[indiscernible conversation] i call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witness. Besident trumps nominee to the next director of National Intelligence. Dan, congratulations on your nomination. Welcome back. I am sure you did not expect to be welcomed back to these holes so soon after your retirement. I would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend, marcia, and i would like to thank her for sharing you with the rest of us. Ive known both of you for many years and seen firsthand the strength of your relationship that you so thoughtfully described in your statement for the record. Our goal in this hearing is to direct the committee to consider tor coates for the consider him for the nomination. He is already responded to more than 100 questions. Today, of course, members will be able to ask additional questions in both open and closed sessions. Withoats comes to us Honorable Service in the house, the senate, and as an ambassador. Those of us who have had the
Will be a good fit for the director of National Intelligence community. Now as we consider senator coates as a nomination and recognize that his top priority by admission would be the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act section 702, i want to begin that discussion today because it is because Intelligence Community has stonewalled democrats and republicans in both this body and the other body for six years. On the information that we need to do good oversight that i have come to the floor to outline what i think this central issue is all about. I will begin my remarks mr. President by way of saying that at a time when americans are demanding policies that give them more security and more liberty, increasingly we are seeing policies, from both this body and the other body that provide less of both. A good example would be a beginning strong encryption. Weakening strong encryption is bad my security standpoint and from a liberty standpoint. When government creates
Assistant secretary in the department of Homeland Security for border immigration and trade policy. Were also supposed to be joined by tom bush, but he had a illness that came up this morning, so was unable to join us. Well proceed with these three fine panelists for discussion of terror travel related issues and what we can be doing to prevent terrorists from exploiting the travel system in support of their objectives to carry out attacks in the United States, over seas and our allies which is a key element of their efforts in term in pursuit of carrying out attacks. You know well have a moderated discussion. Ill jump right in and put the first question to seth. If you look at the, you know, current terrorism of threat that we have with isis, very diffuse threat, with al qaeda, a variety of other groups, its very different than the threat that existed when many of the u. S. Government programs to prevent and disrupt terrorist travel were created 15 years ago, 10 years ago. So you have
If you own and are hunting and looking to buy . And this was buffalo, where is it, buffalo, just a few days ago. All that snow has turned into this. A mess theres flooding throughout the area. The snow is melting. The rains are coming and now another major weather system is heading to the east. It could be enough to really hit right around thanksgiving weekend. First, well check in with sue at the new york stock exchange. Stocks are struggling for gains in todays trading session. The nasdaq has been the big winner this hour. Last trade on the nasdaq is up about 27 points, about half a percent. S p up for a 12th time in four sessions, and its traded up about a tenth of a percent. Dow transports are up a half percent. But the dow is down 12 points on the session. Apple is now approaching 700 billion. So with stocks pushing to new highs, is there still value in the big caps . Domenick chu is back to take a look. Good to see you, dom. Good to be back. Heres what we did, we looked at the s
U. S. Feels about this new peace proposal from france and germany, particularly in the context of merkel coming here next week and these discussions about whether to send lethal aid. Im also wondering if you have anything on that magical piece of paper to share with us, feel free to do so. Purely administrative issues. That better not be the case. Let me say a couple of things on this. The United States has been saying for some timing that it will that its a diplomatic negotiation thats required to bring this conflict in ukraine to an end. This is not something thats going to be solved or resolved militarily but rather through diplomatic negotiations. We certainly are encouraging and supportive of ongoing efforts to try to find a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the conflict in ukraine. One concern that we have is previous diplomatic efforts have resulted in agreements that the russians and the separatists that they back in Eastern Ukraine didnt live up to. There were commitments made