The Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those who are watching as when he spent in her lifestream, i name is william. I laid the Atlantic Council work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you here today to if it cohosted by our strategy and security in our Global Business and economics programs economic sanctions initiative. This if it is on the record. Please tweet if you know so inclined and if so, please use the hashtag shaping sanctions. Today we are here of course to learn more about asthma and its finances. When he is one of the most sophisticated in the middle east. Iran patron has reportedly provided terrorist group we put hundreds of millions of dollars. Annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, undermining weapons political system and its delegate secretary and balance. Challenging the world lebanese as the sole legitimate protector of the security. Providing on demand Ground Forces work irans work in syria. Maintaining a toptier terrorist capabi
Gathered in baltimore for their annual retreat. This is about 40 minutes. Mr. Pence how are you all doing . Thank you for coming out to hear me speak today. Notow most of us here did get the opportunity to watch the president ial debate last night because we were watching the current and future president of the United States, donald trump, talk to us about the great things we have done working with him to get this country and this economy back on track, and the great things we are going to do not only with donald trump in the next term, but with republicans in the majority in the house in the next trump administration. You can applaud that, too. While that was going on, the democrats continue the radical move toward the socialist left and we are about to hear from somebody, as you are looking at the people on the stage, one of them may be the democratic candidate for president of the United States, whoever they put up on that stage, their big challenge will be they will have to go up a
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Today we are joined by the leading voices within the administration on reforming and strengthening the housing and finance some. The secretary of the treasury and the secretary of housing and urban development, both of whom have justice at Housing Finance reform proposals to the president as well as the director of the federal Housing Finance agency who serves as the regulator and conservatory of fannie mae and freddie mac. I want to thank each of you for coming to the committee this morning. Last friday marked 11 years since the government bailed out and put fannie mae and freddie mac in the conservatorship, where they remain today. Prior to 2008, the two governmentsponsored enterprises helped 45 cents in capital for every 100 in mortgages they guaranteed. Now, they hold just 19 cents. After a historic 200 billiondollar bailout from the taxpayers. 11 years later, the systemic
Here and pw partner mitch rochell. Happy monday everybody. Good to see you. Congress back in session, weve got markets trading up, deal on china in terms of a meeting, of course, early october, lot to talk about this morning. Also on deck, my interview with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Were going to talk about trade, the fed, fannie and freddy, reform, fannie mae and freddy reform, the latest iteration of a plan, certainly out of the treasury this morning, about Housing Finance and housing reform. Well talk about fannie mae and freddie mac. And the founder of papa johns pizza speaking out this morning exclusively to me in his first interview since being pushed out of the company that he founded. John bar a aso is here talking about peace talks with afghanistan, Niles Gardner is here talking brexit and senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano on big techs antitrust suit and doug collins on the upcoming Inspector General report as well as the new move out of the judiciary to
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Today we are joined by the leading voices within the administration on reforming and strengthening the housing and finance some. The secretary of the treasury and the secretary of housing and urban development, both of whom have justice at Housing Finance reform proposals to the president as well as the director of the federal Housing Finance agency who serves as the regulator and conservatory of fannie mae and freddie mac. I want to thank each of you for coming to the committee this morning. Last friday marked 11 years since the government bailed out and put fannie mae and freddie mac in the conservatorship, where they remain today. Prior to 2008, the two governmentsponsored enterprises helped 45 cents in capital for every 100 in mortgages they guaranteed. Now, they hold just 19 cents. After a historic 200 billiondollar bailout from the taxpayers. 11 years later, the systemic