This is the story of a power struggle between 3 princes 3 rulers who all came to power between 20302015 in the richest Oil Monarchies of the world saudi arabia qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A generation with unbridled ambition and dreams of shaping the future of the arab world. These are people who think that this power is given to them forever its clear that these powerful men are just like spoiled children. The rivalry between these 3 men has plunged the gulf region into a crisis like no other. At 30 full mohammed bin son or m. P. s is the youngest he rules saudi arabia his favorite pastime is 1st person. Shooter video games. Mama been so money hes someone who lives in this old tyria world where you know you can control the entire game with a joystick youre the master of death and live. I think in the us whats remarkable about him is each shoot 1st you know and asks questions later. Hailed as a reformer by the west rio its new strongman demonstrated his brutality as soon as he
With whom olyphant was able to. Estow his gift on a country who is able to combat his gift visually with president s. I am mike nelson. I am the guy you put up with during the first panel. We have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center, one of its main emphasis is studying the presidency indepth, historical depth, with objectivity. We are in the business of doing stuff that editorial cartoonists are not in the business of doing , reacting to events on a as a newspapers cartoonist. We all strive to be as objective as we can. Provide comment, to provide opinion and something to provoke discussion, rather than aspire to settle discussion. The panel this afternoon will cover the president s from george bush i do not use the h w. He was george bush when he was president. When John Quincy Adams became president , john adams did not have to change
Ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. It is just under 2. 5 hours. [crowd noise] the committee will come to order. Thank you for attending today. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on important position. The nominee today is John Jay Sullivan to be the u. S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. We have two distinguished colleagues of ours. We will allow them to proceed with introductions. I will postpone my opening statement. I asked the Ranking Member to do likewise. Until the nominees have been introduced. We are glad to be joined today by senators dan sullivan of alaska and ben cardin of maryland. Sullivanand senator has drawn the straw to go first. Thank you very much. Its an honor to be before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee again on behalf of my friend John Sullivan. To beport his nomination the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related. Although i oc
Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
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