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
Rally and treasury yields climbed to multiyear lows as the fed chairman opens the door to a rate cut. Today we will hear from Robert Kaplan and Charles Evans. No bluff. President trump tweets but mexico tariff threat is real. The u. S. Leader walks back on terms of potential trade deals with britain. Putting on the brakes. Renault delays in takeover talks with fiat after nissan shows resistance to the deal. Lots to talk about in the markets today. Good morning. Matt a lot to talk about indeed. Check out the treasurys trade from yesterday. It was out of control. This is a threeday chart. Spot 2. 06 to after the powell comments. If the fed is going to cut rates , i want to hold on to the higheryielding bonds i am holding out. Now we are seeing holding now. Now we are seeing yields come back down this morning. Take a look at. Futures after the biggest rally in u. S. Stocks yesterday since january 4, we now see a mixed trade in european futures. As i said, a data heavy day. That could be o
Addresses, they were charged with possession of forged documents with unlawful intent, among these documents passports, Identity Cards and other documents of nine countries, britain, bulgaria , france, italy, spain, croatia, slovenia, greece and the Czech Republic , the suspects have not yet declared their guilt or innocence, the case will be heard by a court in london in january and this story is on the front pages of the British Press today, so spies from the suburbs spies in the neighborhood some newspapers came out with such headlines so once again what is known in britain, three were arrested people who are suspected of espionage for russia were charged and it was a Major Investigation related to national security, a trick of suspected bulgarian citizens and, as they believe, they worked for the Russian Special service poltavani in espionage for russia, bulgarian citizens who lived in Great Britain for years among them is this woman Katrin Ivanova, she taught courses on British Va
Training center, and perhaps it can be safely said that it is one of the most important universities in the country, because our children want to be trusted, teachers are also trained in this university, so it is training the future makers of the country. And the Important University in the center must be taken into consideration in the changing sauna of the university. After the professors of Payam Noor University , there is a field for recruiting them in other universities. The professors are respected by us , the professors are the capital of the country. Professor sanat university should Pay Attention, but as the government, we must pay full attention to their dignity, and the ministers of science and health and treatment, Azad University and all the departments that work with highranking professors to acquire science and knowledge, science and space, therefore their position regarding the livelihood and housing of the university, we said that both for the professors and for the ma
Ukraine, but also for the whole world, because together with the condemnation of the terrorist regime of putin , the world, and the orthodox world, must also give an assessment to the Russian Orthodox church and its head, patriarch gundyaev, because you cannot change concepts, you cannot say white for black , cannot be constantly manipulated. And use faith as a tool, one of the tools for the destruction of the ukrainian people. Another tool that is quite actively used by the russians in the fight against the ukrainians, it is the telegram messenger, which was created by former russians, however, there are no former russians, i do not believe that there are former russians, and this was confirmed by. The head of the Main Intelligence Department of the ministry of defense, Kyrylo Budanov , who spoke during the kyivstatcom forum, and he said that the Telegram Network in many ways has a destructive effect inside the country, but at the same time it allows information to be delivered to peo