You can see and hear speakers, they cant hear you. You can use the chat icon to share comments, if youre here with the girl scout troop we want to know which troop youre in, let us know. We will have a q a section in the evening and you can use q a icon and you can click on that to type in your question and you can see others questions and if you see one you can up load it to make sure we get to that question during the q a. We are recording tonights event, look for audio and video versions later on. I think this might appear on cspan later on as well and importantly tonights featured book troops 6,000 is available for sale from greenlightbookstore. Com. I pasted the link. Bookstores are closed and we are working with warehouses, if you care about supporting careers of authors and independent bookstores buying tonights featured book is a great way to show support. Tonight we are offering 5 off on the featured book when you purchase it from greenlight website y can use the coupon 60000
Host tonights event with Nikita Stewart with troop 6000, the girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world, she will talk with the visionary behind it and her daughter, you are in for an excellent time tonight, before we really start i just want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen, all of our participants for being here, the publisher and all of you for showing up, the storefront is currently close but our community is here and we really appreciate that. A couple of housekeeping things, if you are logging in now you can see the speakers but they cannot see and hear you, they can see your name so they know youre here, you can use the share icon to share comments, if youre with the girl scouts crew let us know what group youre with, if you want to ask a question we will have a q a section later on with the q a icon and you can click on that to type in your question and if you see a really good one you can upload it to make sure we get to that question
Sen. Corker in order to move on, first of all we are back in session, and in order to move on, senator udall, we will move on to you. Sen. Udall thank you very much. I appreciate the hearing. I would like to put in the record the letter from the five ambassadors if it hasnt already been put in the record, Bipartisan Group of ambassadors that say that mr. Friedman is unfit to be ambassador. Sen. Corker without objection. Sen. Udall and im in agreement with much of what they said. Im strongly opposed to this nominee. I believe secretary tillerson and President Trump should recognize that mr. Friedman is unfit for this or any other Diplomatic Office and withdraw him immediately. If not, i strongly recommend this committee not recommend him for confirmation. Mr. Friedman does not represent American Values in the region. That is evident from his past statements, and they are not random, offthecuff remarks. Much of his offensive rhetoric has been reported in the newspapers and repeated over
Sen. Corker in order to move on, first of all we are back in session, and in order to move on, senator udall, we will move on to you. Sen. Udall thank you very much. I appreciate the hearing. I would like to put in the record the letter from the five ambassadors if it hasnt already been put in the record, Bipartisan Group of ambassadors that say that mr. Friedman is unfit to be ambassador. Sen. Corker without objection. Sen. Udall and im in agreement with much of what they said. Im strongly opposed to this nominee. I believe secretary tillerson and President Trump should recognize that mr. Friedman is unfit for this or any other Diplomatic Office and withdraw him immediately. If not, i strongly recommend this committee not recommend him for confirmation. Mr. Friedman does not represent American Values in the region. That is evident from his past statements, and they are not random, offthecuff remarks. Much of his offensive rhetoric has been reported in the newspapers and repeated over
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