Testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. You may be seated. The microphones are sensitive so you will need to speak directly into them. Without objection, your written statements will made be made part of the record. Mr. Holmes, you are recognized for your Opening Statement and when you conclude, dr. Hill, you will be recognized thereafter for your Opening Statement. Mr. Holmes thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman. Members of the committee. My name is david holmes. Im a Career Foreign Service officer with the department of state. Since august 2017, i have been a political counselor at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. While it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make sure make clear i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. Since you determined i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation
Election feels interminable, almost done, appropriate to paraphrase talking heads and ask, how did we get here . Hillary clinton began plotting a run in the 70s. The 1870s, fresh off her civil war victory, directly inspired by lincoln. You remember. She knew she wanted the top job and a beard so she got serious about running for president and huma, but there was just one problem. We came out of the white house not only dead broke but in debt. Kennedy so poor. Oh, my god nothing was going to keep her from the white house, not this guy and the home of the brave. I want to strangle myself with his guitar string. Or this guy, i hardly remember him. Hes not around right now. Kennedy he was smirking about killing a guy in nam. It was much tougher to throw this hot sack of socialism under the bus. The American People are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails. Thank you, me too me too no, they still want to hear about it, bernie. Of course her biggest obstacle was this human pile dr
Election feels interminable, almost done, appropriate to paraphrase talking heads and ask, how did we get here . Hillary clinton began plotting a run in the 70s. The 1870s, fresh off her civil war victory, directly inspired by lincoln. You remember. She knew she wanted the top job and a beard so she got serious about running for president and huma, but there was just one problem. We came out of the white house not only dead broke but in debt. Kennedy so poor. Oh, my god nothing was going to keep her from the white house, not this guy and the home of the brave. I want to strangle myself with his guitar string. Or this guy, i hardly remember him. Hes not around right now. Kennedy he was smirking about killing a guy in nam. It was much tougher to throw this hot sack of socialism under the bus. The American People are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails. Thank you, me too me too no, they still want to hear about it, bernie. Of course her biggest obstacle was this human pile dr
[inaudible conversations] my name is Mark Harrison and its my pleasure to introduce Robert Service to you. Robert is going to tell us about his new book, the end of the cold war. The book will be published by Public Affairs and by great britain. He is among the worlds historians and rush and author of viagra please of lenin and trotsky. He discovered america in the year 2004. Ever since then he has been delving in the records held by the Hoover Institution. All of their research that Robert Service has done is done in the archives. He took part in the annual Hoover Institution totalitarian regimes directed by hoover fellow gregory. The scholarly audience presentations on the keynote events of the workshop program. Robert service will now address us on the end of the cold war. [applause] thank you very much mark for that very generous introduction. What i want to talk about today is the subject of my new book, which is about a war that never became a war. Its about the cold war rather t
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