| one of your previous colleagues and now | 4.401 | Jump to 81.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of our colleagues for example | 4.241 | Jump to 83.439 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but with 85 nominees pending | 4.8 | Jump to 85.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | challenges including the one we're | 3.12 | Jump to 98.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | start a series of five-minute rounds uh | 5.359 | Jump to 123.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i'll recognize myself first of all with | 5.119 | Jump to 125.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 somehow that it would be | 3.839 | Jump to 210.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first day of the new german government | 3.52 | Jump to 237.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | has one of the highest rates of covet | 3.599 | Jump to 312.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | understand is like close to 170 000 or | 4.8 | Jump to 340.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | a hundred thousand troops now and and | 4.479 | Jump to 357.28 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        a hundred thousand
                      
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                  | some two and a quarter | 5.361 | Jump to 483.759 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        some two and a quarter
                      
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                  | i'm secretary first of all uh thank you | 3.6 | Jump to 563.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | little bit of our concerns first of all | 4.081 | Jump to 570.959 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | crimea was taken over by russia in 2014 | 6.8 | Jump to 597.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so i i guess my first question to you is | 6.16 | Jump to 640.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we are talking about day one measures | 6.0 | Jump to 672.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | day five measures day ten measures etc | 5.6 | Jump to 675.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | than it was in 2014 if he goes in you | 5.601 | Jump to 690.079 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | including our opposition to nordstrom 2 | 4.321 | Jump to 791.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and our opposition to nordstrom one in | 4.161 | Jump to 793.519 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | turks stream two and to come to find | 6.0 | Jump to 797.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | as an effective deterrence one might | 5.44 | Jump to 899.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one might think so can you provide any | 5.44 | Jump to 902.399 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | steadily increasing fashion in 2014 and | 6.479 | Jump to 992.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in 2015 in response to russia's | 4.479 | Jump to 996.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | incursions first in crimea and then in | 2.961 | Jump to 999.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctions in 2015. | 4.959 | Jump to 1010.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i mentioned in my opening 450 million | 4.16 | Jump to 1251.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the things that they talked about | 3.919 | Jump to 1294.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | us or to europe of one of the great | 4.56 | Jump to 1414.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | them from third countries and then | 3.6 | Jump to 1437.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i think less less than 10 confirmed and | 4.72 | Jump to 1574.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | way of of this senate so 85 | 8.081 | Jump to 1588.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | if there's one thing that vladimir putin | 4.0 | Jump to 1622.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one thing that i believe says certainly | 3.441 | Jump to 1756.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 pipeline and that i think we | 3.76 | Jump to 1766.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | prevent the north stream two from ever | 3.52 | Jump to 1788.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so again direct impact is one thing but | 6.161 | Jump to 1817.919 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | within the fy 22 state and foreign | 4.081 | Jump to 1897.919 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | come back to you but one thing i will | 3.04 | Jump to 1940.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | just in the last year in the last six | 5.359 | Jump to 2053.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | with one voice to deter russian | 3.841 | Jump to 2167.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | um i i'm one of those that looks at | 4.16 | Jump to 2261.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | there one should have considerable | 2.88 | Jump to 2344.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the last six months to the effect that | 5.361 | Jump to 2353.359 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh russia and ukraine are one nation etc | 4.481 | Jump to 2356.079 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one relates to something that is not not | 5.44 | Jump to 2424.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh some 10 years ago | 3.44 | Jump to 2477.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and we've had two rounds of those so i | 3.44 | Jump to 2522.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | been a confusing one an elusive one | 5.76 | Jump to 2571.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 1941. | 5.76 | Jump to 2619.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | look like it did 60 years ago | 4.559 | Jump to 2627.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but in the last 10 years they've got a | 4.399 | Jump to 2636.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | happened in the last eight years i think | 4.4 | Jump to 2644.48 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        the last eight years
                      
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                  | or two on what you have seen uh with | 4.4 | Jump to 2653.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | events of 2013. | 3.6 | Jump to 2662.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | through the 10 almost 10 years that have | 6.32 | Jump to 2690.56 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        the 10 almost 10 years
                      
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                  | well eight years that have | 6.801 | Jump to 2693.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | going back to 1917 or wherever you want | 5.441 | Jump to 2739.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | second um very well said um second on | 7.12 | Jump to 2770.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | three c's initiative is | 6.0 | Jump to 2812.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | belt of three seas countries is | 3.839 | Jump to 2863.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | dfc dollars behind three c's something | 3.2 | Jump to 2875.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i think there's a third factor here that | 3.839 | Jump to 2915.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | are the first is that we would pull back | 4.079 | Jump to 2960.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | western border the second is to | 5.52 | Jump to 2964.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | as a member of nato and the third is to | 3.361 | Jump to 2972.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | ukraine of those three conditions that | 3.679 | Jump to 2975.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | three | 4.641 | Jump to 2981.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | on the one hand we see a growing amount | 2.56 | Jump to 2992.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | disinformation came in one of the things | 3.839 | Jump to 3012.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so what options do we have on those two | 4.079 | Jump to 3070.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | number one | 2.8 | Jump to 3170.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i think you know 60 70 percent of | 5.28 | Jump to 3336.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 12 | 2.559 | Jump to 3363.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2014 uh tires were still smoldering and | 5.0 | Jump to 3556.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | which i co-authored over the past six | 3.28 | Jump to 3588.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but from three sides of ukraine | 5.68 | Jump to 3634.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | did in 2014 | 3.2 | Jump to 3667.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you know no one is pro pipeline in the | 5.841 | Jump to 3857.359 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so the president's having his first | 4.48 | Jump to 3942.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is a fair one but i'm going to be | 3.68 | Jump to 3974.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | help a ukrainian military that's 50 000 | 4.081 | Jump to 4016.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | my concern a fair one or is my concern | 6.039 | Jump to 4098.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | numerous times the eight members of the | 4.08 | Jump to 4145.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and annexed the crimea in 2014. | 5.52 | Jump to 4154.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you know more than 14 000 ukrainians | 3.601 | Jump to 4174.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | no longer one country um and that's his | 5.44 | Jump to 4274.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | oil prices now eighty dollars a barrel | 4.799 | Jump to 4325.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is based on 40 uh from what i've been | 3.761 | Jump to 4330.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | stream two nears completion putin | 3.68 | Jump to 4384.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 pipeline was putting into | 5.28 | Jump to 4411.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | to a number of things first of all | 2.88 | Jump to 4417.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | have a direct impact on on nordstrom 2. | 4.72 | Jump to 4436.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | focusing upon north stream two and its | 5.201 | Jump to 4476.719 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | energy studies roughly 80 percent | 4.48 | Jump to 4497.04 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        roughly 80 percent
                      
