Nominee to be the next ambassador to israel. Questions about the Iran Nuclear Deal when he was treasury secretary and the Obama Administration. Some ergonomic is alleged he was not forthcoming about the deal financial implementation. He denied the allegations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] click. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [background noises] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Todays hearing carries great importance for the United States, israel and the region. The attacks by hamas over ten days ago in israel of the deadliest day for juice since the holocaust. Objective elevate and wheelchairs, burning people alive, killing babies in front of parents, not only horrific and barbaric but methodically planned and carried out. Hamas started a war. We need someone to reinforce the message the United States
Stand again in support of our great ally israel. The terror and devastation unleashed on israel by iranbacked Hamas Terrorists has rightly horrified the world. What im about to describe is difficult to say and uncomfortable to hear, but it has to be said on the senate floor. We cannot make this stuff up. The world must know the atrocities that occurred in israel. On the morning of saturday, october 7, 2023, as families rose to start a new day, make breakfast or slowly wake up in their beds, terror approached. Innocent families were murdered in their homes. Babies were killed, innocent little babies were murdered and some were ruthlessly beheaded. Children were burned alive. Teenage girls were raped and then burned alive. And a wheelchair bound woman later identified as a holocaust survivor was brutally dragged through the streets of gaza. Children who witnessed the murders of their parents being kidnapped are now being held hostage by hamas. More than 250 young people were savagely mur
We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
We are really excited to have them here. They know what is going to happen in this summit because everything is worked out. I dont know how much theyre going to share with us but i suspect it will be a good session. It will be a conversation led by Chris Johnstone who leads our japan program. So can i ask you for your very enthusiastic applause, welcome, ambassador yamada and ambassador emanuel. Thank you, doctor. Thank you for joining us. Thanks to all of you for being here today. I am Senior Advisor and japan chair. We will have a 30 minute or so conversation up here and try to open things up for a question or two at the end. So let me start. This is the First Official visit of a japanese Prime Minister to the white house since 2015. These visits are a big deal. I think this is only the fifth that the Biden Administration has done since it took office. Theyre a prime opportunity to showcase progress in the relationship and highlight the importance of the alliance. I would like to off
[inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. Welcome. Its a Beautiful Day in the start up with going to be a really exciting week. I want to say thank you to all of you for coming. Delighted to have you here. And let me just say last week we released a report in the armitage series and id like you to take a look at it but its looking at the next step we can take in strengthening its alliance. Its a remarkable accomplishment in these last years we have succeeded at a high point. Its really been remarkable whats been accomplished during his tenure and we are excited to have him here especially having a speech in front of the joint session of congress. Thats really rare so thats exciting time. We were very fortunate to have two ambassadors here in buster yamada and ambassador rahm emanuel. They have been working hard for the last three weeks. He said he was out running the marathon this weekend and that explains a lot why hes fit and trim. [laughter] but we are excited to have him he