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With us today, secretary of treasury mr. Ma mnuchin, thank you for joining us. Today we look forward discussing the departments budget request as well as some of the assumptions and policies included in the president s overall request for this upcoming here of 2018. The president s budget proposes cutting spending by 3. 6 trillion over the next ten years while making key investigatements to spur Economic Growth and job creation. And weve all heard what the critics have said and there might abe few critics in here today, but mr. Secretary i am not one of them. I believe the president s budget i...

Moderate the program. Again, welcome and look forward to a good discussion today. Thank you. Thank you so much, marcelle. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. Im pleased to be able to moderate this discussion and im very, very happy to have such distinguished colleagues with me to help enlighten us on this subject as marcelle said, one of critical interest and one of a timely nature at the moment given events in the region and here in washington as well. My introduction can be short. You can look for greater detail in the handy programs that were on your chair when you walked in, but allow me ...

Moderate the program. Again, welcome and look forward to a good discussion today. Thank you. Thank you so much, marcelle. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. Im pleased to be able to moderate this discussion and im very, very happy to have such distinguished colleagues with me to help enlighten us on this subject as marcelle said, one of critical interest and one of a timely nature at the moment given events in the region and here in washington as well. My introduction can be short. You can look for greater detail in the handy programs that were on your chair when you walked in, but allow me ...

At the end of the day the resolution was we were going to do everything in our power to assist in freeing hostages short of paying ransom. It will make them demand more ransoms than it is to the detriment of americans everywhere. The second piece of that is we work to adopt a similar policy. Right now just the uk has a similar policy. There was one from a couple years ago trying to spur others to adopt a similar approach. It is a terribly difficult issue, but the you know, i think the policy is sound and the repore that is apparently due calling out countries that pay ransom, i think is a wort...