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                  | while only 20 percent come from natural | 4.88 | Jump to 4502.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 800 000 barrels of russian oil a day | 5.36 | Jump to 4507.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of 2021 | 3.44 | Jump to 4512.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two supplier of crude oil and petroleum | 4.559 | Jump to 4520.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | products in 2021 | 3.919 | Jump to 4523.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | most years anywhere from one-third to | 4.239 | Jump to 4530.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | more than one-half of russian federal | 4.0 | Jump to 4532.64 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        more than one-half
                      
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                  | roughly eight hundred thousand barrels | 4.64 | Jump to 4539.12 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        roughly eight hundred thousand barrels
                      
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                  | contribute to an estimated 20 billion | 5.2 | Jump to 4543.76 | 
                      
                        
                      
                        MONEY
                      
                      
                        an estimated 20 billion
                      
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                  | stream two pipeline continues to | 4.399 | Jump to 4721.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | vast majority of this pipeline 90 of it | 3.681 | Jump to 4738.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two or three days before president biden | 6.08 | Jump to 4750.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | pipeline was over 90 complete already | 7.2 | Jump to 4766.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | those four years uh and that we just not | 5.36 | Jump to 4779.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 100 000 russian troops | 5.681 | Jump to 4814.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in the next 90 days | 6.801 | Jump to 4830.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one decision in particular caused this | 4.24 | Jump to 4848.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 | 5.44 | Jump to 4856.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | a multi-billion dollar generational | 5.2 | Jump to 4861.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | talking points which are number one the | 3.84 | Jump to 4871.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of 2019. | 4.08 | Jump to 4882.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | december of 2019 over 90 percent of the | 4.8 | Jump to 4884.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the bottom of the ocean so an over 90 | 5.039 | Jump to 4909.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | complete pipeline is a zero percent | 4.56 | Jump to 4912.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | january 20th 2024 2021 | 7.599 | Jump to 4927.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | four days later january 24th 2021 is | 5.84 | Jump to 4930.56 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        four days later january 24th 2021
                      
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                  | in 2014 he invaded ukraine he invaded | 4.72 | Jump to 4961.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | he didn't go all the way to kiev and one | 4.8 | Jump to 4966.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 was launched | 5.359 | Jump to 4981.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | pipeline so that the nordstream 2 | 6.44 | Jump to 5076.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | regard to nordstrom 2 would have changed | 4.08 | Jump to 5108.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | if nordstrom 2 goes online and is | 5.6 | Jump to 5119.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 is not currently on track to | 4.64 | Jump to 5129.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | hypothetical if nordstrom 2 goes online | 5.839 | Jump to 5134.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstream 2 goes online | 5.68 | Jump to 5148.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2. i believe he has an | 4.0 | Jump to 5163.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctions from 2014 until today he | 6.64 | Jump to 5171.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | can i ask you one last set of questions | 4.879 | Jump to 5203.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 | 3.12 | Jump to 5212.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i'm sorry chairman one more time is | 4.96 | Jump to 5228.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | north stream two the reason that | 5.12 | Jump to 5230.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is nordstrom 2 | 5.52 | Jump to 5239.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | is north stream 2 the reason uh that | 5.679 | Jump to 5249.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two the reason that putin says that | 5.201 | Jump to 5260.719 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | like to put one more fact in the record | 4.239 | Jump to 5270.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of 2019 when the piece of legislation | 5.04 | Jump to 5276.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and january 19th of 2021 | 8.0 | Jump to 5281.36 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        january 19th of 2021
                      
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                  | there was only one sanction applied | 5.2 | Jump to 5285.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and since january of 2021 | 5.76 | Jump to 5290.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctioned 17 vessels and eight people | 6.16 | Jump to 5296.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | raise the costs for nordstrom 2. now our | 4.96 | Jump to 5304.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | donbass he did take control of some 40 | 6.8 | Jump to 5342.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one would want to suggest that | 5.12 | Jump to 5354.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | reconstitute the russia he knew the one | 3.921 | Jump to 5365.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh i hope the one thing that | 5.12 | Jump to 5393.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | on this one there is overwhelming | 4.56 | Jump to 5404.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | december 8th | 3.199 | Jump to 5449.52 |  |  |