Good morning. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Appropriations committee will please come to order. We are here today to discuss the National Security components of the president supplemental funding request. Were glad to have secretary austin and secretary blinken with us to talk about the challenges were seeing around the world and the urgency of providing the necessary resources to meet these challenges, support our allies and make the word and our country safer. At our First Full Committee Hearing earlier this year on outcompeting china, both secretaries made a strong case for why passing our full year appropriations bill was robust investments in america and avoiding perpetual cuts was so crucial of keeping the United States on the world stage. As the two of you return to this committee, i think every member understands and takes many of the messages we brought to you in the last hearing. These are difficult times and American Leadership and support will be critical as we f
Cspan two. Politics at russian and the influence of russian president Vladimir Putin. Speakers include a russian journalist, a former u. S. Ambassador to russia and nato and the first Russian Foreign minister who served under Boris Yeltsin. This is just over an hour and a half. John good morning. My name is john herbst. I run the Eurasian Center here at the atlantic council. Thank you all for coming. We have a Wonderful Program for you this morning. And i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. We began with a session in october on demography in russia. And this of course is on politics. Next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on Energy Sector in russia. We have a real treat for you this morning. We have a wonderful lineup of speakers. I will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a topnotch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinatin
John good morning. My name is john herbst. I run the Eurasian Center here at the atlantic council. Thank you all for coming. We have a Wonderful Program for you this morning. And i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. We began with a session in october on demography in russia. And this of course is on politics. Next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on Energy Sector in russia. We have a real treat for you this morning. We have a wonderful line of speakers. I will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a topnotch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinating paper on russia politically. Foreign minister kozyrev will comment on that, as will eugene rumer from carnegie. And ambassador and former deputy secretary nato, Sandy Vershbow will bat cleanup for us this morning. And with that i will turn it over to dr. Albats. Yevgenia thank y
A very provocative and russia,ing paper on politically. With that, i will turn it over to i would like to extend my to whoatitude invited me and asked me to write the paper there who invited me who invited me and asked me to write the paper. The main topic of the paper i council the democratic and in this paper, i argued that we have been witnessing the transformation of the regime in russia. History in italy with mussolini. To be sure there is no conspiracy and the story i am outlining, i am just arguing has win Vladimir Putin president in 2000, and over the years, over eight all layers staffed of the russian government, the upper levels of the government and the president ial administration and as a result, almost 60 or 70 of all positions in the top layer of the russian government were kgb and somehe people from the military intelligence group. 2015, it became clear in the public sphere that the country is run by the people who grew up or by their sons and daughters. We have witness
Getting a firsthand look at the immigration debate. The president unveiling a new proposal. Expanding the number of d. R. E. A. M. Ers who could become citizens, while demanding 25 billion for a border wall and more security in exchange. We talk to all sides of the debate. Including republicans breaking with trump. You do not believe in a big no, no, no. 25 billion wall. From the white house to your house, the facts that matter this week. Good morning. Its hard to believe only one week ago today, washington was in a state of paralysis. The government shut down over immigration. The tug of war over the d. R. E. A. M. Ers and talks on Border Security hitting a wall. That stalemate ended on monday. Congress once again kicking the can down the road another few weeks. While the fate of as many as 2 million young undocumented immigrants hangs in the balance. To get a sense of how the immigration debate is playing outside washington, we traveled hundreds of miles along the southern border. Fr