Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i
If i cannot give you the source and method would you prefer i dont govern you the information . I think it would be best for all concerns if when you make an allegation like that you are able to back it up with more than i say so. That is not what i said. It isnt because i said so. You get up at the u. N. Counsel and secretary gets up on sunday making allegations and your evidence to back it up appears to fall short of proof. I cannot remember the rest. They are firing artillery to attack ukrainian military. Did you believe rockets, missiles, over whatever fired from russian territory took down the two ukrainian planes or do you not have conformation that happened we are looking into exactly what brought into the planes. Are you sure . You are sure the planes wept down . We dont make determinations until we have facts. Yes, but you are sure the russians are firing artillery . We have information, yes. Coming up on cspan2. Two astronauts testify to a house science, space and technology
If i cannot give you the source and method would you prefer i dont govern you the information . I think it would be best for all concerns if when you make an allegation like that you are able to back it up with more than i say so. That is not what i said. It isnt because i said so. You get up at the u. N. Counsel and secretary gets up on sunday making allegations and your evidence to back it up appears to fall short of proof. I cannot remember the rest. They are firing artillery to attack ukrainian military. Did you believe rockets, missiles, over whatever fired from russian territory took down the two ukrainian planes or do you not have conformation that happened we are looking into exactly what brought into the planes. Are you sure . You are sure the planes wept down . We dont make determinations until we have facts. Yes, but you are sure the russians are firing artillery . We have information, yes. Coming up on cspan2. Two astronauts testify to a house science, space and technology
If i cannot give you the source and method would you prefer i dont govern you the information . I think it would be best for all concerns if when you make an allegation like that you are able to back it up with more than i say so. That is not what i said. It isnt because i said so. You get up at the u. N. Counsel and secretary gets up on sunday making allegations and your evidence to back it up appears to fall short of proof. I cannot remember the rest. They are firing artillery to attack ukrainian military. Did you believe rockets, missiles, over whatever fired from russian territory took down the two ukrainian planes or do you not have conformation that happened we are looking into exactly what brought into the planes. Are you sure . You are sure the planes wept down . We dont make determinations until we have facts. Yes, but you are sure the russians are firing artillery . We have information, yes. Coming up on cspan2. Two astronauts testify to a house science, space and technology
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