| two witnesses that are here in person | 4.32 | Jump to 43.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and one who's with us virtually | 4.08 | Jump to 45.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh the first vote has already taken | 4.0 | Jump to 62.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | take off the first vote | 4.64 | Jump to 71.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | ukraine and europe speak with one voice | 6.319 | Jump to 213.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | our shared enterprise is one of peace | 4.241 | Jump to 239.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sovereignty act of 2022. the bill would | 4.56 | Jump to 256.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | witnesses but first let me recognize | 4.56 | Jump to 404.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | starting first with chairman kim | 3.519 | Jump to 410.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | hundred thousand troops i guess 170 000 | 3.521 | Jump to 460.319 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        hundred thousand
                      
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                  | you bring 170 000 troops | 4.64 | Jump to 517.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in the dome by since 2014 the year of | 3.521 | Jump to 587.519 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | certainly would not be the first time | 4.801 | Jump to 873.519 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the helsinki final act of 1975 | 5.519 | Jump to 897.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that the helsinki final act of 1975 | 6.719 | Jump to 910.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | crimea and eastern ukraine in 2014 and | 4.799 | Jump to 933.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | georgia in 2008. | 4.719 | Jump to 965.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | group of senators four democrats and | 4.8 | Jump to 994.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | three republicans based on what i heard | 4.16 | Jump to 997.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in the two provinces he's invaded in the | 4.481 | Jump to 1063.919 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh by stressing two things nobody wants | 5.28 | Jump to 1078.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | hundred thousand troops in to the to the | 5.119 | Jump to 1089.44 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                  | well first let me just concur with | 4.72 | Jump to 1212.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | between these two nations would result | 4.0 | Jump to 1264.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | invasion has occurred in 1939 by hitler | 6.799 | Jump to 1276.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | into poland ultimately resulting in 27 | 5.441 | Jump to 1280.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | million dead in the soviet union 8 | 5.12 | Jump to 1283.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | million dead in germany in the genocide | 5.439 | Jump to 1285.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of over 6 million jews americans | 5.281 | Jump to 1288.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 1932 red famine where starving where | 5.281 | Jump to 1360.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | stalin starred four million ukrainians | 4.721 | Jump to 1363.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | along with one million in kazakhstan and | 4.959 | Jump to 1366.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | leningrad over 800 000 russian lives | 4.241 | Jump to 1412.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | petersburg in honor of the 500 000 | 4.719 | Jump to 1434.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | from 2017 to 2019 | 6.08 | Jump to 1572.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | from 2006 to 2009 she served as national | 5.52 | Jump to 1575.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | february of 2018. a native of quincy | 5.281 | Jump to 1619.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | may of 1980 and was commissioned in the | 6.399 | Jump to 1626.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | institute for peace in 2019 he served at | 4.559 | Jump to 1645.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | as u.s ambassador to ukraine from 2006 | 5.359 | Jump to 1659.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | to 2009 | 4.0 | Jump to 1662.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | from ukraine so we'll start first with | 5.76 | Jump to 1684.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first of all | 3.12 | Jump to 1784.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in georgia for example 14 years after | 5.681 | Jump to 1815.919 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | russia's august 2008 invasion the | 5.04 | Jump to 1818.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in october 2021. although russia can't | 5.12 | Jump to 1839.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in summer 2020 in armenia president | 5.919 | Jump to 1853.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | last three decades was unlikely to have | 4.48 | Jump to 1879.919 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and russia has now exploited the 2020 | 4.16 | Jump to 1885.519 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and in january 2022 | 4.961 | Jump to 1904.399 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the first time that the csto was | 4.24 | Jump to 1920.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | russia can overturn the last 30 years of | 4.8 | Jump to 1962.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the legacy of four years of rifts | 3.52 | Jump to 1988.399 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2014 | 3.2 | Jump to 2023.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two of our most significant european | 4.24 | Jump to 2024.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | annexation of crimea in 2014 | 4.639 | Jump to 2046.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | mind putin's very mindful of 2024 not | 5.12 | Jump to 2193.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | perhaps another six to even 12 years | 3.76 | Jump to 2207.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | before 2024 and right now his public | 4.24 | Jump to 2219.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | annexation of crimea back in 2014 | 5.44 | Jump to 2228.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | stark contrast more than 70 percent of | 4.4 | Jump to 2286.0 | 
                      
