Three days. So it could be 24 days or as short as 13 days. Would it be permissible to address the snap back aspect . At the discretion of the chairman. Youre next. I will take my time and ask quickly to respond to the question. Thank you. I just wanted to speak to one of the premises behind your question. First, i absolutely agree that the more likely scenario we see is small breach is a testing, sticking a toe across the line. And what we need to do then is hit iran in a proportionate way show them that has consequences. Otherwise were asking for larger breaches. And we have to be very serious about that. We have been very clear with our partners we will be serious about that. But there is a premise that ive heard circulating that after the initial sanctions relief iran can somehow immunize itself to further pressure. Therefore it wont care about snap back. That is simply not the case. Irans foreign reserves cant be put in a vault or a mattress in iran in the form of gold or bills. Th
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The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. Senator corker in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because hen the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6 00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, therell be no spoking before the second vote. Then if we could hustle bam. I know general mattis has a meeting hed like to attend and others want to complete our work in an appropriate way. With that, id like to thank
Saturday night at 8 00 on cspan and www. Cspan. Org. This week the director of National Intelligence dan coats briefed members of a committee on current world wide threats. This testimony happened just hours after a terrorist attack in manchester. This is about two hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good morning. Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished witnesses. Dan coats, the director of National Intelligence, and Lieutenant General vin stuart. Scheduling, a of unanimous request on part of all our members, we will conclude this hearing at 11 30 in the interest of time and to ensure members of the committee to ask their questions. I will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south ca