Keith dayton, to be u. S. Diplomat to ukraine. Several members pressed mr. Dayton on his willingness to report back to the committee of any knowledge of russian interference. If confirmed, he waited replace marie yovanovich, who was removed from her position last year. The nominees today are representative to the general assembly, the second one, to be deputy chief executive officer corporation,e Lieutenant General keith dayton be ambassador to Ukraine Special Political Affairs at the u. N. And alternative representative to the general assembly. Our nominees they have distinguished individuals. Senatorcotton and romney will be introducing mr. Wong, and we are glad to represent have former ed rice with us today. Suspend my Opening Statement and ask the Ranking Member to do the same until after introductions are made by our distinguished guests. With that, mr. Romney, member of this committee, we will start with your interaction of mr. Alex ron, so senator romney . And legal policy direc
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i
Years since the mylan a crushing of the student uprising against the military dictatorship. Rajapaksa the man accused of Human Rights Violations during the fight against rebels is declared sri lankas next president. And on peace women with all the day support controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick holds a tryout session in front of team scouts but only after a last minute change of venue that and more coming up later in the program. Police in hong kong have warned they poisoned to break up a standoff with protesters for hours theyve been battling demonstrators who barricaded themselves in at a University Campus mcbride has more from. A long day of fighting at this College Campus has continued well into the night and most of the battling has been taking place at this. Junction behind me but in recent hours more police have been arriving and they have been confronting protesters that the number of different other entrances and to this campus most notably a fly over behind me where pr
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Demarcation line at the korean Demilitarized Zone sunday, and then took 20 steps beyond the line, which has divided north and south korea since 1953. We will go to seoul south korea, and to hawaii, for the latest. In over 4 Million People filled the streets of new york to celebrate world pride and mark the 50th anniversary of the stonewall uprising that launched the modernday lgbtq movement. We will hear voices from the que er liberation march. First, were honoring our ancestors in the fight for liberation, who started this all 50 ors ago at the stonewall bar. Amy all that and morere, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a a historic first for a sitting u. S. President , donald trump crossed through the Demilitarized Zone and set foot in north korea sunday, walking sidebyside with north Korean Leader kim jongun after kim greeted him at the demarcation line. They agreed to resume do new causation talks come although trump