host: sander levin has been our guest. thank you. the house of representatives. copal church, alexandria, irginia. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c., november 15, 2013, i hereby appoint the honorable steve

senator levin -- >> sander levin serves as the chair of the armed services committee. he spoke earlier today for about an hour. >> welcome to the council on foreign relations. it is a high honor to be here with carl levin. actually, no introduction is necessary. the incredibly brainy carl levin is chair of the armed services leak, from the great state of michigan, -- jerry the armed , from the great state of michigan. he had a meeting with resident karzai. i'm eager to hear about that. sander levin? >> i appreciate joining you this morning. i look forward to receive some of the ideas. we'll need them in this kind of world religion. mentioned, i recently returned from afghanistan where meeting withw days our commanders, our troops, president karzai. and the defense minister from brussels before he went to afghanistan. he feels that things have significantly improved and changed for the be d

sander levin? >> i appreciate joining you this morning. i look forward to receive some of the ideas. we'll need them in this kind of world religion. mentioned, i recently returned from afghanistan where meeting withw days our commanders, our troops, president karzai. and the defense minister from brussels before he went to afghanistan. he feels that things have significantly improved and changed for the better during the last 10 years. i have been there perhaps 12 times or so. the staff later will tell me if it is really a 11 or 13. we've been there a lot. strikinges are pretty especially in the last few years. that is not the impression the american people have. that, to me, is the obvious fact that things have changed and changed for the better in afghanistan. first of all, it's more secure. we and our allies have made a the growth, the strength of the afghan army and the police now which has grown in a much more capable and respected force including the acal police, which has made major difference particularly in the villages about anna

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host: sander levin has been our guest. thank you. the house of representatives. copal church, alexandria, irginia. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c., november 15, 2013, i hereby appoint the honorable steve womack to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: now the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain the reverend orrin warder, from st. paul's episcopal church from alexandria, virginia. the chaplain: let us pray, god of the universe you have created us and given us life. blessed are you god of this earth. you have set our world like a radiant jewel in the 111th and filled it with beauty and hope. blessed are you god of these united states of america for all the lessons of our past, for all that remains for us to do. blessed are you god of truth and justice, guide the men and women of this house of representatives. grant them insight, courage, compassion, and imagination. protect them from corruption and a

. >> sander levin, if i could go but to question with respect to benghazi. the one point i would like to offer to the committee is, over the course of the last year and several months since the benghazi attack, we have presented a number of briefings to member of this committee as well as a number of other members. public over a dozen briefings that presented a multimedia presentation, including surveillance video, overhead imagery, witness statements describing every facet that we had from an intelligence perspective about those attacks. we've had a number of opportunities to present everything we know from intelligence community perspective about the attacks in benghazi. we would certainly offer that again if the committee was interested in seeing that spent i was just curious about the drifters comment about not having talked to the prosecutors, whether or not that might impact his opinion as to whether or not, for some reason, congress should have access to those survivors. i don't know any reason either by the way. i got together, i think this whole thi