. which is coordinated out of qatar. every day there's an air tasking order which goes out. those planes are integrated with that. it is part of the overall cohesive campaign. representative cook: i just got back from qatar. i'm nervous about the politics of turkey. the last question that i had was about saudi and the gulf states. sometimes we're lead to believe their number one focus is isil. no. the impression i had is it is all about the war in yemen. their forces and everything else. yeah, yeah, we're committed to that. the states that i talked to it is all about what's going on with yemen and particularly the influence of the saudis in leading that coalition there. could you comment on that? mr. mcgurk: you are right. yemen is a primary focus. you have have a different conversation from riyadh and abu dhabi -- this is not home homogeneous. >> i'm looking at the resources going into yemen. >> it is right on their border. i understand. we consider isil the most fundamental threat. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. higgins of new york. representative higgins: thank y

, bridges, tunnels, schools, hospitals. our country is like a third world country. go over to qatar and some of these places, you see the bridges. and they have bridges so incredible you've never seen anything like it. trains that lroad go 350 miles an hour and we have things that go chug, chug, chug like from 100 years ago. we've become like a third world nation because we're fighting everybody else's battles. and remember this, we are like the policemen of the world but don't get paid anything. we protect germany, we protect japan. do you know that in japan, if we get attacked, we have a treaty with japan, if we get attacked, anything.t have to do if they get attacked, we have world war iii. who makes these deals? you have a maniac right next to him, right? but we protect south korea. so every time we order televisions, they come from south korea. fortune.e a we protect south korea. let me tell you something, why aren't they paying? they pay peanuts for what we do. every time this guy, you know raises his head, we see our ships sail. we have 28,000 soldiers at the border. so we take c

, sunnis, saudi arabia, turkey, or in qatar, or in any country of his first. they have an ability to blow the support. it takes every country coming together in order to hold it together. the war in syria has now lasted for more than five years. right now, even with the success we had the other day at the table, does not yet show the signs we want of burning out. that is why we are focused on this track. if the international community and syrians miss the opportunity to achieve that resolution, the violence, bloodshed, torture, the images of children and women, the bombing in anguish is going to continue. and all the talk that would take place here and has taken place to date will be nothing except an increase in the cynicism of people in the world, who look to their leaders to deliver. the tragedy is that if this flounders, the call to jihad will increase. that is why the diplomatic initiative we launched in vienna is so important. the 20+ member issg includes every major country with a direct stake in syria. parties as diverse as i ran -- iran and saudi arabia met at the table, con

, saudi arabia, turkey, or in qatar, or in any country of his first. they have an ability to blow the support. -- any country of interest. one country. it takes every country coming together in order to hold it together. the war in syria has now lasted for more than five years. right now, even with the success we had the other day at the table, does not yet show the signs we want of burning out. that is why we are focused on this track. if the international community and syrians miss the opportunity to achieve that resolution, the violence, bloodshed, torture, the images of children and women, the bombing in anguish is going to continue. and all the talk that would take place here and has taken place to date will be nothing except an increase in the cynicism of people in the world, who look to their leaders to deliver. the tragedy is that if this flounders, the call to jihad will increase. that is why the diplomatic initiative we launched in vienna is so important. the 20+ member issg includes every major country with a direct stake in syria. parties as diverse as i ran saudi arabia -

, as i was last week, eturning from the gulf states, oman, dubai, abu dhabi, qatar, bahain, looking at what's going on there i'll tell you what i saw there. i saw enormous problems. but i also saw modern infrastructure. go to brussels. look at their airport. and go to an american airport. water. water. lint, michigan watt. state of michigan, united states of america, and that's the water that 100,000 americans are forced to drink. we've got a clean water act. we've got the laws in place. to build our water systems. so what do we do? i guess we'd rather rebuild the b-61 nuclear bomb. rather than building a water system. for americans. for the security of 100,000 people. i live a long way from flint, michigan. the guy i'm going to call on, that's his home. that's where he was raised. those are people he represents. dan kildee, you have been on this issue for weeks and months. you have been sounding the alarm. you have been calling us out. you've been calling us out, all 435 of us and the nat and the administration and you've been calling us out and you are doing the work of securing t

, qatar, jordan, and say we can't do this on our own. it would not be successful if we did it on our own. let us work together so isis can't say it is the great state coming to get us. violence to impose your religious believes on others is wrong. it is unacceptable. the president does not get this. did you hear the state of the union? i watched it. he said isis is a bunch of guys with beards with guns. i don't know who wrote that for him, but that guy should be fired. or the president, if he believes that, should go to paris and say it in the face of those families who lost their loved ones and fly to san bernardino and save these are a bunch of guys with beards with guns. the problem is he does not understand terrorism because he was never involved in fighting it. i spent seven years fighting terrorism. the job i accepted on september 10 was different the next day. we spent the time and the seven years george w. bush was president with us as u.s. , you know what happened? domestic terrorist attacks. what happened since barack obama has been here? what we do on isis. that gentleman.

, syria, sunnis, saudi arabia, turkey, or in qatar, or in any country of his first. they have an ability to blow the support. -- any country of interest. ione country. it takes every country coming together in order to hold it together. lasted in syria has now for more than five years. with the success we had the other day at the table, does not yet show the signs we want of burning out. that is why we are focused on this track. if the international community and syrians miss the opportunity to achieve that resolution, the violence, bloodshed, torture, the images of children and women, the bombing in anguish is going to continue. and all the talk that would take place here and has taken place to date will be nothing except an increase in the cynicism of people in the world, who look to their leaders to deliver. the tragedy is that if this flounders, the call to jihad will increase. that is why the diplomatic initiative we launched in vienna is so important. ssg includeser i every major country with a direct stake in syria. parties as diverse as i ran saudi arabia -- iran and saud

, egypt, france, indonesia, kuwait, netherlands, philippines, qatar, here in the united states. now we're sharing information to collapse the foreign fighter networks. it is a very difficult endeavor. it is law enforcement. it is intelligence. but it is constantly sharing information. we found that many of the countries we work with, they have a difficult time sharing information amongst themselves. it is a problem we had before 9/11. >> there's different laws. mr. mcgurk: they are working to -- post paris that they are doing the same thing. passenger name recognition is a critical thing. that was getting in the way and getting hung up on privacy laws. now the eu parliament has passed the name recognition. we know everybody coming in to the u.s. so something we're diligent about and something we raise all the time. within the coalition we now have a permanent structure set up on the foreign terrorists fighter side. it is a permanent platform constantly sharing information and figuring out connecting to -- dots. it has lead to a number of fbi investigations. it came out of the coalit