EurasianeurAsian Affairs. Live coverage here on thoigs. Cspan3. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have an unusual procedure today. As usual well defer to the outstanding senators who are here to introduce others, and we thank them for being here. Its an honor to have you here in our committee. We will let them go first so that they can go on to their other business. We will then convene adjourn and convene the business meetings for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominees out and pass some bills out. And then well resume with the great testimony we know well hear from our nominees. So with that, again, we welcome you. If i i dont know if i can remember the seniority order. I know senator cornyn is first in soeniority. Ill let you guys armwrestle over it while senator cornyn gets his comments. Thank you so much for being willing to come and make good comments about outstanding nominees. We thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, chairman corker. And Ranking Member carden,
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come back to order, and we will finish up with the honorable jon huntsman, and i understand senator shahe shaheen. Yes, thank you very much mr. Chairman. First of all, i would like to thank the governor for his willingness to continue to serve the country and i very much appreciated our conversation. I know one of the things we discussed a little bit in the challenges getting the attempt to influence the elections, occupation and annexation of crimea, some of the other challenges facing and the need to counter those efforts into the same time to look at the places where we can work with russia because we have mutual interest. Can you talk about how as ambassador you will try to balance those needs and the kinds of efforts that you think are helpful in responding to russian aggression versus the kind of efforts that he would try to employ and to engage in areas of mutual interest with. Put your microphone on. There we go. Senator it was a ple
Jon huntsman is President Trump nominee to be ambassador to russia. He has a reason served as ambassador to china and governor of utah appeared at his Senate Confirmation hearing, mr. Huntsman discussed the u. S. Relationship with russia. Senator bob corker chairs the Relations Committee. This hearing is two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Relations Committee will come to order. We have an unusual procedure today. As usual, we will do for today outstanding senators who are here to introduce others and we thank them for being here. It anon or to have you here in our committee. We let them go first so they can go on to their other business. Well then convened adjourning pending the business meeting for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominee is out and passing bills out and then we will resume with a great testimony we know well hear from our nominees. With that, and we welcome you. If i can remember the seniority order, i know senator cornyn is first
Show but first things first. A couplet to spain in of minutes but this is what your markets are doing. I want to keep a little bit of an eye on the euro. Euro little changed as the catalan president prolonged uncertainty over the regions next move towards independence. Want to get you to treasuries, study. European equities edging lower. With investors looking for the release of the meetings from the ecb. Lets get to first word news. Sebastian catalonias president has kept the rest of spain guessing on if and when he will declare independence. He reiterated an offer of mediated talks while attacking king felipe vi. King made his speech, the politics of rajoys government that has been a catastrophe towards catalonia and ignored the millions of catalan that you not think like them. It ignores the catalan that have been victims of police violence. The treasury secretary up puerto rico was calling on provide billions of dollars in emergency funds. On tuesday, donna tim suggested the u. S.
Record. All three major averages were at record yesterday but they are sort of drifting today as attention is turning to individual stocks and their earnings reports. I want to take a look at this march towards 23,000, even if we do not quite maintain that level. We have the lines at the various 1000 point intervals for the dow. It is the sixth time we have moved 1000 points over the past 12 months and the fifth time since the election. It has been at pretty regular intervals. We have seen the dow stall out several times once it has climbed to those big round numbers. We have some significant dow movers, Unitedhealth Group rising after the nations Largest Health insurer came out with a medical loss ratio that was lower than estimated as its customers spend less. Johnson johnson out with earnings as well. Off topselling drug fended competition even though there have been accusations that they are using unfair tactics to block patients from getting alternative products. The drug unit gen