or bring it up john kerry was the only one to mention it he is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and he talked about it in his opening statements and it's he straight a little bit from what he said yesterday as soon as we came out with this information yesterday he said it doesn't matter how this information was obtained it just matters that it forces us to relook at the strategy and perhaps come up with a more urgent one today than the lightning words we were all excited right we're going to have today he pushed back a little bit he said the way that these that this information was obtained was illegal and it's an unacceptable and he also hinted at the fact that there will be an investigation into who leaked it he did however as you saw in my report still say. that the taliban is a strong as it has ever been as we saw in these leaks backtracking a little bit in his words interesting now they also were saying that the first thing they want to do here is they want to move the withdrawal timeline from two thousand and eleven from next year all the way to two thousand and fourteen w

we are going to have this hearing in the senate foreign relations committee on july 29. they will be looking into events leading up to the release of mr. al-.q.qdumegarahi. there is some suggestion that they will be calling executives from bp as well. certainly bp's reputation and in the united states is not getting better, to say the least. >> thank you. footage has emerged of the moment two suicide bombs exploded in iran. the first@a@azu device went off mosque worshipers went to see what happened, and the second explosion went off, killing dozens of other people. an organization said the carried out the attacks in revenge for the execution of their leader by authorities. the hollywood heartthrob george clooney had a serious matter to attend to. the oscar-winning star appeared evidence against a gang of alleged frauds tears. -- fraudsters. >> it was a moment worth waiting for. the arrival of the star witness, in every sense of see word. clooney arrived to give evidence in the 's palace of justice -- to give evidence in milan's palace of justice. he maneuvered his way in

of the key witnesses will cooperate with our request to answer questions before the senate foreign relations committee. the have stonewalled. each side has claimed innocence. each side has blamed the other. it is a game of diplomatic tennis that is worthy of wimbledon. but it is not worthy on behalf of the lives and the families who still have to deal with this terrorist act and the consequences of their lost loved ones in their lives. >> senator menendez. the former u.n. chief weapons inspector says that the bush administration invaded iraq because it was high on the idea of military action after 9/11 and thought it could get away with it. it described the british as prisoners on the train. he questioned the judgment of george bush and tony blair, but not their good faith. he said they should have realized that their intelligence sources were pour. >> it was the swedish lawyer and diplomat who were sent to the investigation. he shuffled from meeting to meeting, caught between saddam hussain's evasion and president bush's impatience. the executive chairman of the united nations monitoring and inspecti

war policy the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee john kerry issued a statement saying that the leak raises serious questions about the reality of america's policy towards pakistan and afghanistan it will take weeks if not months to go through all of the information to piece together the on the ground details of the afghan war for now the leak one of the largest in military history leaves all too many questions unanswered you seek out from the washington. well this is actually here in the studio with me now to discuss this a little further now we see it like you are saying it's going to take weeks perhaps months to pore over all the information that's in these ninety thousand pages there but what i really want to talk about is about the man that really is at the head of all of this who you know we i've interviewed him here on the show you yourself have corresponded with him extensively i mean what do you make of him what who do you think doing the songes well he's a lot harder to get in touch with now i'll tell you that he's a really interesting guy and you know you sor

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the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee john kerry made a statement soon after they went up on the websites, saying he thought they shed light on the war. because of that, we should be taking a closer look at how the war was being prosecuted. i think it is quite telling. host: we move on to south carolina and larry. caller: 01 to comment that the person who got hold of those documents and release them after the american public -- the young man from wicked. there, i think they ought to be charged with some kind of war crime. that way we can stop the media. they can be stopped from announcing information like that without leaking at about the american government. host: alex, republican line. caller: hello. my question is, how will this affect the future of possibly next wars? host: can you speak to the diplomatic fallout of this? guest: maybe the pakistani government and military are quite angry about this. it is a tenuous relationship, up and down, between pakistan and the u.s. however, the sides probably need each other. the u.s. does support the pakistani military with a

