The director of National Intelligence dan coats was before the Senate Armed Services committee this week to take questions on Global Security threats. At one point he was asked about a recent report that donald trump asked him to deny evidence of collusion between russia and the campaign. There was also testimony from vincent stewart. This is just over two hours. Sen. Mccain 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, who is the director of National Intelligence and ewart director of the , Defense Intelligence agency. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments and members, we will conclude the hearing at 11 30 in the interest of time and ensure senators ask questions i will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south carolina. I would ask witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they c
[inaudible conversations] good morning the Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses and the director of National Intelligence. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments of our witnesses and unanimous request from our members, we will conclude the hearing at 1130 in the interest of time and to ensure the members of the committee will be able to ask their questions, i will be very brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south carolina. I would ask our witnesses to please submit the written statements for the record if they can, its not required. Anyway, last nights horrific attack in manchester was a gruesome reminder that the world is on fire. Everywhere we turn we can see threats to the world rulebased order that underpins Global Security and prosperity. When it comes to the Great Security challenges we face, u. S. Policy and strategy are consistently lacking, whether its chi
It is great to see such a big crowd in july for this event. Guest. To add a special he is the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, and also the undersecretary for defense policy. As some of you may know, he served previously here at the embassy in washington. It is great to see him back in town. I am going to say a few words andre we let our experts regional representatives loose. I want to say in the very near future, the focus will shift to the black sea region. This is obviously in response to a rush of the continues to be assertive in and around europe and elsewhere. It is clearly bent on altering the european order, especially with military power. There is a special interest to the broader community. He can tell us quite a bit about russian intentions and the capabilities. Previous iterations of this exercise have showed us how russia can, for example, mobilize across distances. Given us a window into russian thinking about the use of key capabilities during a crisis, clea
It is great to see such a big crowd in july for this event. Guest. To add a special he is the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, and also the undersecretary for defense policy. As some of you may know, he served previously here at the embassy in washington. It is great to see him back in town. I am going to say a few words andre we let our experts regional representatives loose. I want to say in the very near future, the focus will shift to the black sea region. This is obviously in response to a rush of the continues to be assertive in and around europe and elsewhere. It is clearly bent on altering the european order, especially with military power. There is a special interest to the broader community. He can tell us quite a bit about russian intentions and the capabilities. Previous iterations of this exercise have showed us how russia can, for example, mobilize across distances. Given us a window into russian thinking about the use of key capabilities during a crisis, clea
Here. Im magnus. Im the director of the initiative here at the Atlantic Council. Its great to see such a big crowd in july for this event. I also want to add a special welcome to our guests who have travelled far to be here today. Michael mickleson whos the chairman. And christian, who is the under secretary for defense policy at estonias ministry of defense. As some of you may know, christian served previously here at the embassy in washington so its great to see him back in town. So im just going to say a few words before we let our experts and representatives loss. This is important and why were doing this here at the Atlantic Council. So this is clearly a summer of or a big summer of exercises in europe. Two major nato exercises just wrapped up in Northern Europe. And nato also just completed a big exercise off the coast of ice lan. In the very near future, the focus will shift to the black sea region where nato will conduct a number of exercises as well. This is obviously all in r