mark grossman in kabul right now for these talks. i want to bring in tom foreman at the data wall for us. set the scene for us where this is and what's going on.

mark grossman in kabul right now for these talks. i want to bring in tom foreman at the data wall for us. set the scene for us where this is and what's going on. >> as we fly into this hotel here, you can see the big part of kabul here, the hotel is up in this area, sort of set apart from most things. what do we know about this hotel. we know it's a three-star hotel. 200 rooms. a lot of people there at 10:00. open in 1969, it was the nation's first international luxulu luxury hotel. it's no longer connected by because to the intercontinental chain that so many of us might visit in other places. we can't tell a whole lot right now about the actual attack. but you can see it sort of on a raised knoll here. the big question, of course, will be where did the attack come from? these are the main roads that come around it. not a whole lot from people who come down around this road. many different security issues are in question. it's a kbig hotel with a lot of people that time of night wolf? >> thanks very much. i want to bring in nick rob

"dm my name is alan grossman. i'm here for the san francisco urban forest coalition. i think what is missing from this discussion is a premise to this proposal, which is that if these trees are transferred back to the property owners, they will do a better job of maintaining and replacing them and dpw does. -- than dpw does. anyone who knows the history of street trees in this city knows that is not the case. as the person before me said, trees disappear all the time. i have personally reported 50 missing trees to dpw, and the holes are still there. so the enforcement issue is equivalent. i do think, though, that you need to think about this in a more global sense. in 1992, the trade advisory board wrote a report after studying the problem. i will read a few parts. in national

in particular, ambassador grossman is involved. that said, as the afghans move toward a concentrated reconciliation effort, i would certainly see april for the embassy -- see a role for the embassy in working closely as we already do pashtuns in the south. my position in iraq was basically that we would talk to anybody who would talk to us. we would not ask a lot of questions. whether i can get away with this in afghanistan, i don't know. i do think it is important that we know what the southern pashtuns are thinking. we know what others are looking at, especially as a tricky reconciliation process moves forward. >> let me turn to another field. what is the continuing use of u.s. taxpayer dollars for an assistance mission? my understanding is that the president wants to shift from a military mission to aid civilian position and that mission is to help rebuild lives in institutions and create a functioning government. we have done this before with more committed partners. from 2002-tumescent and, we have spent $19 billion -- from 20

in particular, ambassador grossman was both a friend and a colleague. that said, as the afghans move toward the concentrated reconciliation effort, i would certainly see a role for the embassy is closely, as we do is cautious of the south. my physician in iraq was basically over to anybody who attacked to us and not ask a lot of questions as they entered those conversations at least initially. now, whether he could get away with this in afghanistan or not i don't know. but i do think it is important to know what southern pashtuns are thinking as it is important, but it's important we understand what tajiks are all looking at especially as a tricky reconciliation process moves forward. >> when he turned to a field they think you do have a lot to say about. and that is, what is the continuing use of u.s. taxpayer dollars foreign assistance mission? my understanding from the military mission to an assistance mission in afghanistan and that mission is to help rebuild lives and institutions to create a functioning government. they done this before, but with

third, i would say, again, after being in consultation with ambassador grossman and others, we have a lot of international partners engaged in afghanistan, nato and non-nato, the united nations, the representative to the secretary general. i cooperated closely with him there, look forward to doing the same in afghanistan. as i said earlier at a slightly different context, afghanistan is not a uniquely american problem. it is a threat to international peace and security and requires an ongoing international commitment. what role i play and that -- what role i play in that is something to be sorted out, but clearly i have a role to play. i hope that gives some sense. >> i thank you for your answer. it will be a real challenge. we are not necessarily paying salaries or competing with the afghan government, we're paying salaries that looked like we are getting cash bonuses well above reasonable salaries to make friends with afghans, which ends up supporting a corrupt system. thank you, mr. ambassador. >> thank you. i am here out of respect for you as a person, the role you have played in

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it was answered by ambassador grossman.ying we're concerned especially after we see bin laden's capture and killing in pakistan and the letter says, we see no evidence to indicate that anyone at highest levels of the government of pakistan knew bin laden was living in pakistan. that may be true but i don't think there is an american who believes that. and i look at it in the context of the assistance pakistan, is now the third largest recipient of u.s. security assistance, $2.7 billion in 20 ten alen. 140% increase since 2007. and i get concerned between the reality of someone that knew bin laden was there or high target value and i look at the concerns of, you know, pakistan and getting intelligence that supposedly we gave them in mid-may about insurgent bomb factories in the tribal regions and leaked and facilities were abandoned before military strikes could take place. i wonder when see the pakistani intelligence service arresting pakistanis who provided information that led to our finding of bin laden. and i'm saying w

