The presiding officer any senator wish to vote or change their vote . The yeas are 88. Nays are 4. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Barrasso thank you, madam president. First i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, madam president. Madam president , i come to the floor today having just spent thanksgiving day with our troops serving in afghanistan. It was an incredible honor to join President Trump in a surprise visit to the soldiers stationed at Bagram Air Force base. We served thanksgiving dinner to our dedicated Service Members, those are indi
Very well welcome to you watching r. T. International with minichiello. Well this weekend marks the one Year Anniversary of the Yellow Vest Movement with rallies taking place across the country 113. 00 demonstrators have been detained in the french capital alone so far police have now evacuated the square in paris where the main rally was unraveling earlier one journalist also suffered facial injuries during the protests arties equal standoff was there among the crowds. It is not a war zone it is the french capital this is placid its ellie and initially the protests here the yellow face protests here it was sanctioned it was it was authorized by the by the local government by the municipality but now you can clearly see that they have revoked that permission and the police they have been moving in trying to disperse the protest now as the police has lately become more aggressive theyve been using an extensive amount of tear gas they have been using flash bangs as well to disperse the c
By the way, yes, good ideas are often, yes, yes, well, here, and according to which israel began to receive 23 billion in aid annually. And if we dont provide them with this and these guarantees, if we dont provide the prospect of membership , well already post who is this time . I mean, i always i say that the nato secretary general is such an inflated figure with a good salary, true, but nothing decisive is absolutely the same fool as barrel, but for 10 kg on the way he simply voices, so to speak, the position of the americans, but there may be some other something and well, and he can give some comments, well, which are not very different. So this time it s not to be provided, then well say a coalition who want there powerful countries, such as poland, there are these baltic military giants who will send their troops on the territory of ukraine and will become, so to speak, a camp there so that, god forbid, the russians do not, uh, decide, so to speak, e poke where they are not supp
That profess one religion or one confession within the framework of one religion. They are unfortunately, thanks. Uh, or due to external external influence and manipulation of various factors, including religious ones, they enter into acute confrontation with each other. I will not talk about examples, in other words, within one civilization there may exist deep contradictions at times, opposing violent conflicts and even warriors due to being inspired by some currents and influences, we know very well about this, but, nevertheless, the unity of peoples belonging to the same civilization, as we believe, is a very important positive fact, well, it is believed that, although we proceed from the priority of our it is believed that the term state civilization, as is often considered in the west and our chinese friends write about this, was one of the first to put into circulation, an investigator of china and a guest professor in one from chinese universities Martin Jacques who wrote the b
Contributions to the Intelligence Community analysis over the years, but i do have concns about whether i do have concerns if it is doing enough independent analysis, especially with terrorist attacks on u. S. Facilities overseas. I hope that he will be at the forefront of intelligence issues that concern the policymakers on matters involved in the state department. We have many embassies and missions and consulates that frankly, as we have found, they are no doubt unsecured. And i know that that is not directly under you in this position, but its an issue that we are looking at with your experience. And ca has worked with covert action that is vital to National Security and it carries risks, especially with the leaks of classified information. As you noted in your responses to the committees questions, unauthorized disclosures and requests for information can compromise sources and damage our relationships with one partners and decrease the effectiveness of intelligence activities. An