kelly. i told you about tally ayotte the center -- kelly ayotte, the new senator.as a former fighter pilot in the air force and is a small-business owner in new hampshire. i have been to new hampshire more times than i can count. it is a little different than it is here in butler county. she gets this. she decided to show up and have dinner with what people in washington call "the rat pack." you have heard me talk about my friends in washington, when seagram will show up once and awhile we can put up with him. -- lindsey gramm will show up once in awhile when we can put up with him. you have dinner with our crowd a couple of times, you get to know each other pretty well. kelly understands what is going on in america. she understands what the american people want. she is somebody i am very proud of. ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming the freshman senator from the state of new hampshire, kelly ayotte. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. it is wonderful to be here with the tonight. first of all, i want to thank your chairman for his leadership. i know

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new hampshire kelly ayott is one of those srnenators calling for action against the firm and against russia for what it is do engine syria? >> it is outrageous what russia is doing. not only did they block the u.n. resolution genlts the assad regime, but they are supplying billions of dollars worth of arms and they have supplied the regime with land mines that they have used to put on the boarder and they are providing training on on how to use the weapons and they are being used to murder innocent civilians in syria. it's awful what the regime is doing, they are torturing and committing rape and russia is standing by, it's outs rage us what they are doing. i feel they are accomplice to this, they need to stop right away. >> what more should the u.s. or could be doing, certainly secretary clinton was tough in, she spoke of the actions being d despicable. and we the british being the head of the u.n. council, and they are trying to push russia into a resolution on syria, do you have hopes of that? >> first of all, we need to stop purchasing from this russian owned companies. we have b

jon: senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire, thank you very much. >> thank you jon.e breaking news. you might recall over the last couple of weeks one of the big stories has been the americans that have been unable to leave the canada egypt and we just got word from the associated press as well, senator mccain, by the way, talking to our own trish turner on capitol hill about this, that the seven americans that were in cairo have now left, they are on the plane headed back to our country, along with several others -- other democracy workers. they had all been run out of the country. just a quick note, though, this is not suddenly, how should we put it -- they weren't just allowed to go free. there were terms to put in for their freedom, and as we understand it, there was a bail price of $300,000 each that our country had to pay egypt to allow them to leave. just a reminder, our country also gives millions and millions, tens of millions of dollars in aid to the egyptians every year, and this has an point of contention, these americans, about whether or not that aid wi

blumenthal for joining me in this resolution, also senator lindsey graham, senator joe lieberman, joe kelly ayotte and as i say, we're now 60 cosponsors on this resolution in, wooing to see that it is -- in working to so that it passes the senate here. it expresses a sense of the senate, clearly calling for open, free, and fair elections in the republic of iran. the problem is that the elections that they will be holding tomorrow are neither fair, neither free nor fair. and they are certainly not consistent with international standards. as i said, these will be the first nationwide parliamentary elections since june 12 of 2009. those e exelections were neither -- those elections were neither free nor fair and they provoked widespread protests throughout iran. those protests were brutally repressed, put down by the regime of ayatollah and ahmadinejad, trampling rights and taking political prisoners who remain in prison to this very day. since the last election, uprises, popular movements have taken place throughout the middle east, often referred to as the arab spring. countries like tunisia, egypt