                        
                      
                        PERCENT
                      
                      
                        more than 70 percent
                      
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                  | state which has increased from 60 in | 5.28 | Jump to 2290.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | spring of 2021 | 4.079 | Jump to 2293.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | very beginning of his presidency in 2000 | 4.159 | Jump to 2425.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | hungary in 1956 in czechoslovakia in | 6.0 | Jump to 2430.079 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 1968 or in germany in 1953 were big | 5.92 | Jump to 2432.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in the year 2000 | 5.361 | Jump to 2446.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | well in 2022 well 22 years exactly to | 5.199 | Jump to 2448.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2000 | 3.76 | Jump to 2464.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for more than 30 years many other | 4.8 | Jump to 2509.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | to keith as part of a delegation of five | 4.4 | Jump to 2570.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | size of his armed forces by a hundred | 3.361 | Jump to 2609.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | thousand soldiers over the next three | 3.841 | Jump to 2611.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | which is one of the kremlin's intended | 4.32 | Jump to 2690.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one demonstrate that the kremlin is not | 3.92 | Jump to 2715.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two to further weaken the government of | 4.639 | Jump to 2718.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | ukraine and three to frustrate western | 5.12 | Jump to 2720.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the 1995 dayton peace accord | 4.081 | Jump to 2739.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | decisively regarding north stream 2 but | 4.639 | Jump to 2794.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that has already killed fourteen | 4.56 | Jump to 3064.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | thousand ukrainians and will result in | 6.321 | Jump to 3066.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | mr lavrov has asked all 57 nations of | 5.681 | Jump to 3249.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for 69 years | 6.079 | Jump to 3292.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | until russia invaded ukraine in 2014. | 6.32 | Jump to 3293.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it is a young democracy of 45 million | 3.52 | Jump to 3321.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i want to thank all three of our | 4.479 | Jump to 3382.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | indicated earlier has two | 4.48 | Jump to 3394.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so with that we'll start a five-minute | 4.559 | Jump to 3401.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | if we look back to 2008 when vladimir | 5.28 | Jump to 3532.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in the early part of 2008 and made a | 4.399 | Jump to 3547.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | responses from all the 50-plus members | 4.48 | Jump to 3628.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and the right question is the one you | 4.801 | Jump to 3720.079 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | he clearly is not going to get one of | 3.919 | Jump to 3738.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | probably been in probably the last 20 to | 3.84 | Jump to 3858.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 25 years | 4.161 | Jump to 3860.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the questions i've gotten there's | 3.92 | Jump to 3930.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | several of them one is you you say that | 4.48 | Jump to 3932.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | stay out till 2036 as president by that | 5.359 | Jump to 3991.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | time you're going to be 84 years old | 4.081 | Jump to 3994.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we think that one of the reasons that he | 5.76 | Jump to 4003.359 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for an extra two terms from 2024 when | 4.561 | Jump to 4009.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the potentials as a replacement | 6.48 | Jump to 4026.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | upper 80 percentages after the | 3.76 | Jump to 4062.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for him to have seen to one to have one | 3.76 | Jump to 4075.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we look back to what happened in 2014 | 5.841 | Jump to 4149.759 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | airlines in 2014 | 4.72 | Jump to 4185.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | significantly improved from 2014 | 4.56 | Jump to 4255.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | talking about 200 000 regular soldiers | 4.48 | Jump to 4260.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | being 50 70 000 uh russian troops along | 5.04 | Jump to 4271.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sure i know uh you think about a hundred | 5.041 | Jump to 4284.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | thousand trees i mean that would barely | 4.159 | Jump to 4287.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i want to ask one question ask a brief | 3.919 | Jump to 4365.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the big issues seems to be | 4.161 | Jump to 4369.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | let me if i can do two sentences on that | 4.879 | Jump to 4394.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 20 years to remove | 5.44 | Jump to 4432.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 10 000 americans in ukraine currently | 6.239 | Jump to 4492.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | positive we have one million ukrainian | 4.561 | Jump to 4499.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and we appreciate 2.4 million russian | 5.599 | Jump to 4550.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | we were planning on 40 million dollars | 6.32 | Jump to 4610.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nearly a billion dollars of very | 3.199 | Jump to 4616.96 | 
                      
