Please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took place with president zelensk
[inaudible conversations] please grab a seat, we were going to start. Good morning and welcome too, im the senior fellow at gmf and i direct the frontline of Democracy Initiative here in washington. I want to welcome our guest, Ukraines Deputy Prime Minister european and the integration and its great to have you here, you had an incredibly busy schedule over the last couple of days and very successful meetings on capitol hill in the Trump Administration, its a busy time for you and is busy in washington all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you. This is incredibly important time for you to be here in washington and in some sense the zelensky government took Office Offspring and is been in office for six months and since the beginning of september it is been an incredibly busy time for the new laws being passed and a focus on anticorruption and also this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that the normandy meeting took pl
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Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Majestic god, your name fills the earth. In spite of our challenges, you continue to rule with your love, wisdom, and power. Grant that our lawmakers may not forget the many dangers, toils, and snares that you have already brought our nation through. Lord, give our senators the wisdom to know that you continue to direct the steps of the faithful and that we have nothing to fear. Spirit of god, arise within our hearts and prepare us for the task of this day. Surprise us again with your ability to transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows doing for us more than we can ask or imagine. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty