Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
Inquiry process. Log on to our impeachment inquiry webpage at cspan. Org impeachment. Your fast and easy way to watch cspan unfiltered coverage anytime. Hello again. Howseverybody doing . Day three, gala tonight. Without further ado why dont we welcome our first candidate of the day. Mayor pete buttigieg. [music] welcome. So mayor pete, you gave a major foreignpolicy address injune. I think you got credit for being one of the first foreignpolicy visions. Andin that speech , he said if Prime Minister netanyahu makes good on his promise, he should know that president buttigieg should ensure american taxpayers wont help. That was a wellreceived line, can you unpack that a little bit . How do you ensure us taxpayer dollars will be used to fund the annex . It begins by understanding the basis ofour relationship. Its not just a Strategic Alliance thats important, its also an alliance thats based on values and making sure our security and cooperation with israel happens in the framework and i
As the Turkish Military offensive in Northern Syria goes on, the pentagon has deployed fighter jets and helicopter gunships to warn off Turkish Backed fighters who, a us official says, violated an agreement not to threaten retreating american ground troops. The russian government, which backs syrias president assad, has also warned turkey, saying it will not allow clashes with syrian forces. The turks have crossed the border into syria aiming to defeat kurdish fighters, long time American Allies who they regard as terrorists. This report from jon sopel. The extraordinary american retreat in one selfie video. A russian wearing a new york yankees cap playfully shows us around a newly abandoned Us Military Base in Northern Syria. The russians are gratefully filling a vacuum. And as if to underline this major power shift in the middle east, just look at the welcome the United Arab Emirates were laying on this morning for the russian leader, vladimir putin, as they gave him the red well, bl
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Process and were all in favor of that. [applause] by the way fake news will cut that last part of the sentence off. First part, man is he rough, too tough. I cant vote for him. A nation must put his own citizens first. My administration is standing up for american seniors. [applause] and well always protect the medicare benefit you earned and paid for. In the last administration democrats slashed medicare by 800 billion to pay for obamacare. Not too good, obamacare. Now one of their new proposals, backed by more than 130 Democrat Members of congress would cost, listen to this number, 32 trillion. That is on the low side, 32 trillion with a t. Were beyond the bs, the billions. Reduce American Household income by 17,000 a year. Is there anybody in this room that doesnt mind losing 17,000 a year . No. In order to get lousy health care. Though they use many labels all of the democrat plans would devastate our Health Care System. The fake moderates on the left are telling the same lies they