the post cia career focus is on radical islam with coble jihad and iran and author of the acclaimed paperhe rise of the iran lobby. before i get to the general in the other speakers i want to do some housekeeping turnoff your cellphone to a understand that the general has a very busy schedule will leave promptly at 1225. wheels up. to ask him to make a presentation i will interview him then we will throw things open to questions he will leave then we will do the same within each making opening statements will engaged then we will throw it open to questions and reroute at. >> but to talk about the iran deal to do some history and set the stage they used to be our greatest friend the shah was the close ally been in 1979 there was the iranian revolution and a very different kind of regime historically for the last 35 years the most active state sponsor of terrorism around the world and it has pursued a weapons program that is worrisome to all of us but what it has done over the last decade it has been the state stop sponsoring terrorism and it now gives a certain amount of credibility of the

and you're looking live at the senate floor trying to find or coble to find a middle ground that can satisfy all parties. chad? >> just the past couple of minutes there was an evident by mitch mcconnell to try to move this along. to skin over -- skip over procedural votes and wrap this up. the point is unanimous consent. you can practically make the sun rise in the west, and guess who oned? senator rand paul. so what this means is we're probably not going to have a final vote on this until tuesday. maybe even as long as wednesday if senator paul really wants to drag things out. but here's the key thing to watch. are these amendments. if they change anything about this bill that the house of representatives approved a couple weeks ago 338-88, then it has to go back to the house of representatives. the house and senate would not be in sync, and that's a problem. you have a multiple house leaders, kevin mccarthy saying this morning that he thinks the best cost is to approve the house bill. they're being very cagey there about what they think the house could pass. and then just because y

trade investments with science and technology and innovation the third is about international and cobleissues. -- global issues to give you a list right now that we will have a very good outcome. >> to play into context of a new chapter to focus what has happened over the last two years with the history that is incredibly strong but the paper we are releasing today the u.s. brazil relations a new beginning with a question mark. because of the investment trade innovation with the brief 20 page report i ask you to do with into minutes with those top issues. >> i think she said the key for the opportunity for that new chapter with the second part of the book with a new chapter but i tried to put this into perspective but the potential for collaboration the way we move with all those elements with the integration. is amazing. we have a structural opportunity for the first part of the government. the second is you have a service potential for cooperation not just opposition the lack of deep understanding. is strange to say that to have they lack of knowledge but with apolitical issue we don'

i also want to welcome inspector general coble back to the committee and witnesses for this our second full committee hearing on this issue. i want to thank all our witnesses for being here today. look forward to your testimony. we'll start with mr. rosekind followed by mr. skovel. my mis-- mistake. senator from florida. distinguished ranking member, please, make your opening statement. senator nelson: thank you, mr. chairman. if i may, we have had an investigation done danger behind the wheel the takata airbag crisis and how to fix our broken auto recall process done by our minority committee staff. if i may have that entered. senator thune: without objection. senator nelson: thank you for your cooperation on this. you will recall, mr. chairman, last year we actually started the hearings on these airbag defects. and the news was not good. at that point, last november, we had five deaths and dozens of injuries that were tied to the defective takata airbags. and we had testimony from an air force lieutenant lieutenant stephanie urdman, she suffered severe facial injuries and almost lost

coble to come to do it to be reckoned as? >> not sure i understood correctly.e are not proposing a replacement engine for alice to we are proposing a launch system that would meet the needs of the country in response to the air force. that's what speed you had me excited for a minute. i don't want a new rocket. we want something to replace the rd-180 and if not be a drunken fit on the atlas v something that doesn't require a whole lot of modification to work on the atlas v. i understand all of y'all like what you got and i know mr. bruno wants a new rocket, that's awesome. as long as we are not paying for it. we want an engine to be able to get our critical missions into space in a timely fashion. 2019 as you is a critical time for us. let me ask go back to the two people i know who are going to compete for it mr. meyerson and ms. van kleeck. start with mr. meyerson. with the cost of your engine the comparable to what is currently paid for the rd-180? >> according to our customer ula we understand it is. it is comparable or better than the rd-180? >> yes, sir.