Keith dayton, to be u. S. Diplomat to ukraine. Several members pressed mr. Dayton on his willingness to report back to the committee of any knowledge of russian interference. If confirmed, he waited replace marie yovanovich, who was removed from her position last year. The nominees today are representative to the general assembly, the second one, to be deputy chief executive officer corporation,e Lieutenant General keith dayton be ambassador to Ukraine Special Political Affairs at the u. N. And alternative representative to the general assembly. Our nominees they have distinguished individuals. Senatorcotton and romney will be introducing mr. Wong, and we are glad to represent have former ed rice with us today. Suspend my Opening Statement and ask the Ranking Member to do the same until after introductions are made by our distinguished guests. With that, mr. Romney, member of this committee, we will start with your interaction of mr. Alex ron, so senator romney . And legal policy direc
The Administrative Assistant did such a fantastic job with the program and getting the invitations out and the creativity of the program. Then there was Marty Bennett who was my staff chair and they put it together. It was so dynamic. I will never forget that moment. It was so wonderful. All the people who came, the music was glorious. The director and the choir was superb. All the soloists i asked to sing from betty and marian in the choir along with kim and then there was janel, who is a professional singer who sings with the group called soldout band and then they had ron coleman. I grew up with him in los angeles. Hearthi hao a quartet. He plays the saxophone. People remember dear lord. All of those were just wonderful along with my speakers there and skyler was there, the superintendents, my colleagues and friends bobby jones and jim hopkins and then, also came was gail burrows, the wife of the late hill burrows. Our mentor and host and producer of mosaic for more than 30 years. I
Christopher steele to generate this steele dossier for several of them . At the time i did not know, but i understand from the media it is through gps fusion, and if that is not correct. And you know that there was a law firm involved, but did you know the source of the money . At the time, no, but i have read it in the post and in your colleagues, it is the dnc i am led to believe. And the Clinton Campaign . I dont know that for sure. Okay. Mr. Castor. Welcome back. I hope you had a sandwich or something delicious. You, too. And dr. Hill, thank you for your participation on the deposition october 14th, columbus day, and we were with you most of the day and we appreciate that. And mr. Holmes, too, and you are the late entrant into this situation, and things sure did escalate quickly. We spoke with you last friday night about a, what we thought was going to be a 30second vignette about a twominute phone call, and then it turns out you know, with your 40minute opener today, you have a lo
The meeting will come to order. Chair now recognizes the Ranking Member or their counsel for the first round of their 45minute questions. I thank the gentleman. I want to get a few basic facts on the table of individuals that were involved in the 2016 election just to see who you know and who you have met with. So i will start with you, mr. Holmes. Have you met with or do you know Alexandra Chalupa . Could you turn your microphone on. No. Do you know nellie ohr . Have you met with nellie ohr . No. Bruce ohr . No. Glenn simpson . No. Thank you. Same question for you, dr. Hill. Do you know or have you met with Alexandra Chalupa . No. Nellie ohr . No. Bruce ohr . Only in the course of my previous position as a National Officer that he presided over the meetings i attended. A long time ago . Yes. Glenn simpson . No. Dr. Hill, in your testimony you said that in your deposition, excuse me, that Christopher Steele was your counterpart at one time. Is this correct. That is correct, yes. You te
I am Francine Lacqua in london. And little optimism seems to be fading away. We have the 600 opening unchanged. A lot of focus is on the economy. We had a little macro risk out there for now but they seem to be in check. We are getting euro area september manufacturing pmi, 45. 7 is a touch above estimates. We expected a 45. 6. It is below 50, but 0. 1 percentage point higher. The u. S. 10 year yield at 1. 72. Coming up, we speak to david herro on the fallout from the Credit Suisse scandal. That interview at 10 30 a. M. London time. Herros is the biggest shareholder for Credit Suisse. A jinping has kicked off massive military parade to mark 70 years of communist rule and pledged complete National Unity as democracy protesters rally in hong kong. Lets go to hong kong with Stephen Engle. What is the latest . Stephen tens of thousands of protesters are defying a police fromand they are marching the eastern part of Hong Kong Island to central and beyond, perhaps even as far as the Liaison