                        
                      
                        MONEY
                      
                      
                        nearly a billion dollars
                      
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                  | right now the second largest ethnic | 3.44 | Jump to 4713.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i think this is actually one way in | 3.441 | Jump to 4784.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one of the things that i skipped over in | 4.16 | Jump to 4818.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the last 30 years will be jeopardized by | 4.079 | Jump to 4882.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 25 minutes to go representative visa | 4.159 | Jump to 4962.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and they made a proposal in 2008 in | 4.159 | Jump to 5098.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it's very since 2015 i don't think we've | 4.161 | Jump to 5129.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | section five provisions i mean because | 4.24 | Jump to 5440.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of putin um this is the first time that | 3.28 | Jump to 5580.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | tactics of one move and then waiting and | 4.24 | Jump to 5638.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | buffing georgia for example in 2008 he | 3.68 | Jump to 5645.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in 2018 when uh members of the wagner | 4.96 | Jump to 5660.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | as if we're taking this absolutely 100 | 4.48 | Jump to 5688.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | take this 100 seriously clearly also on | 5.44 | Jump to 5738.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | every six months | 4.08 | Jump to 5862.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | since for the last eight years | 4.48 | Jump to 5864.239 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                        the last eight years
                      
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                  | ukraine in 2014. | 4.4 | Jump to 5889.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that this crisis is one that russia | 4.32 | Jump to 5990.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | my first question is for dr hill thank | 3.68 | Jump to 6001.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and both where and with nordstrom 2 as | 4.08 | Jump to 6021.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for russia so i think this is one of the | 2.641 | Jump to 6039.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so um you know one vulnerability really | 4.08 | Jump to 6059.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | because putin in 2020 uh uh basically | 5.12 | Jump to 6063.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of 2024 and what might happen | 5.359 | Jump to 6110.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | about nordstrom 2. | 4.0 | Jump to 6141.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh first of all as far as | 4.64 | Jump to 6341.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but two things that they that are real | 3.44 | Jump to 6349.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | have allies we've got 29 allies plus | 6.24 | Jump to 6359.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it still is about 50 percent a construct | 5.76 | Jump to 6379.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | can get called up and they have 75 or 80 | 5.12 | Jump to 6387.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that in the year 2022 that a european | 5.6 | Jump to 6414.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one more question | 3.6 | Jump to 6462.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that's the one thing that's one new | 4.319 | Jump to 6551.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | number one | 3.52 | Jump to 6676.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | number two um | 4.801 | Jump to 6677.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | talking about uh first of all they're | 4.72 | Jump to 6700.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | least two areas | 3.92 | Jump to 6721.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | security for both sides the second area | 5.519 | Jump to 6776.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | reasons number one | 5.679 | Jump to 6814.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | miss hill the uh one thing that i'm | 5.44 | Jump to 6888.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | on the one hand i can understand that | 4.08 | Jump to 6902.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | because he's literally at ground zero | 3.679 | Jump to 6904.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two of them met with him just a couple | 3.199 | Jump to 6933.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | entirely and that could be one serious | 4.16 | Jump to 7060.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | needle on that one how can we kind of | 4.159 | Jump to 7080.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | consistency uh between the two | 4.321 | Jump to 7134.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 70-year uh alliance of nato with turkey | 5.681 | Jump to 7465.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i just want to say one last thing and i | 4.241 | Jump to 7487.599 |  |  |