Hearing for state Department Nominees Including ambassador at large for Global Health security and diplomacy as well as u. S. Ambassadors. This is about an hour 20 minutes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Arme
[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Armed Services and Foreign Relations but sense of National Defense authorization bill will be up soon and im going to need his help, he goes first. [l
Battle for dominance ahead. Lets check in on the markets. Caroline the nasdaq is coming off of its highs. The mood dips a little bit with the strikes being protracted when it comes to the auto sector. When you look at the inflationary pressures, its easing off of bit so we are up by. 62 . On the twoyear at 5. 04 and the bloomberg dollar is down by 1. 3 . Lets look at us i the dollar and bitcoin is slower. 26,870. Going into the mic removes when it comes to stocks. Ed there is no hyperbolic mover. I know were looking close at google and the antitrust case. Back in 2020, apple was considering buying being from microsoft. That has played in whats happening with the court with the testimony weve had about the relationship between google and search. Its interesting to see apple up for a second day. We want to get to the index levels. We are moderately higher on the week but we are snapping, there are three straight weeks of losses. If the fed rate is higher for longer does that make mega ca
Police chiefs, but there are some i would call the very exclusive group of the finest people who have had an impact on the Police Profession through an entrepreneurial spirit and with a good deal of imagination and innovation in improving policing in the United States. It goes back almost a century ago. The chief of police in berkeley, california, interesting that that is where improved policing started in view of what is going on today. He was chief of police for a brief time in los angeles. In the middle of the last century, bill parker in los a chief in cincinnati, and they were followed by wilson in chicago and pat murphy in new york, detroit, and washington, d. C. There is no question that these leaders in Police Excellence formed a distinguished group in which todays keynote speaker, as an innovator, as an imaginative leader, and as a person has done very much uniquely, has had a unique ince, in policing excellent this country and has in many ways had a unique career that is toy
Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who are joining us on our website as well as those joining us on the cspan network. We would ask everyone inhouse to be so kind to check that our mobile the vices have been checked and turned off as a cortices. Those watching online you are welcome to ask questions any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our program today and welcoming and introducing our special guest is Ronald Reagan emeritus aschairman well as the 75th of attorney general of the United States edwin meese. [applause] mr. Meese thank you, john. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I joined john and welcome you. Heritage has done a great deal in the policing and Public Safety areas and we are pleased to have our keynote speaker today. It is a pleasure for me to introduce him since we have known each other a number of years. Believe it or not i think we first met when we were first at harvard, for the executive session in policing they had