The confirmation hearing to head the office of director of National Intelligence testified before the Senate Intelligence committee. This is just over two hours. Calling the hearing to order i would like to welcome the witness today, the nominee to be the director of National Intelligence. Congratulations on your nomination and welcome back. Im sure you didnt expect to be walking the halls so soon after your retirement and i would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend and i want to thank her for her support of you and willingness to share with the rest of the country. Ive seen firsthand the strength of the relationship you so thoughtfully described for the record. The goal is to enable the committees qualifications and allow for thoughtful deliberation of the members who already provided responses to 148 questions presented by the committee and its members. Today of course members will ask questions and hear from the senator in both open and closed sessions. He comes t
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Victims, they are victims. All c span programs available on c span. Home page and searching the video library. The Senate Intelligence Committee Confirmation hearing for dan coats. President trumps pick for National Intelligence. This is two hours. Call this hearing to order. Id like to welcome our witness today. Senator dan coats. President trumps nominee to be the next director of National Intelligence. Dan, graduaticongratulations on nomination and welcome back. Sure you didnt expect to be walking these haul halls so so after your retirement. Also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend, marsha. And i want to thank her for her support for you. And her willingness to share you with the rest of the coup tntry ive known wyou both. Our goal is conducting the committee to consider senator coats qualifications and allow for thoughtful deliberations by members. Hes provided written responses to more than 148 questions presented by the committee and members. Today, of course, memb
[indiscernible conversation] i call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witness. Besident trumps nominee to the next director of National Intelligence. Dan, congratulations on your nomination. Welcome back. I am sure you did not expect to be welcomed back to these holes so soon after your retirement. I would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend, marcia, and i would like to thank her for sharing you with the rest of us. Ive known both of you for many years and seen firsthand the strength of your relationship that you so thoughtfully described in your statement for the record. Our goal in this hearing is to direct the committee to consider tor coates for the consider him for the nomination. He is already responded to more than 100 questions. Today, of course, members will be able to ask additional questions in both open and closed sessions. Withoats comes to us Honorable Service in the house, the senate, and as an ambassador. Those of us who have had the
Raindrops, i was looking on twitter, we saw some raindrops yesterday. Could we see that again today . Ale little bit of scattered drizzle. Yes. But we could see heavier rain later on today. The good news is, for the ironman, it doesnt look like it will interfere with that. Take a look at this. 66 degrees right now. At phoenix sky harbor. So pretty mild morning. Definitely warmer than this time yesterday. And this is how the rest of that sevenday forecast, or i should say most accurate forecast is going to look for today at least. The 50s an 60s. And after that, we are going to moderate to the mid70s, as more clouds move in. Our rain chances move up to about a 20 . And then later on, that is when we could see even better rain chances, and also on monday. I will will break down the percentages for everyone, so way, you can plan your day, coming up in a few minutes. Meantime allison, you said it. A lot of news to get to. Happening now in tempe. Hundreds people preparing to compete in the