in order to prevent them from passing and, accordingly, this is coordination to staffing so as not to become part of our strike group of our strike force in time with which we will conduct our future contour offensive operation and so these are the active months, now these are the active months of preparation of both sid

director william burns said the united states knows as a matter of intelligence that c.c.p.'s general secretary has ordered china's military to be prepared for an invasion of taiwan by 2027. the taiwan law authorizes as much as $2 billion in grants to foreign military financing to taiwan between you and 2027. so depp the secretary sherman and assistant secretary ratner, do you support the menendez law $2 billion to taiwan? i'd appreciate a yes or no answer. second retear sherman: we have to look at every way possible to make sure we meet the needs of taiwan. i think you're aware there are production delivery and delays worldwide and reviewing those systems and talking to the private sector about the long lead production timelines and delivery delays because they are affecting all our partners, not just taiwan. sen. haggerty: do you support this move? secretary sherman: i believe we need to look at all options. secretary ratner: it was clear that any act should be met with appropriation as it relates to taiwan support. sen. haggerty: it also authorizes drawdown authority for taiwan. my

director john brennan. the general made it clear that the duration of this balloon hovering over the u.s. is why they made it public. why do you -- what do you think is the intelligence significance of this? do you accept their argument that they believe, without having hands on, that this is not a military or intelligence threat more so than the average chinese satellite? >> i think there's been an intensive intelligence collection. i think that the intelligence community is trying to assess what the capabilities are. what the general said is significant. first of all, he refuted the chinese allegation it's a civilian meteorological or weather balloon that strayed off course. it's clear he said that this is a surveillance balloon, which means it's visual as well as technical collection capabilities that are over the continental united states, including over sensitive military sites. we know that the chinese have decided recently to increase their strategic nuclear forces. might this be the opportunity for them to have this relatively low altitude surveillance capability much lower than satellites they have over areas of the united states where they can dwell and col

taiwan, and had a recent public event, cia director william burns said that the united states knows, and i quote, as a matter of intelligence, that ccp, generalsecretary xi jinping has ordered china's military to be capable of conducting an invasion of taiwan by 2027. chairman, menendez, says that he manual authorizes as much as two billion in grants for 4 million to taiwan between now in 2027. so, deputy secretary sherman, do you support the full implementation of menendez's laws two billion in annual grants, for military financing to taiwan? i would just appreciate a yes or no answer? >> i certainly think we have to look at every way possible to make sure that we meet the needs of taiwan, i think you are all aware that there are production and delivery delays worldwide, and reviewing those systems,. and talking to the private sector about those long lee production timelines and delivery delays, that is because they are affecting all of our fms partners, not just taiwan. >> i understand. i just understand if you support this movement, is that a yes? i >> believe we need to look at every single option we have. >> can you answer me yes or no i

intelligence basis for it. director ray has failed to perform duties required of his position. another example of this democratic disinformation campaign involved the george kent, former state department deputy assistant general. senator johnson and i ran a transcribed interview, before the interview, democrats acquired material for that russian agent, the same one i mentioned earlier. at the interview democrats, not republicans, democrats asked mr. kent about the same material. mr. kent said it was disinformation. think about that. after all the spears the democrats were throwing at the two of us, in the end it was the democrats who introduced russian disinformation from a russian agent into the investigative record as an exhibit. our own intelligence committee warned was actively seeking to influence us politics. not me or senator johnson, not our staff. it was democrats who inserted disinformation from the russians into our official record. the partisan media and democrat leadership are to be ashamed of themselves for fake information that they spread about the investigation. in the end, they all failed to stop senator johnson and me. on august 23rd, 2020, senator johnson 23, 2020, senator johnson and i re