A front row seat to democracy. Good morning everyone. We will come to order. And i want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, for participating in the invitation to you, and the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that we have distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how brutal, reclusive regime can buy influence and even take over a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. It is a regime that has reportedly killed journalist, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen and supported other terrorist activities, including the nine 9 11 attack on our nation. Today is about sports but also about hypocrisy, how fast sounds of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values and supporters or per
Good morning everyone. We will come to order. And i want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, for participating in the invitation to you, and the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that we have distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how brutal, reclusive regime can buy influence and even take over a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. It is a regime that has reportedly killed journalist, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen and supported other terrorist activities, including the nine 9 11 attack on our nation. Today is about sports but also about hypocrisy, how fast sounds of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values and supporters or perhaps reveal a lack of values fr
Out of her own wallets to pay for it. Its interesting we will break away from this program, you can watch all of our programs at cspan dot org. As we take you live to a hearing with pga tour executives, ron price and jimmy done. Testifying on the Controversial Partnership with saudi liv golf. We bring you live coverage here on cspan 3. We will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, and participating in the invitation. And the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that weve distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how a brutal, repressive versus jim can take a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. The regime has reportedly killed journalists, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen, and sup
To discuss these issues and more, im joined by my guess, martin j and mera cash. Hes an Award Winning journalist, and commentator, and in budapest we have George Samuel lee. Hes a podcast at the gaggle which can be found on youtube and the locals. Are gentlemen cross up rules. In fact, that means you can jump any time you want, and i would appreciate it. Take care to start out with you in budapest, here before we talk about what Vladimir Putin had to say at the annual di discussion group, i was thinking as we started here, is it so much is commented about what, who has never said and, and very little is commented on what he actually says here. So thats my segue into his commentary. Was very interesting commentary on the west and its ideology, neoliberalism. And i think was also kind of a sermon on how the west is portrayed the enlightenment. Youre absolutely right. Its because the way the media presented in speech was entirely a incorrect and misleading because you like to live the way
Doing just fine. I wont go into the i. G. Report on the background checks. But the people that are at kabul now, it is 100 million a year we are paying them. I cant believe we cant use the marines in these situations. Someone has got to do a cost benefit analysis. Can you imagine the amount of money we have spent fooling around with these contractors that werent getting the job done . Can you imagine the time we have spent on this and the money that has been spent . I would like for you, general, to talk about the cost benefit of putting marines in our embassies and why in the world this is hard for us to get our arms around and where is the analysis that shows us we are saving any money. Just to react briefly to what would be necessarily a much longer conversation. The marines are not thats not their role or what they do for the nation. Could it be at some point potentially . I would hate to think we would make that decision based on costs but it would require a longer conversation. I