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financial intelligence of the department of the treasury where he focused on illicit finance. and so we welcome both our witnesses to the committee. without objection, the witnesses for prepared statements are going to be made a part of the record and all members here will have five calendar days to submit any statements or additional questions or any extraneous material for the record. with that, i would suggest and would begin with you if you could summarize your remarks and then we will go to questions. thank you very much, mr. chairman. ranking member angle, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the ever increasing challenge that north korea poses. the threat posed by the ballistic missile and nuclear program is grave. six nuclear tests on september 3 is an unacceptable provocation that ignores repeated calls from the international community for a change in their behavior. it followed the a ....
eurasianeurasian affairs. live coverage here on thoigs. c-span3. foreign relations committee will come to order. we have an unusual procedure today. as usual we ll defer to the outstanding senators who are here to introduce others, and we thank them for being here. it s an honor to have you here in our committee. we will let them go first so that they can go on to their other business. we will then convene adjourn and convene the business meetings for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominees out and pass some bills out. and then we ll resume with the great testimony we know we ll hear from our nominees. so with that, again, we welcome you. if i i don t know if i can remember the seniority order. i know senator cornyn is first in soeniority. i ll let you guys arm-wrestle over it while senator cornyn gets his comments. thank you so much for being willing to come and make good comments about outstanding nominees. we thank you. yes, sir. thank you, chairman cork ....
[inaudible [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. we have an unusual proceduretoda today. as usual, we will defer to the outstanding senators who are here to introduce the others and we thank them for being here. it is an honor to have you in the committee that we will let them go first so they can go on to their other business and we will then convene the business meeting for just a moment andur hopefully pass the nominees and pass some bills out and then we will resume with the greathear testimony from the nominees. with that again, we welcome youu if i can remember the seniority order we thank you for being back here with another and i don t know whether senator lee or senator manchin came next. thank you for being willing to come and make good comments thank you. thanks for holding this hearing and i am here primarily to introduce wes mitchell but i have to comment on the great willingness of jon huntsman to o serve the country once againsm t ....
jon huntsman is president trump nominee to be ambassador to russia. he has a reason served as ambassador to china and governor of utah appeared at his senate confirmation hearing, mr. huntsman discussed the u.s. relationship with russia. senator bob corker chairs the relations committee. this hearing is two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the relations committee will come to order. we have an unusual procedure today. as usual, we will do for today outstanding senators who are here to introduce others and we thank them for being here. it anon or to have you here in our committee. we let them go first so they can go on to their other business. we ll then convened adjourning pending the business meeting for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominee is out and passing bills out and then we will resume with a great testimony we know we ll hear from our nominees. with that, and we welcome you. if i can remember the seniority order, i know sen ....
[inaudible conversations] the relations committee will come to order. we have an unusual procedure today. as usual, we will do for today outstanding senators who are here to introduce others and we thank them for being here. it anon or to have you here in our committee. we let them go first so they can go on to their other business. we ll then convened adjourning pending the business meeting for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominee is out and passing bills out and then we will resume with a great testimony we know we ll hear from our nominees. with that, and we welcome you. if i can remember the seniority order, i know senator cornyn is first in seniority. i don t know whether senator leahy or senator manchin i will let you guys arm wrestle over that while senator cornyn gets his comments. thank you very much for being willing to come and make good comments about outstanding nominees. we thank you. thank you, chairman corker and ranking member card in. t ....