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we look forward to your testimony, and learning from you where the legion stands on your legislative agenda. also want to welcome the legion's auxiliary. of course, my friends in florida who had a chance to visit with this morning at breakfast very briefly. but instead of me going through a complete statement i ask unanimous consent that i can enter the full statement into the record. and with that i would like to go ahead and introduce -- let's see. mike, do you want to give a quick opening statement? >> thank you very much, ...

ms. klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i ask that the quorum call vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 118 and i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: without objection, the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination and the motion. ms. klobuchar: i ask consent that on monday, june 6 -- the clerk: nomination, department of justice, donald b.verilli jr. of the district of columbia to ...

>> it's interesting. if you look at -- if you look at the statement that donald rumsfeld made, it's quoted in the preface to my book on soft power, he followed me as a keynote speaker, and one the generals said what about soft power. he said, i don't know what it means. robert gates is secretary of defense even when he was serving the bush administration in 2007 gave a speech -- [no. audio] >> the course of the supertanker and government bureaucracies don't change quickly, and particularly when you have 435 hands on the wheel, given the case i gave you a minute or two ago about an ai...

[speaking chinese] >> it does also mean, though, that we have a level playing field when it comes to our trading partners. >> [speaking chinese] >> and so with respect to china, what president hu and myself and our delegations have discussed is how do we make sure that, in fact, our trading relationship is fair and a win-win situation opposed to a win-lose situation? >> [speaking chinese] >> some of that has to do with issues completely unrelated to currency. for example, we're making progress on making sure that the government procurement process in china is open and fair to america...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we'll have live coverage tomorrow of the chinese president speaking to the u.s.-china business counsel. that's at 12:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. you're watching public affairs programming created by america's tv companies offered as a public service. we'll take your calls covering president hu jintao's day here including tonight's dinner toasts, the first of a nearly week long visit to the u.s.. in about an hour and a half, the joint news conference with president obama and president hu, that's followed by a house foreign aff...