mr. braun, it is great to see you back here again in washington. thank you for your continued work and dedication to these issues. mr. chairman, thank you and i yield back. >> we now welcome our witnesses. mr. mariano federici is the direct the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing efforts. previously he was a country lawyer regional adviser to the international monetary fund and worked for a law firm advisorying financial institutions and companies in a wide section of regulatory and at thetory interpretation. he worked as a clerk for the national criminal courts of the city of ben os aries and he was born there and holds a injure is doctor at and from the virginia of -- the university of virginia school of law. he is a co-founder at sgi global. he has 33 years of experience in forward state and local law enforcement. he spent 24 of the years at the u.s. drug enforcement administration where he developed the dea successful counter narco terrorism programs including the formativ

mr. braun, if i may, hezbollah is an entrenched international terrorism organization, predominantly operating in the middle east, at least that's been the understanding of many of us who are wrestling with this whole international security issue. and now we learn from you folks and others that their tentacles are reaching into our hemisphere and operating in south america in the drug trafficking trade. i'm sure you folks are all well aware of the fact that we have a heroin epidemic in this country. and it doesn't spare any location. i represent the great state of maine, in particular northern maine and other parts of our state, and we have a real problem up there. now, we learned, mr. braun, about 95% of the heroin entering this country goes through our southwest border. it goes through our southwestern border. do you have any evidence that hezbollah and their drug trafficking operations in south america have any kind of impact or influence on the heroin entering this country that's now reachin

mr. braun, it is great to see you back here again in washington. thank you for your continued work and dedication to these issues. mr. chairman, thank you and i yield back. >> we now welcome our witnesses. mr. mariano federici is the direct the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing efforts. previously he was a country lawyer regional adviser to the international monetary fund and worked for a law firm advisorying financial institutions and companies in a wide section of regulatory and at thetory interpretation. he worked as a clerk for the national criminal courts of the city of buenos aries and he was born there and holds a injure is doctor at and from the virginia of university of virginia school of law. he is a co-founder at sgi global. he has 33 years of experience in forward state and local law enforcement. he spent 24 of the years at the u.s. drug enforcement administration where he developed the dea successful counter narco terrorism programs including the formative devel

mr. braun, is that turned on? >> yes, it is. is that better? so our success in prosecuting the global war on terror has successfully degraded two important funding streams to terrorist organizations. those from very powerful private donors as well as state sponsors. consequently, terror organizations, many of them, have had to resort to other means, alternate means, to keep their movements alive and keep their operations flowing. that's what we're really here to talk about today. that's why we are here today. i use hezbollah as the best example of what we're up against today and make three important points in that process. first, hezbollah is not the same organization that they were 15 years ago, just 15 short years ago. in the early 2000s they began moving small quantities of cocaine from the tri-border area of latin america into fledgling markets at that time in europe and the middle east. flash forward to 15 years later, they are now moving multi-tons of cocaine into europe to attempt to sat

mr. braun, if i may, hezbollah is an entrenched international terrorist organization predominantly in the middle east, there is that's the understanding of many of us wrestling with this whole issue. now we learn from you folks oth are reaching into our hemisphere and operating in south america in the drug trafficking trade. i'm sure you folks are all well aware of the fact that we have a heroin epidemic in this country. and it doesn't spare any location. i represent the great state of maine in particular northern maine and other parts of our state and we have a real problem up there. now, we learned, mr. braun, about 95% of the heroin entering this country goes through our southwest border. it goes through our southwestern border. do you have any evidence that hezbollah and their drug trafficking operations in south america have any kind of impact or influence on the heroin entering this country that's now reaching all the way to northern maine, it is coming through our southwest border? >> th

and, mr. braun, i'm particularly impressed with your comments in your testimony when you state that to successfully disrupt or defeat the threat the information collected, analyzed and reported must be actioned. could you go into a little bit of detail about that? because i think that's the fulcrum to where we need to go. all for show is great, but if we don't have element of success and actually preventing what we're setting out to do, then what good is all this intelligence and surveillance that we're doing? >> thank you, congressman. i don't want to diminish in any way the important work that, you know, our -- >> and you won't. my only concern would be i'm interpreting that to mean there are things we can do better. this task force needs your recommendations as to what we can do to increase enforcement. we've seen an administration that exercises a prosecutorial discretion in this country on federal laws that are being broken and yet just being turned a blind eye to. no matter how many laws and e

mr. consistent for the penguins. originally drafted by san jose. traded to anaheim for travis moore and ken huskin. >> mike: momentarily, dropped below 100. drawn along by braunn the backhand by couture. dumoulin across. letang ahead. off of hornqvist and back in for martin jones. the shot, 20-17. through two periods. thornton, but then lovejoy. bonino, and then hagelin and then ahead now for kessel. kessel, a shot and that one deflected up high and out of play by paul martin. it was on this date in 2009 the penguins won game seven at joe lewis arena in detroit. tonight's backup, marc-andre fleury made a brilliant save with 1.5 seconds to go. speaking of detroit, as you see marc-andre on this date in 1958, at age 30, they named gordie howe captain of the red wings. offensive zone face-off for the penguins here. they pull kessel slightly back and he got it. kessel rolls and shoots one. that one went off jones and wide. started back up again and nudged on by ward. moving up, nieto. both he and the net minder, murray, missed it. murray went skidding out. played out by kessel, but he can't make a pass. ward, able to take that one and circle back. one chaotic shif