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Very excited. Again, we did hit 18,000. Pulled back a bit. I think the important think is were approaching the historic highs. With a historic closing high. That was way back on may 19th. Broad group of stocks leading, right now you have disney leading, and you have chevron and exxon. Along with jpmorgan when would a great week last week. Its a pretty broad advance. Energy is leading 3 1 advancing to declining, and its been marching forward throughout the morning. The volume is on the moderate side, the vix is declining, and Oil Volatility is declining. I think thats the big story. People keep...

Thank you, good morning. Chairman fitzpatrick, Ranking Member lynch, members of the tax force. On behalf of foundation for defense of democracieses and i will center on illicit finance. Thank you for aling you me to testify. It is important to clarify how the trade fits into isiss Overall Economic goals. One way to understand the goals looking at some of the strategies guiding the groups actions. One of isiss aims to win over locals who may be on the fence to submitting to jihadist rule. This gives context to the antiquities trade in isis territory. How much isis earns from looting ancient ter...

We need to cut off trade routes that terrorist organizations use to finalize goods. The same strategies we need to combat antiquities trafficking can be used in a broader strategy to combat isis. This task force discussed the roots that isis used to smuggle cash, we learn many of these routes run through turkey and jordan and has prepared marks for for todays hearing it was indicated that isis is using similar routes to smuggle antiquities of its territories. In addition he notes lebanon as was the volken route through greece and bulgaria are being used to smuggle illicit commodities. Currentl...

Emergent treat, and i think in the more cochran strategy, first of all, we have all this state in this region, militias, revenge groups, sectarian groups, terroristic groups, criminal groups and so of course, libya talked about some groups we can say only in libya we have merely 300 militias. And when you go a little bit to this all this separatist groups dealing with all the terrorists, link it to all these terrorist groups and national organized crime. Pick in this time, on one hand, as the major role of terrorism and the terrorist groups, we have certainly daesh, as you see it, and is activ...

Mr. Chairman, if i may, when it is implied that the treasurer is not being truthful, he should be given an opportunity to respond to that. It should not be left, saying i have accused you of not being truthful, but i want to move on and i would say if we are to comply with proper decorum, you would allow the treasurer to respond to what has been said as his being untruthful. May i speak to the point . Any other member wish to be heard on the point of order . Gentleman from south carolina. Ive already indicated to the witness that i intend to leave him time at the end of my five minutes to resp...