Foreign Relations Committee of the senate will come to order. The chair would note we have a full house today and an enthusiastic audience, im sure. We ask you to be respectful, remind everyone that holding up signs or making verbal outbursts is disruptive and appropriate action will be taken if need be. This morning, we have a hearing on a matter that is really of pressing National Security importance. That is the relationship of the United States and for that matter the world with iran. This hearing is intended to do three things. Number one, we will consider the facts behind the maximum Pressure Campaign against iran. We will examine the elements of irans necessary Behavioral Changes that would satisfy u. S. And the worlds National Security interests. And thirdly, assess irans willingness to behave as a responsible member of the International Community. Their pursuit of regional domination following 1979 revolution transformed the fabric of the middle east. Dangerouslyregime weaponi
Administrations decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nature of two nato allies. I am currently the director of the International Security program at george mason university, and it is a great pleasure too preside over todays discussion on the topic that i i think is particularly compelling. So, in our topsyturvy world where we write love letters to authoritarians and publicly disparagee our allies, its kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkey turkish relations in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none coming and maybe we will figure ou out today how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its of course been a tumultuous relationship, one where the executive branch and congress dont always see eye to eye. Is it fundamentally a Security Partnership or do we have a stake
Who is certainly a favor secession are adamant that this is a course that they want to continue fighting for and that they see this particular ruling. As an overbearing aspect of the spanish authorities horses comes ahead of the spanish elections which are in november the 10th as well but certainly this is not going to be an issue thats going to stop for the spanish Prime Minister will continue and certainly will tend to overshadow the spanish elections in the next month as well agent 0 so were very were reporting live there from barcelona somebody thanks ecuadors government has reached an agreement with the Indigenous Leaders to end days of violent protests the unrest began after the government moved to end decades old fuel subsidies zeros manuel upolu has the latest now from the capitol hill. On sunday chaos once again gripped the streets of the ecuadorian capital fighting between protesters and police turned much of downtown into a battlefield with demonstrators continuing to pressu
Chris van hollen held a press conference to introduce a bill that would impose more sanctions. It was in response to turkeys military operations targeting Kurdish Forces in northern syria. Ms. Graham thank you very much. Im senator graham from South Carolina and here with Bipartisan Group of United States senators to make a clear statement in uncertain times. What turkey did in syria is unacceptable. Turkeys incursion hurts Americas National security and puts at risk our kurdish allies as there for us and the Syrian Ground forces were to destroy the caliphate. But the infantry for destroying the caliphate and we believe that erdogans decision to go into syria puts our allies at risk. We believe that the rise of isis is imminent if this continues. We appreciate what the president did with sanctions against turkey. We are here to add to it and supplement what the president did and let turkey know there are three branches of government. But congress is going to speak with a sing did you l
Head into the rest of earnings season i dont know if e. Theyre th bellwether, mel. Late night for us yankee fans oh, yeah. Im a new york fan, go yankees. But lets talk markets. We do what we need to do, as you know, mel. Are there Trading Opportunities . I still think they are citi was an interesting play tangible book is around 69. I think what youll see is a bounce after earnings on the back of that it trades anywhere from 85 of tangible book to 1. 2 i think thats whats going to happen now in terms of the bellwether for the broader market, i dont believe that to be the case. I think its all positioning. Weve all talked about that. I think positioning has been negative in the financials ive been negative in the financials i do believe estimates have come in enough that you can sort of walk over them so i think youll have a tradeable bounce in the financials but longer term i would not be there. Id be positive on the banks. Its hard to go into the Third Quarter. I think the expectation