Good morning everyone. Hi behalf of the political ceo and editorinchief, welcome to the fifth annual womens rural summit. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. It is absolutely amazing to see so many familiar faces as well as a lot of new faces. It has been a great evolution and im so glad to have you all with us today. I am here to do a simple job which is to say thank you. Thank you to everyone for attending. A special thank you to our ambassador and at every table there is an investor that will be helping lead conversations. If i could just ask you to stand quickly if you are an ambassador. [applause] these are remarkable women. Many of whom have flown in from across the country to help the Youth Empowerment information and share insight. Our first annual inaugural luncheon and best was large and they will be leading so i hope you all really enjoy that curious today is not just explore the impact of women of politics and power. We are informing, empowering and connecting wome
Please welcome politico Vice President and general manager, alexis williams. [applause] good morning, everyone. On behalf of the politico ceo and editorinchief, welcome to the fifth annual women rural summit. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. It is absolutely amazing to see so many familiar faces, as well as a lot of new faces. It has been a great evolution and im so glad to have you all with us today. I am here to do a simple job which is to say thank you. Thank you to everyone for attending. A special thank you to our ambassadors, and at every table there is an ambassador that will be helping lead conversations. If i could just ask you to stand quickly if you are an ambassador. [applause] remarkable women, many of whom have flown in from across the country to help the Youth Empowerment information and share insight. Our first annual inaugural and they will be leading dialogues, so i hope you all enjoy that. We are informing, empowering and connecting women such as yourselv
Moderated by meet the press host, chuck todd. A special presentation decision 2017 the Virginia Governors race democrat Ralph Huntsman and Ed Hillary Clinton face off or your vote in a highstakes race drawn national attention. Live from capital one headquarters in mclean here is nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. [applause] good evening i am chuck todd and welcome to the virginia Gubernatorial Debate between the democratic Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam and republican nominee ed gillespie hosted by the Northern Virginia chamber of commerce the school of government at George Mason University. This debate is airing on all nbc stations across the state of Virginia National antispam and streaming live on the nbc washington app. Let me begin quickly by covering the rules of todays event that the debate will last one hour and who became a twominute Opening Statements from each candidate and then our panelists and myself will pose questions directly to
Huntsman and Ed Hillary Clinton face off or your vote in a highstakes race drawn national attention. Live from capital one headquarters in mclean here is nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. [applause] good evening i am chuck todd and welcome to the virginia Gubernatorial Debate between the democratic Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam and republican nominee ed gillespie hosted by the Northern Virginia chamber of commerce the school of government at George Mason University. This debate is airing on all nbc stations across the state of Virginia National antispam and streaming live on the nbc washington app. Let me begin quickly by covering the rules of todays event that the debate will last one hour and who became a twominute Opening Statements from each candidate and then our panelists and myself will pose questions directly to the candidates. I should note these questions determined by nbc news and the panelists and have not been reviewed by the cand
Jon huntsman is President Trump nominee to be ambassador to russia. He has a reason served as ambassador to china and governor of utah appeared at his Senate Confirmation hearing, mr. Huntsman discussed the u. S. Relationship with russia. Senator bob corker chairs the Relations Committee. This hearing is two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Relations Committee will come to order. We have an unusual procedure today. As usual, we will do for today outstanding senators who are here to introduce others and we thank them for being here. It anon or to have you here in our committee. We let them go first so they can go on to their other business. Well then convened adjourning pending the business meeting for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominee is out and passing bills out and then we will resume with a great testimony we know well hear from our nominees. With that, and we welcome you. If i can remember the seniority order, i know senator cornyn is first