A short while ago that yahoo has for years tonight any wrongdoing in this investigation has been going on for years he is really under no legal obligation to resign after being charged that perhaps may be challenged in the courts but this is all happening as the country is really in a political stalemate lets go to our correspondent gary foster who is in west jerusalem so as you pointed out just a few minutes ago harry this is breaking now but its actually been developing for years. Thats right this has been a long running investigation it was opened in december 26th in the police recommended charges in 2018 and in february this year the attorney general said that he was minded to prosecute nessun yahoo on exactly these charges in these 3 separate cases now there were pretty indictment hearings that were acquired before that happened and they took place in october there was some question then as to whether netanyahu is lawyers had successfully argued away the bribery case which is by f
Ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. It is just under 2. 5 hours. [crowd noise] the committee will come to order. Thank you for attending today. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on important position. The nominee today is John Jay Sullivan to be the u. S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. We have two distinguished colleagues of ours. We will allow them to proceed with introductions. I will postpone my opening statement. I asked the Ranking Member to do likewise. Until the nominees have been introduced. We are glad to be joined today by senators dan sullivan of alaska and ben cardin of maryland. Sullivanand senator has drawn the straw to go first. Thank you very much. Its an honor to be before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again on behalf of my friend John Sullivan. To beport his nomination the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related. Although i oc
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
Its where this body has the most control over those 12 appropriation bills. When i had to hand the gavel back to the current speaker, nancy pelosi, we were actually sending less than when she handed the gavel in 2011 to john boehner. Thats a record i am aproud of, but the real thats a record the real roud of, but thing is we have the same desire. When we were in the majority we passed a budget that actually balanced. I know the first part was passing a budget. We said to the American Public we were serious about this. This bill gives us stability for the next two years. It helps build the military and gives protections for those that the republicans would care about thats sitting in law today. No, its not the bill id write by myself. Its a compromise as we move forward, but it actually allows this process to work. For too long, the American Public has watched a continuing resolution after a shutdown after a continuing resolution. One of the biggest goals that we had being in the majori
Room here. Great to see so many members and sponsors and our board. Thanks for joining us here and welcome to trucon 2019. [applause] i am so glad youre hear with us today and i am especially grateful to those of you who traveled a great distance to be here. Thank you. Before we get underway i want to take a moment to thank those who helped make this event and so much of this possible. Were fortunate to be supported by sponsors in the work we do and the world we seek a create. Bob abernathy, Carnegie Corporation of new york, john d and kathyrn macarthur, and others, and with em to herb to the truman for over a decade. Mr. Sandler passed away and i was happy to have met him a few weeks ago. We are not just grateful for their continued investment since 2008, but the willingness to lead by example in funding and guiding the full fight for likemined organizations. Id like to thank board members, alvin, steven bailey, jake sullivan, john finer, matt spence. Franklin templeton investment. Gu