honorable kelly craft, currently the ambassador for canada and nominated to be the united states ambassador to the united nations. first we have two distinguished guests, distinguished and celebrity guests i might add today. and they are going to introduce our nominees or we re going to allow them to proceed with introductions. usually i do senator menendez and i do our opening statements first but we re going to postpone because i know our guests introducers have important business to do. we re privileged to be joined by ambassador kraft s home state senators today, majority leader mitch mcconnell, senator rand paul will be here soon to also introduce the nominee. senator mcconnell, welcome to the united states foreign foreign relations committee. long known for its kindness to its witnesses and for civility. your steady and thoughtful leadership inspire us all as you sail this ship through the heavy seas we encounter daley here and we welcome hearing your considered judgmen
brazil s justice minister has appeared before a senate committee to defend himself against accusations he acted unethically while overseeing a major corruption investigation serger morrow is facing calls to resign after a leaked messages allegedly allegedly showed him guiding prosecutors in a case against former president and a reason. he was convicted of bribery last year more denies any improper conduct. what we see here in fact is some sort of criminal invasion from an organized group whose goals are to attack court sentences related to corruption in money laundering or perhaps to create obstacles to investigations taking place investigations that could hurt powerful people or maybe it s just an attack against brazilian institutions the u.s. president s nomination to become washington s new ambassador to the u.n. is facing some tough questions over climate change kelly craft has previously said she believes both sides of the climate debate which became a key focus of the s
congressional testimony with nelson cunningham and former accident director of the f.b.i. s office of congressional affairs and later an update on the unrest in venezuela with americas vice pr, eric farnsworth. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: good morning on this friday, may third. the mueller the president and republican say the mueller investigation is over. it s up to you, move on or keep investigating? democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. and independents, 202-748-8002. to join us on twitter at @cspanwj and you can faust post comments on facebook.com/cspan. north carolina senator thom tillis yesterday made the argument on the senate floor that now it is time for congress to start focusing on other priorities. [video clip] what this really boils down to is theater. some of it almost t
i have to use my teacher voice here. talk about settling down and get back to business. so this is not the first rodeo for our next set of panelists. they don t just know u.s.-canadian relations, they have actually lived u.s.-canadian relations. they have all been ambassadors for either the u.s. or for canada. and several of them have held elective office and we suspect they all have some stories to tell as much as prospectives to share. moderating this discussion is emily rahala of the washington post, she now writes about foreign affairs with a focus on canada. she previously reported for the post and for time in asia and she shares an overseas press club award for the internet in china. joining her on the stage is jim blanchard, u.s. ambassador to canada from 1993 to 96. he played an important part in the passage of nafta 1. he s also a former member of congress, and a former governor of michigan. and he s currently with the l.a. piper. gary doer was canadian ambassad
and botswana considers lifting its ban on elephant hunting, to allow limited culling, and even canning of the meat for pet food. hello and welcome to bbc news. at least two people have been killed, and others injured, in clashes at venezuela s border with brazil. these are pictures from the brazil border. local media is reporting venezuelan security forces opened fire on a group of people who tried to block them from travelling there. president nicolas maduro closed that border with brazil to prevent foreign aid organised by the opposition from coming in. meanwhile an anti maduro music concert has been taking place on the border with colombia. it s called venezuela aid live, and is backed by the british tycoon richard branson. the bbc‘s orla guerin is there. live aid for venezuela. under the south american sun, a benefit concert in colombia for a nation in need. all taking place within sight and sound of the border crossing. and among the crowds, we found venezuelans forced