[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. I would like to thank Ranking Member whitehouse, my friend and collaborator. Its great to be here at doing this together. I was just saying to him, i told him i would tell you it would bt nice to them in his edges because hes a top question. He will take you to test. I would like to thank the witnesses for their attendance today. I would also like to highlight two empty chairs today, which i say for saved for two and find witnesses who apparently dont show your commitment to discuss these issues. One chair is for tik tok. If you dont know what tik tok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers that Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly spooked. For facebook, that fear is lost social media market share. For the rest of us, the fear is somewhat different. A company compromised byif the Chinese Communist party knows where your childrenws are
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She tied a mark with her sixth u. S. National championship, while becoming the first woman to perform an amazing move. Yep, that tripledouble right there. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 12th. Good monday morning. So glad to be back with you after a couple of days off. A good way to start the week. Did you miss me . He said, did i miss him . I talked to him every day, i saw him when i was in miami. Did i miss you . No, i saw you. So . Tell the people. I miss sharing this desk with you. How about that . Oh, there it is. I just have to force her to Say Something nice. So glad kenneth is back. Hey, thanks. We do begin this half hour with the capture of a suspected killer who had been on the run in tennessee. The search came to an end yesterday hours after he was spotted on a Home Security camera. Heres abcs will reeve. Reporter a fugitive, convicted kidnapper and accused murderer caught in tennessee after a tense fiveday manhunt. Officers from tdot, dhb, tdi, spot
They have a lane in the road but the curbs are pretty short. And they cover issues as they see fit. Matt goodman is Senior Advisor for asia and economics, and the us Governments National security staff, director for International Economics, white house coordinator for apack, Senior Advisor to the undersecretary for Economic Energy and Agricultural Affairs and department of state. The list goes on as well as private sector worked at goldman sachs, the Government Affairs office in london and jim show is with the carnegie education program. Previously served in the pentagon the office as Senior Advisor for east asia policy, the office of the secretary of defense and there he was responsible for Strategic Planning and policy Development Relations for japan. And spearheaded Regional Security cooperation issues, north korea, Missile Defense, Disaster Relief and Maritime Security and lived in japan and other parts of asia for a number of years. Past cronin holds the asia pacific security chai
In the past u. S. Experts and officials have always had really private sometimes stern messages for both sides to take auction to move forward and we will see how are panelists come down on that issue today. And we really have a group of stiller panelists and i will introduce them later but first we have for what many of you will be a surprise guest, we only heard formal confirmation late yesterday that mike will begin the opening remarks, mr. Napper, his appearance may not be on the website yet and people may not have been aware of it, but mr. Knapper, member of senior Foreign Department of state and hes serving as the Deputy Assistant secretary for korea and japan and i first met mark when he was the head of the political military unit in the embassy in tokyo, well, probably more years than either one of us would want to admit and since then hes had any number of jobs, any number of business cards i think i have in my collection, its not to say he cant keep a job, expertise on so man