The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to
[inaudible conversations]. We will come to order. Good afternoon this is a fourth in a series of hearings we are holding as part of the inquiry without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time. There is a quorum present. Well proceed today as an Opening Statement than the Ranking Member can make his Opening Statement and then we will turn to the witnesses and then two questions. Without a now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement into the impeachment inquiry of donald j. Trump the 45th president of the United States. This afternoon well hear from two witnesses Ambassador Special representative for ukraine negotiations and to morrison former senior director for European Affairs at an sei appreciate the minorities request for these witnesses as well as undersecretary of state from whom we will hear tomorrow progress we have heard from other witnesses when joe biden was considered whether to enter the price one the president ial race in 2020 giuliani began a
Those people waited in line, followed the law at the bridge and once it was ruled out it was placed in mpp. And they want to follow the law. I heard from cvp individuals that when they processed numerous crossings back and forth for their proceedings in the United States that added a strain on ports of entry. Do you believe mpp has been crossed affected or yielded efficient processing of asylumseekers . I dont believe it is more efficient. Court of entry are busy places. Mexican residents, has really congested the ports of entry in the movement when asylumseekers, people have to go very early in the morning. It caused a lot of delay. Mister knowles, i would like to hear based, how has the broader admission and morale been impacted by remain in mexico . I would like to say historically our more out has been extremely high because people are drawn to the protection work which is also protection of our country and we have done a very good job and received very high marks from every admini
All morning with your phone calls, Facebook Messages and tweet. Journal, 7 00on a. M. Eastern wednesday morning. The House Intelligence Committee has just wrapped up public testimony from kurt volker, the official envoy to ukraine and tim morrison. As part of the inquiry into President Trump. We will show that now in its entirety. The meeting will come to order. Good afternoon. This is the fourth in a series of public hear chairman schiff the chair is recess at to declare anytime. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member will make his Opening Statement. We will proceed in the same fashion. I will make Opening Statement and the Ranking Member will have opportunity to make Opening Statement. Then we turn to the witnesses for Opening Statements and then to questions. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry of Donald J Trump. This amp we will hear from two witnesses requested by the minor. The special representative for the uk
Detail of the hearing with maria yoon of began at 9 00 oclock this morning and broke about midmorning and wrapping up here will be a close door session with david holmes, and he of course is the official who overheard that come phone conversation. It got so much attention with a testimony of bill taylor. That testimony in all of our coverage by the way is available at her website at cspan. Org. We will use this opportunity to hear from you to get your reaction. And what you heard and we saw today, our phone lines are open at 202, 748 8924 democrats and 202 748 891 republicans and he also took two 748 892. A lot of attention on the tweet that came just as the hearing was getting underway at 10 00 oclock eastern time this morning. From the president tweeting and real donald trump, the president writing the following quote everywhere marie yvonne news bench wet, turn red. She started off in somalia, how did that go. Then fast forward to ukraine where the nuclear ukrainian spoke unfavorabl