Good morning everyone. We will come to order. And i want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, for participating in the invitation to you, and the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that we have distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how brutal, reclusive regime can buy influence and even take over a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. It is a regime that has reportedly killed journalist, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen and supported other terrorist activities, including the nine 9 11 attack on our nation. Today is about sports but also about hypocrisy, how fast sounds of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values and supporters or perhaps reveal a lack of values fr
The country. I think we have three outstanding analysts in the field, so i hope you will give them your full attention. We just heard the National Security advisor describe how we hope to move ahead in reducing nuclear risk, and i hope we provided some optimistic some optimism to all of us that the u. S. Does not intend to engage in a threeway arms race. What i will ask each of our panelists specifically if they have additional optimism on that point. The topic of this panel is preventing a threeway arms race. For many years, of course, the focus of Nuclear Arms Control has been on bilateral competition between the United States and the soviet union, later russia. With apparent chinese intentions to build up its own nuclear arsenal, are we in a position to avoid that kind of arms race, both in the short term, the mediumterm, and the longerterm . To discuss this with us today, we have three great experts. Lynn rustin come up with the Nuclear Threat initiative. John will stone wolfstone
Out of her own wallets to pay for it. Its interesting we will break away from this program, you can watch all of our programs at cspan dot org. As we take you live to a hearing with pga tour executives, ron price and jimmy done. Testifying on the Controversial Partnership with saudi liv golf. We bring you live coverage here on cspan 3. We will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, and participating in the invitation. And the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that weve distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how a brutal, repressive versus jim can take a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. The regime has reportedly killed journalists, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen, and sup
Catch washington today for a fastpaced group work for stories of the day. Listen to cspan any time, tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer next, testimony on the origins of covid19 with the former director of National Intelligence, john radcliffe, he testified before the House Committee on the pandemic with other government officials. They talk about the intelligence gathered by the u. S. And the roadblocks to the investigations. The hearing is 2. 5 hours. Next testimony on the origins of covid 19 with former director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. He testified before the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic with other government officials. We talk about intelligence gathered by the us and roadblocks to those investigations. The hearing is 21 2 hours. The select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic will come to order. Welcome everyone. With objection the chair may declare recess at any time for the committee on oversight an
Influence on russian president putin. The coordinator of the us security council, john kirby, spoke in an interview with voice of america about the importance of the ukrainian peace formula and the summit in malta. We believe that zelenskyis peace formula is important, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that he implements and implements it. I dont have an agenda or a list of participants for the meeting in malta, but we fully support ukraines efforts to cooperate with the International Community in order to advance this peace formula. It is extremely important for us that when peace comes, it should be accepted. For president zelensky and for the ukrainian people, and it should start with his peace formula. We will continue to talk about the upcoming meeting in malta and its consequences, ihor reiterovych, a political scientist, candidate of political sciences, joins me. I congratulate you. Congratulations. Mr. Igor, lets start with china. Blumber says that there are no repre