Threats. He also briefly took questions including one about the niger attack that left four u. S. Soldiers dead. Good afternoon. Please be seated. Welcome back. Im the chairman of ftds center on sanctions and elicit finance. If you were here this morning, ways privilege tobd able to sit down with director pompeo for what i thought was a really interesting conversation. I hope did you as well. Bear in mind that we are not just the people in this room. Great good looking crowd, by the way. But were being live streamed. So we need to be on our best behavior. I hlt honor and privilege of introducing this afternoons session. Kudos to fdd and cliff may and the whole team for asem am blg this discussion with two of the most important if not the most important figures in National Security. Certainly with now the National Security adviser hr mcmaster with us this afternoon. So a real honor and privilege i think for all of us to have general mcmaster with us today. Ive been asked toinlt deuce ge
Welcome back. Im the chairman of ftds center on sanctions and elicit finance. If you were here this morning, ways privilege tobd able to sit down with director pompeo for what i thought was a really interesting conversation. I hope did you as well. Bear in mind that we are not just the people in this room. Great good looking crowd, by the way. But were being live streamed. So we need to be on our best behavior. I hlt honor and privilege of introducing this afternoons session. Kudos to fdd and cliff may and the whole team for asem am blg this discussion with two of the most important if not the most important figures in National Security. Certainly with now the National Security adviser hr mcmaster with us this afternoon. So a real honor and privilege i think for all of us to have general mcmaster with us today. Ive been asked toinlt deuce general mcmaster as well as Mark Dubowitz who will conduct the interview. Mark is the ceo of the foundation for defensive democracies. One of the gre
We need to be on our best behavior. I have the distinct honor and privilege of introducing this afternoons session. First of all, kudos to fdd and cliff may and the whole team for assembling this discussion with two of the most important, if not the most important figures in the National Security. Certainly with now the National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster with us this afternoon. So a real honor and privilege i think for all of us to have general mcmaster with us today. Ive been asked to introduce general mcmaster as well as Mark Dubowitz who will conduct the interview. Mark is the ceo as the founder of defense one of the great minds in the world of National Security in particular on iran policy, the use of sanctions, the use of financial pressure in our National Security. Let me introduce general mcmaster for those of you who dont know him. He of course is the 26th assistant to the president for National Security affairs. He is the president s National Security adviser. General mc
Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped empower wikileaks. No evidence that the russians changed voting tallies, how people were influenced by what happened, only they know and god knows, but i think every american should be concerned about what the russians did. From my point of view, theres no doubt in my mind it was the russians involved in all the things i just described. Not some 400 pound guy sitting on a bed or any other country. Russia is up to no good when it comes to democracies all over the world. Dismembering the ukraine, the b
U. S. Debt limit, tax reform, and liquidity requirements for Community Banks. He also discusses possible provisions to deter currency manipulation and future u. S. Trade deals. Held by the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. The committee will come to the committee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days in which to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion the record. The hearings for the purpose of receiving the secretary of treasurys annual report on the state of the International Finance system. But before proceeding to that report, i will give you a report on the hollingsworth family of indiana. Would like to share with you some bury good news. Hollingsworthbert the fourth arrived this morning at 1 38 a. M. , weighing in at seven pounds, 15 ounces, mother and baby are doing well. Husband and father is a total wreck, but congratulations to our colleague, ray c