. >> the chairmen and ranking members of the senate foreign relations committee wednesday express concerns about the administration's afghanistan strategy. those comments came during a hearing with the special representative richard holbrooke. this is two hours and 20 minutes. order. let me say at the outset of the hearing that the rules of the committee are crystal clear with respect to any kind of demonstrations of any thought whatsoever. this committee prides itself in listening carefully and in probing and having a thoughtful dialogue even about the most emotional and contentious issues, and we ask every member of the public to respect that, and the rights of the senators and the committee to be able to conduct their business. i want to thank everyone for coming this afternoon, and i want to extend a very special thank you and welcome to ambassador holbrooke who has taken time from an exceedingly busy schedule in order to appear again before the committee. we look forward to hearing your insights ambassador holbrooke and i thank you for doing this. i might mention that ambassador holbr

treaty back in june before the senate foreign relations committee.incipal result of the non-ratification would be to throw the whole nuclear negotiation into a state of chaos and the reason the treaty is important is over the decades we've built up all of these rules, all of the verification procedures and so on so that each side feels yes we can take these steps. could you just elborate on that a little bit further about why you believe the u.s. national security would be negatively affected if the treaty were be rejected or indefinitely delayed? >> well, i think there are a couple of reasons. one is as i described and as is graphically presented here, this body of documentation represents countless hours of discussions, negotiations and so on. this is what gives the two sides the confidence to move ahead and say okay we can make cuts here if we eliminate this kind of weapon and so on and improve the stability of the balance and reduce the chance of a crisis turning into a conflict, and if this is dropped how do you want in next step? you can't say

if you are all in conformance that somehow this member of the senate foreign relations committee has yet to see that report, so i would like to see it, and i would like to get a copy tomorrow if i can. if it is already out there we should be able to have it. clearly, we cannot determine-- i certainly will not vote for any more money unless i have a clear sense that we are headed in the right direction or that we are meeting goals in the resources are being well spent and i can't do that unless i start off with the basis of understanding that we have benchmarks and those benchmarks are being met. so i hope we can get the report. somehow maybe it missed my office, and i have one other question and then i will let you go. >> i absolutely, i will commit that we will, as soon as this meeting is over, drill down and determine what the issue is and locate where it is and we will get back to you. >> one of our questions, general mcchrystal had a series of comments he made about our overall stability. of course he was released of his command. i just want to know this. are we all on the same p

senate hearing over the decision to free the convicted lockerbie bomber. the foreign relations committee is investigating whether it was linked to a libyan oil deal involving bp. earlier, i suggested to our correspondent at the list seems to be growing. >> it seems to be, but at the moment it is far easier to say who is not attending perry when no various scottish ministers and officials have been invited, but they're not going because they don't have anything more to add. jack straw, who was the british justice secretary at the time said he is considering it. he does not have any object in principle, but he wants to discuss it with some of his former colleagues, including gordon brown, first. there is a list and a hearing is due next week, but we're not sure yet who will be attending. >> these senators have high- level backing, secretary of state hillary clinton who said she was deeply troubled by the decision to release the lockerbie bomber is backing them. >> she is, and was feeling that she added to the momentum of the subject and the emotion behind it that led to david cameron chant

foreign troops since the start of the war senator john kerry highlighted the fact that the military campaign supposed to be at known as the longest in u.s. history during a meeting of the foreign relations committee and this congress assesses the grim statistics the unpopular war assuring few signs of ending war in the store ports. and it strikes rose it's the comparison that cannot be avoided by press pundits and now politicians last month afghanistan surpassed the. place that both broken are all too familiar with as the longest military campaign in american history committee chairman senator john kerry brought up the failed u.s. war of decades ago at a crucial time in america's current one this is a difficult moment in the afghan conflict a moment when questions about strategy and progress abound at a hearing on governance and the u.s. civilian strategy in the region the man in charge of it all a vietnam veteran himself tries to make a lesson of that history a fundamental difference between those two wars since you mentioned it mr chairman and this war our national security interests are at stake with the safety of the u.s. at stake as richard holbrooke claims you might think congress would hav