marc grossman is leading an effort to build support for political solutions. we have met twice and will convene against next week. we are engaging the region around a common region. it is free of al qaeda. we believe we have made progress with all of the neighbors including india, russia, and their run. just this past friday, led the security council voted unanimously to support reconciliation by splitting the sanctions. it underscores that the door is open for the insurgents to abandon the terrorists and choose a different path. we welcome these steps. the key priorities and the linchpin of this entire effort. it is closing the gap between kabul and islamabad. pakistan must be part of this process. earlier, they launched a joint peace commission and held talks at the highest levels. did very significant was the full implementation on june 12 of the transit trade agreement which will create new economic opportunity on both sides. it lays the foundation for a broader region. this started being negotiated in the early 1960's. it took decades, including great her

you've got mark grossman who is leading the efforts at state. i think it is a new team and what gates i think is really saying is, look, the military will tell you a reduction figure they're comfortable with. but we have got a good strategy, approved by the president. we have a good team to carry out that strategy. let's give them a chance and continue to look at that 2014 date. that is the date, after all, that americans and our allies and nato have all agreed on. so i think the message you're going to get from bob gates, probably from our military, is let's stay with the strategy, let's capitalize on the success we have made and see if we can make this a success in the 2014 time frame. >> certainly going to come up at this week, there are confirmation hearings for leon panetta as the new secretary of defense on thursday. and you know he's going to hear from the senate on that. >> yes, indeed. >> thank you very much, steve hadley, great to see you. >> nice to be here. >>> pro palestinian demonstrators on the syrian side of the border with israe

and mark grossman whose come in to relie, to take over richard's responsibilities and i know the secretary of the state and all of us are working to tr toate good the tality of the money focused in the right way. >> there are those who worry that while the leadership isi may very well be as you said no way complicit in osama bin laden. the same elements may somehow be involved in the security of the nuclear weapons. and i'm told that pakistan h an acceleration of nuclear weapons than any country in the world. >> the concern about security for nuclear weapons is one i shared many files with the general, and retired general who is responsible for the overall nuclear program. and certainly sharing it with general pasha. it's really in the kiani portfolio, if you will. and everything that i've seen from security standpoint, charlie, is it's getting better. and it's, you know, we have actually extended resources in support of assisting them, our government has, not the pentagon. andthey haveresponded posively in that regard. so they are certainly aware of those concerns. they have them themselv

third, i would say this consultation with ambassador grossman and others, we have a lot of international partners engaged in afghanistan. nato and non-nato, the united nations plays an important role, the special representative of the secretary general perform that role in iraq and i cooperated closely with him there and look forward to doing the same afghanistan. as i said earlier, afghanistan is not a uniquely american problem. it is a threat to international peace and security and requires an ongoing international commitment. what role i play in that is still something to be sorted out. its something where i will have a role to play. >> thank you for your answer. is going to be a real challenge. we are not necessarily paying salaries are competing with the afghan government. we are paying salaries to look like we are giving cash bonuses well above reasonable salaries to make friends with afghans which ends up supporting a corrupt system. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman and mr. ambassador, i'm here at of respect for you as a person in the role you have played in much of our forei

thank mike meyer and martha from the darfur interface network for making this possible and beth grossman. i'm also going to ask your indulgence as an audience. i know there's sudan experts here, and please bear with me if i tell you things you already know, but those lovely people at c-span are here to broadcast this, and therefore, i think that it's our duty to use this opportunity to get across the message about the serial jen sides that have been going on in sudan, so forgive me if i'm telling you things that you already know. i know there's people in the room that think it's perfectly appropriate as a topic conversation to talk about genocide, but believe it or not, not everybody feels the way we do about that. i'm going to first of all talk to you about what's happening in abya. over the weekend you probably saw that the sudan armed forces occupied the region of abia bringing in 5,000 troops, an unknown number of tanks. they've been basically carpet bombing the city since the 19th of may. 20,000 people had to flee for their lives. i've been getting e-mails from someone we know who w

to thank mike meyer and -- from the darfur interfaith network for making this possible and beth grossmani know there are some sudan experts here. please bear with me if i start telling you things you already know but those lovely people at c-span are here to outcast this and therefore think it is our duty to use this opportunity to get across the message about the serial genocides that have been going on in sudan, so forgive me if i am telling you things that you already know. i know there are people in this room who think it is perfectly appropriate as a topic of conversation to talk about genocide but believe it or not not everybody feels the way we do about that. i am going to talk to about what you about what is happening in abyei. over the weekend you probably saw the sudanese armed forces occupied the region of abyei. they brought in 5000 troops, an unknown number of tanks. they have then basically carpet bombing the city of abyei since the 19th of may. 20,000 people of had to flee for their lives. i have been getting e-mails from someone we

proof of it and you never tell us where you know they are so how do you expect us to find them so grossmanen a new level of cooperation and intelligence sharing with the pakistanis, and among other things, they showed them a video surveillance that had been taken by satellite of to ied factories , one of them a girls' school which is the main city in north waziristan and a mother in south windsor stand. the one in the north they believed was run by the haqqani network which is one of the afghan groups based in pakistan, and then the other they said was run by people affiliated directly with al qaeda. they also gave them a further graphs of information about various weapons. it was in the first time the had given them photographs in a number of meetings over the years the americans have said look, you keep saying you can't find haqqani which they do, they maintain that the haqqani spends more than half his time in afghanistan, and that the americans certainly have a lot of soldiers and why can't they find them and how do they expect the pakistanis to find them if they can't find them to hav

