[inaudible conversations] good morning. Come to order. To date one of our witnesses needs to leave by 10 30 a. M. To join secretary tiller send, vote two to china so to allow time to ask questions we will submit Opening Statements for the record the moscow ask each witnesses to shorten their statements to a couple minutes each to their right to the questions are obviously i will ask the senators to be very careful to follow the five minute allocation. First we will receive testimony from the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial crimes and following her well have testimony from the acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and Pacific Affairs and without further lets proceed. Please proceed. Chairman and distinguished members of the committee i am honored to appear to discuss the of the strategy to combat the destabilizing and repressive actions of north korea. This administration is applying diplomatic pressure is central to the campaign and it is among the t
Capitol take you to hill where earlier today, state Department Officials talked about the effectiveness of sanctions on the north korean regime. This Senate Committee hearing is about one hour, 20 minutes. Good morning. Come to order. Our witnesses needs to leave by 10 30 a. M. To join secretary tillerson in china, and we also have a vote. To allow time to ask questions we will submit Opening Statements for the record, and we ask each witness to shorten their statements to a couple minutes so that we can get right to the questions. Obviously i will ask the senators to be very careful to follow the five minute allocation. First we will receive testimony from the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial crimes. Following her, well have testimony from the acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets received. Let us proceed. Please proceed. Chairman and distinguished members of the committee i am honored to appear to
We have a vote at 1030 a. M. In order to allow more centers time to ask their questions, agreed brown and i have to submit our Opening Statements for the record. Witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple minutes each. To ask theim going senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questions. First we receive testimony from ,he honorable Sigal Mandelker and following her we will hear testimony from ms. Susan thorton. Without anything further, lets proceed. Please proceed. Mandelker i am honored to appear before you to discuss our strategy to combat the oppressive actions of north korea. This administration is applying maximum economic and diplomatic pressure to counter this threat. Are essentialls to this campaign and it become among the semester nations top kinetic tools of choice. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy, which we are executing at a rapid pace. At a rapid pace were focused on attacking the Financial Vulnerability
One of our witnesses, ms. Thosht needs to leave by 10 30 in order to join secretary tillerson on a trip to china and we have a vote at 10 30. In order to allow more senators time to ask their questions, senator brown and i have agreed to submit our Opening Statements for the record. And we have also asked each of our witnesses to shorten their open statements to just a couple minutes each so we can get right to the questions. Obviously, im also going to ask the senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questioning. First we will receive testimony from the honorable siegel, the undersecretary of for terrorism and crimes. And following her Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets proceed. Undersecretary, please proceed. Thank you. Chairman crapo, distinguished members of the committee, im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy to combat the prov
Twice from mexican prisons. Margaret brennan has the the latest on this. Margaret. Scott, he is one of the worlds most notorious drug lords and wanted on a variety of Drug Trafficking and organized crime charge as cross the United States. Guzzman ran the cartel one of mexicos deadliest drug gangs. Arrested a year ago and fighting extradition for most of that time. He is best known for being a daring escape artist. Having slipped out of mexicos highest Security Prisons twice. Once, captured here on video, disappearing through a hole in his shower. And another time, fleeing inside a laundry cart. Scott, the extradition comes as the Mexican Foreign minister is expected in washington next week for his first meeting with the trump administration. Margaret brennan, breaking the story for us tonight. Margaret, thank you. The west is in for another round of rough weather. Snow in the mountains and heavy rain in strong wind along the coast. Storms overnight uprooted trees and triggered mudslide