If the west wants to stop russian advances in ukraine here is one place they can do that. Asian is not supplying moscow with weapons but the west believes it is supplying russia with components that it can use in its war machine. The us has a raft of new sanctions at the ready to target chinese banks so president xi has a decision to make. Live now to gary locke, former Us Ambassador to china from 2011 to 2014. Putin really wanted to play up the significance of their deepening partnership and said he and xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xi sees it that way . Certainly china wants to form closer relations with russia simply because they want a Strong Partnership in opposition to the United States and the western allies. Especially given the stance of the United States towards china in terms of tariffs and restrictions on exports of high tech goods, semiconductors and machinery to make these things. And of course our resistance and pushback on their activities around the taiwan
Mccain chairs this twohour hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning to the Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony worldwide threats. Wo we are pleased welcome our distinguished witnesses didnt construct of National Intelligence and Lieutenant General ben stewart director of the Defense Intelligence agency. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments of our witnesses and the unanimou request on the part of all of our members we will include this this conclude the searing 11 30 in the interest of time tn ensure that members of the committee to be able to ask their questions. It will be very brief and very brief amount of that comes comes as a disappointment especially to the senator from south carolina. I would ask her witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they can. Its not required but last night horrific attack in manchester was a gruesome reminder that the world is on fire. Everywhere w
Mccain chairs this twohour hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning to the Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony worldwide threats. Wo we are pleased welcome our distinguished witnesses didnt construct of National Intelligence and Lieutenant General ben stewart director of the Defense Intelligence agency. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments of our witnesses and the unanimou request on the part of all of our members we will include this this conclude the searing 11 30 in the interest of time tn ensure that members of the committee to be able to ask their questions. It will be very brief and very brief amount of that comes comes as a disappointment especially to the senator from south carolina. I would ask her witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they can. Its not required but last night horrific attack in manchester was a gruesome reminder that the world is on fire. Everywhere w
Publicly on a news report that President Trump asked him to collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia and also make remarks about the manchester bombing. This is just over two hours. [indiscernible conversation] that morning. Armed Services Committee meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished witnesses. Dan coats and Lieutenant General been stewart. Vin stuart. We will conclude this hearing at 11 30 in the interest at time and to ensure the members of the committee can ask their questions. I will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south carolina. I ask witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they can. It is not required but anyway. Last night the horrific attack in manchester was a gruesome reminder that the world is on fire. Everywhere we turn, we can see threats to the rulesbased order securityrpins global and prosperity. When it comes to the
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