My name is Toby Dershowitz and im the Senior Vice President for Government Relations and strategy. As many of you know, fdd is a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for are research and analysis and policy options for congress, for the administration, and for the media and certainly for the wider National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or foreign Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online live stream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which will be live tweeting fdd. Todays event is hosted by fdd center on economic and financial power. Cefp provised recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives. In a moment well hear from our features speaker, david peyman for counter threat finance and sanctions. He