i look forward to working with ambassador munter and grossman. frankly, the reason most of the problem is in pakistan and not in afghanistan is because we are in afghanistan. as we go through a responsible transition, it has to be conditions based to insure that as we draw down our forces, i am aware of the movement both here on the hill and publicly, there has to be a transition period at the end of the day, we have to be sure that the safe haven doesn't relocate from pakistan to afghanistan. >> i understand that. does it take 150,000 troops to guarantee that doesn't happen? -- ihat is a question that's am not part of those deliberations. >> that is an unfair question. it is a question on the table. i understand you're not part of those deliberations. let me ask you this. in your testimony, you say enormous challenges remain. governess, corruption, economic growth, credibility, narcotics, sustainable development, adequate employment opportunities, increase revenues and the capacity for the government to provide basic services, education and heal

in darpa, they have an adaptive learning grossman -- program that in trained support people in a matter of weeks, normally done in a two-year program, and does it extremely effectively. does the education sector have the least r&d of any sector of the economy at a time when we need the most innovation in that sector? that is a tremendously important factor for the economy. what would you do differently? throughout the education system we measure progress through the seat time. we should be measuring it by competencies'. what do you know how to do? if we measured that, we create a whole sent rigid set of incentives for people to learn faster and better and in different ways. some in the classroom, some on the job, some through apprenticeships. if you create that right policy structure and let innovators go after it, there can be a parallel evolution in learning. -- a revolution in learning. they're always coming even the best educational institutions said they do it. one really interesting development in the last week, i do not know if you saw some of the manufacturing institute teamed u

a few weeks after bin laden's death, mark grossman, the special representative for afghanistan and pakistan and the cia director traveled to islam bad to talk to the civilian leadership. they were given lots of complaints as u.s. officials always are about the u.s. level of cooperation saying essentially that you americans are always tells us you know where these bad people are, but you never give us the proof of it, and you never tell us where you know they are, and so how do you expect us to find them, and they said that they were prepared to open a new level of cooperation and intelligence sharing with the pakistanis, and among other things, they showed them video surveillance taken by satellites of two ied factories and one of them in a girl's school in the main city of north and one was run by an afghan group based in pakistan, and another was run by people affiliated directly with al-qaeda. they gave paragraphs and information about various weapons, posts, and it was not the first time they were given photographs. in a number of meetings over the years, the americans have said, look,

i remember a lecture by army lieutenant colonel dave grossman. i borrow from it now.ed to be the guardian, the sheep dogs that protect against the wolves that prey upon us. rather than meet the wolf head on we sharpen his teeth, added number to his claw, all the while we sat idly by watching, tracking and noting as he became more efficient and effective predator. prior to my coming to phoenix i had never been involved in or even heard an operation in which law enforcement officers let guns walk. the very idea of doing so is unthinkable to most law enforcement. i and other field agents involved in this operation repeatedly raised concerns with our supervisors. in response we were told we didn't understand the plan. i cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall into the hand of known criminals could possibly advance any possible legitimate law enforcement interest. i hope the committee receives a better explanation than i. i look forward to answering any questions that any of you may have. >> thank you, sir. special agent casa. >> good morning, mr. chairm

i remember a lecture by army lieutenant colonel dave grossman. i borrow from it now. atf is supposed to be the guardian, the sheep dogs that protect against the wolves that prey upon us. rather than meet the wolf head on we sharpen his teeth, added number to his claw, all the while we sat idly by watching, tracking and noting as he became more efficient and effective predator. prior to my coming to phoenix i had never been involved in or even heard an operation in which law enforcement officers let guns walk. the very idea of doing so is unthinkable to most law enforcement. i and other field agents involved in this operation repeatedly raised concerns with our supervisors. in response we were told we didn't understand the plan. i cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall into the hand of known criminals could possibly advance any possible legitimate law enforcement interest. i hope the committee receives a better explanation than i. i look forward to answering any questions that any of you may have. >> thank you, sir. special agent casa. >> good morni

i remember a lecture by army lieutenant colonel dave grossman. i borrow from it now. atf is supposed to be the guardian, the sheep dogs that protect against the wolves th prey upon us. rather than meet the wolf head on we sharpen his teeth, added number to his claw, all the while we sat idly by watching, tracking and noting as he became more efficient and effective predator. prior to my coming to phoenix i had never been involved in or even heard an operation in which law enforcement officers let guns wa. the very idea of doing so is unthinkable to most law enforcement. i and other field agents involved in this operation repeatedly raised concerns with our supervisors. in response we were told we didn't understand the plan. i cannot begin to think of how the risk of letting guns fall into the hand of known criminals could possibly advance any possible legitimate law enforcement interest. i hope the committee receives a better explanation than i. i look forward to answering any questions that any of you may have. >> thank you, sir. special agent casa. >> good morning,