To get assad out of power. We also need a knew aumf giving the president what he needs to defend isis. Turn to ukraine, its fighting again intensifies, we cannot take our eye off the ball. Ukraines top priority should be rooting out corruption and reform, we need to support these efforts, we need to work with ukraine. We need to be a partner of ukraine, a stronger, more prosperous ukraine stands a better chance of turning putin back. Speaking of putin, we need to let him know we will never acquiese to his position on crimea. Any talk of sanctions relief for russia is premature, so long as ukraine doesnt control its own eastern border. We must do more to counter russian propaganda, we feel very strong about the fact that people in the russian language sometimes only hear on the air what putin wants them to hear. They get a very unbalanced view. We need to move in there and make sure they get a balanced view. Let me applaud president obama for what hes done over the last year. We should
The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
Maggie haberman who covers politics for the New York Times and cnn. Paul ryan is a very conservative figure. Yet at this moment in the conservative party which has lurched so far right, he is not treated that way anymore. Hes seen as a moderate. Rose instead of establishment. Absolutely. And the party base is deeply suspicious. Many americans are deeply suspicious of government and of an establishment. So i think that were not going to know whether the Republican Party looks anything like what we resemble. You certainly see people like paul ryan and ted cruz banking on the idea that it basically will form wack toward what it was in some version or another but its a collection of different tribes with different interests now. Rose brett mcgurk and maggie haberman, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studio
Maggie haberman who covers politics for the New York Times and cnn. Paul ryan is a very conservative figure. Yet at this moment in the conservative party which has lurched so far right, he is not treated that way anymore. Hes seen as a moderate. Rose instead of establishment. Absolutely. And the party base is deeply suspicious. Many americans are deeply suspicious of government and of an establishment. So i think that were not going to know whether the Republican Party looks anything like what we resemble. You certainly see people like paul ryan and ted cruz banking on the idea that it basically will form wack toward what it was in some version or another, but its a collection of different tribes with different interests now. Rose brett mcgurk and maggie haberman, when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studi