Your name,r identify yourself ad write your question. When youre ready raise your hand. Staff will collect those, pass them on to the chair of the panel, and then your question will be read and addressed. If you want it addressed to specific panelist, please indicate that. Let me just say a couple words quickly about the chairman of the panel, and then just subject matter a little bit, and then turn it over to them. I am very pleased and honored that my colleague and good friend for many years, neither one of us would like to say how long, but has agreed to chair this panel, particularly with the fact, i mean, hes a college with us at the arab center and a professor at georgetown, and a long time resident an active scholar in washington dealing with these issues, middle east in general but particularly on this issue with u. S. Policy towarden iran. I would like for those of you interested to recommend to you a couple, his most recent work for us. If you go on our website, arab center d
You just heard scott talk about that. Youll see it right here. We begin with the markets. Dom chu has those markets. Dom, good news. Maybe some good news over here, deidre. Take a look at this. The markets are green across the board for all the major indexes. The dow up about 0. 2 of 1 , 39,229. The s p 500 up about 18 points, 1 3 of 1 gains there. Tilting towards the higher levels of the session. We were up 23 points at the intraday points and down 11 at the lows. So theres your range in context for the s p. The nasdaq composite, the tech heavier index, up one half of 1 , 16,322 for the nasdaq. Up about 82 points. One of the key stocks helping is a bounceback were seeing in tesla stock. Up about 2 3 of 1 right now, 168 and change. Remember, trying to bounce back from those disappointing delivery and product production numbers from yesterday. A number of analysts with some price target cuts. But shrugging that off. The shares trying to get some kind of footing above that 165 market. Th
Thank you very much, senator mcconnell, for being here. He had to work harder than you know to get here because its washington and it rained. And, you know, washington doesnt cope with many things well, including rain and so, thank you for percent veering. And you won the senate. Congratulations. One of my better months. Exactly. You know, let me start with the 10,000 foot level if washington. I think the words dysfunction and congress have gone together a lot in the last few years. Youve talked from the minute you guys won the majority about fixing the way the senate works. Talk a little bit about how youre going to do that and what you have in mind when you say that. Rarely does an issue like functioning resonate with the American People. But it clearly did. There were two things that we heard all over the country this year. Number one, people were very upset with the administration. You could have figured that out pretty quickly. But they were also not happy with the fact that we do
Putin did this in georgia. He did it in moldova. That went for those who want to look west ward. I think for so long as you do not have offensive weapons along what is the Eastern Europe part assigned to europe, then russia is in a position, if you put offensive weapons, that changes the dynamics for russia. If all youre talking about is a defensive possibility, im not quite sure why that evokes, you know, putins actions. And well before any discussion of nato, the conversation was about ukraine looking towards European Union session more than nato. And i think for putin and his eurasia view, and new russia view. Ukraine is an essential element of that. It is not about defense or concerns. And without ukraine it is difficult to envision the type of new russia. So i dont think it was a mistake to enter into those negotiations. And i dont know which one of us is willing to suppress the aspirations for the same freedoms we enjoy in the United States. Senator menendez, im watching changing
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